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A growing archive of long-form on artificial intelligence, governance, the African development question, and the craft of building things that last. Roughly bi-weekly. Email-first.

All · 14 AI & Agents · 5 Governance · 4 Africa & Cities · 3 Workflow · 2 Annual letters · 4

№ 014 Essay AI · Agents The agent stack we don't have yet — and why governments need it first. 14 min № 013 Story Governance Designing the next nation: institutional plumbing for countries that don't yet exist. 38 min № 012 Video Africa · Cities Ending the shanty town: a practical century-scale playbook. 22 min № 011 Gallery Frameworks The seven leverage points: a framework for actually moving the needle on poverty. 17 min № 010 Essay Workflow What I learned shipping 14 AI workflows for one mid-sized firm. 9 min № 009 Letter Letter Annual letter, 2026: the year of careful instruments. 12 min № 008 Video Africa A small theory of African time — and what it costs us at scale. 14 min № 007 Essay Workflow The four kinds of automation, ranked by who they actually help. 11 min № 006 Essay Governance Why most policy memos die in their first 48 hours — and the format that doesn't. 10 min № 005 Gallery AI · Agents The civic stack: what public-interest software actually looks like. 19 min № 004 Video Africa · Cities Lagos at 25 million: a thought experiment we can no longer afford to skip. 16 min № 003 Letter Letter Annual letter, 2025: building in the dark. 10 min № 002 Essay Africa Three honest things about consulting in West Africa. 8 min № 001 Letter Letter A site about thinking, by someone still learning to. 5 min

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