Writing.
Essays, notes, and talks — on infrastructure, the discipline of shipping, and building products that last.
Kampala · Uganda
Published when finished. Not on a schedule.
This is a small, deliberate room — not a feed. Pieces are added when an idea has earned the time it takes to write it well.
Filtering and search appear once the list is long enough to need them. For now: chronological, top to bottom.
Resolving one real-world place across two datasets that share no key — in O(n), in the standard library — and why I didn't buy a warehouse.
How I made a credit score portable across lenders who share nothing — keyed on a phone number that never touches the database in the clear.
For twenty years I handed my best ideas to other people. The first time I backed myself instead, I built TrustScore alone — and it won.
One idea — that an economy's real constraint is friction — told three ways: by an economist, a management scholar, and a voice on a phone camera. The plainest telling wins.
Why a shop selling in-store, online and through agents must never keep more than one count of what it has.
The continent's markets are not short of demand or effort. They are short of systems. Whoever removes the friction owns the market.