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Edge Cases Are the Main Case When Building in Africa
In high-variance environments, the edge case is the product.
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First principles, systems thinking, and the work of earning trust.
I write to pressure-test ideas against real constraints. Every note is a small attempt to make systems more legible: incentives, continuity, second-order effects, and what stays true when the context shifts.
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