Now
A single page describing what has my attention at this moment — the /now page convention. If we spoke six months ago, this is what changed.
Building
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Weyz
Campus deployment with FUTA
An MoU is signed with Federal University Akure as the first institutional deployment partner. The work in front of me is the card-reader hardware, the transaction reconciliation backend, and a wallet a student will actually top up twice.
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Weyz
Offline-first payment path
A bus cannot depend on connectivity at the moment of payment. Most of the interesting engineering is in what happens between the tap and the settlement, when the network is not there.
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Avancier
Advisory engagements
Working with a small number of pre-seed founders in fintech, logistics and mobility on architecture reviews and first engineering hires. Capacity is deliberately limited.
Writing
all essays →-
Series
The Backbone Thesis
Why the constraint on African financial systems is infrastructure rather than applications — and what that implies about where a founder should start.
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Series
Founder Dispatches
Field notes from building in two markets at once, written while the outcome is still unknown rather than afterwards.
Learning
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Reading
Ledgers, rails and settlement
How other markets solved offline transit payments before mobile money existed, and which of those constraints still apply in Lagos today.
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Practising
Writing in public, earlier
Publishing the reasoning before the result is in. It is uncomfortable and it is the fastest correction mechanism I have found.
Not doing
A /now page is only useful if it also says what has been put down. I am not taking on new consulting clients beyond current capacity, not speaking at events that require long-haul travel this quarter, and not starting a third company. The list exists because saying no to good things is the only way the first two get finished.