Table Stakes: Should Twitter have an End of The Year Round-up? When I saw people tweet their 2020 recaps from Spotify and Apple Music, I wondered if Twitter’s product team observed this cross-platform sharing, and what implementing something similar with already existing data assets would look like. Maybe an End of the Year report? With consumer technology we often see once unique features quickly become the minimum offering needed to meet... More
Case for Innovation in Sub-Saharan Africa. Apparently I wrote this in 2014, probably for some thing in grad school. Seems fairly coherent so, reposting. In the course of my time here I have realized that there’s a significant information gap between the developed world and such frontier markets like Sub-Saharan Africa. Because of this gap, white spaces exist which can be serviced... More
Who we are “not management consultants, know-how over powerpoint. not a design consultancy, but yes we’ll take the compliment. we’re innovators. seeking patterns, putting them into products for the emerging market. we look into stuff, and use what we learn to make new useful things, or make old things work better for people who could get used to... More
