The Spark: Theory, Practice, and why I’m betting on Africa. I took piano lessons as a teenager from when i was around 12-14. Mr. Johnson was a good teacher, we used Smallwood’s piano tutorial and by the time i gave it up i was able to play pieces in C, G and F. And now? I can only play basic nursery rhymes from memory, but... More
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
