There are very few times I will encourage people to fly. This is one of them. — This year I was invited to give a keynote to 200 Cardiff University students going abroad for work or a semester. In 2015, I went to Singapore and it was a huge influence on me. Specifically that: You gain global friends with global points of view You gain incredible stories…

The de facto book for effective altruism, reviewed with my reflections with Vula. — Preface: I am CTO of Vula — the digital fundraising assistant for African startups and SMEs. It is not a philanthropic venture. It is a VC backed start-up targeted at the fastest growing and most complex business environment. That is why this book caught my eye. How can we “Do…

The Entrepreneur First bible - learnt building 300 companies now valued at $10B — While going through EF, I have also been reading the book. If you are interested in starting a VC back-able business, you must read this. I put this on the list with Lean Startup. Here are the top 9 things: Mission [a startup is] ‘the most accessible and effective path to…

What’s your tagline? Where are your ideas published? How can I learn from you? Here is a guide to be eminent. — First impressions — this book really pushes to sell itself. The language is a little like self-help books. “Keep doing X and…”, “In 6 months you will…”, “just trust it and…” Reading past that, it is quite interesting! It gives 5 true suggestions that would help make you eminent in…

One of my habits each year is to review the year publically, using my personal productivity app everyhour.xyz. Why? A nice review of progress while also a good place to make targets from. Publically so I can’t skimp on effort. TL;DR: ❄️ Joined OnDeck Build for Climate 🌱 Got engaged while…

Love island for founders -> A honest and impartial review of my EF experience and tips on how to do it better. — Who am I to say? I joined Entrepreneur First (EF) for the most recent cohort, in October 2022. We go for investment with vula (to help African founders and SMEs find funds easier) in 2 weeks, so this article hasn’t been influenced by whether or not we’ll get funding!

A dummy’s summary of the book explaining Netflix’s culture — “It was not obvious to me at the time but we had a culture that valued people over process, emphasized innovation over efficiency and had very few controls.” — Reed Hastings CEO Netflix This book is essentially 6 points: Work only with the best. Everyone must give each other feedback—a framework to keep surpassing yourselves, improving…

Here’s 3 ways to get through it — from Factfulness by Hans Rosling — This book is written by Hans Rosling — a doctor, statistician and science communicator. Look at him go here: The thesis is that our world view froze 60 years ago in the west, and we need to learn new methods to understand facts. First things first The book makes you take a…

My background is js. It’s where I feel at home. I am working in python lately and generally am finding it good (great number of packages — especially in data science and ML — with good tutorials) but the environment system, imports, package management etc are not as intuitive or…