Build Something Worth Approaching: A Village-First Model for Opportunity in Africa
A village-first framework for African investment and development based on trust, traditional leadership, value addition, diaspora meaning, local ownership, and discovering opportunity before attempting to scale it.
Why Commodity Deals Fail Before Diligence Even Begins
Commodity deals often fail before diligence because of fragmented broker chains, weak qualification, unclear authority, unrealistic commissions, and poor information flow. Here’s a better operating model.
Make Good Friends, Keep the Old: Friendship, Discomfort and the Surfboard Ark
Surfboard is building a different kind of network: make new friends, keep the old, remember the forgotten, test intuition against reality, and help people become custodians for one another.
When Opportunity Reveals Loyalty
A reflection on loyalty, trust, betrayal, and leadership. Why people often choose future opportunity over allegiance, and how leaders can respond without resentment.
A Journey To Accept Entrance Into Life
The Walled Garden and the Man on the Wall Once, there stood a walled garden, a place of unmatched beauty. Its towering stone walls, covered in ivy, shielded the paradise within, a world of endless flowers, winding stone pathways, and a central fountain that shimmered like liquid gold under the sun. This garden was not…
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The Psychology of Obedience and Radicalization: Alan Watts, Milgram, and Mao’s Playbook
How People Buy Into Their Own Games Alan Watts often explored how people become trapped in the games they create for themselves. Whether it’s an ideology, a belief system, or a personal narrative, people get so wrapped up in their own constructed realities that they seem incomprehensible to outsiders. The deeper they go, the more…
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