57 ESSAYS
refreshed-2026
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Founder Execution
Why Most Quarterly Goals Are Theatre
The honest test: can your team predict next quarter's goals before you announce them? If yes, the goals are not goals. They are the predictable continuation of last quarter's work, dressed up in the costume of strategic planning.
№ 037
Stay-Up Philosophy
Survivorship Bias Has a Brand Problem
Why the founder stories you read are statistically the wrong ones to learn from. Survivorship bias is well-known. The brand layer that compounds it is not, and it is the reason imported founder lessons consistently fail to transfer to the contexts where they are most enthusiastically applied.
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African Capital
Beyond Independence: The Founder’s Stake in Zimbabwe’s Unfinished Project
Independence gave Zimbabweans a country. Building it is unfinished work, and founders carry a particular share of that responsibility. A piece for the operators who refuse to write the country off.