What I'mdoing now.

The real bottleneck in African e-commerce isn't payments — it's trust. Mobile Money solved the payment problem. Nobody has fully solved the trust problem: how do you transact with strangers in a low-institutional-trust environment? That's a product problem, not a payment one.

Most AI productivity tools optimise for the wrong variable. They help you do more tasks faster. But task throughput is rarely the actual constraint — knowing which tasks are worth doing is. These are completely different problems, and the second one is much harder.

Education in Ghana might be the highest-leverage thing I could work on. One generation that learns to think clearly and use digital tools compounds for 50 years. Nothing I'm building in logistics or fintech comes close to that return on effort. I keep circling back to this.

Solo founding is sustainable if you treat it as a craft rather than a grind. The grind framing is performative and counterproductive. The craft framing asks: am I getting better? Is what I'm building worth building? Those questions lead somewhere.

The best product decisions I've made came from watching actual users try to do the thing — not from interviews, not from surveys, not from analytics. There's something irreplaceable about being in the room when someone is confused by what you thought was obvious.