The music I think to. The books that shaped how I see systems. The fragments that have not yet become essays.
Long stretches of focus. Mostly ambient and instrumental. No lyrics to compete with the words I am trying to write.
The city after hours. Afrobeats slowed down, alternative R&B, and the occasional jazz interlude.
The pace before the week starts. Neo-soul, gospel-adjacent, and anything that pairs well with coffee and no agenda.
Aeon
A provocation on consciousness and computation that I keep returning to.
Azar Nafisi
Literature as resistance, and the private worlds people build when public life becomes unbearable.
Cyprian Ekwensi
Re-reading this in Lagos traffic. The irony of a nomadic story read while stuck on Third Mainland Bridge.
The best compliance programmes are invisible. If your users can feel the compliance infrastructure, you have over-engineered the friction and under-engineered the experience.
Reading philosophy of mind alongside financial regulation is an unusual pairing but it keeps surfacing the same question: what counts as understanding vs what counts as compliance?