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Brian Gachichio
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strategy & insight
612 million Africans are about to go viral!
612 million literate African youth clustered in 11 countries are about to 3x their data consumption.
What does this mean?
It means that the next area of explosive telecoms growth is Africa.
Young population. Literate. Mobile. Data hungry. π
Position accordingly.


My Africa Digital Growth Thesis
Data consumption in Africa is about to π
Here is a chart illustrating M2 supply in Kenya (Kenyan Shilling) and BTC prices over the last 24 months


Been in hospital since 3am EAT, send sats β‘ππΎ
How is it that folks engage enough on nostr enough to have nostr beef?
Derek Sivers on tech independence
Tech Independence | Derek Sivers
A refined AI agent (a custom GPT or Gemini Gem) is an incredibly powerful brainstorm companion
shukran to whoever sent me 4 sats β‘ππΎ
every sat counts
finally reading this gem - BUILD by Tony Fadell


becoming great


success turns a builder into an investor
hello world


Three Body Problem on Netflix is an elite show
If the product is free, you are not the customer - you are part of the product.
Though free, you do pay. You pay attention.
I get frustrated when people assume technical ideas aren't technical. Just because something isn't technical (to me), does not mean that it is not technical to (many) people. When a person assumes that their audience is at their level of technical understanding and so communicates in jargon and technicalese, it immediately sets me off. The more "mass market" and generally understood a technical idea is communicated, the better!
today I learnt a new word: βdumbsmarten" - the state of being smart and dumb at the same time, a condition of all sentient beings
so much (good) information is out there. problem is most people treat it like entertainment rather than education, and so it yields nothing - information masturbation
I am excited again β‘ππΎ
it's both awesome and awful that apps like safepal exist where you can peek into a crypto wallet - great for transparency, awful for privacy
Do you derive conviction from your ideas? Or do you have conviction which inspires ideas?