Leadership NotesEditor’s pick
A Company Needs a Reason to Work Hard
Survival can explain a company’s urgency, but only a clear North Star can make the effort meaningful to the people carrying it.
Welcome to my corner of the internet
I collect ideas worth returning to.
Part notebook, part workshop: essays about building thoughtful technology, paying better attention, and making a life with room to notice things.
Selected work
Things worth building.
Public work01 ↗
Open Source
Open source made room for me. I try to leave the door wider.
Product portfolio02 ↗
Products
The products and teams I’ve helped shape from an early idea into useful, lasting work.
Community03 ↗
Rotich Foundation
Creating pathways to opportunity through education, health and wellness, mentorship, and technology.
Latest writing
Fresh from the notebook
Useful Work Outlives the Announcement
What began as an experiment with email became a two-decade lesson in usefulness, responsibility, rebuilding, and the team required to carry a promise forward.
Ambition Should Not Require Leaving Home
Leaving home opened my life. The cost arrived later, along with a conviction that ambition should not require permanent distance from belonging.
Harambee, in Code
How late-night Unix labs, unaffordable software, and African traditions of collective effort shaped my belief that open source should turn access into agency.
StraitOuttaVillage: And The Long Way Back
An introduction to the long road from Kolong village to America and back, and why I am finally telling the story now.
The Musings I Kept Putting Off
After more than two decades of postponing the writing, a welcome to the stories, evolving ideas, and unfinished thoughts that finally have a home.