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It is no accident that the word ‘chord’ rhymes with ‘word’. Chords, indeed, are musical words and developing a choral vocabulary is the essence of musicanship much as language skills are built upon a wide verbal vocabulary. What if we treated music as seriously as we do reading and writing? What if musical literacy—like language—were…
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Strategy is often misrepresented as a plan, a set of choices, or a blueprint for winning. But these views fall short of the essence of what it means to think and act strategically. The deeper truth is that strategy is what we do when we are faced with uncertainty and complexity. It arises not in…
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In 2007, I was peering through a pinhole—literally. WAP over 2G was my only window into the world of DSLR photography. Images loaded like molasses, and websites felt like fortresses built for another world. And yet, I was enthralled. The device in my hand, as feeble as it was, had cracked open the edge of…
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Every month when my paycheck hits my bank account, I have to make several calculations on how to pay my bills. A few months ago––when the experience was still quite new––it didn’t bother me. However, I’m beginning to realise the high toll I pay for remitting bills via mobile money. Don’t get me wrong: mobile…
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Open Concept: Tax Grants for Human Capital—A New Approach to the Gig Economy in Low-Income Countries
1. The Opportunity Across much of the Global South, young people are finding new footing in the global digital economy. Through platforms like Upwork, Remotasks, and Fiverr, a new generation is earning income, building skills, and participating in global labor markets—often from nothing more than a mobile phone and a prepaid data bundle. But there’s a…
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Africa is not behind—it is underbuilt. For centuries, we’ve asked: What makes a nation wealthy? The conventional answers—GDP, infrastructure, natural resources—have framed the debate in terms of what a country has. But what if true wealth lies not in possession, but in potential? Not in isolated abundance, but in interconnected systems? To answer this question, we must expand our…
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This article is part of a series towards building the ethos of sci2pro.com. In my earlier essay, I argued that impactful learning is both gradual and social. Today, I want to add another layer to that argument: real learning depends on real-time feedback. This may seem obvious, but it has radical implications—especially for how we design learning in…
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There are very many machine learning approaches ranging from the mundane linear models to the most exotic deep learning architectures. One thing is clear, none of them––in its raw glory––is sufficient to claim the title of artificial intelligence even though the aspiration to create even more powerful models obtains. However, the stumbling block that perenially…
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Here is an example code snippet that executes ‘last rites’. My current use-case is to handle final tasks on a cluster job management system when the script violates some execution criterion e.g. exceeding memory quota. It’s helpful if the job could perform some task(s) that indicate that it had to be terminated. The key module…
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I think understanding is enhanced by starting with examples and I’ll do just that. Yesterday, I finally appreciated recursion. For those of you who are not into programming and logical problem solving, recursion is defined as applying a series of steps used in solving a problem (algorithm – applying an algorithm to itself) to itself. Huh?…
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