Blog

Everything I've written, roughly in the order I wrote it. Deep dives, dev guides, and some reflections when an idea I ran into turned out more interesting than expected.

Research ThesisSep 20269 min read

Anthropic: The Fastest Re-Rating in Tech History, and the Number Nobody's Checking

Anthropic went from a $61.5 billion company to a $965 billion one in fourteen months. The headline revenue number driving that isn't the number you think it is.

Research ThesisSep 20269 min read

Dangote: From Trading Commodities to Owning the Infrastructure Behind Them

Dangote isn't a cement company or a rich-man story. It's a decades-long bet on owning supply chains, and this month a new part of it goes public.

Dev GuidesSep 202612 min read

Roomly Developer Guide

A task-oriented guide to building on Roomly's proposed student housing API — from your first request to a full housing dashboard.

User GuidesSep 20264 min read

Getting started with Roomly

A quick orientation to Roomly — what it does, why it exists, and where to go next depending on whether you're a student or a caretaker.

Dev GuidesSep 202612 min read

Roomly API Specification

Proposed API specification for exposing Roomly's student housing data, property listings, availability, locations, and market information to developers.

User GuidesSep 20265 min read

Roomly caretaker guide: activation, listings, and withdrawals

How to activate your caretaker account, list your first property, withdraw earnings, and manage reviews on Roomly.

ProductSep 20267 min read

Roomly investor overview: the case for a trusted student housing marketplace

Why Roomly exists, what problem it solves, the size of the market it's going after, and where it stands today — an investor-facing overview of a Nigerian student housing marketplace.

User GuidesSep 20265 min read

Roomly student guide: login, booking, and roommate ads

A simple walkthrough of Roomly's core student flows — signing up, booking an apartment, and posting or viewing roommate ads.

ReflectionsSep 20263 min read

The pigeonhole principle is stupidly simple. That's what makes it terrifying.

A dumb-sounding idea from a math class that turns out to be quietly load-bearing across half of computer science.

Web3Sep 20264 min read

Recursive zk-SNARKs: the mechanism that keeps Mina succinct

What a zk-SNARK actually is, and how recursion lets Mina represent its whole blockchain in a constant, succinct proof.

Web3Sep 20263 min read

How does Mina keep an entire blockchain at 22KB?

What Mina is actually doing, and what the 22KB (now closer to 11KB) figure means in practice.