On Silence and Deliberation in Public Life
Why the demand for instant commentary damages the quality of institutional decisions.
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Essays & Writings
Essays, analyses, and published articles on African economic architecture, institutional underwriting, and domestic productivity.
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The Weight of Early Mornings in Lagos
Personal reflections on endurance, geography, and the rhythm of African cities.
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Books That Survived the Move
On library curation, intellectual debts, and texts that outlast economic cycles.
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Message to my president-in-the-making on Medium
A note to an incoming president: respect those who employ, tax the wealthy, retire the subsidies, and stop mistaking regulation for revenue.
Confidence and capital
Habits maketh a Nation on Medium
The habits a country must give up before its circumstances can change, beginning with the attraction to hopelessness.
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The Limit of Money on Medium
Money is a language for communicating economic activity, not an asset. Separated from real things it conveys nothing, because value must be created before it can be represented.
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This is not a feel-good post on Medium
Each generation has handed the next a broken inheritance. On the apology that is not coming, and why the waiting has to end.
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On becoming a listening TWAT on Medium
Thinking, writing, acting and talking. On the discipline of the empty cup, and why so few of our leaders write down what they believe.
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