working on a few things focused on africa. i have a fundamental belief that much, if not all, of africa’s problems stem from the people not knowing better. you could say i’m firmly in the school of ‘reasonable people act reasonably’ and you don’t be so wrong. not completely right, but not completely wrong either. i’m african myself (ghanaian to be precise) with all my family still residing in my country, and i worry a lot that they will never enjoy a higher quality of life. that’s why i’m dedicating myself to building systems for producing and sharing knowledge. i started a community for developers almost 10 years ago (https://devcongress.org) which, while ~5k members strong, has failed on the most important metric: put ghana on the map of global software engineering. there’s been a few wins here and there but nothing to write home about. so, I’ve started https://toprank.devcongress.org to be a little bit more hands-on in the nurturing of the next generation of software engineers. in my private endeavor, i’m working on a finance product focused mainly on making the average african financially intelligent. we’d like them to invest more, spend less, perceive their financial history in novel and informative ways. it’s exciting work, and we’ll be applying to yc later this year. talking about africa gets me rambling (because they’re a large-ish surface area) so i’ll stop here. if africa or the developing world is on your mind too, feel free to hit me up at wheresyaw@gmail