Series 01 · a numbered run · kept in public

Things I have not finished, filed as a set.

Software engineer, Nairobi. Payment switches, identity systems, and the writing that happens when something is not done — which is most things.

The trays

7 sections

№ 001SectionThings I am curious aboutThe future of universities in a world of AI. What happens to software companies when writing software costs nothing. What to know now that I will be glad of in three years — and older questions, like what a 2.4 Puma needs to cross a continent. Independent notions live here too, some leading onward into a lesson or a course.open the card →

№ 002SectionWhat I am working onPayment rails that work when the connection does not, and identity that is not the phone number.open the card →

№ 003SectionWhat I am learningEvery course is here because a need or a curiosity demanded it — agentic engineering to quantum gravity, tobacco to service design, one numbered lesson per page.open the card →

№ 004SectionResearchLong-form investigations, with the method and the numbers left in. Local AI film production is the first.open the card →

№ 005SectionPrompt libraryPrompts that earned their keep — for agents, for thinking, for getting a serious answer out of a model.open the card →

№ 006SectionAbout meNyimbi Odero — software engineer, Nairobi. Payment switches, identity systems, and the layers that hold them together.open the card →

№ 007SectionBook a conversationThirty minutes, Nairobi time.open the card →

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№ 001NoteA film studio on one Mac30 October 2026