Why thenewmad

September 2026 · by Kaizen

This is a place to think out loud about two things: the technology that is reshaping how work gets done, and the economics of how countries get richer — especially African countries.

The two subjects are closer than they look. Cheap computation, capable software and increasingly general machines change what a small team, a small firm or a small country can build. Whether that turns into broad prosperity depends on the unglamorous parts: power, logistics, capital, education, rules. So the essays here will move back and forth between the two.

What to expect

Mostly long-form pieces: research write-ups, arguments, and ideas that are not finished yet. Some will be wrong. The goal is to reason in public and improve through feedback.¹

Why it looks like this

The site is plain HTML and one small stylesheet. No scripts, no tracking, no web fonts. A page is a few kilobytes, which matters when many readers are on slow or expensive mobile data. The writing is the point; everything else should get out of the way.