December 2022 marks one year and eight months since I joined the team at Microsoft as a product manager based at the Africa Development Center in Nairobi, Kenya. It just feels like the other day, as it has been months and months of learning and adjusting to working in big…

This is the second product case study I am publishing from previous product lead roles I applied for. As highlighted in the first post, I am sharing this with the hope that it will be useful to people in the product space irrespective of the level they are at. …

Recently, I was going through my Google docs looking for a research study plan to share with a couple of innovators I have been supporting and in the process, I stumbled on case studies I did back in 2017 when I was applying for product lead roles. It is pretty…

Some time back, the Financial Times published an article (paywalled) covering the effect the entry Big Tech has had on access to talent by startups in the Kenyan ecosystem. While it was a noble effort, I found the article didn’t represent the full story and instead focused solely on how…

I have been working on this post for months now. For some reason, every time I sat in front of my laptop my mind would go blank. It is one of those difficult posts because I am basically explaining to the world how and why I failed. In writing it…

Over the past ~10 years I have had the privilege of working with different organizations and individuals to conceptualize and take services and products primarily targeting African markets. In some scenarios, we were designing products/services from scratch while in others we were working on an existing product. The clients I…

One of my favorite movies (not that I have many) is one by Chris Rock called Top Five. By the end of the movie, Chris Rock and Rosario Dawson (one of my favorite actors!)list their top five rappers. Of course, there is a lot more that happens in the movie…

About three years ago, I traveled to Oloitoktok with my cousin. We had a joint farming project there growing onions and tomatoes. The project went sideways but that is a story for another day. After a long day of walking around inspecting my project, I decided to rest under a…

March 2020 officially marks the start of our third year of operation at Tanasuk Africa (now doing business as Made by People). It is the perfect time to reflect on our second year building a design firm. I did a recap of our first year which you can find below. Reflecting on our first year building a design consulting company It is just about nine months since I penned my first article about starting a design thinking and software consulting…medium.com