AI and immortality in the year of the snake
In this playful speech given at an awards dinner in Tokyo, Japan in March 2025, I started by wanting to ...
DeepSeek’s “Open Source” breakthrough from inside China
DeepSeek and Alibaba’s QN 2.5 have surpassed OpenAI’s ChatGPT-4o and Meta’s Lama, shifting the AI landscape. This is not just ...
Nigerian banks and fintechs need to focus on rebuilding the economy
First Bank Nigeria had invited me as keynote speaker at their Fintech 6.0 Summit in October last year, which the ...
DeFi is setting the rules by which banking will be run shortly
In this wide-ranging keynote at the First Bank Nigeria's Fintech 6.0, I outlined how DeFi is setting new standards of ...
My mental map on China
In this post, I want to outline my personal mental map on China that I use in processing current developments ...
Washington cherries from farm to store in 72 hours
I have been a big fan of Washington cherries for a long time. They are seasonal, always showing up at ...
