Different rooms, same structure.

• Went from a paid research internship to one of three supervisors on a research team of about 20.
• Built a Philosophy of Physics course and co-taught Philosophy of Mathematics.
• Two peer-reviewed publications.

Logic, first principles, and the habit of asking which variables actually carry the weight. Everything after this runs on it.

• Strategy work for a bank handling $5B+ in assets, whose customer data sat in separate CRMs with nothing reading across them.
• Regulatory work with the State Bank and government.
• Sector-entry frameworks for pharma and financial services.
• A private blockchain design for government land records.

Executives, regulators and family founders work the same way. Wherever the variables create the most financial distortion, that’s where the change comes from.

• Digitized an organization that ran on paper, so its data worked for accountability and for fundraising.
• Led the change management program: a middle-management layer, SOPs, and merit-based performance evaluation in place of a flat, family-run structure.
• Reframed the mission from education to five pillars of community upliftment, starting from the fact that malnourished children can’t learn.

Purpose decides what’s necessary. Once the mission changed, the list of what had to exist changed with it.

• Took over a home-kitchen brand and relaunched it as a fast-casual restaurant within about a month.
• Moved orders off delivery platforms with a card in every bag offering a standing discount for ordering direct. The mix went from about 70% platform to about 70% direct.
• Brought food cost from 60–65% of revenue to about 50%, self-funded with no debt.
• Built Pulse, the restaurant’s own operating system. More on the Experiments page.

A business can make money without you and still slip on what matters. I stayed away for 50 days to check one, and a hygiene complaint showed me the other.