great thinking, great product By Chu on November 22, 2023 — 1 min read tl;dr this could really be a post about my nice new backpack . Growing up in Lagos in the 90’s, I remember a television ad for Toyota that ended with a Japanese voice saying “yoi shinai, yoi kangai – good thinking, good product”. That slogan stuck. Toyota cars are generally good products. Good products get the job... More
Table Stakes: Should Twitter have an End of The Year Round-up? By Chu on January 13, 2021 — 1 min read When I saw people tweet their 2020 recaps from Spotify and Apple Music, I wondered if Twitter’s product team observed this cross-platform sharing, and what implementing something similar with already existing data assets would look like. Maybe an End of the Year report? With consumer technology we often see once unique features quickly become the minimum offering needed to meet... More
Case for Innovation in Sub-Saharan Africa. By Chu on December 4, 2020 — 3 mins read Apparently I wrote this in 2014, probably for some thing in grad school. Seems fairly coherent so, reposting. In the course of my time here I have realized that there’s a significant information gap between the developed world and such frontier markets like Sub-Saharan Africa. Because of this gap, white spaces exist which can be serviced... More
