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Thinking on teams, talent, and what actually works
Founder perspective, field notes from our team, and honest takes on building with digital talent from Africa. No content marketing. No best-practice fluff.
The promise and limits of outcome-based pricing
The promise of outcome-based pricing is that you stop paying for effort. You only pay when it works: per resolution, per completed process, per merged pull request.
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If you mostly work at a computer, this is how your job will change
Software teams got faster with AI and their work got better. What arrived with it is a new kind of work: finding out which part of "almost right" isn't. Since January my own week looks like their numbers, and I think most digital work will follow.
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What's quietly eating your week
Hiring sits near the bottom of founders' stress lists, while the measured costs of an open role and a rushed hire are among the largest a growing company carries. On why those costs rarely show up as hiring, and where they land instead.
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Why you haven't started your business yet
In 2023 we surveyed the Tunga developer pool about what the Tunga Academy should contribute to achieving. We asked African software developers what their ambitions were, and where they see themselves in 5 years.
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Where the weight in software work is moving
Engineering teams that have been using AI coding tools in production for a year or more tend to show the same pattern. Output volume is clearly up. Bugs per developer are up too. Review time has gone through the roof. Something in the economics of the work has flipped, and the standard productivi
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There is a manual for hiring across cultures. It's only 3 questions long.
Hiring across cultures comes with questions you didn't quite see coming. What's expected of you. What's expected of them. What you can joke about and what you can't. Whose job it is to flag a problem, and when. Somewhere between signing the contract and the first call, you realise: nobody handed
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AI's real value is in your operations, not your product
Everyone around you seems to be hiring AI engineers. AI job postings are up 143% in a year. The wage premium is 56%. The message is hard to miss: if you're serious about AI, you need serious technical talent.
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