Hi, I’m Paul Kiage
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What private capital becomes
Private capital is not one machine. The name tells you the kind of bet, and so the conditions that kind needs to hold; it does not tell you whether they actually hold. That is the rest of the machine, and you have to read it.
The shape of a career
A career is a worker, inside a system, inside a market. Fifteen dimensions across three sides, and the interactions between them.
AI-assisted work: what CLI access and fluency unlock
Reflections from a Firebase setup using Claude. The CLI makes agent-driven work possible. Domain fluency designs.
Making capability decisions
Not every gap is what it appears to be. Every gap deserves a clear decision.
The architecture of impact
Effort is the foundation. But the structure around it determines what that effort produces.