Writing
47 posts, 2012–2026.
2026
- Notes on Origin Cursor shipped Origin, but GitHub's moat was never the git server. The next war is custody.
- What is luxury? And what has that got to do with software? What the Damier canvas says about software
- Winding Down Fimio After four years of building, I'm winding down Fimio—and choosing clarity over a go-to-market motion that wasn't me.
2025
- Vibecoding Mini Apps, an under-tapped opportunity Just had a light bulb moment
2024
- The Build - Peeling back the layers of native LLM application deployments A story birthed at the intersection of Computer Science and Software Engineering.
2023
- Machine Learning for Web3 We built the internet of ownership when we should have been building the internet of censorship-resistant, verifiable connections.
- Hello World It's Fimio I did a thing in 2022, I founded a Web3 Startup!
2022
- Understanding the Role of Trust in Web3 It is winter in web3. Trust broke at layer-0, the human layer, and that is not a problem you can fix with better infrastructure.
2019
- AI At The Frontier, Global Viewpoint A frontier is the limit of settled land. What planetary-scale inference looks like from sub-Saharan Africa.
2017
- SOCML 2017 Notes from Google Research's self-organizing ML unconference, where I led the conversation on machine learning in production.
- #20YearsACoder In celebration of my #20YearsACoder, I am conducting a retrospective on the journey.
- What Makes a Coder A machine learning approach to the tech pipeline.
- The Myth of Innate Ability in Tech On the surface, it kinda makes sense, especially if you have ever found yourself marveling at the dexterity with which it seems some folks can handle technology. As reasonable as it might seem, evidence points to the contrary.
- 2016 Year in Review My year was marked by intensity! Like most of the United States, 2016 had me bodied. It wasn't all bad though, it was more a year requiring accelerated growth.
2016
- The Rise of the Merchant Princess Ìyá Álaàfiá, aka Josephine Olaitan Thomas (nee Koya), was born March 29th, 1907 to one of the ruling families in Ìjebu Ódé.
- Babasola Thomas, my Father at 80 My father is that rare breed of humanity born with a capacity to tolerate high risk. Some might even say he courts risk-seeking behavior, living life as if on the edge of a razor.
- The Audacious Todd Park I have never seen a technologist almost brought to tears over their love of country and the transformative impact of public service.
- CSExperiencePrediction: Part Two While students do not agree that women are smarter than men, half of them are undecided about this statement!
- CSExperiencePrediction: Part One, Two Birds with One Stone Self-driving trucks are here. We can kill two birds with one stone.
- Stumbling into Cultural Analytics Data-driven method applied to the experience of intro CS at Universities.
- Àsó Oké - Top Drawer Deola Sagoe belongs alongside Demas Nwoko, Ikiré Jones ... African artist who transform their medium through their communion with the west.
- My Tears, Movies, and the Age of Obama. I am a film fanatic. I suspect my father is too. Growing up in Lagos we were fed a steady diet of films from the golden age of Hollywood.
- In Praise of Seymour Papert, the father of AI. Seymour’s dream isn’t dead because he is, instead, he has left his work to us his devotees to continue.
- 15+ Years of Computational Intelligence. How I became an expert in both human and machine intelligence.
- A Conceptual Metaphor Analysis of 'I Know' We need to understand why rappers use words like “copping” to stand for buying drug or use the language of food “bread”, “cheddar”, “dough”, to stand for money. We need to understand why in rap lyrics we constantly trip over novel conceptual metaphors.
2015
- Teju Cole in Interview with Eleanor Wachtel - On Becoming And each one of us ... we all have to figure out what is our relationship to this culture. And the great thing is that most of us end up embracing it and try to be responsible to our role, our privileges and our disadvantages within that rather complex system.
- What I Learned from Peer Reviewed Rejection - Its not Personal In truth, “my writing was an offense to good taste.” My ideas were not cogent and I had not developed the ability to articulate very complex ideas in a simple fashion that allowed for ease of understanding as well as style.
- The Beauty of Blackness The US has a great Black life tradition. Unfortunately, most outsiders are acquainted with only the negative aspects of Black American life.
- On PhD, Organized Education and Shipping Software engineering is both an art and a science. You can't go to university and become Gauguin, Picasso or Yeezy.
- An Ode to Demas I have often wondered, what would happen when African ways of knowing meet Western thought.
- The Real Evil is Supremacy At the root of many of these ills lies supremacist ideals. This is not an America problem, it is not an European problem, it is not an African problem, it is a human problem.
- Redesigning Computer Science Computer Science is the hottest thing on the streets, its like we are selling crack, but the crack that we are selling is addiction to problem solving
- Microwave Food Versus Michelin Chef Microwave Food Versus Michelin Chef: So want to Code? There is coding and then there is becoming a master developer. There are no short cuts to greatness.
- The GetYourLife Reading List The books I hand people who have stopped hearing the sound of the drums.
2014
2013
2012
- The Winner Tonight Diversity
- Bridging the Gap From Academic Research to Industry Research
- Myth Busting Summer I consider myself a myth buster. My summer internship experience at UniversityNow, has been another act in a myth busting trajectory.
- Social Justice in the Age of Big Data
- The Power of X You can do the Impossible. You don't need to wait for someone else to do it. . . I can do it!
- My campaign for education access
- On Encouraging Girls in Tech