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Working to build and rapidly scale the future of African - and global - education.

Nairobi
Joined August 2012
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The term “market shaping” is squishy and used sloppily—and that squishiness makes it harder to help a true market-shaping discipline take root in climate tech. The SSIR piece & this accompanying blog post unpack the definitional issues. greatunwind.substack.com/p/m…
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New piece out in @SSIReview today—@oliversabot and I arguing that the world is pursuing market shaping for climate tech far too narrowly, and outlining a mental model for what the next wave of green market shaping needs to look like. A 🧵 ssir.org/articles/entry/the_…
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Learnings from the field of global health and market-shaping efforts of @CHAI_health and others can show the way toward meeting global climate goals. @DaiEllis & @OliverSabot share suggestions for funders in the climate community. #climatechange ssir.org/articles/entry/the_…
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Here's the first post in a series @johnlsanchez8 & I are writing about world's rapid drift toward an unhealthy approach to CDR pathway diversity—specifically risks of tilting the playing field against crucial-to-scale 'open-system' CDR pathways. A 🧵 greatunwind.substack.com/p/l…
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Excited to share my new post with reflections on the "who" question in carbon removal—the waves of actors who will need to meet the move-mountains challenge in front of us. Who's got next? Philanthropy and heavy industry. 1/2 greatunwind.substack.com/p/w…
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What's our vision for the future of the permanent CDR market? Excited to share the final post in my series — this time laying out six building blocks of a vision for CDR market shaping and how Frontier can most powerfully and creatively use its heft greatunwind.substack.com/p/t…
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Excited to share the first in a series of posts I'm writing about the Frontier AMC and lessons from market creation in the world of global health—including the vaccine AMC that inspired Frontier and (in following posts) other market-shaping adventures greatunwind.substack.com/p/f…
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A competitive story telling game for those that like to get creative. Tony previews Tall Tales, now in funding on Kickstarter: bit.ly/3lrenLq #boardgames
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I got a chance to playtest this, and it has so many of the things I love about games. You get to see your friends be creative, have absurd conversations that emerge from play, and also just admire THE ART 😍 kickstarter.com/projects/tal…
Two years ago, we had the idea to make a quick party game about writing stories. We wanted to take something lonely and intimidating and make it social and fun. Now we couldn't be more excited to launch our Kickstarter for Tall Tales kickstarter.com/projects/tal…
The goal is not to feel better. It is to practice the art of feeling terrible link.medium.com/924JY5sWjX
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We can drop the guilt when we focus on our inner lives: the time we invest in ourselves is one of the best ways to invest in our children and others we care about link.medium.com/9yABw5PW1W
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.@KenyaPower_Care @KenyaPower Loresho account 2000533-06 no power for 2 days. All houses in area are without power. Please respond urgently.
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Read about the incredible Chinezi Chijioke and @Nova_Pioneer in our next Founder Story here: bit.ly/2llOMa8
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“We’re being taught coding,” says Stacey Wanyoike, a Year 10 student. “I find that really cool. And in the other lessons, you’re not just reading notes, you’re taking part.” #atNovaPioneer #Education #Africa economist.com/middle-east-an… via @TheEconomist
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Dr. Joy Kiano, principal at Nova Girls giving insights on opps available for young women in STEM @shegoestech @USIUAfrica #TechWomenUSIU
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What an eye opening opportunity for our girls to participate in #TechWomenUSIU - Time to roll up our sleeves and walk the talk! #atNova
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Only 1 in 10 youth in low-income countries will have basic high-school skills in 2030 unless we take dramatic action cgdev.org/blog/ignorance-att…
Some thoughts on our approach to one of the trickiest goals in education, building strong character - gettingsmart.com/2016/08/sha…
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