Nneka Jennifer Ngene

We walk the world to discover it and in the process discover ourselves.

Writing is a watered-down form of altered consciousness, and so many ideas evolved as I wrote about them, breaking free from the constraints of my initial framework, insisting on their own form

“When we gear our society around efficiency, we produce more and more of the measurable, while the immeasurable, the qualitative, and the things we don’t think to measure drain away. Bedazzled by quantitative abundance, we might not be able to see what is lost, but we can definitely feel its absence.”

When you have no one to emulate, you build in a language of your own. And when there’s no blueprint other than yourself, you don’t just create; you originate .

They haven’t touched the real opportunity: building an AI-powered operating system that drives decision-making, execution, and growth across every function of the business

Rising from the pages is a prayer for abundance against the backdrop of all that is taken away, an insistence on the possibility of finding beauty amid the ruins of our hopes.

None of this is to imply that human beings should repudiate the technologies that make us more efficient. We just have to recognize which needs greater quantity can meet, and which it cannot. For example, AI chatbots cannot meet the need for intimacy. LLMs cannot meet the need for creativity. AI-generated art cannot meet the need for aesthetic... See more

The concept of efficiency — how much one can accomplish per unit of time (or per dollar, etc.) — requires a quantitative numerator as well as a denominator. It requires a metric. Therefore, it tells us nothing about results we cannot quantify or measure. When we gear our society around efficiency, we produce more and more of the measurable, while... See more