The same discipline as the product and delivery work, expressed in prose. The Control Plane is the public record on AI governance. My books and Tries Too Hard carry judgement, leadership, and the human side of working inside systems.
The Control Plane is the governance record. Tries Too Hard and my published books extend into judgement, leadership, and what it takes to stay honest under pressure.
The Control Plane essays that define the core argument: enforcement, evidence, and governance as infrastructure.
Longer frameworks
Essays on The Control Plane are field notes. Longer frameworks and illustrative scenarios live under Research, including the AI Governance Execution Gap and the Africa skip-layer paper (Zimbabwe as country case).
Browse researchRelated framework
Africa's AI Governance Skip-Layer Moment →︎Africa frame; Zimbabwe as the implementation case. Pair with the Substack essay for the shorter public cut.
A book on the structures beneath organisational behaviour.
In Progress · Writing in progress.
A practical book on seeing the structures beneath organisational behaviour: incentives, feedback loops, governance, and the gap between what a system claims to do and what it does.
It connects delivery leadership in regulated lending environments, building Colloxa, and writing on The Control Plane for delivery leads, founders, and operators.
Governance, judgement, delivery, and the human consequences of the systems we build.
Prose and verse on power, emotion, identity, and the inner work of living.
Kindle + Paperback
A Street Testament on Power, Faith, and Survival
Power operates on its own terms where formal institutions fail. This four-book collection moves through hierarchy, brotherhood, faith, and the moral weight of choices made under conditions where survival is the first obligation.
Authority, violence, hierarchy, brotherhood, moral cost
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Kindle, Hardcover, Paperback
And what to do with them
An intimate guide through joy, anger, longing and the fragile emotional infrastructure of being human. The tone is conversational, like sitting with someone who does not simplify pain but translates it.
Emotional literacy, self-reflection, healing
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Kindle
Meaning is not found. It is made.
Personal narrative, philosophical questions, and structured reflection tasks for readers who want to examine their own lives rather than receive ready answers. It starts from the premise that meaning is made, not found.
Introspection, purpose, growth, identity formation
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Audiobook
Audiobook
Thirty-two letters written to a child, on courage, patience, loss, and what to hold onto. Direct and unhurried, for anyone who wants to give a young person words that last.
Resilience, gratitude, patience, humility
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