Santa Fe — the only successful Native uprising against a European colonial power in North America
August 4, 2026 · 6 min read
In 1680 Pueblo peoples drove Spanish colonizers out of New Mexico for twelve years -- and the same small city later became a zoning-mandated tourist brand, the secret front door…
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Held to its own word — the founders' contradiction, and three men who answered it on its own terms
August 4, 2026 · 7 min read
Washington, Jefferson, and Hamilton each fell short of the country's own promise in a different, documented way -- and Douglass, King, and Malcolm X each answered that gap by…
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Who became "white," and when
August 2, 2026 · 3 min read
Irish, Italian, and Jewish Americans became "white" on three different timelines, through three different institutional mechanisms — proof it was a status, not a pigment.
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Why venture capital wasn't always an industry
August 2, 2026 · 3 min read
Two policy decisions, eighteen months apart, turned a boutique activity into an industry.
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US immigration patterns — the country didn't start at Plymouth Rock
August 2, 2026 · 2 min read
An English colony, and the first enslaved Africans brought to it, were both already in Virginia a decade before the story most Americans are taught even begins.
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One arc — why Newark, Detroit, and Harlem are the same story told three times
August 2, 2026 · 4 min read
The Great Migration, Ford's assembly line, and HBCUs explain all three cities at once, not three separate local stories.
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An $87 Billion Bill to Fund the Iran War Includes $1 Billion for a New York Train Station. Farmers Are Still Waiting on Theirs.
August 2, 2026 · 10 min read
The Strait of Hormuz is 21 miles wide. What actually determines who in America absorbs a war fought over it isn't the water -- it's a spending bill still sitting in Congress, and…
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Cycles and levers — why Egypt, Babylon, Rome, and Ming China all ran the same course
August 2, 2026 · 3 min read
Empires rise and fall on a real, roughly measurable cycle -- and every rise and every fall inside that cycle was still somebody's specific act of will on a specific day. They…
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The District Isn't a Number
July 30, 2026 · 2 min read
A Fed district's sentiment reading looks like a bare data point — expanding, mixed, contracting. Underneath the label is population, money, and formation history that the word…
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What This Blog Is, and How Oluwadi Actually Gets Built
July 27, 2026 · 4 min read
Why this exists, how Oluwadi and Osparna share one graph behind two different doors, and an honest account of where AI does and doesn't get trusted in building and running both.
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Oluwadi is open now — no account, and anyone can add to it
July 27, 2026 · 2 min read
Oluwadi no longer requires an account, and anyone can propose a company, investor, university, or organization for inclusion.
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Introducing Oluwadi — the network, opened to read
June 27, 2026 · 3 min read
Oluwadi is live: a public, continuously updated way to read the U.S. venture network region by region and thesis by thesis. Why a region's single label hides more than it tells…
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The Two-Hour Specification
December 10, 2025 · 5 min read
How writing a genuinely detailed spec -- and following a Research/Plan/Implement discipline with Claude Code -- took a demo from a month down to five hours, and why "Vibe Coding"…
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Venture Capital Due Diligence Checklist: 6 Essential Steps
October 23, 2025 · 6 min read
The battle-tested framework we use ourselves to pressure-test a deal across eight domains -- team, product, financials, business model, traction, competition, and legal -- before…
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Technology Due Diligence Checklist: A 10-Point Investor Guide
October 23, 2025 · 7 min read
A field guide to technology due diligence, sharpened on the deals we've won and the ones we wisely walked away from -- architecture, security, infrastructure, IP, team, and…
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The AI Breakup: It's Not You. It's Me.
September 4, 2025 · 2 min read
AI adoption is in its honeymoon phase -- and some users are already forming emotional attachments to their chatbots. What that says about the MIT study on failed AI pilots, and…
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We Know What to Look For, Because We Build
July 3, 2024 · 1 min read
Osparna's team builds things outside of work too -- and that's not incidental. It's exactly what makes the diligence sharper. I work with people I like.
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