Welcome. I’m Kifah — I like solving wicked problems and making beautiful things scale, usually through the lens of tools for thought and complex systems.
If you’re new here, these are good entry points:
What I think about
- Open Questions — the problems I’d most like to see us make progress on
- My Answer to the Hamming Question — what I think is worth working on, and why
If you only read a few
- Things Nobody Will Tell You About — hard-won priors on people, risk, and timing
- The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Turning it Off & On Again — reset as a theory of complex systems
- The opposite of a great truth is another great truth — pairs of ideas that are both true, in tension
- Ways to Break out of The Matrix
- Tools for Thought Reading List — what to read if you want to think about thinking
What I’m doing
- My Quests for 2025 — what I was chasing last year