Harvard Business Review Special Issues – Spring 2026

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was a busy week but did manage to get to Joe studwell's book - "how africa works" - too lazy and tired to pump out a blog post on this one but here are a few critiques i have on it.

was not sure about even cracking open this book seeing the blurb from bill gates.

idk why but studwell's emphasis on labor-intensive manufacturing as the primary ladder to middle-income status while for most part that stands true most countries are now leveraging service-led growth, since automated industrial systems and AI are lowering the cost of production in developed nations (don't include your claude fees lol), the windows for African nations to compete on cheap manual labor is closing. Studwell spends 300 pages on factories but relatively little on the digital economy or high value services like fintech & AI (which also raises its own set of questions, well put by Amanuel on his substack) which might be a more fast-track strategy.

- https://mershaaman.substack.com/p/does-ai-really-help-africa-really?triedRedirect=true

also another thing is ethnic and regional fragmentation in many African states, the export discipline he admires requires highly centralized, insulated bureaucracy. In many African contexts, forcing a winner takes all industrial policy can trigger civil unrest or be perceived as ethnic favoritism, a nuance studwell's misses often this book ( or outright just decided to ignore)

you cannot build the Asian miracle in 2026 without addressing green energy constraints and carbon taxes (which thanks to all those data centers seems like a joke now adays ). he really focuses on productivity at all costs, largely ignoring how environmental degradation and climate induced migration threaten the very agricultural foundations he proposes

the informal sector is a massive source of resilience and innovation in Africa, But by focusing exclusively on "Scale" (large farms, large factories) his model risks displacing millions of informal workers before the formal sector is ready to absorb them

for anyone looking for the book here it is #books

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Had an interesting conversation yesterday with @HenokNet about AI and robots being used in war, shared this in his comment sections too but something for the curious people here too

also: https://www.stopkillerrobots.org

#bookrecs

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