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Two weeks in at UNEP. The contrast between writing workflow automation for global environmental governance during the day, and reading DCF valuation textbooks in the evening, is more interesting than it sounds. I'm deliberately collecting context I didn't have before — what institutional systems look like from the inside, how capital actually moves, what founders in hard industries have in common.

Started as Information Systems Specialist at UNEP's Corporate Services Division — Enterprise Solutions Section. Building workflow automation and service request tracking systems for the UN. First time working inside an institution at this scale. The infrastructure of international organizations is its own subject.

Shipped a significant infrastructure overhaul for Tunu Store — migrated from a single-region setup to a multi-region edge deployment. Cold-start latency for African users dropped considerably. Also started publishing more technical writing to document what I've been building quietly.

Started a finance course in earnest — not as a hobby but as deliberate preparation. I want to understand capital, investment, and business models the way I understand systems architecture. The two skill sets don't usually live in the same person. I think that gap is the opportunity.

Studying systems architecture, parallelism, and performance-oriented design. Also researching graduate programs in Information Systems — Strathmore, USIU, University of Nairobi, and KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Sweden are all on the list. The question isn't if, but where.

Shipped the new Tunu Store dashboard. Finally fixed that race condition in the payment webhook. It was a 2-line fix. It always is.

Reading "Designing Data-Intensive Applications" by Martin Kleppmann. This book is altering my brain chemistry.