January 2001. Part quixotic, part ambitious I elected not to attend college. I fell off the edge of the prescribed path. I was among the top 0.0001% of Kenyan high school grads. Med school, law school or [insert an aunt’s choice here] didn’t interest me. The power and allure of the tech bubble was palpable. I co-found a computer services business.
Businesses fail and naivety fades. I elected a rigorous STEM education. I built robots and familiarized with mathematical structures. Wall Street got in on the joke and gave me a bear hug. I moved to NYC, traded multi-million dollar commodities derivative contracts and coded around large weather and electricity data sets to extract mission...