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What Kenya's last MPC tells us about Q2 expectations
Reading between the lines of the latest monetary policy committee decision.
Nairobi · Economist · Founder
Hello.
I'm Prince Muraguri.
An economist by training, a builder by instinct. I'm building a prediction market, a cargo drone company, I teach a development economics class, and I host trivia nights once in a while — and I'm always writing, in plain language, about a continent that should always have been telling its own economic story.
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That's me
What I'm doing
Four rooms, one stubborn instinct.
A prediction market, a drone company, a classroom, and a trivia night. Same year. Same person. Same question, asked four different ways.
"Forecast, reach, teach, connect — one obsession in four costumes."
And running through all of it — Writing
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3 days ago
The thing about building software with AI is that the bottleneck stops being the code and starts being the clarity of the vision.
A short reflection from inside the build.
Last week
Field visit, Kakamega
From a recent trip out west — frames from the field.
2 weeks ago
A 12-minute talk on collective intelligence I wish I'd seen ten years ago
Adding it to the shelf — and to the way I'm thinking about Arena.
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The real me, in one paragraph.
I have worked across more than ten African countries. I've been in four continents. I have spent three hours conducting a single survey to gather one row of data, and I have written software at midnight that does roughly the same job in real time. I have a son. His name is Leo. He is the reason I am building for a tomorrow that he and his future generations can get to enjoy.
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Where I've Been
CEGA / UC Berkeley · J-PAL Africa · Pharo Foundation · Teaching at the Right Level (TaRL) · MIT / DEDP · University of Navarra · Strathmore University · Marathon XP · The Kenyan Wallstreet · NCID
Ten years. Ten African countries. Four continents. One conviction.
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Life, with the lens off
The photo journal.
Work, family, travel, and the bits in between.
Leo.
Leo's picture.
My extended family — dad and mum in front with Leo in between them, my sister on my dad's right, me and my wife in the back, and our nanny on my mum's left.
My sister Njeri and Leo.
I gave a TEDx talk
Internetnomics
What happens when you apply economics — demand, supply, opportunity cost — to your attention.
My TEDx talk argued that in an age of infinite content and limited attention, the Eisenhower Matrix becomes a tool for economic survival. I'm proud of it. It's also, in retrospect, an early version of a much bigger idea I'm now building.
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