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The Intersection Magazine Podcast
by Nicholas Kyanda
We are the podcast version of Intersection Magazine. The magazine that talks about technology related solutions to everyday challenges. The magazine is split into three parts the first is what we call On The Scale where we compare two issue, personalities, products, the second is what we call Under The Scope where we take a deep dive into one subject and the third is called Search For Direction which has evolved into an interview with prominent personalities in the space. We love innovation and provide industry insights to enable decision making.
Episodes
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The Five Levels of AI Agent Maturity: From Reflex Rules to Self-Improving Digital Workers
Episode Description In this deep-dive episode of Agentic Intelligence, we unpack one of the most practical frameworks in enterprise AI today — the five levels of AI agent maturity. We move beyond high-level slides to examine the technical mechanisms behind each level, the real operational...
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Episode 4: The Defensibility Mirage — Designing Moats on a Commoditized Foundation
In the final episode of The Architectures of Intelligence, Alex and Devon dismantle one of the most persistent illusions in AI: the belief that the smartest model or the most powerful infrastructure creates lasting competitive advantage. As GPU computing becomes a pure commodity and upstream…
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Episode 3: The Architecture of Speed — The Middleware Revolution
Build-vs-buy heuristics and the rise of the hybrid application developer. A common pitfall for AI startups is "over-engineering"—spending millions of dollars and precious developer hours building custom infrastructure that does not actually differentiate their product. This episode tackles the...
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Episode 2: The Death of the 'Seat' — Designing Systems of Execution
SaaS 2.0, "Service-as-Software", and the collapse of traditional user-licensing. The SaaS 1.0 era was built on "systems of record" operated by humans, monetized through seat-based subscriptions. But as AI transitions applications from tools into "systems of prediction and execution," we enter the...
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Episode 1: Shovels vs. Outcomes — Designing the New AI Stack
Moving beyond raw capabilities to build invisible, outcome-oriented software. For decades, technology design was about building "shovels"—giving users tools to perform tasks manually. In this episode, we explore the foundational split in the modern AI stack: Infrastructure enables intelligence,...
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August 2026 Magazine Audio Summary-AI and VC
In this month’s issue, we have several ideas we are working on under the broad theme of investment.We start of with a piece from one of our favorite companies-NFX.The piece talks about the inevitability of superintelligence and what role this might play in the world of venture capital.The writer...
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Audio Summary July 2026 Magazine-What comes after SaaS
In the month of July we complete the section we started last month about the union between SaaS and #ArtificialIntelligence. As we mentioned before, there is nothing in the history of computing that has been as profitable as Software as a Service. We feature quite a lot of material from the NFX...
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Management and Organization Behaviour-Case Study
On April 20, 2010, the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig in the Gulf of Mexico exploded, killing 11 crew members and triggering one of the worst environmental disasters in US history with 230 million gallons of spilled oil. While the physical blowout preventer failed, official investigations…
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Ideas on the Adoption of AI across different Layers.
Conversation about AI and the hardware layer with two industry experts. Taken from Andreesen Horowitz A16z podcast where Lisa Su CEO of AMD is interviewed by Bob Swan former CEO of Intel. High compute is the bedrock of generative AI. At the heart of this are high-performance Chips. Importance of...
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Crypto and Virtual Assets Forum
Attended a forum for crypto and Virtual assets in Uganda. We have had the keynote from the vice chairperson @FitspaUG @DoreenLukandwa and #FinancialIntelligenceAuthority representative. The discussion about #regulation, #risk, #policy and #activity in the crypto and virtual asset spaces. FIA...
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Implications of AI on Application Design
I have been in the world of web design for over two decades. I have bult with the most basic tools using WYSIWYG from Microsoft Front Page to Adobe GoLive to Dreamweaver and modern takes on incorporating the use of databases to build more robust sites using CMS. The changes that we have seen in…
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June 2026 Audio Summary
For the month of June there are several ideas that we are pursuing. The first is written by the NFX team and is an attempt to look into the future post #SAAS. SAAS stands for software as a service. This has formed about 85% of all software development work and has been responsible for the vast...
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May 2026 Audio Summary
For the month of May we are winding down on a piece that as shared from the work of Alessandro Palombo. He wrote extensively about his time in the Emirates. I wanted this piece to be a guide for other nations that were looking to attract citizens of other countries into their geographies. This...
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Audio Podcast of our convo with Elie Bouzaglou of Fishtank VC
In this conversation we talk to Elie Bizaglou of FishTank VC about one of the products he has created to help make the process of fundraising easier. After dealing with the complications of being misunderstood and ignored Elie decided to combine the attractiveness of TikTok like interface with…
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Elie Bouzaglou of FishTank VC on transforming Venture Capital
In this conversation we talk to Elie Bizaglou of FishTank VC about one of the products he has created to help make the process of fundraising easier. After dealing with the complications of being misunderstood and ignored Elie decided to combine the attractiveness of TikTok like interface with…
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April 2026 Audio Summary AI Takes Center Stage
In the month of April, there are several ideas that we are pushing based in some parts on the circumstances in which we find ourselves. When we started the year, there were signs that the year would be full of #turmoil. This has been the case. Even as I am sharing a piece about Dubai done by...
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Breaking Democracy’s Chain
This week we are thrilled to have a conversation with an author who is tackling an important subject for those of us in business. Metin Pekin is the author of a book called Breaking Democracy’s Chain. In the book and this podcast in particular, we talk about his approach where he guides us…
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Breaking Democracy’s Chain Metin Pekin
This week we are thrilled to have a conversation with an author who is tackling an important subject for those of us in business. Metin Pekin is the author of a book called Breaking Democracy’s Chain. In the book and this podcast in particular, we talk about his approach where he guides us…
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March 2026 Audio Summary Navigating a challenging quarter
The month of March is here and it feels like it has a strong global feel. Firstly, one of the people that i subscribe to Alessandro Palombo regularly puts out some geographical content on locations of interestand i think you will enjoy this one. There are many countries that spend time setting up...
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Of Dinosaurs and Cataclysmic Events
This conversation combines the thoughts gathered after three separate events. The first an interactive back and forth with a supercomputer, the second a conference discussing the launch of an innovative finance platform powered by AI and backed by data and a piece someone shared about the…
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Uganda Development Bank and the RISE project
This Program delivers a groundbreaking solution to address modern-day challenges, diversify the economy, and establish high- tech, high-value-added, high-income, and truly green businesses and projects. The RISE platform enables financial institutions to create demand for sustainable finance by...
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February Magazine Audio
The month of February is upon us. We are easing into the year by further developing some of the projects we began at the end of last year. Our piece on time travel and investment is concluded in this issue with the author Brad Slingerlend giving us a list of films that help us understand what we...
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January 2026 Audio Summary The Year AI Flourished
For the month of January those who think of this as the first month often have expectations of some kind of #forecast or #prophecy. Words of direction that they can depend on for the year to come. About 30 years ago at a #church in #Texas we used of usher in the New Year with a word from the Lord...
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Spirituality, Entrepreneurship and Investment
Chris Champion is an entrepreneur and investor, who has delved deeply into tech startups over the past 30 years. He has identified patterns that lead to successful investments – having championed over 120+ companies and raised more than $300M. With a community of 5,000 entrepreneurs who value his...
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There are Ecosystems and then there is China-What are the differentiators?
Here is something you might appreciate. This is recorded after an impressive talk by a Chinese product sourcing expert. First, we talk about the word ecosystem and what it means and why we chose to define it with Silicon Valley in mind. Then we pan out to regional and continental perspectives of...
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Intersection Magazine December Audio Summary-Time travel, Investment Thesis and Great Annual Reports
Brad Slingerlend shows up again with this piece. This time he sheds light on a genre of film that explores time travel and helps us understand the complex world of investment and key features of the same especially prediction of trends and the identification of patterns. We also share a…
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Audio Summary November 2025-Overproduction, Reports and VC Courses
In the month of November, we continued our discussion of the elite overproduction hypothesis from the work of Noah Smith. Perhaps the most crucial take away from me, was the need to manage expectations. All the planning and work that goes into the creation of courses and program for various...
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October 2025 Magazine Audio Summary
In this issue we complete the piece that was written by Noah Smith on the Elite Overproduction Hypothesis. The key takeaway from this is the need to be sensitive about how we address the challenges that many in this generation are facing with lack of jobs and opportunity and to stay away from…
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September 2025 Magazine Audio Summary
In this episode we share in brief the contents of the September Magazine. We start with the discussion that Noah Smith started on the Elite Overproduction Hypothesis. He talks about what happens when the hopes of one or more generations to not match the market conditions. The first a generation…
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Free-flowing Dialogue on a range of subjects
Here is a conversation that was supposed to preface a podcast episode devoted to a completely different subject. The show was summarized by Doris Acheng Odit of Odit Frontier Partners into about 6 major sections. 1. Polymaths, focus and identity 2. Purpose and profit 3. Adaptive Muscle vs. Static...
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Leadership lessons and more from Highest 2 Lowest
Shelton Jackson 'Spike' Lee needs no introduction. He was educated in America's leading Colleges-Morehouse and New York University Tisch School of the Arts. According to Wikipedia he thrives in the space where he explores themes about African American life and culture. This is where we find him…
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Kimberly Haley-Coleman on Volunteering and Social Work.
This is a conversation we had regarding volunteering and the possible transition between executive roles to voluntary roles and positions. I was curious about how to think about a life that is designed around giving back to communities especially after years of making money (even this is service...
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Julia K. Dietmar on Fashion, Sustainability and Technology
Here is a great conversation about the quite a number of subjects but with one underlying idea. #Fashion, #Technology and #Innovation and how to merge these ideas into creating great looks while also managing the vast amount of waste that is generated to make these clothes. The guest Julia K....
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Examining BBC Business Daily Coverage of Finland's Success as a DefenceTech Player
Here is another piece where we cover BBC's coverage of Finland as a DefenceTech Superpower. Definitions of Ecosystem and the use of these definitions to break down the success of Finland as an amazing DefenceTech Space. We also look at the historical case and geographic influence and the effects…
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Finland as a European Startup Capital-Exploring BBC's coverage of global startup stories
Here is another well done piece from the BBC which we mine for content. Some of the major ideas that stand out are seen in almost all stories that were done with the BBC where they always start with a country summary. This may be useful because these characteristics often form the basis or...
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India and Its Frugal Startups-Review of BBC's coverage of Startups
We continue a review of material as presented by the BBC. We think it will be useful to compare our coverage of the Innovation and Technology Space with what some of the giants in Media are saying. Here we talk about India's approach with view of capturing lessons that can be used in other third...
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A review of BBC's Podcast on Armenia
In the second installment of our coverage of BBC's Startup Focus, we present Armenia. What are the historic and geographic challenges she has faced and what opportunities exist in overcoming them? How does Armenia plan to use Education and Technology to Its advantage both locally and globally. We...
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Ancel Ochino Bwire of Ancywax-Branding, Marketing and Consultancy
After quite a while of not seeing Mr. Bwire we connected a few months ago at a Corporate Venture Capital Training Event. Our conversation on that day was filled with life changing insights on growth and longevity which in my view can benefit Startups in Uganda and young founders. Ancel's...
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Audio Summary of August 2025 Magazine
Several ideas are discussed in this issue. The first is a piece by Noah Smith about what he called the Elite Overproduction Hypothesis. He takes a deep dive into the Education Sector in the US and the decline and uptick in certain courses and sites few reasons why this is the case. This has...
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Audio Summary of July 2025 Magazine
In the month of July we shared the last piece from the conversation covering Africa Reimagined. Africa Reimagined was put together by Included VC and was put together to help shed some light on continent wide tech and innovation ecosystem. This particular article discusses presentation given by...
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Grace Miller of Echo Community-Supporting Small Holder Farmers Globally
This long awaited conversation with Grace Miller Lead of Echo Community In Nothern America is finally here. We talk about the importance of the work they do and the broad areas that they focus on. We also share a snippet about some of their very important events including some of what is coming…
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BBC's Coverage of Argentina's Biotech Startups
A few weeks ago, the BBC Business Daily Program had a series of episodes devoted to the subject of Startups. In the next few programs we share some of these highlights just to give you a perspective from a different source and how we see this coverage. Here we share insights into the Biotech...
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Applications Shmupplications-Applying for a Startup Competition Vs. Applying for a VC Mentoship Position
It’s been almost 12 years since I published a post called Apply No More My Son. It was a slight jab at the system and the process that many of us have to go through and bother with even if sometimes we realize that the whole thing is rigged against us. Fast forward a few years and I did it again....
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Vote of Confidence for the Tech and Innovation Ecosystem of Uganda
In this episode of the podcast we wanted to share some useful insights from someone in a different ecosystem about some of what they think Uganda is doing right. This is great coming from a country that ranks amongst the top four in terms of VC fund attraction and investment. We are calling it a...
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Hakiza Ronald of Vestafi
In this conversation I am thrilled to share insights with one of the early pioneers in the startup space. We talk about a range of subjects including some of his work with Ugabus which went one to be acquired by Treepz. Ugabus was an online ticketing system that was built to make it easier to…
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Blockchain DevFest 2025
This year's event marks the 4th Blockchain DevFest organized and founded by Eng. David Lumala and his team. Over the last few years this has become a important event for anyone interested in learning and building in the web3 space. Guests and speakers now come from all over the region and…
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Ajay Ramasubramaniam of Hindsight Ventures on Corporate Venture Capital
For two days I was privileged to be part of the program designed to tackle the Establishment of an Immersive Corporate Venture Capital Ecosystem in Uganda. The Uganda National Council of Science and Technology and Ministry of Science Technology and Innovation in collaboration with Startup Reseau...
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SFV hosts Kenneth Legesi of Ortus Capital
In this extensive conversation about Investment in Uganda and Beyond Industry veteran and ecosystem VC builder makes a case for a proven path that he has used for the last 20 years. Moving from Why there is so much promise for scaling startups in Africa, to Smart Capital, The pathway for impact...
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Audio of June 2025 Intersection Magazine
In this June Issue we talk continue a conversation we started last month where we featured an important Included VC Event called Africa Reimagined. Last month we shared a presentation given by Nonnie Burbidge on VC in Africa. This month we present a piece by Sheriff Nessim of Jedar Capital…
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Balaji Srinivasan’s Network School Fellowship
This is really an exploration of the recent move to put into practice some of Balaji’s Srinivasan’s Network State ideas championed through his book by the same name but then taken further in this move to create a central place where these concepts can be tested. In this podcast we share how you…
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We are the podcast version of Intersection Magazine. The magazine that talks about technology related solutions to everyday challenges. The magazine is split into three parts the first is what we call On The Scale where we compare two issue, personalities, products, the second is what we call Under The Scope where we take a deep dive into one subject and the third is called Search For Direction which has evolved into an interview with prominent personalities in the space. We love innovation and provide industry insights to enable decision making.
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