Arsen Stepp·Jul 4Two Tables in Geneva: One Has Everyone, the Other Has the PowerThe algorithms are trembling
Arsen Stepp·Jul 3Will the Mom Test Survive the AI?My first class at Waterloo was about startup validation, taught by Dean Pacey, a former BlackBerry executive. Dean told stories the way…
Arsen Stepp·Jun 27They Skipped the Computer. Now They Have AI.Imagine you are a young person living in Boro Gacha village in Bangladesh. Your parents are farmers. Khulna, the nearest city, is many…
Arsen Stepp·Jun 17Congratulations, the Database Says You Are the FatherEvery bureaucracy dreams of a single source of truth.
Arsen Stepp·Feb 12Apparently, chaos is the new classroomScroll long enough and you will meet them all: the 19-year-old founder, the podcast philosopher, the guy in a hoodie explaining how “life…
Arsen Stepp·Nov 25, 2025Birth Registration Is About Families, Chaos, and the Art of Naming a BabyEvery time someone says “Bangladesh must achieve 100 percent birth registration by 2030,” I imagine a giant scoreboard somewhere where the…
Arsen Stepp·Sep 12, 2025Digital Transformation Is a Lie (If You’re Not a Tech Bro)When digital services are designed to exclude, not empower
Arsen Stepp·Aug 1, 2025Why AI Can’t Save Broken Bureaucracies (Yet)Governments everywhere are racing to adopt Generative AI. New copilots, chatbots, and content tools promise smarter services, faster…
Arsen Stepp·May 30, 2025No One Tells You the First Job Is a TrapIt was 19997. I was a fresh graduate in a small town of under 20,000 — the kind of place where career options were limited, and ambition…
