23° South
A latitude from which to see the world.
Essays, frameworks and field notes on capital, sovereignty, technology, culture and the structures shaping what comes next.
A latitude
The world looks different depending on where you stand.
23° South views the world from a specific latitude and examines the intersection of resource economies, Silicon Valley, capital markets, technological change, culture and the long arc of sovereignty.
The result of a different lens is a changed perception, which leads to different actions.
The newsletter
Sovereign Tea
Dispatches from the long view.
Shorter observations on capital, sovereignty and the structures underneath the news.
Selected writing & frameworks
A framework for how resource-rich countries convert geology into durable national wealth: not simply by extracting more, but by building the capabilities, institutions and ownership structures that allow value to compound locally.
An inquiry into the recurring structures beneath sovereignty, value, scarcity, ownership, coordination and power, and how those structures shape what people and institutions are able to build.
The case that durable capital formation begins upstream of money: with shared meaning, legitimacy, standards, memory and a coherent account of what is worth building and preserving.
A framework for understanding the informal economy through the roles that different participants play regardless of institutional recognition.
Africa is a supercomputer humming beneath the surface: copper in the ground, memory in the body, knowledge in language, trade routes crossing old borders. FutureCraft is the work of reconnecting those circuits until the continent can generate its own futures again.