About

I’m Allan Koech, an engineer and data scientist based in Kenya.

My professional life sits at the intersection of engineering, software, data, and real-world systems. I’m interested in how things work, why they fail, how we can measure them better, and what happens when we apply computation to problems that used to depend mostly on experience and intuition.

This site is where I think in public.

I write about engineering, artificial intelligence, machine learning, software, economics, society, learning, and whatever else seems worth investigating. The subjects can look unrelated at first glance, but the thread running through them is fairly consistent: understand the system, question the assumptions, follow the evidence, and try to explain the result clearly.

Some articles are technical. Some are essays. Some are records of things I am learning or building. I do not intend the site to be a polished stream of definitive answers. It is closer to a public notebook: a place to develop ideas carefully enough that they can survive being written down.

The phrase at the top of the site captures the reason I keep doing it:

Clear writing, better thoughts. Better thoughts, better decisions. Better decisions, better actions. Better actions, better life.

Writing forces vague ideas to become explicit. Once an idea is explicit, it can be examined, challenged, corrected, or discarded. That makes writing useful even when nobody else reads it.

If something here makes you think, disagree, investigate further, or build something, then the site is doing its job.