CivLab
We cannot govern systems we don't understand.
Hi, I'm Kifah
Previous work
Yutome
Search any YouTube video. Get the transcript. Ask your AI about it.
Tweetscope
Every tweet tells a story. See the whole picture.
Roam Research
Design engineer at a tools-for-thought startup.
Studento
A student assistant app I built in high school. 100k+ downloads, 4.8 rating. Later acquired.
Google Code-in
First winner from Mauritius. Completed 22 open-source tasks for Drupal — programming, design, documentation, and QA.
Writing
Start Here →Things Nobody Will Tell You About
Hard-won priors on people, risk, and more — the things I keep returning to that nobody volunteered.
Make beautiful things scale
The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Turning it Off & On Again
Reset as a general problem-solving strategy: why turning it off and on again works on computers, gut microbiomes, immune systems, psychedelic therapy, and organizations.
The opposite of a great truth is another great truth
"The opposite of a simple truth is a lie. The opposite of a great truth is another great truth." Here are a few of those I like.
Ways to Break out of The Matrix
Concrete practices for escaping default thinking — psychedelics in controlled settings, knowing where your strengths fail, and other pattern-interrupts.
Tools for Thought Reading List
Resources I've personally read and would recommend around tools for thought.
Favorites
A Burglar's Guide to the City
Antifragile
Behave
Black Box Thinking
Black Swan
Blindsight
Everything You've Always Wanted to Know About Mathematics
From Third World to First World
How to Read a Tree
Inadequate Equilibria
Inner Game of Tennis
Linked: The New Science of Networks
Man's Search for Meaning
Metarationality
Nonlinear Dynamics
Out of Control
Reinventing Discovery
Seeing Like a State
Street Fighting Mathematics
The Art of Insight in Science and Engineering
The Art of Looking
The Courage To Be Disliked
The Fountainhead
The Phantom Brain
The Tell Tale Brain
The World Beyond Your Head
Tools for Conviviality
Trees, Maps, and Theorems
Understanding Comics
Unflattening
Weaving the Web
Why Greatness Cannot Be Planned
Why Information Grows
Apothecary Diaries
Koe no Katachi
Hajime no Ippo
One Piece
Vinland Saga
Kimi no Nawa
Ping Pong: The Animation
Spirited Away
Attack on Titan
Howl's Moving Castle
Made in Abyss
Odd Taxi
Princess Mononoke
Tatami Galaxy
Violet Evergarden
Banana Fish
Berserk
Death Note
I Want to Eat Your Pancreas
Mob Psycho 100
Steins;Gate 0
Yakusoku No Neverland
86
Chainsaw Man
Dandadan
Kaguya Sama
Kimetsu no Yaiba
Neon Genesis Evangelion
Nichijou
One Punch Man
Ousama Ranking
Saiki Kusuo
Barakamon
Kaiji: Ultimate Survivor
Welcome to NHK
Dr. Stone
Fumetsu no Anata e
Hikaru ga Shinda Natsu
Horimiya
Kiki's Delivery Service
My Neighbor Totoro
Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind
Parasyte
Psycho Pass
Re:Zero
Redline
The Tale of the Princess Kaguya
Blue Lock
Naruto
Dorohedoro
Durarara
Hyouka
Ponyo
Kuroko no Basket
Noragami
ReLIFE
The Fable
Toki wo Kakeru Shoujo
Toradora
Beastars
Bungou Stray Dogs
Golden Kamuy
Katekyo Hitman Reborn
Komi San
Tekkonkinkreet
Garden of Words
Balance Unlimited
Only Yesterday
5 Centimetres per Second
Ao no Exorcist
Ijiranaide, Nagatoro-san
Code Geass
