Afam Anigbo. Chicago.
Founder, Micro Mobility Education Group. Self-taught engineer. Building the infrastructure that turns interest in micromobility into a viable career path.
Learning is a relationship.
In most educational environments, learning is measured by how well you can mimic the highlights of somebody else's relationship with the material. You don't have to understand the thing — you have to produce the expected output, in the expected format, at the expected speed.
My experience has been the opposite. Learning is a relationship: with a tool, with a machine, with a city, with my own capacity to figure things out. Outcomes are real — an A, a finished project, a repaired bike — but they're highlights, not the relationship itself.
That's why the shop has always mattered to me. Whether it was ceramics, textiles, bikes, or micromobility, the shop is where I could slow down and build a relationship with the material. A kiln doesn't care if you can describe glaze chemistry. A motor doesn't care if you memorized the definition of torque. The thing either works or it doesn't. The shop turns learning into contact with reality.
If learning is a relationship, then teaching isn't telling. Teaching is infrastructure.It's building the conditions that let someone build their own relationship safely and confidently until they can carry it on without you.
That's the foundation MMEG's pipelines are built on. And the design ethic underneath all of it is the same one I bring to the bench: trust you can verify.
He approaches diagnosis methodically: gather evidence, test hypotheses, isolate variables, and document what he learns. He doesn't parts-cannon repairs. He cares about correctness, safety, and the customer's trust.