Last week I had the honor to lecture at the Machine Learning Summer School in Stellenbosch, South Africa [https://mlssafrica.com/]. I chose to talk about Causal Inference, despite being a newcomer to this whole area. In fact, I chose it exactly because I'm a newcomer: causal inference has been a blindspot for me for a long time. I wanted to communicate some of the intuitions and ideas I learned and developed over the past few months, which I wish someone had explained to me earlier. Now, I'm tu