The Biggest Risk Isn’t the Crisis You are Watching
While you are watching breaking news, someone is improving a product. As the markets react by the minute, another founder is talking to customers.
Oluboba Ayodeji
Why This Pilot Ignored 99 Broken Things During a Crash
The plane was crashing. His response changed my life. What to do when 99 things go wrong at once…
The Saint Who Starved
This brings us to a quiet but profound truth: A wise person avoids extremes in both bad deeds and good deeds. Life is balance.
The Poverty of Logic — Letter #28
You think that the antidote to self-destruction was better education. But watching a man willingly inhale smoke from a box that promises to kill him, I realized that we humans are not driven by what we know but…
Why “Build it and they will come” is a Lie (The Tecno Story)
On Saturday, I walked into a phone hub and noticed a quiet difference in the premium smartphones sitting behind the glass. When I looked at the “African versions” of the world’s biggest mobile brands, I spot a distinct feature. They all have double sim slots while the US version has one. It wasn’t always this way. For years, global tech giants enforced a strict “one phone, one SIM” standard. They operated on a common, yet …
The Cost of Ambition on My Romantic Relationships
I have seen a hidden sorrow common among many people who are ambitious. We want a significant career, so we provide for ourselves and those we care about.
The 7-Year-Old Test You Must Not Fail
Think about how OPay is growing here. They didn’t show up with a complex system or a bunch of extra features. They brought only two things to the table…