Timileyin Olaifa UX 🦄
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@timiolaifa
Building stuff at @energylucidhq | Product Architect & Founder building digital infrastructure for Africa’s energy and complex markets.
30,000 followers… wow. I remember when I started on Twitter, constantly disturbing my friend with “I don’t even understand how this thing works—teach me.” I really had no clue. I stayed, I kept posting, and somehow, it became one of the most powerful tools in my journey. Twitter has given me visibility in ways I didn’t imagine. So many opportunities have come from here. Most of my collaborations in Nigeria started from connections I made right on this app. It taught me the power of positioning and visibility. It is funny because Twitter is known for short posts, but my style has always been different. I write epistles, long which is pretty unconventional and somehow, those are the ones that resonate the most. Thank you for reading them. For engaging, reposting, supporting, and rooting for me. I don’t take it for granted 🤍
My conversation with @EricJorgenson, author of The Book of Elon (@elonmusk). 0:00 Book Reveal 0:39 Build Useful Things 2:19 Engineering Talent Edge 4:26 Wired for War 6:47 Tip of the Spear 8:47 Burn the Boats 13:13 Facing Fear 15:16 Origin Story Myths 18:19 Know Business A to Z 22:17 Simplify and Fail Fast 25:35 Reality and Physics 28:18 The Algorithm Begins 30:34 Delete and Simplify 34:25 Starlink War Room 36:52 Repetition as OS 38:18 Step Three Simplify Optimize 38:43 Question Every Requirement 39:13 Tesla Battery Pack Delete 40:43 Repetition Installs Ideas 42:02 Step Four Accelerate 43:26 Design Org for Speed 46:06 Step Five Automate 46:29 Control and Clean Sheet 48:54 Vertical Integration and Costs 50:47 SpaceX Incentives and Mars 57:11 Frontier Unlocks Starlink 1:00:26 Time as True Currency 1:03:58 Speed Triage and Bottlenecks 1:10:11 Internalized Responsibility 1:12:56 Avoid Serialized Dependencies 1:14:31 Aligning the Team 1:15:07 Time Is the Constraint 1:16:00 One Metric Focus 1:18:03 Directional Predictions 1:19:06 We Must Make Stuff 1:25:39 Manufacturing as Moat 1:26:23 Speed and Direct to Customer 1:28:41 SpaceX Feasibility Study 1:33:07 Edge of Sanity Leadership 1:37:10 Bottlenecks and Integration 1:40:01 Design and Simplify 1:45:15 Catch the Rocket 1:48:14 Capitalism and Closing Includes paid partnerships.
“During Murtala’s regime, we gave Angola $20 Million which was N12 Million. Nigerian Airways helped them have access to the outside world. We did the same with South Africa.”- Former President, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo
We need more trees in Lagos. A friend lives in a compound full of trees with large windows on opposite sides of the flat. She doesn’t use air conditioning during the day because she doesn’t need it at all. Trees make spaces breathable and actually livable. We need more trees.
When life gives you lemon, you make lemonade, so when life gives you pepper what do you make??
But jokes apart, why will Enioluwa call Wumi Toriola by her name? The tree of the nose is far from the head Wumi is close to 40 and Enioluwa is just 26 In Yoruba culture, that’s very disrespectful
THE POLITICS OF NIGERIA CANNOT PRODUCE THE NIGERIA YOU GUYS DREAM OF. I need you all to remember this.
