Alignment and approval from God in your friendships, relationships, jobs, career, and places you live in are so important. The safest place to be is to be living in the will of God.
LESSONS:
1. Most times, the people we carry on our heads won’t do the same for us if the roles were reversed.
2. Family and friends can sometimes be your biggest enemies.
3. No one will take care of your kids the way you would. NO ONE.
4. Understand that people who aren’t blood-related can still become true family.
5. Do everything you can to stay alive for your kids.
6. We all need to make money, but don’t neglect your health in the process.
Lastly, TOBI BAKARE, YOU ARE A MODAFUCKING GENIUS ‼️👏
8/10 for me ✅
It is with some personal surprise that, after 30 years as an atheist, I’ve come to say:
I believe in one God,
the Father almighty,
maker of heaven and earth,
of all things visible and invisible.
I believe in one Lord Jesus Christ,
the Only Begotten Son of God,
born of the Father before all ages.
…
I believe in the Holy Spirit, the Lord, the giver of life,
who proceeds from the Father and the Son
This is the part of evangelism people don’t talk about… Yesterday, we met real needs, school fees, rent, heavy burdens.
We did our findings, verified, and stepped in to help.
The Gospel is practical.
Jesus is seen in love.
#JesusMustBeSeen
I’m awake by 8AM typing this.
I just woke up angry again for no reason and now I understand why. It’s this country, so many things are wrong it’s just terrible.
1. Government : We’re living in a country where our leaders are operating like the country is a family business. There’s no single empathy and concern for the citizens. We’re in a country where governor’s are more interested in pleasing the president than anything else, I have no issues with governors seeing off a president at the airport, but then taking another plane to go to london so you can welcome him to london again just makes no sense.
2. Security : The kind of atrocities happening in Nigeria, if it was in another country, they’d be a state of emergency right now. And it doesn’t look like any of the leaders are bothered. You can hear the news that 30 people were killed in a stare today, and you’ll just go on to play football 30 minutes later, because you’re getting used to it. It’s no longer a breaking news, it’s just another unfortunate news.
3. Money : I know the country is poor but the money worshiping is just too much, physically and virtually. You can post being suicidal and someone will still beg you for money in the comments. On the street, in your house, service providers, everywhere. It’s tiring.
4. Unity : No single unity as a nation, I’ve never seen a group of people so easy to divide in my life.. Even when united, we’re still divided.
5. No focus: We cannot decide on a goal and focus on it, our attention span is just too short to achieve something meaningful as a group. We’re always happy to use the act of the few to represent the whole.
6. Adaptations : This is one of our worst traits, the ability to just adapt to terrible situations, any small thing, instead of fixing the problem, we’re already looking for the alternative. What do you mean by I should change tomatoes with cucumber??? This is why all of us are short because there’s no nutrient in our body.
No light? Use gen.
No fuel? Use solar.
No safety of life? Please what should we use?
7. Education : The absolute disregard for any sort of education. We do not have enough positive examples of the result of education, or perhaps we just refuse to see it. It’s terrible. Like everyday, education loses its relevance…… Whyyyyyy????
8. No regard for human life : This is so crazy that it’s now a defence mechanism, you could see someone dying by the road side and everyone will just keep walking away, some don’t care and a lot are scared of being accused of causing harm to the victim. If you have an accident, the first set of first responders are busy trying to steal from you. It’s crazy. How long will it take to get the ambulance here? I’m sure you know the answer.
9. No regard or safety for women and children : Child marriage today, domestic violence tomorrow and it’s just not looking like it’ll stop soon.
10. No attention to detail : People are just used to doing terrible works now, it’s sad, from handiwork to professional workings, people just do the average and expect you to accept it, as long as it works. No arrangement, no process, nothing. You can take your laptop for repairs and when you get it back, two screws could be missing. I mean it’s well covered and all and now working, but why’s the screws not complete anymore????? Why??? let them fix tiles for your house and see how it’s just not aligned.
When you marry someone who actually likes you and has sense, you won’t be having conversations about who brings what
Both of you will do what you need to do to make your home work
My own protest is simple: I’m not paying any damn tax.
Lets be honest if ALL of us said “no”, what would they do? Nothing. But trust Nigerians to agree w you here &still go &comply quietly. Everyone’s scared of standing for something, so we keep suffering. No unity No resistance
I fell in love with this quote:
"No matter your age, you'll always wish you started younger, but today is the youngest you'll ever be. So start today."
Entry-level hiring at big tech is down roughly 50% compared to pre-pandemic levels. Junior roles are getting absorbed into smaller, more senior teams.
Here's my take 👇
The job market is really harder right now.
If you've been applying and hearing nothing back — you're not imagining it.
But it doesn't mean that the opportunity has disappeared. It has simply shifted.
The reason companies are hiring fewer engineers, is NOT because they need less done. They're hiring fewer engineers because they need more from each one.
The times of getting paid to tick off a task list are ending. What they actually need — and can't find enough of — are engineers who understand systems deeply, take ownership, and make real decisions.
A quick note on DevOps specifically:
DevOps is not an entry-level path. Most job postings implicitly target mid-level or senior people — because a strong DevOps skillset means you already understand software development, operations, cloud, K8s, CI/CD, and observability.
In many companies, DevOps isn't even a separate role. It's just what a senior engineer looks like.
Now about AI. Because I know everyone's thinking it.
Nobody actually knows what it means for jobs in 5 years. Not me. Not the LinkedIn thought leaders. Not the tech CEOs doing podcast rounds about it.
Both extremes are wrong:
"AI will replace all engineers" — wrong.
"AI won't affect engineering at all" — also wrong.
The roles that are under real pressure the most are ones doing narrow, siloed work — low-context, repetitive. AI is very good at those tasks. Including some of the specific DevOps automation stuff actually.
The engineers I believe aren't going anywhere?
The ones who can connect code, infrastructure, security, and business outcomes. And who can look at what AI produces and say "that's wrong — here's why" or "that's correct - and here's why"
So what do you actually do right now?
Not this → wait and see how it all turns out.
Not this → skip fundamentals and just learn AI tools, hoping that's enough.
Both lead nowhere good.
My honest take:
Broaden your skillset. Understand how the full system works — not just your piece of it.
Cloud, CI/CD, K8s, observability, security — these keep showing up in job postings for a reason.
And here's something people keep forgetting: every AI model you use runs on infrastructure that needs to be deployed, scaled, and maintained — that's Cloud and DevOps.
Don't learn these things just enough to copy-paste from a tutorial. Learn them properly, to the point where you can design, debug, and explain what's going on.
And yes — learn AI tools too.
🟢 Powerful when you know what you're doing.
🔴 Dangerous shortcuts when you don't.
The best thing you can do in an uncertain market is become more skilled than the people around you.
But skill alone isn't enough anymore.
You could be the best engineer in the room. If nobody knows you exist, it doesn't matter.
Visibility is part of the job now. That's what LinkedIn is actually for — and it matters more than ever right now.
Bottom line is: the door hasn't closed. But it became higher and more competitive.
What's your take?
“I pray this revolution I pray and crave for happen in my life time.
I’m going to give up at this time because the people in my generation are too afraid to speak up…”
- A former bank contract staff exposes the corruption and rot in the banking system