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To every woman using her skills to build, support, organise, design, write, lead, and create impact; we see you. As we step into March, we celebrate women whose technical skills quietly strengthen communities and organisations every day. Happy new month from TechAid Connect.

Happy New Year from the TechAid Connect team! ​We know the drill. Today is the day you’re "supposed" to map out your entire career, overhaul your diet, and learn three new languages by noon. But honestly? We permit you to just… exist today.

Today, we celebrate warmth, community, compassion, and the beauty of giving; values at the heart of Christmas and the heart of our work at TechAid Connect.

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Agency > Intelligence I had this intuitively wrong for decades, I think due to a pervasive cultural veneration of intelligence, various entertainment/media, obsession with IQ etc. Agency is significantly more powerful and significantly more scarce. Are you hiring for agency? Are we educating for agency? Are you acting as if you had 10X agency? Grok explanation is ~close: “Agency, as a personality trait, refers to an individual's capacity to take initiative, make decisions, and exert control over their actions and environment. It’s about being proactive rather than reactive—someone with high agency doesn’t just let life happen to them; they shape it. Think of it as a blend of self-efficacy, determination, and a sense of ownership over one’s path. People with strong agency tend to set goals and pursue them with confidence, even in the face of obstacles. They’re the type to say, “I’ll figure it out,” and then actually do it. On the flip side, someone low in agency might feel more like a passenger in their own life, waiting for external forces—like luck, other people, or circumstances—to dictate what happens next. It’s not quite the same as assertiveness or ambition, though it can overlap. Agency is quieter, more internal—it’s the belief that you *can* act, paired with the will to follow through. Psychologists often tie it to concepts like locus of control: high-agency folks lean toward an internal locus, feeling they steer their fate, while low-agency folks might lean external, seeing life as something that happens *to* them.”

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Turning ideas into real impact isn’t easy. Scaling a social enterprise takes grit, strategy & the right tools. On Sept 20th, we’re learning exactly how. 👇🏿🧵

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It doesn’t make sense to continue wanting something if you’re not willing to do what it takes to get it. If you don’t want to live the lifestyle, then release yourself from the desire. To crave the result but not the process, is to guarantee disappointment.

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Happy Father's Day! Today we celebrate every dad, stepdad, grandpa, mentor, and father figure. Thank you for your strength, guidance, and endless love. You make the world better, one hug, lesson, and sacrifice at a time 💙. #HappyFathersDay #FathersDay2025 #DadLife

Today, we celebrate your power to shape Nigeria’s future not just with votes, but with tech, truth, and tenacity Join the Movement This Democracy Day, let’s code a brighter future together: #TechForNaija #DemocracyPoweredByYou #StrongerTogether

This is why I fear fame. Not because I fear being known, but because I fear being owned. Fame flattens you. It takes your complexities and refines them into soundbites, headlines, avatars for someone else’s argument. Suddenly, everyone has an opinion on how you should live, who you should meet, what causes you should align with. They want you to be their representative, until you’re not. And then they want your head. Take Tunde, for example. A man who, at his core, strikes me as someone who just wants to play chess, teach kids, and make the world a bit more decent than he met it. That’s all. No throne to climb, no vast lands to conquer, no people to subjugate. Just a clean, honest mission: use a board game to sharpen the minds and expand the futures of children who were never given a fair starting point. But when you do something so beautiful, so rare, the world notices. And when the world notices, it demands. Now, Tunde isn’t just Tunde anymore. He’s become the face of chess. The symbol of uplift. A banner for hope in a place that has almost forgotten how to hope. And as it always does, success gathers many family members, some who love you, others who want to own you, and many who simply want to be seen standing next to you. Now, as we can glean from this image, Tunde had an audience with Tinubu. And the backlash, judging from the comments, has been swift. People are angry. And not without reason. Tinubu is not a president many Nigerians feel proud of. He has not given us the kind of nation Tunde is building in miniature through his chessboards and classrooms. Tunde empowers children. Tinubu, many (myself included) feel, has disempowered the people. But you can’t blame the president either. Of course he wants a photo op with Tunde. A man like Tinubu—deeply disliked and fully aware of his non-existent moral capital—knows the value of proximity. Tunde is clean. Tunde is inspiring. Tunde is hope in human form. If a picture can paint a thousand words, then one with Tunde can rewrite an entire narrative. A good leader should always cast himself in the best light. A badly performing one needs to. Still, you also can’t fault those calling Tunde out. Just weeks ago, he publicly distanced himself from tribal propaganda, writing a deeply felt disclaimer that clarified his mission was not for “Yoruba kids” alone but for all children—irrespective of tribe, ethnicity, or origin. He warned us about those who “stir the ants in the jar”—those who pit us against each other so we forget the hands stealing from the jar in the first place. And whether or not he named names, everyone with a pulse—everyone who’s followed Nigerian politics for even a minute—knows Tinubu is one of those hands. Not because he’s some cartoon villain. Not because he’s a fire-breathing bigot. No. He’s far too polished for that. Too debonair. Too suave. He’s a City Boy, remember? When you’re that wealthy, you don’t need to shout about tribalism, you just let it simmer. It’s divide and rule. He doesn’t do it because he believes in division. He does it because he needs it. Every politician wants to win. Tinubu is no different. Unity is dangerous to the powerful. A people focused on justice might suddenly demand it. So he keeps us distracted—some would even say entertained—with the bigotry Olympics while the country slowly melts beneath his feet. And now there’s Tunde, caught right in the middle. He’s probably seen the tweets. The callouts. The think-pieces. He might even be wondering if it was all worth it, if maybe he should’ve just stayed that guy who taught chess in peace. Because now, both sides are clawing at him. One side calls him a patriot. The other, a sellout. He’s no longer allowed to be a person. He must now be a position. But the tragedy here isn’t that Tunde is being criticized. It’s that he’s being claimed. Everyone wants to hold him up as proof of their beliefs….

They are who they are. Don't be surprised.