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Apprentice in failure and apprentice in hope #equalparts

@Oritsega true. You have to own the story. Another thing I've noticed is that sometimes no one is left in a place that knows what you did there. Organization's have no institutional memory. So erasure may not be from malice but absence of interested storytellers. Always document yours

My late father did this. He had a video cam in the 80s and 90s, and he recorded his activities. Sadly, most of it was lost. I started keeping a "Brag List" many years ago, too. No one can tell your story better than you, and no one is as invested in your story as you @id49ja

@Algeria_FC @guyguyArmy The only champions we know

@blossomozurumba @Adenuga_11 😂😂😂 ma’am please

@Adenuga_11 Moral the story: Stop hugging fathers.

When I was little, my father was electrocuted. He was screaming & I rushed to him. Instead of turning off the switch, I went & hugged him. We both started screaming. My junior brother ran & turned off the switch. After drinking 5 bottles of malt & milk, my father picked belt and gave me the beating of my life. He said he will stop paying my school fees He said "You see your grown father being electrocuted & screaming like a woman and instead of offing the switch you came to hug me" He said my stupidity shocked him more than the electrocuted.

The only reason we recognize this shot is because the Matrix has emotional resonance with us. We know Neo. We know Agent Smith. Without the story of the Matrix, or the brand elements that we recognize, this is just two dudes fighting, and no one cares about that. Hollywood isn't cooked because of AI, just like Hollywood wasn't cooked because of VFX. The bottlenecks will always be ideas and distribution. Can you tell a story and build characters people will care about? Can you get this story in front of the most people and make enough of a return to keep investing?

@babesmobee lol , everybody will be ok

@id49ja don price market for Finance LinkedIn See indignation😂😂

Why is it that, as a people, we rarely prioritize investing in art? Books, films etc, yet we have no hesitation putting significant money into cars, etc? I genuinely admire how the French take art seriously, how it’s treated not as a luxury but as a necessity, something worth preserving, funding, and passing on. It makes me wonder what it would look like if we valued and invested in our stories the same way.

@dejiosikoya Solid work bruh. Learnt a lot from this video 👌🏾

Why don’t we talk about Wale in Afrobeats? 🤔 I’ve been a fan forever and super proud of how he repped his Nigerian roots. But I've often felt he hasn’t gotten credit for helping to push Afrobeats. With his album dropping Friday, I dove deep into his journey and his role...

@Olusegunverdict Happy Birthday sir 🙏🏾 a proper gentleman and supporter of the dreams of young people

This has happened to me TWICE! First time my boss resigned and blessed me to replace her. Only for me to put my hat in the ring and be told another former boss was coming back. Her tenure as my boss was crazy for me but that’s a story for another day. The second time was even more painful. That boss was fired and I was informally told I’d replace her. I again put my hat in the ring and did the interview. They picked my colleague whom I trained on the job to be my boss. Here’s the lesson. Having the right attitude pays. I wasn’t bitter. I went to find out why I’d failed the interview and the feedback I got enabled me make senior management in my next role. The reason I wasn’t picked was because even though I was the more experienced and skilled candidate with a track record of results, I used to like to show up at my own time and hadn’t proven I could take instructions as well as the other guy. That experience matured me faster than any mentorship class could. I say this because if I had become bitter and entitled I wouldn’t have learnt the lesson. I would’ve walked around feeling cheated, hated everyone and they hate me back too and still gone on to repeat the same mistakes. Today all the people involved in that process are still good friends and help each other out till tomorrow. Attitude matters a little more than skill the higher you go in corporate environments. The skills that gets you promoted into middle management are different from what you need to be senior management or to engage at very high levels. Today I can walk into offices of some of the most important people in this world and come out with a deal. It’s a skill, not nepotism. And it is learnt in the most unexpected of ways. If you want to be successful in this life, always keep an open mind. Choose to learn even when it’s hard to focus because of your emotions. It’s easy to point fingers externally and hard to introspect. Looking out for yourself means that you also have to introspect regularly so you’re not your own enemy.

“Oh my god… I have no words.” Listen to the emotional moment this year’s laureate Maria Corina Machado finds out she has been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. Kristian Berg Harpviken, Director of the Norwegian Nobel Institute, shared the news with her directly before it was announced to the world. #NobelPrize #NobelPeacePrize

A lot of final-year research projects in Nigeria go unpublished, regardless of quality or merit. This means poor representation in research and scientific documentation. We want to change that. Do you still have a digital copy of your final-year research project, and would you be willing to share it for our online repository for African research? Please retweet for others.

Owen Cooper is a first-time #EMMY winning actor at the age of 15.

Freeze Frame : open.substack.com/pub/id49ja/p/f… Some thoughts on capturing memories as they happen

@JasonNjoku You must be fun at parties 😀. See bragging rights in the mud

In 2024, Spotify disbursed $10B in royalties worldwide. Nigeria and South Africa, the two biggest markets for Spotify in Africa, In 2024, Spotify paid ~$59m in royalties to artists from🇳🇬🇿🇦. Just to be clear, this represented 0.59% of their global royalties dispersed. 🫠

Seeing The Signs open.substack.com/pub/id49ja/p/s…

@YusufTuggar @lolashoneyin A new Mr Steeze emerges 👌🏾

Ok @lolashoneyin here we go, don’t have to wait till end of the year : 1. My mind is playing tricks on me- Getto Boys 2. Paid in Full- Eric B & Rakim 3. Fight the Power- Public Enemy 5. Monie Luv- It’s a Shame 6. The Story of OJ- Jay Z 7. Get Your Freak On- Missy Elliot. 9. The Crown- Gary Byrd & the GB Experience 10. It takes Two- Rob Base 11. Nuthin but a G Thing- Snoop & Dre (simply couldn’t leave these 2 out) 12. Do For Luv- Tupac Explanation video another time 😁

@YusufTuggar Good evening, HM. All the people in my posse are saying you should release a thread of your Top 10 rap songs at the end of the year, plus a one-minute video explaining your picks. Thank you, sir. 🙌🏽

Its often due to "Empire Building''. Let me explain. This Halloween, Jeff Bezos dressed up as Batman and his fiancée as Catwoman. This is costume play. Everyone knows that Jeff Bezos is not Batman, and more importantly, Jeff Bezos knows that he is not Batman.

the secret to life is deceptively simple: it's having something to look forward to, always, doesn't even matter how small or mundane