Adeola Adebayo

A 3-year Obsession from Google Spreadsheet to an App (Episode 1) by @n_deola link.medium.com/GOcb9K6A8Gb

Yakubu manage! You will feel it like you want to die but you will not die!

I built a small experiment to compare Nigerian universities honestly — based on cost, strike stability, campus life, and career outcomes. 👉 unicompare.vercel.app Share your feedback as a comment. Which uni is the best right now?

The fastest way to figure what you actually want from life is to get what you think you want. Your dream neighborhood, your dream job, your dream marriage, your dream family, your dream life, it’s never quite like how you imagined it, and that’s precisely what makes life so fun.

Most people just don’t want to believe that what they don’t have exist: - happily married couples who enjoy growing old together without falling out of love - people with kids and enough free time to stay the healthiest version of themselves - cities where people have common sense, and hence, where the streets are safe and clean, and the public infrastructure works - people who made a lot of money doing what they loved without thinking much about the money - people with great relationships with their parents, siblings, family - smarter people who are also more athletic, good-looking, loved, sociable - lifelong friendships with loyal people who genuinely care to stay in touch throughout the decades - people who grew up with much worse circumstances, who were not initially more talented, and who succeeded beyond expectations mostly thanks to strict self-discipline, long-term planning, and unwavering self-belief

To get lucky is to fail more often than most people even tried.

You always feel disrespected by a lot of people when you lack self-confidence; then after you spend the many years required to develop your own talents, you realize that no one ever even thought about you. Being overreactive is a common sign that you are not who you want to be.

Most of your anger actually naturally disappears once you live in a place where people are full of common sense.

If you hang out with people who fixed their insecurities, who are financially responsible, who learned how to love because they have a family and people they care about, and who have a clear purpose that pushes them to be the best version of themselves, there is usually no drama.

It's only getting more and more obvious as you get older that the prerequisite for long-lasting friendships is to have your personal life in order.

The older you get, the fewer people will call you out on your foolish behaviors, because everybody knows how harder and harder it becomes to change habits, and everybody who has their lives in order is too busy to deal with any unnecessary drama or your potential hard feelings.

The wrong environment will shrink your potential. Stay too long, and you'll start mistaking survival for success.

You’d be surprised by the number of people who would have helped you if you hadn’t been insecure and convinced that they were secretly judging you. People who have everything they want don’t care about you, and it’s a great thing. If they can help with their experience, they are usually happy to do it. Just don’t feel entitled to their time, don’t expect them to take responsibility for where you are in life, don’t expect them to “save” you from your own problems.

I caught up with a friend who works at a mid-size Swedish tech company. Over the last 4 months, their shipping velocity has almost doubled – not because they hired more engineers, adopted some new agile framework, or worked late nights. It came down to a single change in how they build products: they started using Lovable to prototype features instead of writing traditional spec docs. Before Lovable, it usually went like this: PMs drafted long PRDs, trying to anticipate every detail. Multiple stakeholders reviewed these documents, leaving comments and raising concerns. The document grew with each iteration. Alignment meetings were frequent but often resulting in ambiguity. Engineers often began implementation while details were still debated. Inevitably, confusion emerged about trade-offs, timelines got pushed, and features shipped incomplete or scaled back. Now, PMs build interactive prototypes directly in Lovable. These aren’t wireframes or rough mockups – they’re fully clickable, end-to-end experiences that feel like the real product. Engineers don’t have to guess what the flow should be. Designers don’t have to explain interactions. Everyone sees the same thing, from day one. The end result is fewer meetings, fewer misunderstandings, fewer rewrites. What used to take weeks of coordination now happens in a single day. This is what has provided the most value for enterprises using Lovable so far. Over time, the increase of clarity and velocity saves the companies millions of $ in wasted effort.

A truly insightful video on the race from AI, to AGI, the roles of Global tech firms and the costs to economies. I never knew the amount of climate/resource costs could be as devastating as shared.

Moniepoint is trending because their Principal Software Engineer, Julian Duru has retired aged 28, after 10yrs at MoniePoint. Duru is behind idea of virtual accounts which is now used across fintechs in Africa today. A UNILAG boy from ISL. He finished #8 in 2009 WASCE in the entire country. Started coding at age 14 got pretty good from free lance jobs, until 2015 when a friend recommended him to Tosin Eniolorunda, Co-founder and Group CEO. Initially he wanted to leave after his first 3 months, after a tough Fidelity Bank project they handled. Which was his first major project and it showed him he had a lot to learn. Which was overwhelming. After that, he decided to withdraw a little from coding and then landed on DevOps, where he blossomed for a decade. He joined Moniepoint during their TeamApt days, and started as a lead software engineer in February 2015, then grew to Automation Engineer in 2017. In 2018 he became the Product Manager, until 2023 when he got moved to Abuja to work as the Software Architect, a role he relished for one year before the final promotion to Principal Engineer. With more then 10million active users, last year October, Moniepoint raised $110M from investors in London, including Google, which made them a Unicorn (Valuation of $1bn). Prior, they had already raised $55M. With this raise and the valuation status, Julian Duru is walking away with atleast $850k (₦1.3bn) at least. Which partially explains why he has now decided to work for “passion” henceforth. But, officially he’s gonna take a short break and work on his AI startup. He said he stayed at Moniepoint despite poaching attempts, because they cared about him as a human not just about is work. Nigerian are celebrating him and some comparing him to Mr. Unbelievably Liquid. But he’s not on that level. Perhaps if he stayed longer, maybe. Just maybe. But he’s definitely liquid, believably. • Another fintech doing wonders in the international market? — @GoPremiumAfrica they handle payments in up to 40 currencies and you can open personal or corporate startup US bank accounts with multiple administrations. Check out — gopremium.africa

@Jermainecraig @JoinKwanda Much needed

Just added milestone tracking to @JoinKwanda.

@juliafedorin @Shopify @alspee @ChristineCassis @tobi @harleyf @bloh Congratulations 🎉🥂 Julia! You took the bold step!

in under 24 hrs i landed a marketing internship at @Shopify 💚 my job search in public payed off — i’ll be interning at a company that’s all about bold ideas and dreaming big. shopify clearly operates at the speed of innovation and i’m beyond grateful to be part of the team.

@kennylabi Credit cards 💳 for others

UK Nigerians! Back home, we had family, friends, and colleagues we could rely on during financial emergencies. If you had to raise £20K in the UK within 48 hours to save your life, what would you do?

@kennylabi God

You just need to be smart enough to understand that your success is more about your courage than your intelligence.