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In pursuit of god-tier competence;

Thrive Capital's money no dey finish? Damn.

went from CCE to CSO so help me GOD

@Tunde_OD We need to rethink the art of "Constructionism", because that's how kids learn. I used to work on something similar at the MIT Media Lab. Before it used to be: Learn theory first → maybe build later Now more like: Build first → learn through the process of building.

the final act of genius is playing dumb

Engineering these days on twitter is just a dick measuring contest smh

upon Doing The Thing, you will invariably find two things to be true: 1. Doing The Thing was pretty easy, actually 2. not having Done The Thing was bothering you more than you thought it was

This is it. Everything learned spending millions on longevity. From: Your Immortal Unc and Auntie. To: Our Immortal nieces and nephews. 0. Sleep is the world's most powerful drug. 1. Be in your bed for 8 hours 2. Same bedtime every night, any time before midnight 3. Don’t eat right before bed 4. Calm foods for dinner 5. No screens 1 hour before bed 6. Avoid added sugar (be aware it’s in everything) 7. Avoid all things in an American convenience store 8. Avoid fried foods 9. Shoes off at the door 10. Eat whole foods, particularly veggies fruits nuts legumes berries 11. Walk a little after meals or air squats 12. Get your heart rate high routinely 13. Lift heavy things 14. Stretch daily 15. Water pik, floss, brush, tongue scrape, morning and night 16. Make an effort to drink water 17. Get sunlight when you wake up (UV is low) 18. Protect skin in midday sun 19. Stand up straight 20. See at least one friend once a week 21. Avoid plastic where you can (in all things) 22. Circulate air in rooms 23. When stressed, breathe, learn to calm your body 24. Go to the dentist 25. Avoid sitting for long times 26. Protect your hearing, the world is too loud 27. Alcohol is bad for you 28. Finish coffee before noon 29. Avoid bright lights after sunset 30. If obese, look into a GLP 31. Sleep in a cold room 32. Texting while driving is dangerous 33. Turn off all notifications 34. Limit social media use 35. Don’t smoke anything 36. If you struggle to sleep, read a physical book before bed 37. 1 hour before bed have a calm wind down routine: bath, read, light walk, listen to music 38. The body is a clock and loves routine. Have a daily morning and evening schedule. 39. Avoid long distance travel where you can 40. Baby steps first: incorporate new things slowly 41. Do less… most things don’t work. Bonus points if you get your blood checked. Start here, it will change your life.

Since this Moniepoint recruitment brouhaha started, I have received quite a number of recruitment startup decks from emergency founders. This is the problem with Nigerian entrepreneurship. Most people jump at opportunities without thinking things through. The problem is not recruitment, the problem is Nigeria. Why don’t you build startups to fix governance and prevent corruption first? Why not build startups that prevent vote buying and election rigging? I discovered over 20 years ago that the sectors to deploy tech to fix problems in Nigeria and most of Africa were Education, Healthcare, and Governance. They are still the sectors with the least entrepreneurial activity. Everyone wants to build a fintech or for fintechs.

@echo_vick If this is true I doubt his crackness. Yes some logic can be on the db, but when that becomes a generalized requirement it’s safe to question the soundness of his logic

I once worked with a senior backend engineer who believed that the strongest backend systems were the ones where logic is written more on the database layer than on the code layer. The normal if-else statement you would write to check a users balance, bro writes all that logic directly on the DB, there were triggers, database functions etc. Bro was literally coding with SQL. At that point I didn’t know SQL could even do all that. Bro would review my code then and ask me why was I writing all that logic in code when it could reside directly on the db😂. This was way before AI and bro would prefer to write every single thing by hand rather than install a package, he felt they were not secure. Bro uses a framework just to repurpose it and customize everything! At The point working with bro, he was almost 40. Man! I’ve worked with cracked devs, and I’m grateful for every experience that has shaped me.

@thanipro @echo_vick Ran here to say same.

@echo_vick If he believed logic should always be in database layer then he is/was a terrible engineer

Bro to bro: Start thinking of your future very seriously. Be overly curious, accept you know very little, be selfish to learn new stuff & don’t get into stupid office politics. The world is very cruel to people who are not doing new things everyday. You will become irrelevant.

I have one piece to share. I hope all these TL conversations do not poison your heart. I hope you're not training your mindspace to start choosing partners from a place of fear, or lowered likelihood to cheat. Ask Israel Juju. These are faulty compasses. Churchgoers cheat. Atheists cheat. Hijab wielders cheat. Virgins cheat. Adelebos cheat. 20s cheat. 30s cheat. 40s cheat. I hope the factors that calibrate your values, are not from Twitter thinkpieces but are strengthened offline. Else, you will end up as a box of ruin. My safest predicators for relationships are: - brackets, - reciprocity. If you're doing well financially, box within potentials like you doing well financially. Don't be a 7fig earning techie & you'll be hunting smallies struggling with 200L carryover in Laspotech. Mental brackets. Intellectual brackets. Financial brackets. Exposure brackets. One of my theories as to why, people (read men) scale way below these brackets is because they're scripting scenarios for control. They're hunting "bendable" women. Chief, she won't be naive forever - but I'll expand on this, some other time. Be big on reciprocity. As you're doing for your partner in the early weeks, if they like you they would be doing as much. Using the filters of brackets and reciprocity, are safer predicators than fear and paranoia.

@hackSultan So AI no fit reason batching?

So it was around 2002 when Steve Jobs was working on the whole iTunes and music-buying idea. The major issue then was that they wanted to price a song at $0.99, and while that wasn’t a problem on its own, the issue was the transaction fees associated with payment platforms (fixed fee + % fee, sometimes capped). So imagine if you do a $0.99 transaction, almost all the money could disappear in charges alone. So the solution was to create an aggregate billing system. Let’s keep the micropayments from a user in a floating state and add their other purchases to it later, so we can submit the bill as one single transaction. That way, $0.99 can turn into $4 or more. It’s a long story, read this : medium.com/the-payments-i…

You get good at anything by doing it a lot. Just do things a lot It's not time spent. It's volume of doing. Make sure the time it takes you to do a single thing is as fast as possible. Your cycle time is sacred

money flows from places with capital surplus to places with talent surplus & gets capitalized into local land values.

dudes in SF will be 30 and be like "yeah i'm raising a seed round" bro go raise a family

Lol

building a company is largely the act of managing your own emotional state so the field around you remains coherent enough for other ppl to do their best work inside it. basically founders set the emotional physics of the org. panic compounds. but clarity compounds too.

@Sir_Damilare All the best. Reminds me of getting laidoff by @TheLTONetwork, those were awesome times too.

The day a blind man sees. The first thing he throws away is the stick that has helped him all his life