It took 10 years of unlearning my engineering righteousness to understand this I stared at one of my former clients with a squint in my eyes. It was like Zoom had frozen. I was trying to get past what he had just told me. “Yeah, I’ve exchanged a couple of emails with them but nothing […]
A Conversation with Richmond Alake I launched over forty courses at Deep Learning AI. Every Monday I’d watch the week’s upcoming course, take notes, and write the marketing. Forty courses. Forty instructors. Richmond Alake was the only Nigerian, the only Black instructor I saw. Every time I saw his name on the lineup, I thought: […]
I didn’t see 4 of the responses coming… I recorded a video then sat on it for a week. When I finally built the nerve to send it out to my entire contact list, it taught me more about myself than the people I wanted to educate. So here’s what happened. I started a new […]
(and that’s the point) The rain poured down as I ran into the Nandos. I didn’t know how long I’d be stranded there, as a severe rainstorm poured down in Maryland. While I waited for my peri-peri chicken, I pulled out my phone and stared into the distance. A few years ago, I would have […]
A Conversation with Josh Starmer Josh Starmer posted his first statistics video on YouTube. In a full year, it got nine views. Two new subscribers. He was thrilled. “It meant that the people I made the video for – my coworkers – watched it. And two of them wanted to see even more. I thought […]
What a schedule conflict taught me about the real reason why most of us never start I looked at my calendar and felt my stomach drop. It was messed up. The events sat on top of one another in the same time slot. I had double booked. Sh*t. One of them was for a meeting […]
It would have been better if my card was declined I paid $40 for a cup of coffee last year. No, I wasn’t on some special coffee tasting. No, I wasn’t balling. The latte was only priced at $6, but my foolish behavior slapped me in the face. Here’s what happened. I was in my […]
A Conversation with Sanmi Koyejo There’s a boxing gym in Austin, Texas that you’d easily miss if you weren’t looking for it. No AC. Grimy walls. A coach named Bruce who yelled at everyone. It was the kind of place you went to when the polished gyms felt too curated. Sanmi Koyejo trained there. So […]
What a $2 Million Book Deal Cancellation Reveals About Who Really Owns Your Credibility I felt lost a few seconds after reading an article. I sat there thinking. I don’t know who and what to believe. The article was about a writer who had just gotten their 2 million dollar book deal revoked because of […]
Where do I take this love-hate relationship from here? It’s been over ten years since I ventured out on my own. The rocky roads of entrepreneurship has been filled with highs and low, love and hate, certainty and mystery. I wrote a letter to entrepreneurship. I thought I’d share my musings with you. Dear Entrepreneurship, […]