Most people do not want to be told what to do, yet we all take orders from people everyday. I remember receiving a notice from my previous manager. “Hey Nifemi, you’d have to go to the site next week. Your colleague has an emergency and we need one person in front of the customer at […]
I woke up in the middle of the night and said a quick prayer, otherwise I thought I would be damned to a lifetime of eternal fire. That was me in my bedroom at 11 years old. I heard something in the middle of the night. “Is someone breaking in?” I thought. Traumatized by the […]
“I have only one job during my time on this planet: to love. This, like the human condition, is a first principle” I read that quote in a recent book that I’m reading and I had to pause and drop the book. “Is that what it’s really about? Is that why I am here?” Leading […]
What if i said you could change your brain faster than it would take to convince someone else to change their minds. Would you believe me? In 2012, I was sitting in a cold control room of an ethanol manufacturing plant, looking at the black, red, and green displays of distillation columns, evaporators, and tanks. […]
When I asked professionals that I surveyed why they were not actively partaking in these endeavors — most people responded: not enough time. Over the years, through music, I gained the confidence that I could learn anything I wanted to. It is the mindset that has taken me to release three mixtapes, make countless unearthed beats, […]
Music is a strong educative tool and can be lifelong learning and self-improvement tool. What does the image above sound like? A bunch of 0s and 1s? How does that translate to music? Just read along and you will hear it soon. Let’s just back track on how I got here. How music has become […]
The impact of music can be felt across generations, cultures, and geographic locations, making it especially powerful for an impressionable youth. Nas’ God’s Son album was released amidst some controversy — with some critics saying it was blasphemous to release an album in which he compared his likeness to Christ. From the funky James Brown-inspired storytelling on […]
Music is an emotive language that moves us through time and space, sparking vivid memories of the past, pushing us to action in the present, and igniting thoughts for the future. What is music? Music is something that we are all very familiar with. Most of us have grown up loving a certain genre of […]
Most of the biggest innovators and inventors stumbled upon solutions through following their thread of curiosity. Without having an end goal in mind, that’s how penicillin was discovered from a petri dish of staphylococcus bacteria that had been inadvertently left out on the windowsill. Pure curiosity and insistent prototyping is what led to the invention […]
Empathy is an integral part of the innovation process and a foundation for creative development. Empathy — a prerequisite for solving “wicked problems” — is the ability to understand and share the feelings of others. The design thinking approach to innovation, as popularised by Stanford d.schooland the global design firm IDEO, has emphasized the concept of empathy to make it inseparable […]