When I created my third album Interpretations, I was in my last quarter of my MBA program at Stanford. When you listen in on that album, you can tell my mindset was opposing something bigger than me. A system that didn’t completely gel with my body. There’s a song in there called “Teacher” (check it […]
There’s something that is at an all-time high. It’s not Apple’s market cap.It’s not the GDP of the latest emerging market.It’s not Ja Morant’s vertical leap.It’s not the number of LinkedIn posts that start with: “I’m honored to announce..”And It’s definitely not the number of NFTs minted each day. Oh no. It’s something you can’t […]
“Just…do it for your friends.” That’s what my music professor at Stanford said on the last day of one of my digital music classes. “Just do it for your friends. Make your music for them” I thought he was underhandedly telling us – students – that our music was not good enough for anyone beyond […]
Have you started a project that you were very passionate about just to abandon it a few weeks later? You got very excited about the idea.Told friends about it. You came up with the initial structure.Envisioned your end goal vividly. It was all clear in your mind. You purchased and set up everything you thought […]
DOWN WITH THE ESTABLISHMENT!!! OK. Wait. Before you start revolting. Those are words that Toffy wrote in his notepad. “Who’s Toffy?” You might ask. Well that’s the main character in my award-winning debut dystopian novel – Toffy’s Divide. When I decided to write Toffy’s story, I had no clue what it would turn into. It […]
Busy times huh? With busy lives, reading as an enjoyable art is on the decline. It’s hard for people to add a book into their busy netflix, amazon, hulu, twitter/X, LinkedIn, IG, threads, TikTok watching life. A boring paper book? Oh no. Put that nugget of knowledge away. Keep it where it should be – […]
Life’s a bitch And then you die That’s why we get high ‘Cos you never know When you gasta go Didn’t mean to start on such a note but these nihilistic thoughts came from a great philosopher by the name of AZ. The poet from Queens, New York echoed those words on Nas’ classic album […]
Whenever I hang out with my niece and nephew, it’s always a new world. They are so quick to come up with a new game, rules, characters, and new worlds. It’s uninhibited creativity. Researchers over the years have agreed that creativity can be nurtured in a method of convergent and divergent thinking. This framework, coined […]
I was surprised when I surveyed a bunch of professionals in 2019. I was trying to understand how they felt about their creative output and what was holding them back. The results I got back then illuminated the path for me to develop and provide tools that boost the creative confidence of professionals. The main […]
When I got back from summer holidays in the US in 2001, my dad told me to write about my holiday experience. Back in the Lagos humid heat, I wrote something short and wanted to be done with the “assignment.” My dad read my 2-page paper and said “you went to Chicago for 2 months […]