When I applied for my US student visa in 2003, I waited patiently at the US embassy in Lagos. A few people before me had been rejected. I saw them shoving a grown man out as he yelled “you will respect me in my country.” Then I stepped up for my interview. I had all […]
When I wrote Press Play in 2019, I interviewed a lot of entrepreneurs, musicians, and designers. I also listened to a lot of music that became the soundtrack to the book. One of those monumental albums was Kendrick Lamar’s “To Pimp A Butterfly” The context of the album is that most people love the final […]
Imagine you could achieve a lot more by doing less? I was chatting with one of my business mentors about my business and he said “stop wasting time with all these difficult clients, go find profitable clients and do less.” With that advice, my business actually grew. Less of the painstaking work of cuddling high-maintenance […]
I was high when I wrote part of this letter. No seriously, I was 35,000-feet above ground on a flight to VeeCon – a business, culture, and web3 conference. This is second of the three yearly events that my first-ever NFT that I purchased gives me access to. I wouldn’t bore you about the utility […]
Do you work to live or do you live to work? In 2022, I spent 4 months in Paris. Talk about that work-life balance. They know how to draw the line between work and life. Swinging back to America later in the year – and boom – it was like capitalism was having an existential […]
I hear this all the time when I meet up with friends I haven’t seen in a while “You’re very active on Linkedin” My response is: “Ehhhh, I guess” I only spend 30 minutes on Linkedin (in a week). I find that the same people that say I’m very active, spend more time on Linkedin […]
My brother recently sent me a video of him in an autonomous vehicle driving down the streets of San Francisco No big deal, right? Well, a car moving, changing directions, stopping – all on its one is not something I envisioned 15 years ago. Although I know people that work at these companies, seeing an […]
“have no fear for atomic energy, because none of them can stop the time” Those are the soothing words from Bob Marley’s redemption song. Revolutionary music! YES! My balled-up fist sailed into the sky. That revolution did spin me into a quest for scientific knowledge. Can time be stopped? Do you know how your watch […]
What time is it? I bet your first instinct is to look at your watch, your phone, or a clock (if you still have one of those hanging around). These are all synchronized (agreed-upon) times. But what are we actually measuring? What is time itself? Who’s time? A Nigerian and a German were supposed to […]
Feedback is a gift. …that keeps on giving. This was pounded into my brain while getting indoctrinated into the world of MBA business at Stanford. “you have to remain open to feedback to improve and grow.” At the end of my time on the sunny campus in Palo Alto, my classmates and I had become […]