I remember walking into a factory in Michigan (sometime in 2012). There were a few people crowded around the computer display in the control room. “Hello, Good morning.” I said. They all turned around.  The plant manager was composed but his face said it all – there was something wrong. He asked: “So what did […]

When I wrote my dystopian novel – Toffy’s Divide, I was envisioning a future in the year of 2049. Although I attempted to extrapolate what life would be like in an ultra tech-advance society. I made a mistake in my extrapolation.  I did the same thing that most people do, think about technological progression in […]

Towards the end of last year during late fall 2022, SBF and his scammy Palo Alto, Bahama-living ways had taken the wind out of the crypto space. Just a month earlier, I had just launched my first web3 project (perfect timing, right?). As we all sat there looking at the crypto debris that FTX had […]

I was leaving an ethanol plant in Indiana, sometime in 2010. The operator swiveled around in his chair and said: “you’re leaving already?” I looked at my watch and replied: “Yeah, it’s 10:30pm” “So I should just let it run?” He asked, referring to the model-predictive software that we had just installed and commissioned at […]

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 […]