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One of the worst habits some Nigerian employees have is that if they ask you something and you don't reply, work can stop at that place for months. They won't ask you again or take initiative.

When you negotiate too hard, your vendor will always prefer to work with other people. So you keep changing vendor, which is a frustrating distraction.

Even with the partial reforms, Nigeria is doing way better financially. With the full set of reforms, it's going to get back to being a real African powerhouse. All that is needed then is the merger with Togo-Benin-Ghana-SierraLeone-Liberia to become a global player.

Lagos still consumes 2x as much power as Abuja disco (with the same population). The lowest hanging fruit for Nigeria economic development is reliable power.

In general, West Africa is going back into growth mode - population is rising, politics is stable, few wars, education is going up, power is going up. Probably the best time to invest right now, but with caution and local knowledge.

If you want to win the lottery, start by buying a ticket

Small trick for a viral product - run ads in a low cost country, then reward them for inviting people from high cost country

This is what it means to be a man

Went to the doctor with an eye complaint. Doctor was a soviet-era doc. He grimly and thoroughly looked in my eyes for close to 15 minutes, turned off his machine and said: "You're fine, go home".

What is the name of that insect that uses waist trainer?

The male equivalent of make up is 12 months going daily to the gym, using cream daily, getting a nice car. I wish we could just paint our faces.

It's never about a marketing channel, it's about being early to a channel before it's saturated.

The core demographic Tinubu lost in the last election was not politicians, it was the tech-inclined people. He lost social media, and that's why the election was so difficult. Same could happen again.

Strategy without tactics is useless, and tactics require deep knowledge and experience.

The ai models are kind of getting stuck, and the model companies are spending so much time on the models that they are not innovating on the app side. The real opp is in ux on the app layer.

On google keyword planner, Nigeria has reach of 25m people. Cameroun has 3.6m people. Ghana has 7m. Both of the Congo's together have less than 5m people! South Africa has 25m, while Kenya has 11m. Population figures and startup viability in Africa are not correlated.

Once people start wearing traditional cap and praising sitting governors, fear them.

If you want a child to be good at math, don't give them more advanced topics, take them back to the simpler topics and let them practise and study those topics till they are perfect in them. Then slowly move up. Most kids struggle with math because they missed some basics.

Close your eyes, stretch your arm out and try to touch the tip of your nose. If you consistently fail to do so on either side, you should go see the doctor urgently.

All the AI tools being built now are Flashlights and Calculators. So that means in future we will have the real complex AI-first apps. I wonder how they will look.