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A (Short) Productivity Treatise Free Time is De-Motivating – How to Stretch Your sp – Emails are Not Good For Your Health I love to work, and I do a lot of things, so it is only rational that I spend a huge chuck of my time to think about how best to work – Read More
Subtitle: Judging What We Do Not Know This Low-Carb Thingy, My Keto Flu – 9/11 Averted by a US Politician – Nigeria 0 Croatia 2 – Barcelona’s Rakitic and Madrid’s Modric This Low-Carb Thingy, My Keto Flu Last week, I found myself in pains, just enough to make me feel very, very uncomfortable. It came Read More
The books I am reading (and going to read) this summer, covers a large swath of fields – anthropology, mathematics, biology, philosophy, religion, fantasy fiction, and machine learning. I am knee-deep into many of them, and they are all great so far. You might just like them too. The World Until Yesterday by Jared Diamond Read More
I don’t know them. I just stumbled on them in the bar. I don’t know their names too, but they looked very African, west African to be precise, so I gave them two names akin to their looks. Orunmila and Omode. Orunmila is the elderly. Very elderly. He had scanty grey hairs on his head, Read More
Ibadan, Nigeria (Photo Credit: Supashegs Olusegun Aderinto) [The presidential election in Nigeria is less than a year away, and like many Nigerians, I am very unhappy about the state of the country. However, I have identified a model candidate that will be capable to start to solve Nigeria’s myriad problems. As a regular reader of this Read More
Don’t Follow Your Passion – Technology is Amoral – We Are All Bags of Biases – A Mexican and a 20-year Old Philosopher – Every Race Lies and Cheat – And Loads of Fun I spent this weekend at the Georgia International Leadership Conference (GILC 2018) in Rock Eagle, Eatonton, Georgia. I had wanted to Read More
There is a popular saying amongst the people of the Yoruba tribe in West Africa, it goes thus: omo to ba ni ki iyare masu, ounna ko ni sun (The child that has said his mother will not sleep, shall also not sleep). This proverb spears right through the logic of paying prices – the Read More
I like to write on my birthdays. Two of such writings I have published on this blog: 25 lessons at 25 and Friends, We are Dying Every day for my 25th and 26th birthdays respectively. This year I wrote on 12 observations at 27. And why 12? Honesty, I have no idea, and because I Read More
Dear Blog readers, Thanks to a friend, I got to know recently that readers don’t get notification of my replies to their comments, which makes it difficult to have productive conversations. I later figured out that I had not installed the right plugin for this feature. The problem is fixed. So, I will always love Read More
(The Deposition by Raphael (1507)) I promised to write the essay version of the sermon I delivered at church two Sundays ago, here it is: The parable of the prodigal son: a son asked his father for his share of his property, he grabbed it, travelled far way, and squandered it as if tomorrow was Read More