Tomi

Musings about ecosystems and innovations driving economies, urban design and philosophy.

Thinking through systems using football and auto industry.

Winning

[Tomi @ActivelyTomi]

@StarWarsFedora @RunemirQi Such insight and wisdom

[Tomi @ActivelyTomi]

@thefemianthony Entire Nigerian business ideology is maxxing out the earning value per transaction..the volume game has been critical to every major country trying to industrialise.

Compete on price, then compete on quality, then compete on innovation, compete on customer experience.

[Mayukh @mayukh_panja]

Any one who is privileged therefore owes it to the world to work on the most obnoxiously hard problems, not just build a life for themselves, but uplift people by building great companies and employing as many people as they can.

The privileged must risk it all, over and over again, until they are tortured to greatness.

This is my version of socialism, re- distribute risk. The rich have a moral imperative to embrace more risk.

[Geekay @gkbalogs]

Most entrepreneurs in Nigeria would be far better off in well structured 9-5 employment.

We desperately need to create more quality jobs and stop glorifying this suffer head entrepreneurship.

[Rilwan @Real1_balogun]

Building a good football ecosystem involves many things.

You need organisation. You need resources — human and material. You need community organising skills. You very importantly need infrastructure. Infrastructure can mean good stadiums, great training pitches, security systems, coherent processes.

Most importantly, you need a decent economy to drive that ecosystem. It’s hard to encourage people to support a cause with time and money without food in their stomach or a roof above their heads.

This is Bournemouth announcing a 12:45a.m exit time for its coach to Newcastle. A bus trip from Bournemouth to Newcastle could take 10 hours more or less. It’s far, but you’ll see those fans going.

Yes, they love and respect their club, but more significantly, there’s a system in place which makes expressing that love easier.

Many of them will be on the train too. And that’s how it works.

The system accommodates the interest. One must precede the other.

[Tomi @ActivelyTomi]

Only figured this recently, when I read some of Gary Nevilles investments. By 30+ your young by most careers and you have the funds and connections to platform well for a new life.

[Rilwan @Real1_balogun]

This is the biggest advantage of playing elite sport. You spend your early years building clout, fame and wealth. The fact that it ends relatively early could be an advantage. It's like living two worlds in one life.

It gives you the leverage and latitude to pursue other worlds of interest.

There are some ex-footballers who work as lawyers, in finance as investment bankers, investment advisers, etc.

It's interesting.

[Rilwan @Real1_balogun]

This is the biggest advantage of playing elite sport. You spend your early years building clout, fame and wealth. The fact that it ends relatively early could be an advantage. It's like living two worlds in one life.

It gives you the leverage and latitude to pursue other worlds of interest.

There are some ex-footballers who work as lawyers, in finance as investment bankers, investment advisers, etc.

It's interesting.

[Lien @Jacksonsrule]

Become someone who wastes nothing. A bad job gives you skills. A difficult person teaches you boundaries. A failed idea gives you better judgement. A random conversation gives you a new perspective. A painful year can completely change what you value. You don't need everything that happens to you to be good. The bad often teaches you to appreciate the good. Be
grateful for what goes right, learn from what goes wrong, and remember that one day the
experiences you struggled through will become the wisdom you live by.

[Tomi @ActivelyTomi]

@Ssaasquatch Ultimately, investing is a voracious search for information. Either you invest your time or money. Need to validate your backing the right horse. Chose time cause once I figured out the money bit and access growing, it always seemed feasible fall back option.

[Tomi @ActivelyTomi]

@Ssaasquatch Studying is under sting the thing, around it, through it, against it. It's putting your money behind the idea that this is the future from my perspective. Definitely this only applies to long term investing.

[CY @DNthebuilder]

Mind you,

Nigeria is the largest arms importer in sub-saharan Africa.
Importing from Russia, China, United States and so on.

Barely produce our defense tech.
Import dependence of around 80%.

But it's Terra that's producing this fake outrage.

Lmao. Unserious people.

[Büeli @buelistic]

Don't call it a goal if you treat it like a wish. A goal has a schedule, a cost, and consequences.

[Nthanda Manduwi @NthandaManduwi]

Hurts me to say this: Africa will not be saved by entrepreneurship. We cannot vibecode ourselves into the 4th industrial revolution. We still need to industrialize. To achieve this, we need stronger and better public institutions. We need extremely competent leaders at the helm.

[Tomi @ActivelyTomi]

@carljenkinson Well played Jenko, thank you for the memories and the moments. A powerful message and a reminder the art of honing your craft is your actual commitment.

[Tomi @ActivelyTomi]

@Nwankpa_A This pattern repeats itself throughout the history of the club. Wenger coming from Japan, Fabregas only a talented teen, Van Persie with his injuries, an endless list. These people become world beaters, the club trusts them, sometimes even before they even trust themselves.

[Amara Nwankpa @Nwankpa_A]

The best, and most enduring, encapsulation of the Arsenal identity is not a race, a trophy, or even a style of play. You will find it in a quiet statue at the Emirates: a boy in 1945, kicking a ball under the manager's car outside Highbury, retrieving it, and being offered a job for nothing more than his enthusiasm. Ken Friar stayed seventy years: messenger, secretary, managing director, life president. He was recognised before he had proved anything, and he never left. That is the club's deepest pattern. It sees people not as they are, but as they could become. Recognition, offered first, becomes loyalty that outlasts everyone.

[Amara Nwankpa @Nwankpa_A]

The idea that Arsenal became a cultural phenomenon because it signed Black players is too simplistic.

Like much of London, Arsenal positioned itself as a club that extended belonging towards the margins. Not racial margins alone, but the margins of football's imagination.

Kanu arrived after heart surgery that could have ended his career. Bergkamp arrived carrying the weight of a disappointing spell at Inter. Henry arrived as a talented but unsettled player still searching for his place. Kolo Touré was potential before proof. Arteta arrived as a midfielder many thought was entering decline, only to be entrusted with the captaincy. Wenger himself was a foreign manager challenging the assumptions of English football.

The pattern was not diversity for its own sake. It was recognition before validation.

Arsenal repeatedly seemed willing to see people not simply as they were, but as they could become. It trusted before consensus arrived. It built a reputation for offering a second chance, a fresh start, or a path to fulfilment where others saw limitation, uncertainty, or decline.

That is why former players, injured players, and out-of-contract players so often found their way back to Arsenal. The club developed a reputation for treating people as more than their immediate utility.

Representation matters. But recognition creates loyalty.

People did not just see players who looked like them. They saw an institution that appeared willing to enlarge its definition of who belonged.

[Big Timi @OrevaZSN]

Teenagers have started calling AI art "boomer art" and consider it cringe, and YouTubers have stopped using AI-generated thumbnails because teenagers find them cringe and won't click on them. I honestly couldn't be happier.