Let me burst your heads: this intelligent lady will have more adversaries internally than the other "Tony" lady.
When you've not fully entered a system, never ever give "better" solutions. You are signalling that the people currently there are incompetent.
Rookie move.
Your lateral thinking is the problem.
You earned $100k last year.
This year, you want to do $120k, even though you could wipe the slate clean and do a million.
The measurement of your performance against a benchmark that amplifies mediocrity.
That is the problem.
You cannot create the impossible by looking up to the possible.
Break down that frame and construct one that has never existed.
I earned $120K a year working for Shell in 2012.
Ten years and multiple promotions later, in 2022, that figure has doubled to $240K a year.
In 2023, I stumbled on an internal, confidential, document that showed the salaries of my superiors.
I saw that even if I were promoted multiple times again, the best I could hope for in another 10 years was another doubling to around $480K a year.
This may sound crazy saying it out loud but that wasn’t cutting it for me.
I simply didn’t want the next 10 years to be a repeat of the last 10.
I wanted geometric progression, not an arithmetic one.
On my 40th birthday, in 2023, I was asked to make a wish as a blew the candles on my birthday cake.
“Get the hell out of Shell,” I quietly whispered. Months later, I was out.
In 2024, my businesses grossed $500K; in 2025, they did $1M - geometric progression.
It required me to be delusional about my abilities, to bank on the faithfulness of God and to trust that inner voice that always nag at me that I could be more, I could do more and I could have more.
So yesterday was Johnny Drille’s concert in Toronto, and somehow I found myself there even though I had absolutely no plan to attend.
A close friend of mine was one of the promoters, so my plan was to spend a few mins at the event and escape back home.
Instead, I accidentally purchased a front-row seat to the greatest relationship drama ever produced
I was sitting quietly in VIP, chewing gum and minding my business, when two ladies joined my table.
Let’s call them Lady A and Lady B
Shortly after the arrived, Lady A received a call and stepped outside to take it
When Lady A returned, the premium gist subscription activated immediately
Apparently, the call was from a guy named John
For the next 15 minutes, Lady A gave a detailed review of John.
John was romantic,
John was caring,
John was thoughtful,
John was planning their future,
Honestly, if John applied for Canadian citizenship through marriage, I would have approved it myself.
Then came the twist,
Lady A said John wasn’t really her type,
Instead, she couldn’t stop talking about another guy, Let’s call him Boy Alinco.
Boy Alinco was on his way to the concert from what I deduced.
The way she talked about him, it sounded like boy Alinco is a struggling immigrant 😅😂
John had the future.
Boy Alinco had the vibes.
As I was processing all these information, a tall dark man suddenly tapped her on the shoulder.
Lady A turned around and nearly swallowed her tongue.
“JEFFERY?!”
The entire table froze
Jeffery looked just as surprised
“Babe, I thought you said you were working night shifts today?” he said, then She muffled something that I didn’t hear,
Then goes Jeffery, “I got these tickets because I wanted to surprise you, but when you told me you’d be at work, I figured I’d just come with Luis instead.
At that point, Lady A’s soul briefly left her body. 😂
I stopped chewing my gum, Lady B couldn’t stopped blinking and even the music suddenly sounded quieter,
then one thing became clear
Jeffery wasn’t John, neither was he Boy Alinco 😂😂
Ladies and gentlemen, we had officially exceeded the maximum number of characters allowed in this relationship, I thought to myself as I started doing CIA, FBI investigations in my head.
Anyways, while we were on that back and forth, Lady A’s phone rang again. She glanced at the screen, and you could literally see panic on her face, from the look on Lady B’s face, It looked like Boy Alinco had just arrived.
I was just shaking my head all through, it felt as if I was watching the group stage of the UEFA Champions League between John, Boy Alinco and Jeffery,
I looked at my watch and it was already 10:45 PM.
That was my cue to leave,
To be honest, I was exhausted
Not physically, but Emotionally.
Because throughout this entire saga, these ladies looked classy, well put together, innocent, and respectable.
If I hadn’t accidentally become an unwilling spectator, I would never have guessed there was a whole Premier League table of men involved.
At that point, I felt sorry for Jeffery, John and Boy Alinco, who has probably arrived but stuck outside because his date dares not pick his call 😂
I picked up my car keys, shook my head and started my journey home!
Although, I wish I waited for the full thing to unravel but I just had to leave!
All I know is that Johnny Drille wasn’t the only performer at that concert.
If you’re dating in Toronto, I feel very scared for you! 😭😭
I begged this lady, pleaded with a broken heart and a shaky voice for her to be honest with me but she refused and even swore by her late father’s grave. Then I showed her the evidences and she burst into tears. 💔💔😭😭😭
SpaceX millionaires 4,000 x $1mil , 400 x $100 mil
Every employee who joined before the first succesful launch made (unless they sold early) more than $100 million.
SpaceX lists June 12 at ~$1.75T.
Work backward from the cap table. At $1.75T, clearing $100M takes ~0.0057% of the company.
- 2002–2008, first ~500 in: joined at a ~$50M company. Held to $1.75T = a 17,000x. The core of the club — maybe 150–250 left holding
- September 2008, SpaceX has first successful launch
- 2010–2016: joined at $1B–$10B. Needs a senior grant — directors, principal engineers, early Starlink. ~100–200
- C-suite + board: Shotwell, Johnsen past $1B. A layer of SVPs below them clears $100M on equity, not salary. ~20–40
- Post-2016: joined at $20B–$350B. To hit $100M you'd have needed ~0.4% of the company. Impossible for an employee. This is the millionaire tier — almost none reach $100M
The tally:
~400–500 at $100M+
A few dozen above $500M
A handful of billionaires past Musk
Same building. Same mission. Two orders of magnitude apart — set entirely by what year you walked in.
Early isn't a strategy. It's a date stamp.
Tiwi was shocked that Kunle Remi said he can’t wait to tell Wonder to help him bring the remote even when it’s just beside him 😭🤣
She said she never experienced that growing up, but Kunle Remi said it’s tradition 😭
It’s the “what’s wrong with your hand?” part that took me out 🤣🤣