This girl, Chizoba, just graduated from Mechatronics at Nile University with a CGPA of 4.96.
She will be with us for the next 4 weeks teaching our children hardcore Robotics and AI. All practicals.
Her final-year project was constructing and programming a 3D printer from scratch. She also built unique technology that converts waste water bottles into 3D printing filaments.
These next 4 weeks are going to be on fire. Our children will also build drones from the ground up.
We selected the top 40 South East Maths Olympiad Winners from Enugu to participate in this program.
I’m attempting to break the Guinness World Record for the fastest time to visit all 7 continents 🚀
From Antarctica all the way to Australia in 70 hours with my Nigerian passport!! 🇳🇬✈️
Follow me @almaasinobi for updates on this adventure 🫶🏽
#AlmaChasingContinents#7in70#GWR
My daughter’s future in-laws traveled from Europe to meet our family. During dinner, they began speaking French, completely certain I could not understand them.
Then I heard what they said about my daughter...
i learned ants really have no concept of us as humans because of their limited eyesight and how big we are to them. they see us as moving shadows, or wind, or like obstacles and landscape (i imagine mountains). makes me wonder what’s in front of me right now that’s too large for me to comprehend.
This line from Atomic Habits isn't ready to leave my head:
"It doesn't make sense to continue wanting something if you're not willing to do what it takes to get it. If you don't want to live the lifestyle, then release yourself from the desire. To crave the result but not the process is to guarantee disappointment."
That idea you’re hesitating to execute because you think it’s too generic or that too many people already have it
Here’s what you should know. Among everyone with that same idea, only a fraction will actually execute. Among those who execute, only a fraction will stay consistent. And among those who stay consistent, only a fraction will have the patience and resilience to keep going long enough to see results.
If you make it through all those stages, you’ve already outperformed 99% of the competition
"The greatest sin you can commit against your own life, is to know what you want...and not to act." - Stafford
Do not betray yourself.
Take the Chance.
I love people who are intellectually omnivorous.
The kind who can discuss folklore, black holes, bird migration, poetry, and grocery store pricing in a single conversation without getting lost.
I studied architectural design in Cameroon and every architect they taught me was European. Every movement, every theory, every name on the required reading list. The Great Mosque of Djenné, the Moorish arch, Great Zimbabwe never appeared on any syllabus.
Now I am studying management and every economist is Western. George Ayittey, a Ghanaian who built an entire economic framework for African development, has never appeared in a single lecture. Dambisa Moyo, a Zambian economist who argued that Western aid is destroying African economies, same.
Two disciplines. Not one African name in the required reading.
This is not only an architecture problem. It is medicine, law, economics, history. Every field is taught through a foreign lens and when a student tries to think beyond it they are disciplined for it.
We are not behind because we lack knowledge. We are behind because we were taught that ours does not count.
This is free advice from an expensive psychologist. If you’re an anxious person, do everything for fun. Go to a job interview for fun. Submit documents for fun. Start a blog for fun. Anxiety feeds on importance. Don’t make everything a matter of life and death.
One of the most overlooked forms of wealth is having complete ownership of your time.
Waking up and knowing nothing about your day will be decided by someone else is priceless.