Google just dropped a 1-hour course on agentic engineering from scratch:
00:00 – How to build your first AI agent
08:24 – Build agent memory (short, persistent, long)
28:34 – Agentic loops, long-running AI agents
40:04 – How to build MCP (MCP vs API)
1:00:22 – Multi-agentic systems
This 1-hour watch will replace 10 paid agentic courses on the internet.
Bookmark this. Watch this weekend.
This young Nigerian built a $10 million automated shoe factory here in Nigeria while sourcing 90% of its leather from Kano.
I like to promote and celebrate Nigerians adding value to Nigeria.
INSTEAD OF WATCHING AN HOUR OF NETFLIX TONIGHT.
This 2-hour Stanford lecture will teach you more about how LLMs like ChatGPT and Claude are built than most people working at top AI companies learn in their entire careers.
If I recommend a book to you, will you read it?
Because I don't like giving unsolicited advice 🤣🤣🤣
If you are looking for 1 fundamental book that will change your mindset and get you started on your journey of personal development, read:
‘Do Epic Sh*t’ - Ankur Warikoo
Simple, easy, relatable and thoroughly inspiring.
Graduate Trainee is not the only way to get employed in a company 😉
If you have a 2:2, a third class, or you're past the age limit, stop knocking on a locked front door. Use the side windows.
Here are 3 practical, high-value entry routes most applicants completely ignore: 👇
🚨 Anthropic just showed a 24-minute workshop on how to actually do prompts for Claude.
Taught by the people who built it.
Free. No registration. No paywall.
I've seen $300 courses that don't cover what they teach in the first 8 minutes.
Watch it and bookmark it now.
Algorithms Are Colonising African Youths
Nigerian historian Iyo Obietonbara argues that social media algorithms are a tool of colonialism, influencing what African youths consider valuable. Instead of building organisations to struggle for liberation, many of our young people are making videos about trivial matters.
Do you agree? Disagree? Drop us a comment.
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You've been hearing about the so-called "Olodo Uprising".
Here's a wider angle on this phenomenon to help you contextualise what you are actually witnessing, why it is happening and who is ultimately behind it (hint: it's not Peller - he's just a symptom!)
In the early 2000s, MTN South Africa approached Pascal Dozie, founder of Diamond Bank, to help raise 40% of the capital to build MTN Nigeria.
Pascal Dozie told many of his friends, but they declined. Because NITEL failed at the time.
He raised 20%, & MTN🇿🇦 covered the shortfall
Bolaji Balogun, the founder of Chapel Hill Denham, talks about how he ended up in financial services.
He was brought up by his mother, a professor in Unilag, and also an incredible investor.
She talked to him about the value of her portfolio and her share certificate.