Every World Cup has that one completely random striker who turns into prime Ronaldo Nazรกrio for exactly two weeks, has a great tournament, signs a ยฃ60M contract with a top club, and then disappears from football forever.
I wonder who it's going to be this month
I just read a story about a woman that really makes you pause and think about the pressure around โjapaโ in todayโs world.
She was 31, living in Lagos and earning about โฆ45k a month while working in a boutique company. On paper, she was managing life, but in reality she felt stuck. Around her, people were relocating abroad, posting new lives, new opportunities, new beginnings. And like many others, she started to feel like she was being left behind.
At some point, she decided she wanted the same chance.
She spoke to a travel agent who told her the full relocation process would cost about โฆ10 million. That figure was far beyond her reach, so she chose a different path she would do it herself.
She started small. She used her โฆ500k savings to begin her visa application and, against her expectations, she got a 6-month visa on her first attempt. That success gave her hope and pushed her further.
Then things escalated.
She sold her late fatherโs land for โฆ5 million. She borrowed from more than a dozen people. She sold nearly everything she owned TV, generator, wardrobe, bed until she was literally sleeping on clothes on the floor.
As time ran out and pressure mounted, she made more desperate decisions. She secretly sublet her apartment for โฆ700k, bought a flight ticket for โฆ1.9 million, and even sent โฆ2 million to someone abroad who promised to sort out accommodation.
By the time she was done, she had just โฆ120k left to her name.
Her family saw her off at the airport. There were photos, videos, emotions everyone believing this was the beginning of a new chapter. On the plane, she kept reassuring herself that life was finally about to change.
Mark Zuckerberg engineered a custom hardware device for his wife in 2019. No clock face. One faint light. A one-hour window.
Priscilla had a specific problem. She'd wake up in the middle of the night, check her phone for the time, and the number itself spiked her anxiety. 4am meant worry about the kids waking soon. 5:30 meant calculating whether to just get up. The information was the trigger.
Most engineers approach "can't sleep" by adding things to the bedroom. A meditation app. A Hatch alarm. A weighted blanket. A sleep coach.
Mark removed the variable that was running the wake-up loop.
The Sleep Box sits on Priscilla's nightstand and shows nothing for 23 hours a day. Between 6am and 7am it emits a single faint light. Faint enough not to wake her if she's still asleep. Visible enough that if she's already up, she knows it's okay to start the day. The rest of the night, dark. No clock. No time display. If she wakes at 3am she has no data to push her cortisol up with, so she goes back to sleep.
He wrote the firmware and built the enclosure himself. No team, no procurement, no Meta resources. He posted the result on Instagram and said it worked better than he expected.
The design move most CEOs would never run is the personal one. The instinct is to outsource a family problem to a specialist. A sleep coach. A doctor. A consumer electronics startup with a Series B and a marketing budget.
Mark intervened at a specific link in the chain. Time data hitting Priscilla's brain at 3am was what broke sleep. The phone got moved off the nightstand and replaced with a box that physically cannot deliver that data.
The box has no clock. That's the entire product.
If Iโm a Banksy collector, I have to be fuming. The allure/mystique of an anon artist is half the value, and itโs just less fun now that heโs doxxed.
Update on Abba, the NYSC corps member who was abducted:
Since receiving the โฆ10 million ransom payment, Abba's abductors have completely cut off all communication with his family.
Given the situation, the family has decided not to pay any more ransom (including the bikes his abductors requested after the initial payment).
Abbaโs family are preparing to hold his Janaza prayer (Ghaโib) on Friday, 6th March, in accordance with Islamic rules.
Abbaโs family wishes to express their profound gratitude to everyone who offered support, prayers, donations, and kind words during this ordeal. May the Lord be pleased with you all and reward your generosity abundantly.
We continue to pray: if Abba is still alive, wherever he may be, may the Lord grant him strength and swift release. If he has passed on, may Allah forgive his shortcomings, accept his good deeds, and grant him Al-Jannah Firdaus. Ameen.
Please keep the family in your prayers during this difficult time.
They desired to live and to have a good life like everyone else. They had a business that was running and flourishing, called Mr. Classic. They were not reckless or idle; they were working, building, and contributing to society. See how full of life and hope they were-young men with plans, responsibilities, and a future they were actively shaping.
That future was cut short not by fate, but by neglect. A system that should protect lives failed them. A government entrusted with safety and accountability failed to act, failed to respond, and failed to tell the truth afterward. Now their family is left not with closure, but with ashes; not with answers, but with silence; not with justice, but with grief ๐ ๐๏ธ .
Behind every statistic is a family shattered, siblings traumatised, and parents left to mourn what should never have been lost. This pain will not fade easily, and it should not be ignored.
May the soul of Stephen, Casimir and Collins rest in perfect peace. Amen ๐๐ฝ
50 cent baiting and dragging all these rappers without dropping a single diss track is a revelation that needs to be studied thoroughly..#Curtis101๐๐