Kay Elujulo

I do things.

[Kay Elujulo @VictorElujulo]

Hi there, if you're here, and you're Nigerian who lives in Nigeria, please help fill out my market validation survey. Thanks!

https://t.co/Jxhjz2zV6C

[Justin Skycak @justinskycak]

The cost of avoiding structure is that every day has to be renegotiated from scratch.

[Kay Elujulo @VictorElujulo]

Yup. Manufacture and export the basics needed for life first, before you can think about growth.

A lot of third world nations, including mine, are consistently trying to evade this stage, and that's one of the reasons why they keep going around in circles.

[Jostein Hauge @haugejostein]

The notion that developing countries can bypass manufacturing — and leap straight to services instead — ignores how every major economy actually developed.

[Jostein Hauge @haugejostein]

The notion that developing countries can bypass manufacturing — and leap straight to services instead — ignores how every major economy actually developed.

[Kay Elujulo @VictorElujulo]

Yeah. But things like, "I took the kids kayaking today. Great one!" or "We launched XYZ today, check it out!" And that will be once/twice in like 4 months.

[popsee @qopsee99]

Do you guys think you’ll still be tweeting when you’re 40?

[Tolkien World @TolkienWorldG]

I’m sure the teacher still allowed it

[Kay Elujulo @VictorElujulo]

Ihunanya and Me You I.

[The Cavemen. @StayCavy]

Cavy People, be honest, what’s that one The Cavemen song you can never skip, no matter your mood?

[Kay Elujulo @VictorElujulo]

Reread Sharpe's Triumph. It was amazing.

[Goodreads @goodreads]

What was the very best book you read in April?

[Kay Elujulo @VictorElujulo]

No one wants to order clothes from Jumia and the likes, because you're not sure of the quality of the fabric, if it'll fit e.t.c.

We need to build something/a system that cuts out all of the uncertainties, bridges the trust deficit, and assures customers of quality.

[Kay Elujulo @VictorElujulo]

There's also the fact that a lot of our websites are not properly built, intuitive, and don't maximise for discovery or personalization. There's also a clear trust deficit, hence the need for human interactions.

It was like this in the food market, before Chowdeck and the likes.

[Geekay @gkbalogs]

The Nigerian retail space has a funny contradiction: lots of money goes into building polished websites and apps, but many customers just want to chat on WhatsApp. A big share of daily transactions happens on WhatsApp and inside Instagram DMs, not on e-commerce platforms. Nigerians just prefer human interaction and flexibility over rigid digital journeys.

My friend go and open that WhatsApp Business today! That’s where discovery, trust building, negotiation, and payment all happen in one flow.

[Kay Elujulo @VictorElujulo]

Kotrell's Safe is a masterpiece.

[vixhaℓ @TheVixhal]

Elliptic curves are the reason your private messages are safe.

When you send a message online, it’s protected using elliptic curve cryptography. And its whole security depends on one simple idea:

A sequence of operations can produce a result, but recovering the original sequence from the result is extremely hard.

To understand this, let’s look at a small example.

Start with this equation:
y² = x³ + 2x + 3

Now let’s pick a point on this curve.

One valid point is:
P = (3, 6)

(You can check: if you plug x = 3 into the equation, you get y² = 36, so y = 6 works)

Now comes the interesting part.

We “add” the point to itself.

Step 1:
P = (3, 6)

Step 2:
2P = P + P

After applying the formula, you get:
2P = (80, 10)

Step 3:
3P = 2P + P -> another calculation -> new point

And you keep going like this:
P, 2P, 3P, 4P...

A computer can do this really fast, even if you repeat it billions of times.

So if I say:

Start with P = (3, 6)
Now compute 1,000,000 × P

A computer can do it.

But now flip the question:

If I give you P = (3, 6)
and I give you the final point after 1,000,000 × P

Can you figure out the number 1,000,000?

That’s where things break.
There is no known fast way to go backwards.

And when the numbers get huge (like in real encryption), this becomes practically impossible.

But here’s the weird part:

No one has proven that this problem is actually hard.
We just believe it is. If someone finds a shortcut, a lot of modern security could break at once.

So your private messages are basically protected by a math problem that might secretly have an easy solution.

[Shasti @sh44sti]

deepest ever MINES OF MORIA raid by dwarves gone WRONG. BALROG unleashed

[blue @bluewmist]

growing up is funny because it makes you realize in retrospect just how unnecessarily cruel adults were to you in childhood. like damn, i'm an adult now and i could never be such a horrible person to a little kid

[debbie @dm4uz3]

archaeologists be like: yeah we're dating

[✒️ @Literariium]

james baldwin was so right when he said you think you’re alone and then you pick up a book and realise someone else has felt the same way as you and managed to find a language for it. the realest shit

[Kay Elujulo @VictorElujulo]

Noticed.

[Internet Archive @internetarchive]

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16% have been restored through the Wayback Machine.
56% are preserved before they disappear.

Preservation is the remedy for cultural loss.

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[pi0us @pi0us0]

A friend of me who is studying math said: "It's like creating a magic system in a fantasy world. Only there is no story and no characters and no world, just the magic-system."

[` @lisaawrites]

Books are amazing because a stranger from 200 years ago can still ruin your afternoon emotionally.

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[Kay Elujulo @VictorElujulo]

Man listened to Mavo and said "nahhh".

[Mummy Success @ProbablyDafe]

Knew Nigerian music was rolling on a plateau when Diamond Platnumz stopped jacking our shit.