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[Michael Taiwo @AskMichaelTaiwo]

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.

[Arojinle @arojinle1]

When a great leader falls, people who have never carried their burdens are often the quickest to misdiagnose the cause. Saying Samson was defeated by lust is a lazy, historically inaccurate reading of his life. Samson was not a sexual predator or a man chasing endless vices. He was a lonely hero who desperately wanted to love and be loved, and his ultimate vulnerability was misplaced trust.

The Bible explicitly states that Samson loved Delilah (Judges 16:4). This wasn't a fleeting physical encounter. He brought her into his inner sanctum, gave her his heart, and treated her as a lifelong partner. He failed because he SIMPED for Delilah.

To see the difference between lust and Samson's flaw, we only need to look at King David. David stood on a rooftop, watched a married woman bathing, demanded she be brought to him, and then murdered her husband to cover up his indulgence. That is the literal definition of destructive, unchecked lust. Yet, David was not 'defeated' or permanently stripped of his calling. If the raw mechanism of lust was what destroyed judges and kings, David would have fallen completely.

Samson fell because his heart was too open to the wrong person.

[Osaretin Victor Asemota @asemota]

Wealth is transient. What previous generations considered as wealth are no longer important to future generations. I had a deep conversation with a relative recently. His parents are wealthy by Nigerian standards but he is not at all interested in what they have as he has seen better out there in the world.

He said that others are thinking about investing in NVIDIA and other semiconductor companies, his parents are thinking of Nigerian assets in an economy with constant devaluation due to inflationary pressures.

One of my in-laws explained it clearly to us at a family meeting a couple of years ago. Your African assets have to constantly earn above the local inflation rate or else you are digging a hole and not building generational wealth.

It made me realize that most of the families we consider as those with generational wealth were either fortunate to be in the right geography and with little conflict, or have derisked everything with a global presence.

My late grandmother did her bit with trading and opening a restaurant. Her son tried to do better with land acquisitions, and I am doing something totally different from both in tech. I don't know what my children will do in future, but the best thing my grandmother did with her wealth was to provide her children with education. Knowledge is the true generational wealth. It helps to open up opportunities.

[Brighton & Hove Albion @OfficialBHAFC]

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[She Carpenter @IsiomaDNigerian]

I started learning furniture making at Ipaja furniture yard at 30, as the only female apprentice there. People would literally stop and stare at me as I worked, but I didn’t care😂

It was tough, my body complained, my complexion darkened but I adjusted. I’m glad I took that decision.

Meet the Eboh bunk bed, named after my bestie in the third frame.
Eboh means Peace in Idoma language.

Disclaimer: I didn’t make the ladder but the shelves and the metal ottoman was from my workshop.

[ً @artfuIchaos]

If i had the mindset I have now, I wouldn’t have made those mistakes. but if I hadn’t made those mistakes, I wouldn’t have the mindset i have now.

[Toni Kroos @ToniKroos]

Football won

[justine @justinemach_]

an idiot in motion goes further than a genius at rest

[Rajjath @Rajjath24]

it is an unwritten rule of life that after every prolonged period of hardship and uncertainty, there is going to be a period when you are going to achieve quantum leaps across multiple areas of your life. the only requirement is that you do not give up on yourself.

[Sporting Adeptos @Sporting_CPAdep]

💚 @Cristiano

[Erling Haaland @Erling]

Well well well 😂

[Pharaoh👳🏾‍♂️👑 @MrMekzy_]

We begin this week in the name of the father, the son and the Holy Spirit.

[Olayinka Post @0xYinka]

"Your papa TV that year when current low"

😂😂😂

[Morris Monye @Morris_Monye]

We tend to downplay this so much but we need money to do alot of things.

Money is a fuel.

Money is the water that nourishes your brilliant ideas into life.

[Man of Letters. @Letter_to_Jack]

If something is not broken, don’t fix it.

The NYSC uniform is one of those things that has been perfect since day 1. I don’t think I have ever met anyone who has said anything negative about it.

There is no color more Nigerian than that color combination. It’s a thing of pride.

[They call me Afo @Dr_Afo]

Being fertile.

A lot of us take it for granted that you can just have sex and if you're not careful, you would soon be expecting a baby.

Infertility is crazy.

There's this deep sadness I see in infertile couples. You look at their eyes and that light is just not there.

That sex that is normally enjoyable becomes a chore.

We often prescribe sex like medication for them and after a while, it becomes a chore.

If you can get pregnant or impregnate someone unassisted, you don't know what God has done for you.

[Daniel Ceballos @DaniCeballos46]

Gracias por todo @realmadrid 🤍

[Eezzy 🧸 @notEezzy]

I don’t think people understand what “chasing internet money” really means.

You’re not just risking money.
You’re risking time, reputation, sanity, relationships, sleep.

The win looks lucky because nobody watched the times you looked insane and lost your mind.

[Fabrizio Romano @FabrizioRomano]

🥹🇲🇽 Memo Ochoa: “My first game, Azteca. My last game, Azteca. It’s been a beautiful final chapter of my career. Thank you, everyone”.

[Pharaoh👳🏾‍♂️👑 @MrMekzy_]

Everyday i wake up, i pray for soft life. I’m not a warrior, i don’t like wahala.