Tech change my table from a guy that makes maichai at Abeokuta, to staring at computer screens. I’m putting this out here to motivate some persons out there to keep grinding legitimately.
Also, happy birthday to me today. This year has been exceptional and phenomenal.
Your future children don't need the youngest father. They need the most prepared one. Think beyond the wedding photos.
DON'T marry without a sound financial base.
Take any population on earth.
For several generations, remove their most physically capable members by force and sell them abroad.
Destroy their existing political institutions and replace them with administrative structures designed to extract rather than develop.
Draw their borders to maximize ethnic conflict and minimize political coherence.
Extract their mineral and agricultural wealth for a century at prices you set unilaterally.
When you leave, install governments that serve your economic interests rather than their populations.
Fund civil wars when those governments are threatened by leaders who want to redirect resource revenues toward domestic development.
Then, three generations later, administer a cognitive test.
Compare the scores to those of the populations who spent the same period accumulating capital, building universities, developing public health infrastructure, and compounding the advantages of political stability.
Put the results on a map.
Call the map a "nature documentary."
Tell yourself the scores show something biological.
Tell yourself the history had nothing to do with it.
Tell yourself you arrived at this conclusion by following the evidence.
You did not follow the evidence.
You followed the map to the place you had already decided to go.
And the evidence, the entire, documented, sourced, cross-disciplinary evidence, is the invoice you refused to open.
To be honest, fixing Nigeria starts with the individual. We can minimize the things we need to fix if we behave properly. You cannot keep dumping refuse into water channels and not expect flood. You cannot enjoy nepotism and not expect corruption.
@Anthonytyga She is correct chief. In hydrology, water is measured in many parameters among which stage (vertical height of water in inches or feet) is one. For a flooding situation, you can validly describe the height of the water as she did.
Since amalgamation, we’ve been fighting over everything. who owns oil, who owns gele, who owns Ichafu and who owns Egusi.
Meanwhile none of us own stable electricity, clean water, or basic human rights.
We are fighting over the décor of a burning house
I started with 400g sachets of milk, to a bag of milk.
Today the yoghurt business spends hundreds of millions on milk, jobs, printing, scholarships, and grants.
Dreams grow.
Don’t quit too early.
wise words from the best systems engineer I've worked with:
"two things that make code actually maintainable:
1. reduce the layers a reader has to trace
2. reduce the state a reader has to hold in their head"
applies to every codebase. always.