Olaolu

Photographer | Cybersecurity

[Olaolu @aop_masterpiece]

Gentle reminder I take amazing pictures.
If this finds its way across your timeline, kindly retweet.
A prospective client could be on your timeline.

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[Enigma @0xAdesola]

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Micro1
Mercor
TestIO
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[DAN KOE @thedankoe]

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[Olaolu @aop_masterpiece]

@UnkleAyo @deolaterminator

[Yegor @yegormethod]

my dad was a fucking rocket engineer who taught me something that made me RICH

wasn't some soft ass "believe in yourself" bs

it was QUICK MATH (keep reading it's saucy)

this man ran calculations for missile trajectories in the military. could tell you impact coordinates in his head while other guys needed computers. but he'd say "close enough is better than perfect too late"

"347 divided by 45? about 7. move the fuck on."

he'd make me calculate brutal equations instantly. not perfectly. INSTANTLY. because in real situations perfect math gets you killed while you're calculating

meanwhile you common folk are sitting with your calculator app making sure you got the EXACT answer while opportunities are flying past at 1000mph

this is why you're easy to kill in business...

you're trying to be PRECISE when you need to be FAST

business decision? you want 22 spreadsheets and three consultants' opinions. your competitor already launched, failed, pivoted, and is banking while you're on slide 73 of your market analysis like some soft as baby shit analyst

pricing your service? you're researching statistics for weeks. just pick a fucking number that scares you and TEST IT. wrong? change it tomorrow. you lost one day not six months.

"but what if i'm wrong?"

YOU WILL BE WRONG YOU FUCKING MORON

difference is i'm wrong in 5 seconds and correct in 10. you're still thinking about maybe being wrong next year while i'm already counting money

my first agency? picked price out of thin air. $5k/month felt insane. someone paid instantly. raised to $10k next day. then $20k. found the ceiling in 3 weeks.

you would've surveyed 100 people and ended up at $2k because that's what the statistics said was "reasonable"

quick math beats perfect math EVERY FUCKING TIME

hiring? meet them, trust your gut, done. "but what about background checks..." shut up. you know in 10 minutes if someone's solid or soft as baby shit. everything else is corporate theater.

launching products? ship at 70% and fix it live. "but what if..." what if you die waiting for perfect? at least i'm getting paid while fixing bugs instead of perfecting something nobody wants.

here's what overthinking really is: FEAR dressed up as intelligence

you're not being thorough. you're being a PUSSY, you want spreadsheets to blame when shit fails instead of owning your decisions like someone who isn't easy to kill

fuck your process.

347 divided by 45? about 7

should i hire this broad? she seems hungry? hired.

should i fire this client? they annoy me? gone.

should i raise prices? feeling poor? doubled.

CLOSE ENOUGH IS GOOD ENOUGH

perfect is for common folk who die with perfect plans. done is for killers who die with results.

i watch people spend 6 months on business plans that are worthless the second reality hits. my business plan was "make money." took 2 seconds. still works.

you know what matters? VELOCITY not accuracy.

100 decisions at 70% accuracy beats 10 decisions at 95% accuracy. because those 100 decisions taught you what actually works while your statistics are still theoretical

my competitors still calculating unit economics while i've tested 20 offers and found the one that prints. they have better spreadsheets. i have better everything else.

quick math principle applies to everything:

relationships? you know in 10 seconds if a broad is worth your time. stop needing 6 months of data to "be sure"

investments? thesis makes sense and founder isn't soft? send it. your due diligence is just procrastination with a fancy name

opportunities? someone offers you something that could work? say yes figure it out later. "but the statistics say..." statistics are for people easy to kill

here's the truth: your best educated guess RIGHT NOW beats your perfect answer NEVER

because while you're calculating, killers are DOING. while you're analyzing statistics, they're creating them. while you're planning, they're already celebrating.

347 divided by 45?

about 7.

good enough.

NEXT.

that's the yegor method. quick math. violent execution. adjust on the fly.

everything else is mental masturbation that common folk use to feel smart while staying broke

my dad could calculate missile impacts in his head but knew "close enough" beats "perfect too late"

a "close enough" nuke skill decimates a city. a nuke that never launches does ZERO

now make that fucking decision you've been sitting on. your gut already knows. stop pretending you need more data.

study the yegor method.

[Osaretin Victor Asemota @asemota]

I’ve learned with time that there is no advice or suggestion you can give an African who can afford a house and is hellbent on buying one to get them to change their mind when there is no chance of fraud or glaring potential losses. You let them learn from first-hand experience, good or bad.

It is also a deep cultural thing. Edo people even have a saying that you can be tempted stupidly to get married, but you can't be led the same way to build a house. They never see acquiring land or a house as a mistake.

A house is a sign of wealth and permanence. Every other asset is seen as ephemeral, especially with the history of bank failures and rampant Ponzi frauds in many economies. Investing in stocks and other assets for capital gains, not dividends, is a fairly new concept to most families.

What many don't realize is that property rights issues in many parts of Africa make real estate ownership almost as risky as other assets. If it is not guaranteed freehold and backed by ironclad documentation, you are taking more risks than you realize.

In Lagos, we have lost 21 plots once because the government revoked the certificates of occupancy. In Accra, we are still in limbo after a family won a 50-year-long court case against the family our property developer got our estate from. It is easily a clusterfuck.

I have learned that no matter the assurances you get, something can still materialize long after you think you have things covered. My father invested a lot in property and lost most of it to traditional shenanigans and violence. I soured towards it very early.

I also have family members who have built and secured fortunes from investing in parts of Lagos and London early enough. The key thing was that they had access to financial institutions and cheap loans.

I typically avoid advisory work related to real estate, but I did a free consult for someone last week. My advice to them was to gather as much information as possible and also look at many options.

A lesson I learned from my best man, who has been a successful real estate investor, is: Never lose your advantage or bargain from a position of weakness. If you feel desperate, take some time to rethink. It has saved me from many calamities and FOMO. Most real estate blunders come from FOMO.

[Osaretin Victor Asemota @asemota]

I was talking with my wife yesterday morning about family and legacy and how things can go completely wrong when you don't think big enough. I was looking at that massive house the Nigerian rich guy built in the 70s and wondering what would have happened if he lived simpler and invested that money in other assets. The thing is, we will never know. He lived his best life and was happy.

In the 80s, a relative spent $900m to build a wood-processing factory in Benin City, largely funded by cash generated from their wood-export business—with very little financing. I don't think that factory is functional today. I only learned yesterday for the first time that he had passed away. His first son left the family business early and broke out on his own. He never really made as much money as his father did. His father was the biggest Edo timber baron.

I still remember visiting them every Christmas with my Dad, and I recall the hold the man had on local politics and the lumber and rubber industry. All of that is gone now; he and my dad have both passed away. Just like wealth, influence is ephemeral.

They made the right move to start processing locally for export after exporting raw lumber and rubber for a while, but things didn't eventually pan out. One particular mistake I think they made was not investing enough in the talent pipeline and depending solely on outsiders. The factory had a lot of technical issues, and their boiler for the wood dryer blew up once.

When it came to capital, they also didn't invest enough in other industries like banking, which was ramping up in Nigeria in the 90s to hedge their bets. Many rich people invested in the young bankers, and it paid off.

Also, unlike Chief Ibru and others, they didn't invest in other countries and in other currencies to hedge against currency risks. In their Benin home in the 90s, my cousins used to boast that they had a “safe of last resort” that held the cash equivalent in Naira of $20 million at the time. If all else failed, the family had that cash to build up from.

Banks were failing in Nigeria at the time, so I understood that ultimately flawed logic. The man was not literate, so he made those kinds of blunders. His son, however, had a PhD, but he left to run his own business.

In contrast to my relatives, when Oceanic Bank was being set up. Chief Ibru wired only a million pounds in to pay for the license. He had diversified wisely. His wife and kids eventually ran the bank, but it is now defunct. So, maybe they both still suffered the same fate.

All of this happened to very wealthy Nigerian families that I know very well within my lifetime. Did I learn lessons from them? I don't know yet. I have been reviewing all I have done in the last two decades, and I don't have $20m cash in a safe and can't yet wire £1m to start a bank.

Chief Ibru told me point blank what to do over 20 years ago. If I had invested in fisheries, as he advised and as the late Emmanuel Ijewere corroborated, would my life have been different? Maybe. Instead, I didn't listen, and I invested in tech startups.

Those startups have created wealth on paper but largely unrealized. One thing is for sure: even when they are realized, I won't be overinvesting in the same asset class again. I don't want to make the mistake of having $20m cash in a safe. This is exactly what digital assets were for me with FTX. I was wiped out. Startup investments aren't that different from crypto or stocks, and they are riskier.

If I survive it all this time around, I will listen to Chief Ibru and sell fish, but maybe in a different “asset-light " way. It is important to read the signs. Learn from the good and avoid the bad. Always be learning.

[👑S.A.L.A.K.O🕊 @UnkleAyo]

I received this DM from a concerned girlfriend and I feel an obligation to share.

If you are able to help or weigh in, please do.

If you can't, please share on your timeline for anyone who is able to. ���

[𝕾𝖎𝖗 𝕮𝖍𝖗𝖎𝖘 @eagleseyeinc]

advice for men, ages 23-29

this is the stage where life stops responding to motivation and starts responding to structure. intelligence alone is no longer enough. passion without direction turns into frustration, and potential without execution becomes another form of wasted time. excuses begin to expire and responsibility quietly takes their place.

you will rarely feel ready. waiting until you feel ready is how years disappear. most of your growth in this phase will come from acting while uncertain, learning while uncomfortable and moving before you have everything figured out.

the people getting ahead are not necessarily smarter or braver. they are simply willing to move while confused.

money becomes louder at this age. not because money suddenly becomes the meaning of life, but because life becomes expensive. your ideas, opinions and ambitions mean very little if you cannot sustain yourself financially. learn skills that solve real problems, create value and generate income. your ability to make yourself useful will become one of your greatest assets.

your friendships will change. some bros will grow with you, some will grow away from you and some will stop growing altogether. do not interpret every distance as betrayal. sometimes people simply become strangers because their lives are heading in different directions. let people evolve without resentment and do not force old relationships to survive new versions of you.

romantic choices also begin to carry consequences. loneliness can make you tolerate people who cost you peace, focus and years. do not confuse chemistry with compatibility or excitement with love. choose someone who brings enough clarity, stability and peace into your life.

love should complement your direction, not constantly compete with it.

discipline will now matter more than motivation. motivation is emotional and unreliable but discipline is quiet and repetitive. it is what keeps you moving when nobody is watching, nothing feels exciting and the results are still invisible.

comparison will try to consume you. social media will make it look like everyone is ahead, richer, happier and more accomplished. remember that you are comparing your full reality to carefully edited pieces of someone else's. you do not see their debts, advantages, support systems, failures or private struggles. build your life instead of competing with an illusion or pixel.

this is also the age when habits begin to become infrastructure. what you repeatedly do now will become increasingly difficult to change later. the things you neglect do not simply disappear, they compound. so do the things you build. your health, skills, relationships, finances, reputation and discipline are all quietly becoming your future.

ages 23-29 are not supposed to look impressive, they are supposed to be intentional. this is the season to build quietly, make mistakes cheaply, learn aggressively, protect your peace and become useful.

you are not behind just because your life has not taken shape yet.

your 20s are laying the foundation.
your 30s will reveal how well you built it.

save, bookmark and share.
buena suerte.

[Yehgha @yaygha]

For almost two decades they sold us a series of myths.

They told us the other guy was the more hardworking and physical athlete because he posted gym photos and ripped his shirt off after scoring.

And that the GOAT was 'just naturally gifted; all talent, and therefore less admirable

They told us the man who shrugged off career ending tackles from malicious defenders, bullied players 6 inches taller with the ball glued to his feet, and powered through entire defences with feline agility was somehow the less physical player.

While the one who would hit the grass if you breathed too close to him was supposedly the embodiment of physicality.

They told us the man who endured back to back int'l final defeats, contemplated retirement, retired, returned, and then *CARRIED a MEDIOCRE* national team to continental and world success lacked tenacity.

While the uber narcissistic man-child who sulked after defeats, dismissed competitions he couldn't win, and went on podcasts to diminish the achievements of his rivals was considered the mentally stronger competitor.

They told us Messi wasn't a leader, that he lacked the mentality to inspire others

And that Ronaldo, the man who claims teammates' goals, rages when they score instead of him, and prioritises personal records over collective success is the superior leader.

For 2 decades reality was undone by illusions, truth submitted to myths, evidence cowered before perception and fugazi prevailed over substance, simply because one man was a better performer, marketer and self-promoter who spent his time curating his personal legend because he knew that was the only way he could be in THE conversation.

There's a lesson somewhere in there; find it

[Kirill @kirillk_web3]

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Bookmark this for the weekend.

14 minutes.
Real architecture.
No fluff.
What actually works.

Agents → Structure → Tools → Execution → Systems → Money

[Hamzah 'Lateef @password_ng]

If you are a security researcher and you need money, leave Nigeria alone and face Hacker1 , yeswehack, and BugCrowd.

If you are interested in helping regardless, we can help you help us by working with @ngwhitehat to get your report to the right quarters and get the necessary acknowledgement.

Don't say you are going dark because they refused to acknowledge you or better still because they did not pay you.

Everyone has experienced this, and it is not that sweet.

While the necessary framework will come, there is a way we have been doing this and we are getting results.

[Myd33n 🤡 {GIRAN} @Mydeen4u]

Hi @victorosimhen9

I gave up my dream to become a professional footballer to pursue a career in cybersecurity.

It has been over 4 years now since i made that decision and there is a professional certification exam (OSCP) that costs $1,749 that i have been wishing to write.

[Myd33n 🤡 {GIRAN} @Mydeen4u]

I'm pinning this post.

No matter how many years it takes, when I successfully get through this phase I'm facing right now, I'll come back to quote this video and I'll be in a happy place then. ❤️

See y'all in the future 🥂

[DarkShadow @darkshadow2bd]

"Sensitive Information Leak & Missing Authorization via API Endpoint"

Join my BugBounty Chennal: https://t.co/LeJHHPweci

- to find info leak bugs in wordpress use my this quick wordlist:
/api/v1/export/data
/api/v1/config
/api/debug/env
/api/v2/auth/sessions
/api/v1/admin/users
/wp-json/wordfence/v1/config
/api/v1/billing/details
/api/v1/db/stats
/api/v1/logs
/api/v1/health
/api/v1/status
/api/v1/internal/settings
/api/v1/cloud/credentials
/api/v1/user/profile
/api/v1/system/info
/api/v1/backup/list
/wp-json/wp/v2/users
/wp-json/wp/v2/settings
/wp-json/wp/v2/media
/wp-json/wp/v2/posts?status=any
/wp-json/wp/v2/pages?status=private
/wp-json/elementor/v1/system-info

[7h3h4ckv157 @7h3h4ckv157]

This repository contain a lot of web and api vulnerability checklist , a lot of vulnerability ideas and tips from twitter 📍

Credit: https://t.co/30Byjw2cWA

[0xadull4m @cyb3radull4m]

I just realized I haven’t put a face behind this account

So, here’s to me introducing myself 🥂

I’m going to be sharing all things bug bounty/Offensive security here.

[Doctor Of The Future™ @g_diets_]

HOW TO READ A FOOD LABEL IN 30 SECONDS

Rule 1:
Ignore the front.
It is advertising.
Turn the product around.

Rule 2:
Read the first 3 ingredients.
They make up the majority.

If sugar, wheat flour, or vegetable oil is in the first three, put it back.

Rule 3:
Count the ingredients.

More than 7 and half sound like chemicals?
It is a product, not food.

Bonus: Hidden sugar names —
Maltodextrin.
Dextrose.
Corn syrup.
Glucose syrup.
Fructose.
Sucrose.
Invert sugar.

All sugar.

Teach your children this.
The ability to read a food label is a survival skill in 2026.

If you want simple, practical guidance on what to actually eat without confusion, send a message on WhatsApp: [phone] for a well-structured meal plan.

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