This was too useful to lose in the timeline, so I put everything in one link (also for the lazy ones like me 😅)
Here
https://t.co/gglojtb5Sp
You'll find links to the hiring sheet, email templates, job update groups, and more, all in one place
Huge credit to Halo for this ❤️
These are executives and industry leaders whose work, achievements, and contributions recorded significant success during the year under review, while advancing the growth and direction of the industry;
1. @abuchiipeter
2. Olukorede 'Kay' Ikazoboh
3. @melvinthewave
Read full article here https://t.co/DdxrzaNlJO
You can’t easily con your way into cashing a ₦50K cheque in any commercial bank.
But we are meant to believe one man, created a fictitious govt agency, appointed himself to lead it, secured office space at the federal secretariat, successfully opened a CBN account, met with high ranking legislative officers, was hosted by the EFCC chairman, met with diplomats, and even got said fictitious agency a hefty allocation in the president’s budget.
And somehow, he managed to hoodwink everyone at every point in the process and also pulled it off alone. He did it all by himself.
This is the story the Tinubu presidency wants Nigerians to believe.
How do you look me in the eye and tell me to believe in this president?
What level of shamelessness and disgrace.
What a disaster!
Ansem @blknoiz06 is 100% correct. I don’t trade crypto, but the same rules apply across every asset class. Trading is a dangerously addictive activity.
In 2023, I advised on an oil & gas transaction and earned a decent fee from
It. Same deal took over 18 months to close before I got paid. I then deployed 90% of that fees that took me 18 months to earn into the financial markets and it returned 4x in under 9 months lmao.
The problem however with fast money is that it rewires your brain and makes every opportunity look urgent and that’s exactly how people lose everything just as quickly as they made it.
The real edge IMO is discipline to not constantly be in the market. Have a regular job or something that keeps you busy enough to sit on your hands and only pull the trigger when the setup is genuinely high probability.
So far this year, I’ve made only 3 trades.
2 wins (WTI, HIMS)
1 loss (Snap)
and I’m actually more than happy to close the year like this 😂
H1—
- Took a break from my PhD.
- Started a new role where I am designing the future of agentic commerce
- Moved cities.
- Started 1000Reasons. All-time traffic hit ~400k
- Won the Nossrat Yassini Poetry Prize — $10k
- The Years of Blood named a NYPL Best New Poetry Book of 2026
- Pushed the publication of my second book to 2029
- Published The Years of Blood in Nigeria (now sold out)
- Launched the Arole Agarawu Prize which awards $2k for Black and African Poets
- Left The Rumpus
- Building an agentic chatbot for the future of the Nigerian Civil tech
- Started building Portico, the OS for the opportunity layer of the world
- Launched CD Agency, your content design CLI
- Building a content design internal tooling system for my team at work
Super H1. I’ll go to bed tonight and try again when I wake up.
For Poetry, Content Design and Country
Ugh creatives need to learn a thing or two from the tech founders😩
A fintech bro will change a button on his app from blue to purple & run a Tech Cabal interview about it, then do photoshoot & write a 3pg LinkedIn post too 😭
Creatives are busy ‘waiting for the right time’ LOL
These ‘2025 Power List’ honorees are the people shaping one of the most important cultural movements of this era in Nigerian music. They constantly and consistently create viral moments, make critical decisions for chart dominance, build opportunities, and lay the foundation for long-term success
1. Okafor Chidera
2. @caleb5g
3. @bevshmoney
Read full article here https://t.co/DdxrzaNlJO
That video was really difficult to watch, the framing, the impassioned comment, the subtle shielding of the president from his responsibility.
Is it tribalism or old age because I am lost for words. Same thing Wole Soyinka did too. Yoruba elders across spectrum really are not objective about this man’s leadership and Lord have mercy because the unraveling is unnerving.
What about people who have lost loved ones, what do we say to them, that the President has done his part and so should be absolved of any responsibility ?
One of the best way to think about branding & brand strategy I know comes from @feyiolubodun
He says to treat branding like a burger, where messaging & identity is just the top bun. In the middle, you have customer service, and everything sits on product & value chain innovation