If you want to learn any course and you do not have the money to pay for it, these websites and apps will get you started completely for free.
The knowledge is free. Learn first, monetize your skills, then you can pay for your certifications later become a professional.
Here are the best free learning platforms right now:
1. freeCodeCamp (freecodecamp. org): completely free, no hidden charges. Covers coding, data analysis, cybersecurity, and more. One of the best on this list.
2. Khan Academy (khanacademy. org): free for everything. Great for building foundations in math, programming, economics, and computing.
3. Alison (alison. com): over 4,000 free courses across tech, business, health, and languages. Free to learn.
4. edX (edx. org): free access to university-level courses from MIT, Harvard, and 200+ institutions. You audit for free.
5. Google Digital Garage (learndigital.withgoogle. com): free courses directly from Google covering data, digital marketing, and career skills.
6. Kaggle (kaggle. com): completely free. The best platform specifically for data science and machine learning practice with real datasets.
Now here are YouTube channels to follow for specific skills:
1. For Cybersecurity: NetworkChuck. Covers hacking, certifications, Linux, and security tools from scratch.
2. Data Analysis: Alex The Analyst. Covers SQL, Python, Excel, and Power BI. One of the most practical channels for beginners.
3. Software Development: Traversy Media. Covers web development, JavaScript, Python, and modern frameworks clearly and practically.
4. AI and Machine Learning: Krish Naik. One of the most followed AI educators on YouTube. Teaches Python, machine learning, and deep learning step by step.
5. Digital Marketing: Neil Patel. Covers SEO, content strategy, social media growth, and online business building.
Learn consistently. Practice what you learn. Build projects. Then when the money starts coming in from your skills, go back and pay for your certifications.
That is when you become untouchable.
Above all, love God.
If you want to live a life that feels like your own, learn to break norms. Be slow when the world is addicted to fast. Don’t follow trends, break them. Go to bed early. Watch 3 hour talks. Read books for hours at a time. Watch the entire movie, without taking a break. Go for long walks just with your thoughts. Avoid drama. Keep your life private. Get bored. Let your imagination return. Most people are anxious, distracted, and disconnected from themselves. The opposite of brain rot is deep attention. In a world designed to distract you, focus is an act of rebellion.
The first gift is life. The second gift is good health.
The third gift is to love and be loved. The fourth gift is peace of mind.
There are no other gifts that matter as much.
The fifth gift is having the wisdom to know what to appreciate most.
There's a free tool that tells you exactly which businesses need a freelancer right now.
Not job boards. Not Upwork.
Most freelancers have heard of it but dont use it...
Here's how to use it to land clients this week 👇
How To Talk With Various Types Of People
1. WITH TALKATIVE PEOPLE
Just listen, they need to be heard, not lectured
2. WITH QUIET PEOPLE
Respect their silence, it has meaning
3. WITH KNOW-IT-ALLS
Just smile, no need to prove who’s right
4. WITH SENSITIVE PEOPLE
Choose gentle words; the wrong tone can hurt
5. WITH ARROGANT PEOPLE
Don’t show off, your calmness is already enough to affect them
6. WITH SELFISH PEOPLE
Set boundaries, don’t waste energy on them
7. WITH HUMBLE PEOPLE
Learn quietly, their wisdom isn’t flaunted
10 Network Engineer Project Ideas for Beginners & Experts
1. Build a Home Network Lab with VirtualBox/GNS3/EVE-NG
2. Design and Configure a Small Office Network (VLANs + Subnets)
3. Implement Inter-VLAN Routing on a Layer 3 Switch
4. Simulate OSPF Routing Between Multiple Routers
5. Configure and Test Static vs Dynamic Routing (RIP/OSPF/EIGRP)
6. Build a Secure Network with ACLs (Access Control Lists)
7. Set Up NAT/PAT for Internet Access in a Lab Environment
8. Monitor Network Traffic Using Wireshark (Deep Packet Analysis)
9. Configure DHCP, DNS, and Basic Network Services from Scratch
10. Build a Simple Enterprise Network and Troubleshoot Failures End-to-End
Networking is not theory — it’s repetition, failure, and fixing broken links.
THE INTERNET GAVE EVERYONE ACCESS TO KNOWLEDGE AND MOST PEOPLE USE IT FOR MEMES:
1. Learn a new language free on Duolingo or YouTube in 20 minutes daily
2. Take MIT OpenCourseWare classes the same content Ivy League students get
3. Watch one TED talk a week from a field completely outside your own
4. Find a mentor on LinkedIn most people are willing to talk if you ask right
5. Use AI tools to learn faster not to think less
6. Join global online communities around skills you want to build
7. Listen to podcasts from the world's best thinkers during your commute
8. Build something publicly and let the internet give you honest feedback
9. Teach what you know online teaching forces deeper understanding than reading
10. Read long form articles and essays not just headlines and hot takes
11. Follow researchers scientists and authors not just influencers and entertainers
12. Save content that challenges your thinking not just content that agrees with you
As a freelancer, I had to learn:
Video editing
AI & Automation
Lead generation
Email Marketing
Virtual Assistance
Project management
E-commerce automation
Social Media Management
Customer support systems
Data analytics & reporting
CRM setup & optimization
Freelancing pushes you to new extremes because you have to adapt. Give it a try, it's extremely rewarding.
1. 30% of your income must go strictly to savings. No exceptions.
2. If you earn ₦200k monthly, live like someone earning ₦100k.
3. Your monthly income (or 1.5 months’ income at most) should cover your annual rent. Earning ₦200k but paying above ₦300k in rent is a financial crime. Stop it.
4. Once you start making money, don’t rush to build a house. Buy land and let it sit if you must.
5. K*!ll that urge to lift every single family member out of poverty. You can’t. You won’t. Focus on securing yourself first.
6. Never invest just because people are shouting about it. Do your own research. Only put money into what you fully understand and believe in.
7. Buy a car and stay mobile before you even think of building a house. Building should be the very last thing on your list; only when you have more than enough. If you have ₦80M, don’t spend ₦50M on a house. You will regret it.
Above all, love God.
Once ₦50M land your account from crypto this year…Make I tell you truth wey nobody go ever tell you:
₦50M big… but e no be “I don hammer for life” money.
One bad decision… one fake investment… one round of “soft life” , you fit reset back to zero quietly like say you nor see am at all.
1. Lock like ₦15M for MMF (12–15%) You go see like ₦150K–₦180K monthly.
No be flex… but e go keep your head above water.
2. Carry like ₦5M test catfish farming. But no do like Twitter farmer… go learn am well. Fish no dey pity anybody.
3. Start small thrift (okrika) business , ₦2M to ₦3M
Select good bale, target your market, sell online + offline
(Clothes move fast if you sabi pick well.)
4. Abeg forget Lexus for now.
Buy correct, reliable motor ₦5M–₦7M. Movement first, not impression. You fit even Buy Ladies Bike and keep some change.
5. Buy like 2 Plots of land ₦6M–₦8M. House fit wait. Land no dey run.
6. Keep ₦5M aside as cash, Because Nigeria go humble you when you no expect am.
7. Put ₦4M–₦5M for business
(Your main idea — but start small, no rush burn money.)
8. Support your parents ₦1M–₦2M. Do wetin you fit, no go pressure yourself.
9. Keep like ₦3M for opportunities, because real money dey hide for things you never plan.
Make I talk am as e be:
₦50M no go free you.
E just give you chance.
If you no build steady income,
this money go finish… slow and silent. Also, learn to say NO to unnecessary expenses.
No be curse , na lifestyle.
Are you learning?
Software & Apps that I can’t live without as a Software Developer (Part 2) 👨🏽💻👩🏽💻✨
1. Claude
I have grown really fond of Claude lately. Makes coding and especially debugging easier and faster
2.Webmail
First software I open every day I arrive for work. Read emails and respond to clients.
3. TikTok
Chances are you’re reading this on TikTok right now. One of my fave social platform. Has given us loads of clients too 😊
4. Weadown
Where you can get WordPress themes and plugins for FREE.
PS: You didn’t hear it from me oooo 👀
5. YouTube
YouTube just has to be the greatest apps of all time. First place I go to if I need to learn about a new skill/concept.
6. ChatGPT
Even though I use Claude and Copilot for work, ChatGPT helps in my everyday personal life. So yeah it has to make the list.
7. YouTube Music
Name me a better combo than Code + Music. None right? Okay then.
And yeah, algorithm wise, YT music clears Spotify by far.
8. CapCut
I specifically use CapCut for my content creation. Easy to use.
9. Google Meet
Where I collaborate with my team. Half the time I’m screaming “can you hear me?” btw
10. Shopify
Second best CMS after WordPress
11. NordVPN
Don’t ask me for what 👀
12.Opay
Should have been number 1 right?
Cos how else would I take payments?
13. Pycharm
Second best code editor after Visual studio code
Bro to bro: do you know that a 50kg bag of cement will conveniently lay 50 blocks?
A bag of cement now is at N12,500,
Labour for laying a block as at today is averaging N150.00 per block.
For 50 blocks: 150 x 50 = N7,500.
Back to our sample:
For a standard 4 bedroom bungalow:
4,500 blocks will require: 4,500/50 = 90 bags of cement.
Which will cost: 90 x 12500 = N1,125,000
Labour will cost: 4500 x 150 = N675,000
Total for cement and Labour: 1,125,000 + 675,000 = N1,800,000.00
Have you started planning your building?
“Someone” is too vague.
20-30 years old: Find a very good job in a place where you can get leverage to buy assets. Get married, save together. The other option is to start a business early but know that 99% of the time, it will die but the experience will be valuable.
30-40: Start thinking of starting a business from what you have learned. Find partners, mentors, funders.
40+ Enter politics.
Seriously, after 40 wealth is more about connections than effort. This is the time you cash in on relationships built over time.
Wealth is about relationships and compounding the benefits of those relationships. No matter how brilliant you are, nothing will bring you wealth if you don’t build relationships.
Friends have always opened the doors for me and recommended me to rooms where I made money from.
A man spends 50 years teaching at MIT.
He knows his time is running out.
So he records one last lecture — everything he knows, distilled into a single hour.
He died 5 months later.
This is that lecture.
The most important hour you'll watch this week. 👇
Bookmark it for later
Russia tried to control him , France arrested him . But He still didn't hand over a single user's data. 🤯
> Meet Pavel Durov.
> Born in Saint Petersburg, Russia.
> Studied linguistics at Saint Petersburg State University.
> In 2006, at just 22 years old — built VKontakte.
> Russia's answer to Facebook. From his dorm room.
> Grew it to 100 million users. Became a billionaire.
> Then the Kremlin came knocking.
> Demanded he hand over data of Ukrainian pro-democracy activists.
> He said no. Publicly. 💀
> Posted a photo of a dog in a hoodie as his official response to the government.
> Putin's allies started taking over VKontakte by force.
> In 2014 he sold his stake and fled Russia overnight.
> Left everything behind. His company. His country. His life.
> Became stateless. Literally no country. No home.
> Wandered through Europe, Caribbean islands, UAE with just a backpack.
> Said "I am an alien. I carry four passports."
> But before leaving Russia he had already built Telegram.
> Built it specifically so no government could ever read your messages.
> Russia tried to ban Telegram in 2018. The ban lasted two years.
> Telegram survived. Russia gave up. 🚀
> France and UAE governments secretly hacked his iPhone in 2017. Code named "Purple Music."
> He found out. Didn't stop.
> Telegram crossed 1 billion users.
> Then in August 2024 France arrested him at Le Bourget Airport.
> Stepping off his private jet. In broad daylight.
> 12 criminal charges. Unprecedented in tech history.
> The entire internet erupted. Elon Musk. Edward Snowden. Free speech activists worldwide.
> Sat in French custody for days. Didn't break.
> France accused him. Russia claimed him. UAE sheltered him.
> He belongs to none of them.
> Telegram posted $540 million in profit in 2024 while its CEO was under arrest. 🚀
> Travel ban lifted in 2025.
> Accused French intelligence of trying to censor political voices in Romania. Refused.
> Still fighting. Still building. Still won't bow.
> Said "I'd rather be free and stateless than rich and controlled."
> Every government wanted to own him. None of them could. Absolute legend. 🔥