Taiwo Adegoke

Software Engineer | Researcher | Data Analyst | CFC fan | MSc (Software Engineering).

I enjoy learning and teaching, but not as much as Coding.

[Taiwo Adegoke @Dee_Programmer]

@AskMichaelTaiwo Thanks for this 🙏.

I will try and modify it to work for advertised fully funded PhD scholarship as well.

[Taiwo Adegoke @Dee_Programmer]

@AskMichaelTaiwo Absolutely 💯

The last paragraph sum it all.

"Leadership is not about titles. It is about showing up where nobody expects you and doing the work nobody asked you to do."

[Michael Taiwo @AskMichaelTaiwo]

I was the only Black person and the only man on my kids' PTA board.

Nobody asked me to join. I showed up.

Ran it like a company. Applied the same discipline I use at work. Learned more about nonprofits in that room than in any boardroom.

That PTA experience shaped how I run the MT Scholarships today.

Leadership is not about titles. It is about showing up where nobody expects you and doing the work nobody asked you to do.

[Taiwo Adegoke @Dee_Programmer]

@AskMichaelTaiwo Thanks so much for this.

I just shared it with my manager, and he really appreciate it.
This is exactly the state of thing at my place of work, staff always reach out to the manager for every petty things even during the off days.

[Michael Taiwo @AskMichaelTaiwo]

A manager who answers every question becomes the team's favourite bottleneck.

It feels helpful at first. People bring a problem, you solve it, work continues. Soon, nobody decides without you. Your calendar fills. Their judgment weakens.

The better question is not always, 'What should we do?'

Ask, 'What do you recommend, and why?'

Let people bring a view, not only a problem. Correct the reasoning where needed. Make clear which decisions require approval and which ones they own.

Leadership is not proving that you can carry every box. It is designing a system in which the boxes keep moving when you leave the room.

[Olumuyiwa Igbalajobi, Ph.D @olumuyiwaayo]

Over the last week, I reviewed more than 7,000 words of Mastercard Foundation Scholars Program essays from three of my mentees, and a few key lessons stood out.

Many applicants are talented. They have strong academic backgrounds, leadership experiences, and meaningful community impact. However, the difference between a good application and a competitive one often comes down to strategy.

[Ademola @Demo4show]

1. ✅️ Rehearse discussing your research experience. Do not do this in your head. Practice speaking it out loud.

2. ✅️ Have a 10 slides backup that contains your academic and research experience and my graduate research interest. If you have any award. Please show it. Sell yourself.

3. ✅️ Read about the professors work. Check his research website and recent work.

4. ✅️ Prepared 2-3 meaningful questions.

5. ✅️ Write the prof a thank you email following the discussion and reaffirming you zeal to join his lab and contribute to their work.

6. ✅️ Never ever be afraid during an interview or shaking or having a trembling voice. Be confident and sharp. This is where proper preparation comes in.

[Michael Taiwo @AskMichaelTaiwo]

In World War II, the American military had a deadly problem. Too many bombers were not coming home.

So they studied the planes that did return, mapped every bullet hole, and prepared to add armour where the holes clustered thickest. The wings. The tail. The body.

A statistician named Abraham Wald stopped them.

Put the armour where there are no holes, he said. The engines. The cockpit.

They were stunned. Why reinforce the parts that were never getting hit?

Because, Wald explained, the planes hit in the engine never made it back to be studied. The survivors in that room were the lucky ones the engine shots had missed.

They had been reading the data of the winners and drawing the opposite of the right lesson.

We do this all the time.

We study the founder who dropped out and got rich, and never count the thousands who dropped out and vanished. We copy the visible survivors and call it a strategy.

The most important information in your life is often the data that never survived to reach you.

Before you copy a winner, ask a harder question. Who is missing from this room, and why.

[Taiwo Adegoke @Dee_Programmer]

@FeranmiFerary Hi Dr.

Can I DM you in regards to this and graduate application related questions?

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Pls RT 🙏 Somebody on your TL really needs this.

[Taiwo Adegoke @Dee_Programmer]

Some blessings are not well appreciated until you see someone struggling to achieve it 🙏

[Taiwo Adegoke @Dee_Programmer]

@WithBukky I am interested in collaboration.

I focused on XAI, Health Analytics and Trustworthy AI in healthcare.

[Taiwo Adegoke @Dee_Programmer]

@Oluwapeluademii @Demo4show Can you kindly share me the format of the email or perhaps refer me to the post.

Thanks in anticipation 🙏

[Osaretin Victor Asemota @asemota]

Guy: Oga, I am getting married in Enugu and sending you an invitation.

Me: Congratulations! The only thing is that I won't make it as I hardly travel to Nigeria.

Guy: Oga, I know but you can send your transport fare.

I am still wondering how to respond. We are acquaintances and not close friends. He did something for me once and I was grateful. I am in his debt but this is unexpected.

If I was not going to be there, why should I send transport fare? I would prefer to help in another way and in kind. Wedding registries need to become more popular.

This brings another issue of the obligations friends and family impose without considering that you may have not included them in your plans and budgets. Any contingency budgeting I do is for medical emergencies and not needless events.

I have a policy of not doing any funeral contributions anymore. They have also stopped adding me on WhatsApp groups for those things.

One friend made me the Chairman of his Catholic church’s harvest twice. I have never been to the church. I warned him the third time he tried it and stopped giving.

I prefer to give with joy rather than to give with a grudge. I have far too many family obligations already to do charity. My closest friends know and understand this. Some even sent me money recently when they heard that I had surgery and was at home. I didn't ask them for it but I was very grateful. They know I would do much more for them when I can.

“Nothing impoverishes a man faster than unbridled generosity” - Prof Osuide.

[Michael Taiwo @AskMichaelTaiwo]

The first big money I earned, I gave a large chunk away before I spent a kobo on myself.

People thought it was reckless. I thought it was the point.

To this day the biggest line item in my personal finances is not rent or tax. It is giving.

I am not telling you this to impress you. I am telling you because it is the single habit I would hand to my younger self first.

My money has never really felt like mine. I am just a custodian.

To grow, you have to learn to let go.

[Taiwo Adegoke @Dee_Programmer]

@OptaAnalyst Interestingly...

The four countries had the letter 'A' and 'R' in common while the three hat-trick scorers also had the letter 'A', 'N' and 'E' in common as well in their names.

[Taiwo Adegoke @Dee_Programmer]

@RedHatPentester Wow 😲,

I can't believe this is the same Carlos Queiroz which was mentioned and highly respected by Sir Alex Ferguson in his autobiography.

He once managed Real Madrid after leaving Manchester United before returning back again to work with Ferguson.

[Taiwo Adegoke @Dee_Programmer]

@UgochukwuCFR Just like how Arsenal can't relate to winning the UCL like the teams you mentioned (all have won it at least once).

[A.Y.O @YusufAsunmogejo]

Dear Parents,

Let me share a secret with you. I pray it benefits you.

After my post on the anatomical psychology of a child yesterday, I received some questions about how to help children who struggle to focus on their studies and what parents can do to help them. If your child or your children is struggling academically, or lose focus easily, then this post is for you.

What you are likely seeing is a child who starts a task but wanders off. You might see them staring at a book for an hour without remembering a single line. It is easy to think they are being lazy, but what you ought to see is a mind where the internal powers are not connected.

The Almighty God in the Quran mentions the Nasiyah in Surah Al-Alaq (96:15) as the place of decision and control. Science has shown this to be the prefrontal cortex, the part behind the forehead.

In Kitab al-Shifa, Ibn Sina identified a power box called Al-Quwwah al-Mutakhayyilah (the Composative Imagination). This power is the pilot of the brain. Its job is to take information and turn it into focused thought. When focus is gone, the bridge is broken.

To help them overcome this problem, you can use a mental drill called Reverse Narrating (RN). Reverse Narrating is a modern concept, but, it has root in our religion too.

The principle behind RN is deeply anchored in the works of Abu Zayd al-Balkhi. He is considered the father of Islamic psychology. In his book Masalih al-Abdan wa al-Anfus (Sustenance of the Soul), he talked about Riyadat al-Nafs (disciplining the mind). He taught that the mind needs specific "mental rehearsals" to regain control over wandering thoughts.

This mental rehearsals through reverse narrating is what you should adopt going forward because it forces the brain to reorganize information in a way that is not natural.

Here is how you can do it:

1.Ask your child what they are doing right this moment (when you call them).
2.Ask them what they did ten minutes before that.
3.Keep asking what happened before each step, moving backward through the day.
4.Continue until they reach the moment they woke up in the morning.

Do you know what you have done? You have just forced the Mutakhayyilah of your child to work in overdrive to pull data from the memory and flip it.

What this does is that It strengthens the pilot seat in their forehead. If you do this for a few minutes every evening, you would be building the mental glue your child needs to stay on a task. This is how struggling children improve their mental power and succeed in their studies. GIVE IT A TRY.

Allah knows best.

[Taiwo Adegoke @Dee_Programmer]

@JetroOlowole @AskMichaelTaiwo I can't agree less with your submission.

With that amount of public repository they have access to, even before the birth of AI, they should be the leader any day and any time in any AI related products and not just Gemini alone.