Adedeji Damilola

F.C Barcelona 💙❤️ | Lover of Christ | Calm Thoughts | Football & Life Lessons | Learning, Growing, Sharing | 🇳🇬

[Adedeji Damilola @deeadedeji]

I’m not the loudest person in the room but I notice a lot.

I love football, I think deeply, and I’m learning life one step at a time.

I’ll be sharing lessons from both.

If you’re growing quietly, you’ll like it here.

[Adedeji Damilola @deeadedeji]

@OjoawoAnuoluwa2 The Almighty will ease your affairs at this time of grief. Please stay strong.

[Adedeji Damilola @deeadedeji]

@__Nnamdi_ Samuel Eto'o

[Adedeji Damilola @deeadedeji]

@Sage_FCB We all know this is not true.

[Adedeji Damilola @deeadedeji]

@AnkurMessi_ This is not a bad performance at all. You can do better

[Adedeji Damilola @deeadedeji]

@dharmmyjadass1 Happy birthday brother. You are blessed beyond measures.

[Joseph Brendan @Joe_brendan_]

All my students qualify for this

[Joseph Brendan @Joe_brendan_]

https://t.co/pQm09kUoT8

[Adedeji Damilola @deeadedeji]

@dharmmyjadass1 @asher_kine No be lie my brother 😃

[Adedeji Damilola @deeadedeji]

@dharmmyjadass1 @asher_kine 😀 baba you even write location join

[Joseph Brendan @Joe_brendan_]

The Body Wants To Die

Separate your body from your mind
Use your mind more to control and pressure the body

The body has one goal which is to die.
The body don't mind dying tomorrow. that is its goal

That's why the body won't act like it wants to die when you are eating junk and not exercising. but the moment you start exercising or start eating right, the body begins to panic like it wants to off.

The body wants to die.
Use your mind to prolong the date of death for the body.
Use your mind to put it under pressure and deprivations. that's the only hope the body has to stay long

Separate your body from your mind even if you want to make money. Your body will reject all the hard work needed to make money. Don't allow it

Its a war between you and your flesh

[Joseph Brendan @Joe_brendan_]

UI UX Designers,

You have learnt how to vibecode with prompts
But that alone cannot get you a Job

➡️What happens when two people click the same button at the same time
➡️What happens when the payment webhook fires three times instead of one
➡️What stops someone who skips your form and hits your API directly
➡️How you rename a column without wiping live customer data
➡️What your users see when a third party API goes down
➡️Why the app is fast with 50 rows and dead at 50,000

You need to show clear understanding of these things for you to be able to take on that Product Engineering role or even solo-build something stable

Check my pinned tweet

[Ajit kumar @ajitcodes]

Stop telling Claude, "do this."
Stop telling Claude, "write code."
Stop telling Claude, "fix this error."

You're actually treating a senior AI like a junior intern.
Here are 8 prompts you can copy and paste directly:

[The Tonight Show @FallonTonight]

Jimmy breaks down the viral photo of Messi and baby Yamal ahead of the @FIFAWorldCup Finals 👀 #FallonTonight #FIFAWorldCup

[Joseph Brendan @Joe_brendan_]

You Are Scared

Scared of amounting to nothing
Scared of dying too early
Scared of being poor
Scared of taking the wrong path
Scared of losing your parents
Scared of being rejected

You are scared everyday you wake up and you even sleep scared

God will come through

[Douglas Kendyson @KendysonD]

Hi @jidesanwoolu, @hanneymusawa

I'm deeply disappointed in your @lirs_govng team hounding Selar in the name of claiming creator royalty taxes. I turn 30 in Oct and I've spent the last 10 years building Selar, so this is what the youth mean by policies being created to crush growing businesses. We are the pioneering and largest creator company in Nigeria (Africa actually), and instead of being supported by the government, the LIRS team is keen on trying to scapegoat us to set a precident.

Beyond the huge numbers seen in the headlines, we are still a young company just trying to make our mark for the creator economy in a country where we've never been supported once, we're literally a bootstrapped company. In 2025 alone, we've fulfilled our tax obligation in almost 9 figures and we've never missed out on any of our tax obligation over the years. You can check the records.

We are a software company, we make our ecommerce software available to our thousands of creators in not just Nigeria but 13 other African countries and for that, we earn a small commission of 4%, most of which goes to our payment provider. This is the same business as shopify, teachable, e.t.c There is no reason LIRS is hounding us for a backdated 5% royalty fee on all sales when we've clearly explained our line of business to them and shared everything to prove we are not a royalty based business.

What they're asking us to do is raise our pricing to extort these funds from our creators which is odd considering our creators still pay taxes on their income. No creator company in the world charges as high as even 5%.

Also, less payment gateway charges we get 1-3% max, so where do we pay backdated 5% fees from?

The government would have to decide if it wants the Nigerian creative economy to grow or not.

This conversation is important to me because we pioneered this industry of monetizing digital products online in Nigeria and today we host over 400k creators selling using our platform.

This is an opportunity for the government to show it's committment to making Nigeria work for young Nigerians especially in the creator economy.

Time and money we should be spending investing into our business and it's growth for the GDP of this nation is being spent in long back and forth.

We can't catch up with the west if this is what we're facing at home. Above everything else, disputes like this are distracting from the real work.

If anything, for all our CSR contributions to the education system in the country with our Smart Hustle Anti fraud initiative and our other efforts, we should be getting tax rebates, but we're not even asking for anything but to be left alone to build our business.

Thank you.

[Joseph Brendan @Joe_brendan_]

Here are some common mistakes we make as humans

- We think there's enough time. Take your decisions based on the belief that time is limited

- We worry about what people will say and how they will see us. Stop worrying about that. Those people will die eventually. What they will say or think is irrelevant.

- We refuse to accept that we are supposed to be wiser and more knowledgeable than our parents. Africa's excessive humility culture is making us stagnant. Your parents are mostly outdated. Accept it but honor them

- We become adults and still fall for peer pressure. You better realize that misery loves company. Your friend, sibling, colleague will mostly want you to make the same decision they made whether it's good for them or not. People get validation for their mistakes when others make it

[Joseph Brendan @Joe_brendan_]

Who the Builders track is for:

- You want a skill companies & founders actually PAY for
- You want to build real products with AI & AI agents, not toy demos
- You want 5 focused weeks, not 6 scattered months
- You are done watching tutorials

Limited seats. Check the post below

[vœð⚡️ @voed_dd]

Please, I’m begging you to read this.

My senior brother has been very sick for over a month .
His kidneys have failed and his whole body started swelling badly.

3 years ago we lost our dad.
Our mom left us when we were still very young.
So it’s just been me and my brother

[Joseph Brendan @Joe_brendan_]

2 Tracks
Know which one you are:

BUILDERS TRACK: learn to build real products with AI & AI agents. Companies & founders pay for this skill.

FOUNDERS TRACK: build, launch LIVE, make money, get a Techcabal spotlight, build your visa case.

Check the post below to sign up

[Joseph Brendan @Joe_brendan_]

Nigerian small businesses cannot pay 1k USD for a website

And as a website builder or designer that's starting out or even established, you cannot only look out for companies that will pay over 1k USD for a website

The number of companies that will pay you 1k USD for a website(marketing or portfolio) has reduced drastically by at least 70% since AI

If you want to charge above 1k USD easily for a project, then it has to be an app, strategy, funnels for sales etc. your value must cross the bare minimum line

As a starting designer, even if you get to vibe code a website for 200k, do it and put in your best efforts to deliver quality

Those 200k websites will be your portfolio and proof of work for a 1k USD website.

Also if you can have 2 small businesses in Nigeria pay you 200k for a vibe coded design and website every month

You are in the Top 5% of earners in Nigeria