@BukkyOA While others are waiting for the perfect time.
Some people are already making moves and putting themselves out there!
I feel thatâs what separate winners from others and if you can really work on your mindset and believe in yourself then nothing is impossible.
Canât lie to you. If you donât make a move, you will see literal clowns race past you. Clowns.
Nothing concern life with âI am a smart, educated, experienced personâ.
You donât act, you remain there.
The very moment your life will change is when it dawns on you that thereâs really no competition. 99% of the people youâre competing with WILL NEVER do the bare minimum. Most of the remaining 1% will do the bare minimum.
If you will dare to go the extra mile even once, you will laugh at life.
it is an unwritten rule of life that after every prolonged period of hardship and uncertainty, there is going to be a period when you are going to achieve quantum leaps across multiple areas of your life. the only requirement is that you do not give up on yourself.
For context, my Daddy is my bestfriend. Gonna make a threadâ€ïž. I pray Allah fills his heart with peace, joy, and comfort, and remind him that no distance or new chapter could ever change the love I have for him
Brother, I hear you. Siblings counting on you hits different. That's not pressure. That's purpose. Let it drive you.
Let me put you through what my experience taught me:
Stop searching job boards. Start going where decisions are made.
The founders, CPOs and cofounders hiring AI product engineers right now aren't posting on Indeed. They're building in public and looking for people who think like them.
Where to spend most of your time:
1. LinkedIn is your boardroom.
Search: "AI product" + "founder" + "building" filter by posted this week. Don't apply. Engage their content first for 2 weeks. Comment sharp insights. Then DM with a specific problem you noticed in their product and how you'd solve it. That's your application.
2. X is your pitch room.
Follow every YC founder, AI startup CPO and product lead actively posting. Engage their threads with real thinking. Not "great post." Actually add value. They notice. They check profiles. Make yours undeniable.
3. YC company directory.
Go to https://t.co/Rr2EbWGXdt. Filter by AI. Find companies in growth stage. Find the founder on LinkedIn or X. Reach out directly. Skip HR entirely.
4. Wellfound (formerly AngelList)
This is where early stage AI startups actually hire. Create a strong profile. Message founders directly through the platform. Not recruiters. Founders.
5. Discord and Slack communities.
Find AI builder communities. Buildspace. AI Tinkerers. Latent Space. Show up consistently. Help people solve problems. Opportunities come from reputation not resumes.
The pitch that works:
Don't say "I'm looking for work."
Say: "I noticed your product does X. Here's how I'd improve the onboarding to reduce drop off in week one."
Specific. Valuable. Impossible to ignore.
Your apps scaling is the proof. Talk about what you're building publicly.
Post your learnings on X and LinkedIn weekly. Founders hire people they've been watching think out loud.
You're not job hunting. You're making yourself unavoidable to the right people.
Family depending on you means you can't afford to play small.
Go where the decisions are made. Show up every single day. That's the strategy.
You've got this. đ
Millennials, it's time to choose your midife crisis
1. Date a 23 year old
2. Quit drinking and become insufferable about it
3. Double down on drinking
4. Train for a marathon nobody asked about
5. Have a panic baby (with wife you hate)
6. "We're opening the relationship" (she bangs)
7. Get divorced
8. Get diagnosed with adult ADHD/autism
9. Niche side quests like rock climbing, hyrox, gardening, handstands
Don't give up. Try everything. Exhaust every option. Knock on every door. Ask and ask again. Keep going even when you're tired. Be pertinacious with your efforts, your thoughts, your prayers, your kindness, your love, your work. You are incredibly capable.
âIf you haven't read hundreds of books, you are functionally illiterate, and you will be incompetent, because your personal experiences alone aren't broad enough to sustain you.â
â James N. Mattis
@YawMintYM Three red cards in the World Cup opener and Derrick Luckassen is somewhere watching like a proud father.
72 yellow cards and 12 reds in his career... at this point, referees don't carry cards for discipline, they carry them just in case Derrick shows up.
The quicker you act on realizing you have to attack life, not let it happen to you, the quicker you enjoy this journey versus wasting it on stress, anxiety, and worry
A minister went live on national television, visibly excited that he had finally found a âgotcha momentâ against ordinary Ghanaians.
Why? Because a draft bill was published on the ministryâs official website, then quietly revised four different times through closed-door meetings without properly communicating any of those changes to the public.
After that, he confidently says:âšâThe old bill is dead. You people are online criticizing a dead bill. You donât have the updated bill.â As if secrecy, poor communication, and public confusion are achievements.
You are pushing 15 digital bills that will affect millions of citizens, businesses, creators, and young people, yet the public engagement has been chaotic from the beginning. Instead of transparency, accountability, and respect, citizens are being mocked on live TV for reacting to the only version they were officially given access to.
Leadership is not a game of catching citizens off guard. If people are confused, the failure is in communication, not in the public asking questions. This is not it.
Ghana is failing us.