When the time is right, I, the Lord, will make it happen (Isaiah 60:22).
We just won $100,000 at the Build with Gemini XPRIZE and I am so overwhelmed.
When the competition started we kept asking ourselves what we should build, and eventually I asked, what about Nigeria? I thought about my mum, who has been a tailor for more than 30 years and practically raised my twin sister and me on that income. It was hard sometimes, because her customer base was so small, and she would often wait weeks before a customer paid for a completed job. In Nigeria this is a huge problem for a population where most of the employment sector is made up of artisans. So we built MyFixam, the marketplace where you can find and book verified artisans and pay straight on the app.
The competition had more than 26,000 participants and 1,400 projects. On Friday I pitched live at Moonshot Live, the Oscars for optimism, in front of more than 1,500 people, to judges Cathie Wood, Palmer Luckey, Mark Pincus, Anousheh Ansari and Logan Kilpatrick. To make it to the top 3, I am more than grateful.
Thank you @xprize, @GeminiApp and @PeterDiamandis.
๐จ Erling Haaland reveals his conversation with Cristiano Ronaldo ahead of Norway vs Portugal:
โI spoke with Cristiano yesterday. I told him, โYou know, when I was younger, you were actually quite annoying.โ
He looked at me and said, โWhy?โ
I said, โBecause every season I would watch you score 50, 60 goals and you made it look normal. When youโre a kid watching that, you start thinking this is what a striker is supposed to do.โ
He smiled and said, โGood. It worked.โ
I told him, โNow I understand it wasnโt normal.โ
He said, โNo. Now you understand because people expect it from you too.โ
That stayed with me.
We spoke about goals, pressure, defenders and how strange football is. Ten years ago I was watching him and studying how defenders could know exactly what he wanted to do and still not stop him. Now Iโm standing there talking to him about defenders trying to do the same thing with me.
Before we finished, Cristiano said, โI have one wish for you.โ
I thought he was going to say something about breaking records.
He said, โWin the Ballon dโOr one day. Youโre a goalscorer, you work hard and you have many years. I would be proud to see you with one.โ
I told him, โComing from you, that means a lot.โ
Then he said, โBut not everything I did is there for you to copy. Some records you can leave alone.โ
I said, โWhich ones?โ
He said, โErling, we play soon. Iโve already said too much.โโ
Microsoft's Internet Explorer has survived four years beyond its own retirement, still breathing by businesses still running old software through a hidden compatibility mode inside Edge
Microsoft has now set a deadline to shut it down by the end of 2029
One of the greatest mistakes a woman can make is thinking that a married man with his own family will leave his marriage and choose another married woman just because theyโre both having a thing together.
Thereโs a weird stage in learning a skill where you know enough to follow tutorials but not enough to build something alone.That stage is frustrating.