it's oluwaseyitan 💮's birthday 🎉

brunch host fit

sundays are for family pictures

did someone say sundays are for family pictures? 👀

founder mode: leading a scale up without succumbing to conventional wisdom and losing your edge. paulgraham.com/foundermode.ht…

in this video, derek muller of veritasium discusses how democracy is mathematically impossible and explores less stress-tested alternatives to the default and painfully flawed "first pass the post" system of voting. youtu.be/qf7ws2DF-zk?si…

one of my favorite shots from last month

we exist in the anxiety of new technologies threatening to fundamentally transform our entire way of life, but so far all they’ve done is make things slightly shittier at scale.

The number of times I’ve been told “the best people I know in my field have left Nigeria” by someone in the past year is just insane. But migration / japa is not a problem. People relocate all the time. It is the nature of the Nigerian emigration that is the problem. Read on.

No trust at the parastatal level where getting a passport or drivers license includes dealing with abusive behavior, being spoken down to, being treated like sh** and being yet again oppressed by a small minded person who has been given a small amount of temporary power.

It’s my work anniversary today. 5 years ago, I chose Paystack. Today, I celebrate half a decade of empowering ambitious African entrepreneurs. Every sheet, every project, every late night and every single Notion doc has been worth it. I am beyond grateful.

i respect this opinion. it's one i have myself (if you've been following me for any amount of time). yet, i despair that this won't be true for very long. we're losing our appreciation for thoughtfully-crafted things. not only are we losing it, we're actually proud of that.

paul graham's intentionally non-prescriptive essay on founder mode has resulted in a situation where pretty much every argument, for or against, has made me wonder: did we all read the same thing?

if you're a budding proxmox enthusiast, here's a collection of scripts to help you get started with creating virtual machines or linux containers to host your favourite services on your homelab. tteck.github.io/Proxmox/

an early stage startup's obsession with excessive sales and marketing spend can be an indicator of an attempt to mask extraneous expenses as you can always argue roi was not assured in post.

i thought this was a joke, then i saw the follow up article.

i have a joke i'm waiting for the right time to deploy. patience is a virtue. 🙏

putin sure knows how to play americans like a fiddle