All human invention is done by cities. Not by individuals. Every time something significant comes out, it is never out of some random village in the middle of nowhere by someone who nobody ever heard about - it’s usually from a city (or…
Exponential startup growth is something extraordinary. But the inputs for startups are always linear - you can only produce product linearly, create blog posts linearly and so on.
In Nigeria, the treasury bill rate has hovered around 20% for a long time. There is no incentive for anyone to lend anyone money for less than 20% p.a, so all mortgage rates have to be higher than this price. This creates a situation where…
An organisation is primarily made up of feedback loops. A feedback loop improves itself, and any part of an organisation without a feedback loop stagnates. The design of an organisation is then primarily a game of building self-reinforcing…
As a schoolboy, I remember looking at my friends and seeing a fierce brightness in their eyes.. It was like they could see the world and all that lay before them. That brightness would almost always be accompanied by a radiant spirit and a…
In this philosophical exploration, I offer a theory of gravity based on basic principles. Like building a proof in geometry, but about reality itself, I’ll show that the usual things we see in the universe—space with three dimensions, time…
Globally, there is an alarming trend - human birth rates are dropping rapidly. They are not dropping by a small amount, they are collapsing in some countries. For example, South Korea had 500,000 babies in 2007, last year it had 249,000…
I’m the founder and CEO of Hotels.ng Hotels.ng - one of the biggest online hotel booking agencies in sub-saharan africa. I also founded HNG Internship, which is a free coder bootcamp - we’ve put more than 10,000 africans in coder jobs.
There are two different people living on the same piece of land - with two different languages and two different religions. They both have significant religious interest in this piece of land. No side wants to give in.
Nigeria has a weird system of sharing money among federal states. The more people you have in a state, the more money you get. Since that system got introduced, Nigeria’s population has grown very rapidly. Much faster than its direct…
The 2023 Nigeria Election was an incredible event where a minor candidate with a tiny party rode on social media support to getting almost the same number of votes as the ruling party and the former ruling party.
For hundreds of thousands of years, human beings lived in exactly the same way. There was a small community or village with a number of human beings living there, maybe around 200 people. This community was far enough from the next…
Does Twitter actually suppress tweets? Does it silently reduce the reach of your tweets, and stops showing them to your followers? Yes it does, and I know because it has happened to me.
Micro-services may be good for scaling, but they introduce a lot of complexity to software. The vast majority of software produced will never need to scale, so all the effort invested in building it as a set of micro-services will be…
Yes, deep neural networks are alive. As alive as a tardigrade, which only has 200 neurons. And we all describe a tardigrade as a living creature, even though it certainly cannot paint realistic pictures the way a deep learning network can.
Many of us write tens of thousands of words yearly. All those words are written on some corporate social media website, and they can wake up any day and ban your handle. When that happens, your entire collected works, which could represent…
There are many Governments who struggle to run companies. It’s difficult - a Government is a huge organisation dealing with tens of thousands of problems. It’s difficult for it to build the attention and skill required to run multiple…
At Hotels.ng, we use 6 servers - all are fully dedicated, baremetal servers. That means we get the pleasant task of managing everything on the servers. It saves us a lot of money, but for that, we really need to go deep into the…
One of the best things crypto could achieve is this: I go on a website in Nigeria, and I specify that I want to send 100€ to Germany. The price is displayed - ₦450,000. I pay, specify the bank target account, and within 30 minutes, the…
The most expensive thing any company can do is to start a project, and not complete it. Every single man-hour, every single cent spent on that project gets destroyed, as soon as the project is cancelled or abandoned.
In Nigeria, it’s very difficult for small businesses to raise small capital: funding of the range N3m to N100m is scarce. The Nigerian Stock Exchange is supposed to be a market that allows the raising of capital from the public, however,…