The first cohort was an experiment to see what would happen if you gave people resources and set them loose. We ended up with four projects: an animated short film, a podcast series, essays, and a documentary film. Now, we're taking all our learnings into the next cohort :🧵👇🏾

The new beta Claude Code model switcher

you just have to get really good at continuing

Sure but that’s most of us. We’re largely only situationally hot. We don’t all have the type of face that launches a thousand ships, and even at that not everyone would agree. But our personalities and aura and how we move in our third space boost our chances.

Trying my best not to perform Africanness in my work. I'm actively archiving and looking for original visual language that can be referenced and refined.

“when i choose to see the good side of things, i'm not being naive. it is strategic and necessary. it's how I've learned to survive through everything”

We Don’t Talk About Biafra Enough medium.com/@NdukaEbubeDike/w…

Running a business is just realizing how dumb you were 6 months ago every 6 months

to be underestimated is to be free

“The children are always ours, every single one of them, all over the globe; and I am beginning to suspect that whoever is incapable of recognizing this may be incapable of morality.” - James Baldwin.

It's time to fly.

Which kain insult be dis?

Children’s day and children are in kidnappers den

tried to Eid Mubarak my way back into her life and she replied with eid backwards

So, @OoTheNigerian never built a breakout startup of his own. Yet for more than a decade, he has been one of the quiet forces shaping Nigeria’s tech ecosystem. From Paystack to Bumpa and Lemfi, his fingerprints are on some of the ecosystem’s most consequential success stories. Every tech ecosystem celebrates its founders: the visionary builders who bend reality to their will in pursuit of billion-dollar valuations. But ecosystems are also shaped by another kind of operator: the connector. The person who makes introductions, opens doors, lobbies institutions, and quietly makes things happen. Read the full article here: open.substack.com/pub/founde…. Written by @Jolomijo

Geography, timing, luck. They play a far greater role in people's success than most like to admit.

consequences

terrible. 20 yrs ago, the internet was full of hobbyist blogs and forums. over time, these have been replaced by paywalled substacks and private discord channels, each a walled garden. google's decision to prioritize AI just makes it less likely ppl will create free, public info

The Arsenal. Your Premier League champions.

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