The Christian view of heaven is so revolutionary, unlike anything anyone could have stumbled up into. First, it’s not primarily for our pleasure, but God’s. Second, it’s not inordinate sexual liberty, we are not even given to marriage. Lastly, it’s a transitory place, we will come back to earth.

Things I’m picking up from this IMF report. Our broad money velocity is 3.3 That means that in our economy we cycle through our broad money supply 3.3 times in a year. That is actually high. In developed economies it’s typical to have that number at 1.1 to 2. 3.3 means money doesn’t sit long in accounts. As it’s coming in, it’s going back out. Paychecks are spent as they hit. Fast moving consumer goods and consumption economy. Banking depth is low and informality is high.

Three of the tools I have built use @OpenRouter and it works really well. I should use it more.

Watching popular films from 2004-2005 is so jarring because so many plot lines & character development revolve around things easily solved by cheaply available technology today. Society has changed so much so quickly.

I still wonder why this administration decided to change the national anthem. Now, it feels like we don't have a national anthem. I bet that the majority of Nigerians can't recite the new anthem. If we had qualified for the World Cup, our supporters would have been staring while they played the anthem.

GIG has entered the Car hire (I mean LandCrusier prado hiring) business. I wonder what took them so long to do so.

Sustained wealth happens when you have a community thinking together. The key person who is visibly wealthy only achieves that wealth because others also have skin in the game and propel them for their benefit. I am not engaging in "trillionaire worship" like others, but what was instructive about the SpaceX IPO was that the cafeteria workers and janitors at the same company also became wealthy. That is a bigger deal than anything else. I hear so much talk about founders and investors in African entrepreneurship, but what nobody tells you is that the people who also became wealthy are the people who supported the entrepreneur and the enterprise with work. Decades ago, I discovered that Dangote's depot operators, when he was selling commodities, were also Naira billionaires in their own right. They didn't need to cheat him to get wealthy, as most misguided people believe employees should do; they had an arrangement that made all of them wealthy. Dangote took the financial risk while the depot chiefs took the operational risks. I see this same dynamic in many supply chains in Africa. My wife's aunt's 70th birthday in Accra last year was attended by all the key FMCG players and traders who worked together in an ecosystem that they all profited from. Aliko became rich because his family learned about this model long before anyone else did. He benefited immensely from it, and he is passing this same ecosystem-building approach on to the next generation of his family. This aspect of African entrepreneurship is rarely discussed. People want to hear grass-to-grace stories or miracles. True wealth in reality is built by communities and ecosystems that work in sync. I will be talking about it a lot more. I survived surgery yesterday, and I am grateful for another chance to keep doing this.

I think a lot about money, how much of a wild, jealous animal it is. Once it enters a room, it consumes everything. Changes relationships, changes motivations, changes dynamics. There is not a single relationship I have had, professional or otherwise, that has not been adversely affected, once money became present.

Digital connectivity, road networks, and power (streetlights)- these three alone will crash the insecurity stats and make the armed forces/ police jobs easier. When we should have done this all over Nigeria, we preferred to squander the money and steal the rest, smh

Today, I sat in Ogbomoso Stakeholders Security Meeting, convened by our Kabiyesi SÒÚN Ghandi Afolabi Olaoye, for nearly three hours. We have a broken security system and patterns were evident that current policing system can’t address. Oriire LG has over 700 communities without strong policing presence. Also, too many black spots without telco presence as FG needs to ramp up digital connectivity across communities, possibly tax cuts to telcos. It’s over 28 days and we still have children in captivity. We need urgent answers.

Today I learnt that If a wealthy man’s son commits a crime in Nigeria and gets sentenced to prison, they’ll raid poor neighborhoods, pick up an innocent boy, and swap him in. The rich kid goes home & the poor kid serves the sentence. This is why most of those raids happen.

I read this too, and my first thought is, if humans were really being good humans, no one should die alone without any family or friends or even neighbours. What good is poetry rendered to a dead body, if in life they were all alone? True human kindness shows up in life, not at death.

I’m forever grateful that the owner of my daughter’s school understands child safety!

Is it weird that I have been looking at Moe answers and already have an idea for a product? lol.

Regulatory manoeuvre is the main reason, IMO. Tried to explain it here.

There's a lot of potential in building a sovereign AI company. Some specific data couldn't leave the country because of how strategic or sensitive it is. You can train a Chinese model and serve that market or, if ambitious with capital and talent, build your own. Mistral AI is doing this for the European market.

We have an epidemic of women who cannot find a 6’8” multi millionaire golden retriever werewolf who respects her independence but will also lead her and give her space but also romance her but only when she wants, will not judge her past and also be religious but not serious.

Why serious countries should bet on Chinese models. Rwanda had one funny deal with Anthropic like that. They will all be yanked off Fable and any other model better than Opus.

After 40 years? lol

Tim Ferris post on what AI is doing to the self-help book genre left me with some dark and funny thoughts