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Software Engineer | Laravel | .Net | AWS | DevOps | Building @massivelistings
Abuja, Nigeria
Joined February 2016
I’ve got this family member who’s always asking me for one thing or the other. A few months back, I decided to end the cycle of constant handouts and gave him a substantial amount not as a loan but as a grant. I mean tens of millions to start a business with the clear agreement
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lol how come TLDR is at the top 😃
Yesterday we did a livestream. TL;DR: We have set internal goals of having an automated AI research intern by September of 2026 running on hundreds of thousands of GPUs, and a true automated AI researcher by March of 2028. We may totally fail at this goal, but given the
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Ask you question for slack thread, you dey reply with AI. Are you mad
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I was someone who through my 20s wasn't even sure if I wanted kids. Work was my passion and I enjoyed it deeply. I filled up two passports. I did well financially. And yet, it's incomparable to the joy and purpose having children has given me. Like, not even close. Its crazy.
It's probably just my feed, but I see a lot of talk about getting married and having kids. Looking back at my life, career vs kids. There is no competition, family is the best. I was raised to basically get married young and have kids. Growing up (in CA) that was not generally
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I don't think anything else has humbled me, this much in my adulthood: Even though it isn't an excuse for complacency but hardwork doesn't guarantee success. You can do everything right - clap for others, wait your turn, show up everyday & still not make it. It is humbling.
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The ultimate form of preparation is not planning for a specific scenario, but a mindset that can handle uncertainty.
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This has happened to me TWICE! First time my boss resigned and blessed me to replace her. Only for me to put my hat in the ring and be told another former boss was coming back. Her tenure as my boss was crazy for me but that’s a story for another day. The second time was even
Your boss resigned a few months ago, and you’ve been acting in her role for a while. You’ve received feedback that you’re doing an excellent job, and you’ve been hoping to be appointed as the substantive replacement. Then one morning, you’re invited for a chat and told that a
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I think this is the first real value AI has added to my workflow in a way that it doesn’t get in my way nor take away what I enjoy.
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Then I get buried into a hell hole of cmd+click, dd( ), debuggers etc But now with cursor, it could help find specifically which service calls what method and so on and that helps as a head start.
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A big part of my job has always being that I get invited to a large complex monoliths and asked to help fix a critical issue no one could trace or is taking a long time to solve.
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The hypercommercialization of “detty December” as a catalyst of gentrification in Lagos, Nigeria. In this essay, I will …
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The mind is such a strange place. Two days ago, I had a 6 hour streak where I felt this sudden cloud of unhappiness beset me. Happy in the morning. Late afternoon, ununderstandably sad. I couldn't figure it out. Then, I did a quick mind bing. "Where is this from?"
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There'll always be more emails in need of reply, more meetings to attend, and more updates to read. A person can fill the entire workweek with these tasks over and over again. But to stay sane and sharp, you must pay yourself first by doing the work that actually means something
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James why is your office door always shut? Why do you wear headphones all day? What do you mean you’re too busy to attend a quick meeting? Why do you only check your emails once per day?… Well, because my job is to build stuff - and your call could be an email. DHH is on the
When I politely decline scheduling a "quick call", it's not because I don't literally have the time — there's always room for 15 minutes here or half an hour there! — it's that I can't afford to spare the attention.
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People don’t understand how people like DHH and Elon seem hyper productive. They have the same 24 hours as everyone else. They just understand the nuances of time, practice the discipline of attention and take extreme advantage of energy and ride momentum. It’s possible for
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When I politely decline scheduling a "quick call", it's not because I don't literally have the time — there's always room for 15 minutes here or half an hour there! — it's that I can't afford to spare the attention.
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I don't rate anybody high enough to belittle myself. I mean I see you, I respect you but that's where it ends. I’m Never intimidated.
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