Current Thoughts on Habits

My thinking on routines and habits has started to shift, probably because of what I’m being exposed to on twitter about how habits are overrated, and what matters is the desire to do something. So, this is a timestamp of my still evolving thoughts. While I agree that no type of regimen can ...

Reinforcing My Routines: Reading

Reading. Writing. Learning. Taking long walks. Cardio or body weight exercises. Cooking. Working on creative projects. Looking back at the last decade, these are some of the routines that have kept me feeling alive. Last year, my reading really fell off. It’s one of the routines I want to ...

Superpower

One of the things I consider as a superpower is growing up as a middle class kid in Lagos, Nigeria. This allowed me form a strong identity, values and sense of self before I needed to venture into the larger world and hear what it thought about people who looked like me. A big concern is that ...

Optimal working schedule.

When I consulted for a Long Island market research firm in 2017-18, a development manager I worked with had an offset schedule where he got to go home at 3pm because he started off early. That was a pivotal moment in my journey to design the optimal work life as I realized that for knowledge ...

Sunzone Surfer

No close relation to marvel’s fictional character, a sunzone surfer is a person who has decided to live across timezones, chase the sun, and get more good weather out of the year. What inspires this? The feeling of life slowing down during the winter, and not wanting to give up 3-4 months of ...