"In Tongues"

My undergraduate university was a Christian one and this came with a lot of religious activities and rules, but that's not exactly today's tale. In the second semester of my first year there was a week of spiritual emphasis: no classes, lots of church stuff day and night. Unsurprisingly, a lot ...

Vanity Card

Do thoughts need to be profound to be expressed? What if the real gems are just waiting their turn beneath the surface of all the other things our mind wants to get out? 3 days into my 30 day commitment to build a habit by writing daily, there's a clear quality gap between when I'm inspired to ...

Getting back on the wagon

Talking careers recently with a friend who became a software developer a couple years after university, his take was that no matter what you're trying to pick up now career wise, nothing could be as hard as your first entry into a professional field. A similar thought occurs when I go back to a ...

great thinking, great product

tl;dr this could really be a post about my nice new backpack . Growing up in Lagos in the 90's, I remember a television ad for Toyota that ended with a japanese voice saying "yoi shinai, yoi kangai - good thinking, good product". That slogan stuck. Toyota cars are generally good products. Good ...

Excellent, but not enough

"She was great" I said, when asked about my last relationship "but that was as far as we could go." Dating as a teenager or in my early twenties, all that mattered was finding someone I liked who liked me too. The future was some far away place I wasn't too worried about yet. At 16, I remember ...