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Lessons from my first year as a journalist

About a year ago I made a career change from Accounting to Journalism. As I like to say, I moved from obsessing over numbers to obsessing over narratives. Why? Among many reasons, it was an opportunity to learn about an aspect of life I wasn’t too familiar with: storytelling. Coming tops in the Global Peter […]

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Exploring Machine Learning: The beginning

Photo by Alex Knight on Unsplash Machine learning is not new and maybe has been overhyped but it’s an area that I’ve been interested in for awhile now. For me, the end goal is to learn how to use/create technology that enables human beings to do more meaningful work. After being relieved of reading for Accounting […]

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Maybe nothing bad happened to you

I’m not going to go down the usual road, Nokia was supposed to be connecting the world but it relaxed at doing that and got displaced. We all know the moral lesson of the story about how disruptive innovation or creative destruction or whatever catchy name we call it happens and how few entities get […]

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What should we really expect from Smart phones?

I’ve heard it over and over about how the new phones/devices are not really game changers. The touchscreen isn’t a miracle anymore, longer battery life only offers marginal utility, wireless charging is still restrictive, quality camera reaches a threshold where a few megapixels wouldn’t make us say wow, Touch ID is ubiquitous, Face ID has […]

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My experience at Mobile West Africa 2017

There's no shortage of entrepreneurs in Nigeria. No shortage of drive or ambition. People are succeeding inspite of govt not because of it. — Richard Quest (@richardquest) April 28, 2017 I had seen this tweet earlier and said in my mind oh well that true but it was more of mental affirmation than a conviction, […]