A very long entry

Praise, I am so so so sorry.

I couldn't renew my subscription because of CBN's limit on international transactions. Shit is I didn't know 'cos 80% of all my subscriptions come up at the beginning of the month, and apparently they surpassed it.

Gosh! I need a dollar card tbh—no, I won't be doing it with GTBank either, most likely Standard Chartered or Stanbic IBTC.

Anyways, I'm sorry.

So I made an update to our newsletter. You can now click on any quote to tweet it on your timeline.

*************** About Last Week ***************

I was mostly in Lagos, yunno?

Dirty air as always—it didn't, for one second, think that Praise was around. It reminded how insignificant I was. I had an amazing host for a hotel. It's not a 5-star but it was good!

On the first night, I was checked into a room tentatively because the room I initially reserved was no longer available. The next day, I got moved to a supposed permanent room.

You know the joke? This "new" room was the same price as the old one, but was visibly smaller.

"No way I'm taking this", I told the attendant, "find me an alternative, please".

4 hours later, the only alternative was a more expensive room. sighs

I took it sha, for the rest of the 7 days I spent there—best decision tbh!

************* Seeing V Gold *************

V Gold—aka Victor Fatanmi, Nigeria's number one Design CEO—if you know me, is an integral pillar of my design career. Well, my life too.

After making a tweet that insinuated I was in Lagos, Tobi calls me to drag me.

"So it's Twitter that we'll find out that you're around abi?"

5 minutes and a lot of laughs and lobbying, "I'll come around today", I resigned.

It turns out they were only few blocks away from where I was. I took an Uber (actually a Bolt, but Uber sounds way nice) and went to see them.

Amongst a myriad of things that we talked about, Victor asks me to review a couple of ideas he had in mind and two things happened.

First, I reviewed it. Second, I took notes of what I reviewed.

The ideas I shared were not something I could have thought of on my own without Victor asking me "what do you think about this?"

************* Meeting Avoda *************

Jeph is a great guy, AJ too—and I got to meet them just before I left. This was the highlight of my trip.

I got there 15 mins late—my bad! But Jeph was gracious to give me another chance. Fast forward an hour later, I find myself speaking to a friend of theirs who was fascinated that I was a 21-year-old multidisciplinary, intentional, proud motherfucker—and this is me putting it lightly.

"Are you as good as Jeph says", he stood over me asking

I sipped my cocktail, "I'm better—most likely", I replied smiling back at him.

In my head, "what the fuck are you saying? Are you freaking mad?", but the astonishment on his face when I said I was better was worth looking at.

Okay, let's chill for a minute.

"People call me proud for what you are impressed by", I told him.

1 hour later and I had some of the best insights from anyone in my entire life! I have decided to make it my life's mission to meet one new person every time I'm in a city.

Knowing a lot of people doesn't equate having a strong network. The two people I met that day are worth more in network value than half the people I know.

****************** Meeting my Company ******************

First time I'd ever meet the team that hired me was on Wednesday and it literally was amazing!

Nothing—nothing beats working in a company that gets that they need you. They don't fully understand what you do, but they're sure that you'll bring value and, most importantly, are open to collaborate with you all the way wherever possible.

That is what TechAdvance is.

It is not just a cluster of badasses. It is people building a culture that enables customers, and their audiences to grow wealth—easily.

I like to define my job as "giving people reasons to love the company as much as I do".

From Road Trip to Flight

No lies told when I say, comfort is bliss.

If for nothing, pursue comfort! A 5-hour road trip in heat, dripping sweat, old women, suckling mothers, annoying boomers and a lousy driver is not the experience I miss.

When you spend on comfort, you provide yourself more resources to afford even more comfort. Ever heard the phrase, "do what you want others to do to you"?

Buy a Mac, get your furniture, travel, do something you consider expensive—and watch your confidence soar.

If you have a Mac and pay for your Adobe subscription, you'd walk into a meeting and charge 7 figures swifter than someone who's content with a 2015 HP laptop.

Buy expensive books, and see how reading would make sense to you. Lol.

Pay for LinkedIn Premium and see how you won't call LinkedIn boring anymore.

Pay for a course properly, and you won't miss a class because you had bad internet.

When you consider something expensive, it provides more value to you than intended when you spend on it.

To close off, never spend what you don't have.

Ciao.

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