…and discovering a superpower, and how to make space (This isn’t me, of course, nor did I have the glasses most of the time, really, but whatever.) I grew up loving books. I read every chance I got. I read while walking on the road, when I did house chores and during classes in school. In …
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Don’t eat food you’re not done cooking
(Hint: it’s about more than just food.) A number of people I know who like cooking also don’t like to nibble at the food while they’re cooking it. They taste it, of course, since they need to know that it’s actually okay. But the people I’m talking about, who’d rather not go nibbling at it typically …
Why you should stop waiting for the “right time”
A wake up call What you need and what you prefer are often not the same thing. That’s not a problem. And you know that already, anyway. The problem is when we confuse the two. You need to study, or work. You would prefer to eat, or sleep. In such cases, it’s easy to tell which is …
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How daily writing is like daily…cooking
Learnings from 18,074 words in 31 days My friend, the talented (and now prolific) Orisirisi, set out in 2016 to achieve (what was, to me at least) a feat—and achieved it, and inspired by her example, I decided to do something I’ve wanted to do for years… Write every single day. Actually, what she did in 2016, …
How exactly is ours a better world?
Thoughts on 21st-century human behaviour (Photo: Elliott Engelmann) Today I heard about two girls in Abuja, Nigeria’s capital city, who went out yesterday and haven’t been heard from since. Earlier in the week, I read this BBC article from last year on child abduction in the UK. Carried out by teenagers, no less. Just around …
Newsflash: mental health reporting sucks
But it can be fixed. Here’s how. I’m tired. Tired of waking up to news reports that include terms like this… These were real, and just within the last one week. (You’d think an 11-time TV-station-of-the-year-winner would know better, right?) Just in case you have any trouble with the images, worry not, as I intend to break …
Paper or ebooks? Why the debate really doesn’t matter.
(And the one thing that does matter.) I’m a big fan of electronic reading and I don’t get those who insist that paper is better. Okay, I actually kind of get them, but still. It’s hard for me not to think of my friends who insist on paper as probably the same kind of people who …
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On Nigeria, Systems Thinking and Corruption
The problem with the way our leaders talk, and what it says about how they—and we—think I recently passed Ikorodu Road and realised the under-bridge traffic of road-crossers was gone, because a wire fence now divides the road. I thought it was simply brilliant. No more of the meaningless campaigns by government to convince passersby to …
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A tribute to Mr Clive Staples Lewis
I owe my life to Professor Clive Staples Lewis. I do not say this lightly. He truly changed, and in changing saved, my life. And, in commemoration of his death, I offer up this tribute of sorts.