I don’t intend this to be a very long post. It’s mostly a musing. Why are founders the best people to run their companies? If you look at most of them, they’re erratic, iconoclastic and relatively inexperienced at building companies. They don’t have the structure that MBA types have. So it often seems to be […]
Category: Politics and Philosophy
How The Nigerian Government Kills Innovation
This post doesn’t offer much in the way of solutions. I’m merely trying to articulate a position, and you can fill in your own details with your own anecdotes. The story is told of a time when President Einsenhower of the United States was just President of a university. His school was growing rapidly and […]
Mutilated Currency Division or Why US Dollars Tend to Always Be Cleaner and Fresher than Naira
Every year, twenty three thousand cases get sent into the Mutilated Currency Division (MCD) of the US Treasury. The problem is usually very simple, someone has some physical cash that is damaged in some way. It could be either fire, water, chemicals, insects, animals, petrification from burying or whatever else. As long as the money […]
Nike May Lose the Battle, But They’re Winning the War
Yesterday, Nike revealed the new campaign marking the 30th anniversary of their “Just Do It” marketing slogan, with NFL player Colin Kaepernick as the face of it. The Internets, understandably, went to shits. For one side of the culture, the campaign was a massive hit and a salute to American athletes who have been taking […]
There Was A Country: Book Review + Thoughts on Biafra
I bought Chinua Achebe’s Memoir, There Was A Country sometime last year, back when it was generating a lot of discussion on social media but I never really made a serious effort to read it until now. I love Chinua Achebe as a story teller, and I definitely loved this book. It is heavily political, as you […]
The Nigerian Bond Market: How Progress Happens (Or Doesn’t) – DoubleEph
Below is a transcript of a thread shared on twitter by Feyi Fawehinmi about the Nigerian bond market and how a country develops or fails to, or even reverses course. I think it contains many lessons for us and I decided to share them here. I’ll repost his tweets with minimal edits/comments. Thread reads: I […]
Always Go To The Funeral
Once, a long time ago I received some business and life advice. Even though this is a business focused blog, I won’t bore you with the business advice. What I want to share with you is the life advice. It’s a simple one. Always go to the funeral. That’s it. Always go to the funeral. […]
