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14 Jun, 4 tweets, 1 min read
Beautiful.
A point that goes beyond this product: it's interesting how internal tools built to support the work of the main product(s) can give birth to great standalone products themselves. Slack comes to mind.
At my job, we build a lot of internal or staff-facing products because our business operations have a lot of niche activities that enterprise software in the market doesn't really work for.

I've been thinking a LOT about which of them have markets/demand beyond our firm.
(Here I am trying to cram more stuff into an already crammed roadmap. Let Engineering not catch me.)
Of course there's a balance. You don't want to convince yourself that your tool solves a problem that doesn't exist beyond your company. I guess the trick is to think less about the tool, and more about why you built it, and ask if others share the why.

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16 Jun
As a 3rd Force candidate who (rightly!) wants to win without spending money, you're REALLY saying You want to get enough mostly rural, minimally educated, poor people, to know you so well, they reject money because you will do what everybody since 1960 failed to do. Needs a plan.
An "APCPDP" candidate doesn't have that problem. Her party has workers in all 774 LGAs & 120K Polling Unit Areas. Workers who've spent YEARS building small networks of loyalists who WILL turn out for elections, & vote however the leader says. That's the "Structure" some scoff at.
Where their numbers of loyalists aren't enough, "structure" also doubles as distribution network for election-day bribes. Party has 120K people it can give N500K each, and order to "deliver" 500 votes each.

That's what you're up against

*figures not accurate. You get the point.
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15 Jun
When I was very small, he would give me the front/back and middle pages of the Vanguard so I could read the cartoons while he started on the rest of the paper.

He helped me memorize the human bones and muscles by tickling me on the spot in question whenever I got one wrong.
He always gave me his fish eyes, "so you won't need glasses like me."

Took us for Chinese every Sunday afternoon.

His letters whenever he travelled.
When I was in Primary 3, he was School Board Chairman. One day, he was touring the school, and came to my class. We stood and greeted. He was all business, straight face, inspecting God knows what. Then as he stepped out the door, he came back, grinned at me, and gave a 👍🏿.
🤣🤣
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12 Jun
Growing up, I was taught:

1. Avoid discussing money socially.

2. If it *does* come up and people are saying an amount I consider small is big, it's impolite, awkward, and at times demeaning to insist on correcting them.
I was also taught to unlook if someone accused me of being wasteful with money, as it often came from them having a different context with money.

But please, don't tell people they're wasteful with money or money should last in their hand, to avoid insort.
People - both the ones that consider themselves "haves" and the ones who consider themselves "have nots" - often forget that money conversations are an emotional minefield. Best to err on the side of caution, and spare people's feelings.
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21 May
Why should FG have IMEIs of everyone's devices by default, and as a requirement for telcos to grant network access ("whitelist")? Globally, the standard is for consumers to give their IMEI data AFTER a theft ("blacklist/blocklist").
Why can't FG get warrants on a per case basis?
Govt doesn't need to populate its CEIR ahead of time with every IMEI in the land, if theft control or anti-kidnapping are its aims.

If a phone is reported stolen, telco can retrieve IMEI from IMSI record, and hand over to Police based on the owner's report.
If a kidnapper makes a ransom call, Govt can get a court order for the telco to hand over the IMEI linked to that SIM/IMSI on that particular call.

So as you can see, in both legitimate use cases, Govt didn't need the whole Nigeria's IMEIs.

So again, why?
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13 Jan
Hi, Kids! Wanna know why the Washington Monument changes colors midway up?
Once upon a time, there was a Political Party that hated immigration, and ran stuff into the ground.
No, not THAT one. Another one. The Know Nothing Party.
So in the 1850s, the Know Nothings felt immigration was a threat to “native” Americans, by whom they meant White Anglo-Saxon Protestants.
They also opposed Catholics, who they felt were loyal to a foreign king, the Pope.
Now in the 1850s, folks were building the Washington Monument. The project was controlled by a non-Governmental “society” using donations from the public. They accepted both cash donations… and stones.
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18 Sep 20
Allow me. Let me start by saying that the rule the Government handles were quoting, doesn't (or shouldn't) apply to everybody. If you're not a resident of another country, it doesn't apply to you. Now let me explain.
So Nigeria signed up to an international agreement, arranged by the OECD. The goal of the agreement is to make sure that Country A is aware of any of its residents who are making money in other countries. This info is needed for proper taxation. @Chydee
The problem was, before now, there was no way for Country A to know if Resident R was doing business in country B. Meanwhile, Resident R may be gaming the system in Country B, paying reduced tax by claiming to be a Resident of Country A.
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