When I started my 20's decade, I knew that I needed money lessons if I wanted to feature in a particular life in my 30's.

I've also learnt that you play the game different when you eclipse into another decade.

As I venture into my 30's decade, this is my possible play.

🧵 I need to decide what my number is.

What number in $$$ do I need to be in liquidity or investments to consider myself financially secured.

Decide that number and work backwards.

That number is my FIRE (Financial Independence, Retire Early) number.

I have some time so let me teach a concept I taught in my 6 years of teaching college biology.

Mosquitoes fit perfectly into the food chain and the absence of mosquitoes means many plants and animals will cease to exist.

I'll tell you how & why:

https://twitter.com/Morris_Monye/status/1938465366587429176

Alongside bees and butterflies,mosquitoes are one of the most influential pollinators because their males feed on nectar

They transfer pollen grains from flower to flower, enabling reproduction

Putting mosquitoes at risk, means plants would be at risk - by extension, herbivores

I don't think you people understand it. Tinubu ruined Lagos.

Ask anyone who lived in Lagos in 90's and early 2000's.

Slums exist everywhere but the weaponisation of slums is the lifeline of Tinubu's wealth.

When he came back from exile, that was his priority. He doesn't have any business anywhere. No history of commerce.

Brought back his drug proceeds and glazed into governance, like they all do.

When he became Governor, he claimed to have attracted a "foreign investment" and a new influx of yellow buses flooded Lagos.

What was supposed to be the start of a beautiful birthday trip for me started heartbreakingly.

When I got my Japan visa, I asked the visa officer if stops at Hong Kong would need a transit visa, he assured me "No"

On Hong Kong's immigration page, 170 countries -

https://twitter.com/UnkleAyo/status/1918145224699785699

170 countries can transit visa-free, as long as transit time is under 24hours and they don't go through border control again - Nigeria isn't one of those countries.

For context - Djibouti, Mali, Guinea, Chad, Gabon, Niger, Algeria are part of these countries that qualify.

As someone who practices intermittent fasting by spacing all his meals by 12 hours, have spent a better part of the last 4 years in cancer research, currently runs two PhDs in cancer biology & loathes half information.

This is tweet is relatively correct and these are the facts. Two different phenomena that's constantly transposed.

Intermittent fasting isn't the same as caloric restriction.

The mechanistic effect of IF which is primarily metabolic is channelled towards weight loss. It is about when you eat.

CR is about how much you eat.

This is an uncomfortable truth but I'll say this for all my brothers out there:

"there will be light at the end of the tunnel" in the actual sense is a delusional simulation.

There's nothing that guarantees at the end of your journey through the tunnel, you'll find light. What if your travel ends right in the tunnel?

What if, right in the tunnel, was where your travel was meant to end?

These are two different questions. What do you do? What your fashion how you currently lived your life differently?

I'll share my perspective.

It hasn't happened before.

Every month, we'll share 1ETH (~ $4,000) amongst learners who show up daily with #ThisWeekILearnt #TWIL

I've taken time to put together resources to get you started onchain, in web3/blockchain.

It took me 4 hours to make this thread.
Make use of it.
Before I list out 40 top paying careers in this space, this is all I ask of you:

🫵Be ready to grind through ALL the resources. They're free.
🫵Commit 4 hours daily. Our goal is 6 months
🫵Uninstall Tiktok & Instagram
🫵Block all your talking stages so you can focus.

Fxck love!

6 months in solitude and you can literally set the tone for the life you want.

I'll thread an update of tech routes & resources you can self-pace in the next 6 months and know enough to land an internship.

You don't need previous coding experience.

Just commit 30 hours weekly. The only ask I make of you:

🤌Be ready to grind on YT and Udemy
🤌Commit 3 hours daily.
🤌Detox from social media unless you're learning a new update with the route you've chosen
🤌Block your talking stages and pause love for 6 months.

Unsure what path to choose?
Fine hack:

I turn 30 today. 🎈

As someone who was severely underprivileged, has been independent since 15, is currently proud of his journey - I think it is fair to share for all young men, regardless of age.

Here are 30 no-BS life hacks I've amassed in the last decade that has helped me: 1/30
Let's start with the classic on my cover photo.

There is NOTHING you aspire to, that is beyond your reach.

How badly do you want it and the sacrifices you’re willing to make, for it?

The magic you’re looking for, is in the work you’re avoiding!

I decided to go to the gym today and I could sense someone staring hard at me and mumbling something to his partner.

As a sharp Lagos boy, It was becoming very discomforting.

Then I started to think - "what did this person see to make him think I roll that way. Egbami". He finally emboldened a move, walked across and asked.
"Excuse me. Are you Salako?"

I was too stunned to respond, then I asked:
"Who is asking?"

He gestured to his phone and his friend, responding:

"I was just showing my friend a thread I read from someone I follow on Twitter"

My life used to be hard - very hard.

My life is easier, not because I have accomplished more but because Stoicism gifted me the reins to tame 3 demons.

Fear.
Failure.
Suffering.

I'd have asked you stay with me as I share but this will be another pointless thread. Of the things you feared - which one came to pass?

Many are harmed by fear itself & many have come to their fate while dreading fate

Fear is a mirage - only real from afar. Where you need to be is on the other side

1 step & the mirage reveals itself for what it is. An illusion

As we start a new month, I think I should share with you, again, an ancient secret that has transcended eras.

If you woke up this morning with clouds of palpitations, exhausted because your repeatable actions aren't fruiting -- you might want to open this.

Again, up to you. There's no one who has significantly changed the trajectory of their lives that didn't have a/multiple "build season(s)"

A build season is an isolation system where you shut everyone out, shut societal distractions, recline into a zone where you focus solely on yourself.

A thread went viral - the author referenced how as a brilliant child who by all design should have the world bow down before, can barely figure life out today.

I have a perspective to share. Draw your seats close.

It is the undoing of brilliant folks.

This will be brutal. As someone who was asked to skip two classes in primary school, demonstrated beastly command of sciences,

in SSS1 had completed all Organic Chemistry modules and was holding special classes for SS3 seniors,

has two diploma distinctions, has first degree first class -

After work yesterday,vmy colleagues and I were conversing on aberrations that affect women & endocrine disruptors.

Food content creators won't like this but if you've been struggling with hormonal imbalance, you probably want to discard your nonstick pots, today.

I'll explain. Polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE) is responsible for the slippery aesthetics of nonstick pot and it has been flagged by EPA to both be toxic, and potential carcinogens.

When you cook with these wares *for long*, the chemical reactions into another compound called -

Spend some time with Oncology and Geriatrics, you'll demystify all the lies black people been telling themselves for decades.

There's nothing in our genetic makeup that makes us clinically stronger - in fact, we're one of the most susceptible groups.

Our women? Sadly, worse. What is the % of black folks that age healthily?

I mean - still have their sensory motors active at 80+?

What % of black folks live past 80?
In Europe, Italy in case, 1 out of every 5 human is elderly.

Over 30% of that fraction is 80+.

This is not conventional advice but it's for ambitious/career women currently making their bread.

Take this from a brother - there's a strain of men you should discern against.

I call them the "trophy wife hunters"

They won't like this tweet but I'll explain. One wrong move that lands you in the net & all of your life's work will flush down the drain

Their strategy is simple:

Lovebombing & breadcrumbing

You're the prize because you have all it takes to assure them "stability".
They don't really like you like that but they need you.

When all landmarks failed, they could always count on her.

Sailors, travelers, cosmopolitans, Navigators, will always mention how - on dark nights when their way is lost, all they need to do is look up and find the North Star.

This tweet is not about constellations. Stay close. As someone who has had a multivariate experience that has stemmed from both ends of the sociocultural stick, I hold a bivalent view that:

- everyone was put on earth for a reason,

- not everyone will peak into the apex of capacity they were born with.

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This isn't an isolated case. When people go missing, this is what they end up as.

He cracked open a human skull for $20 to prepare a ritual fetish for prosperity - when you ask him what "prosperity" means he'll say car, house & a bag of money.

There's so much to unpack here.

https://twitter.com/UnkleAyo/status/1715050558413807855

There's the
- religious angle,
- social/cultural angle,
- psychological angle.

The psychological angle: there's a number that poverty does on a person that okays the killing of a human like them for $20.

Unfortunately, a larger size of the populace is sinking into that range.

✨ Not for the unserious ✨

3 year migration plan for my Nigerian starters in tech:

✨ Pick a field: Grind on YT, Udemy, FCC till December

✨ 7-9 hours daily will give you enough knowledge to land you an internship (does not have to be paid),

✨ Don't fall in love. ✨Once you land a local job, inc ur stack (learn more tech/tools)

✨What will kill you is lifestyle inflation. You don't need a car, don't move from your one room. The focus is simple - stack your coins.

✨Stack your coins for a year and remember

✨Don't fall in love.

I have a confession to make.

The popular notion that Europeans brought Christianity to Africa has had a bit of an impact on my faith - logically so, because there's no way these criminals that masterminded lootings, slave trades would be capable of a "good gift"

Then I made - a discovery that has strengthened my faith.

Europeans didn't bring Christianity to Africa.
The Christian religion was with the Ethiopians (since the 4th century) long before the colonial bondmen polluted the shores of Africa.

The Ethiopian Bible is in fact older than the KJV.