A lot of people have asked me about driving from Lagos to Abidjan. I'm not that great of a story teller or thread maker but let me try to give you a bit of a picture, in case anyone is eager to explore that drive. First, the entire journey to Lagos to Abidjan is a 21 hour drive if you do it in a straight shot. Borders run mostly 24 hours (I say mostly because for some weird reason Seme - our border to Benin - sometimes has a closing time. The rest don't.

You know how you know an idea is a great one? Once you understand it, you start seeing it everywhere.

Examples: 1. Compounding. 2. Mimetic rivalry/envy.

The third one for me: immanetizing the eschaton.

What does this phrase mean, you ask? Well, literal meaning is: "trying to bring about the kingdom of God on earth." In essence, it's attempting to make the world a perfect place, or to fix the world.

The idea is that people cause a lot of problems because they want to fix the world, they want to make it perfect.

King David in the Bible was a terrible guy, if we keeping it a buck.

The guy just had one of the greatest PR of all time. I mean let's start from that story about Nabal. The guy did not ask you to watch his flock, you did it for free. Then when he wouldn't give you out of his feast you strapped up with 400 men to wipe his entire family out. Are you not a glorified Shekau?

Here are some insights I've gathered about politics so far. Caveats: I only actively engaged Nigerian politics from like 2018. Before that I was a passive onlooker/critic/average citizen.
I also have a minor in Pol Sci but that's neither here nor there. Most of these observations have been from just paying attention to people and what they do, not what they say. (So it might not be original). But The most important observation I have made is that politics can never be separated from IDENTITY.

@DavidHundeyin said it here and you all came for his neck like bow tie. Our problem here is that we don't do enough thinking. We do a lot of copy and paste and assume we're doing something.

https://twitter.com/jonathansaid1/status/1246012936797278208

First off, we have a slower rate of spread. Younger population. Larger informal economies. Tighter living arrangements. Epileptic power supply.

Focus on expanding hospital capacity, MASSIVE local manufacture of masks (even cloth masks help), NAFDAC and CDC should be...

I always tell people, think of stocks as owning part of a business, rather than just as tickers to trade up and down. 25 likes on this post and I'll tweet 10 things I evaluate about a business before I buy stocks in it. Okay, so we have hit 25 likes. Most people do this at the end but I'll do this at the beginning: welcome to my TED talk. This is a thread to tell you that investing in stocks should not be about gambling and shouldn't be focused on the short term.