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She forgot her own children. But she remembered my dad. He’d kept showing up. That’s what survives. Audio Chapters * 00:42 The math that changes everything * 03:26 What my dad understood * 05:41 The woman who forgot her children but remembered my dad * 10:30 Why this really matters * 10:52 What remains The Math That Changes Everything I was in Canadian Tire the other day, looking for oil for my ca...

Remember the last time you collapsed into bed, exhausted, wondering if you'd actually accomplished anything meaningful that day? This was me, most of last year! Last year, I found myself feeling constantly behind. Between pursuing a PhD, creating content, and nurturing family relationships, no matter how much I accomplished, it never felt like enough. My to-do list was always growing, and instead...

When a friend of mine, a doctor who had recently moved to the UK, sought my advice about buying a house, I gave him an answer he didn’t expect: “Don’t buy it.” He had just started working in the NHS, newly married, with a baby on the way. Like many, he viewed homeownership as a sign of stability and success. The bank had pre-approved him for a large loan, enough to buy a big, beautiful house. But...

A Grandfather Worth Admiring Growing up, I loved, admired, and marvelled at my maternal grandfather. He was a man who paid attention to the details, cared deeply for his family, and gave generously to others. I have countless fond memories of him, but one stands out vividly. I remember one summer holiday, my brother and I traveled back to Nigeria unaccompanied. Grandpa was the one to pick us up fr...

A few days ago, I found myself replaying some of my past failures. You know, those moments that make you cringe even years later. Some are too embarrassing to share here, but I’ll let you in on a few highlights: * When I was 14, I volunteered to lead a group at summer camp. It felt like a big deal at the time, but my group came second… from the back. We narrowly avoided last place. * The time I jo...

TLDR Summary: Keep things simple. Sometimes, to make progress you have to figure out what is important and not sweat the small stuff. A quick and imperfect solution may be better than a solution that is perfect but takes too long to implement. Prefer to watch? Here's the video version read to you by me. The Story The story goes that NASA needed a pen for astronauts to be able to write in space. Th...

TLDR: Being skilled and being a leader require different sets of abilities. Both roles are important, and your strengths can guide you toward the right path. Instead of comparing yourself to others, focus on building your unique skills and, if desired, develop leadership abilities to pursue your goals. The Balance Between Skills and Leadership Have you ever heard people say that C grade students o...

I’m going to tell you about this new kid on the block but before I do, let me reintroduce the older kids. ChatGPT is a chatbot, an AI tool created by OpenAI that you can converse with and get it to give you all sorts of answers. It took the world by storm when it first came on to the scene. Other creators scrambled to get in on the game and Google released their competitor into the AI arena called...

I speak a few languages to varying levels of proficiency. For a long time, I wondered if there was any monetary use I could make of this skill, besides being able to order food in different languages or impressing people at dinner parties. I was not keen on being a translator and I wouldn't know where to start with that anyway. Were there other areas where I could apply my language skills? Cue in...

Sometimes, we go through periods where we feel low. Low in confidence, low in self-belief, low in our perception of what we think we are capable of. Low in our opinions of ourselves. It may be a case where your confidence was knocked by negative feedback on work you put your heart into. Or maybe you faced a setback in life that made you feel less confident and now it’s affecting your confidence al...

Hey there! I hope you're having a great day. Have you ever heard of the concept of weak ties? I first came across it in the book "The Defining Decade" by Meg Jay and let me tell you, it completely changed the way I thought about networking. You see, sometimes we get so caught up in our close circles that we miss out on all the amazing opportunities that lie beyond them. That's where weak ties come...

There’s a blog post by Bronnie Ware who worked in an environment with people in palliative care. In interacting with them, she learned about the 5 Regrets of Dying. Those regrets were: * "I wish I'd had the courage to live a life true to myself, not the life others expected of me." * "I wish I hadn't worked so hard." * "I wish I'd had the courage to express my feelings." * "I wish I had stayed in...

Chat GPT was released in late 2022 whilst Google Bard was released this year. They are both very advanced chatbots. Lets compare the two and see which might be better for you! I asked Google Bard to tell me what ChatGPT and Google Bard were and here is what it said: * ChatGPT is a large language model chatbot developed by OpenAI. It is trained on a massive dataset of text and code, and can generat...

Today’s episode of Ore’s Gist is about Starting with abundance with ChatGPT, brought to you by none other than yours truly, Ore Apampa. In today’s episode, I’ll be sharing a little life hack that could save you time and money (and possibly earn you money) in the long run. Start With Abundance If I say the phrase “ Start With Abundance ” what would it mean to you? I got the definition of this from...

The story | The lesson | The push The Story I was once told of the story of a king in a distant land who wanted to find a man worthy of marrying his one and only beautiful daughter. He put out a call across the land asking any man who wanted a chance to marry his daughter to come forward for a competition. "Good people of our land," the king announced, "I seek a man of great courage, strength, and...

Do you know my name? My full name in the Yorùbá Language means God’s gift never ends or God’s grace never ends. It’s a name I wear with pride. It’s a name that when pronounced correctly and used to get my attention, makes my head swell (with glee). I encourage you to try it sometime… not too often though so that it doesn’t lose its charm. Little did my parents know the kind of impact that name wou...

Have you ever heard of a conversation designer as a job role? Me neither, that is until last week. I stumbled across one totally by accident when browsing through the proverbial corridors of LinkedIn. I came across a video by @Kane Simms - (a Voice AI, conversational AI and NLP expert) where he talked about a new tool by Voiceflow that would help conversation designers. Check out the video if you’...

The journey of a thousand miles begins with the first step. It's often insightful seeing people's journeys and I thought to share my voiceover journey to hopefully help someone out there. This was originally posted as a Twitter thread so I’ll share the outline of my steps below. Steps 0. I wanted to make audiobooks. 1. Learned from all the free resources provided by  ACX.com . 2. Signed up for a w...