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When I traveled back in April to the east, the seat I got on the airplane was an emergency exit seat. I did not know because I was not the person who booked the flight. On seeing that seat, an inexplicable fear gripped me. In my subconscious, I said that I could not sit there . I was not thinking about what would happen if we crashed and I needed to assist in opening the door. It was much more than that. In hindsight, it was much more than that. I remember I messaged my friend and asked her about this emergency door seat that I got. She said it was fine and that nothing was wrong. Now that I am watching this documentary, it dug up my previous memory and explained why I had that fear. On the Boeing 737 MAX, there was an incident in 2024 where the door plug blew out. The door opened mid-flight. I watched that documentary last year or two years ago, probably last year. It was rooted in my subconscious that this failure is a real possibility on these planes. This situation leads me to thin...

I am going to go on a tangent a little bit before talking about the topic at hand. That tangent is, I just discovered the "Big Ideas Simply Explained" series. There are different books on different topics, economics, math, biology, sociology, psychology. I found a reading list on Goodreads, and I was so excited. I was so glad. This is the order I plan to read them: history, economics, sociology, and then psychology. Then I will read that other book by Daron Acemoglu and James A. Robinson, Why Nations Fail . I will read that after. So I already have five books that I plan to read after Power and Progress . Now, back to Power and Progress . I just started this documentary on Netflix about Boeing. In fact, I had actually seen the first Boeing documentary when it came out. At that time, I had not boarded a plane at all in my life. I had never boarded a plane. So I was quite scared about the problems Boeing had and the different crashes that happened. Statistically, the issues cam...

As the wise philosopher Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel opined, "the only lesson from history is that we do not learn from history." I said I was going to stop listening to AI CEOs cos they're just marketers sprouting whatever so their investors will keep pumping money. So I'd rather focus on what educated economists are saying about all of these brouhaha So I got recommended this book, Power and Progress by two brilliant economists. So I figured to learn their theories about AI I haven't even gotten to the chapter on Artificial Intelligence but I just keep seeing parallels from the different waves of tech advancement From the Steam Engine to the Loom, to Mining, to Agriculture, To even Establishment of Trade Routes in both Suez Canal and Panama. Funny enough, we did all of these in my history undergrad but when you don't have real experience to tie to, so you don't really know what to analyze or draw parallels unfolding events. Cos basically none of the cla...

One minute you have millions of subscribers on YouTube. Getting signed to a record label. Actually releasing your own songs now, building a solid fanbase. Even getting compared to Ariana Grande. Performing on stage and singing your hearts out. Next minute you're dead.  Just see the light in her eyes and her stage presence. Little did she know that this would be her last performance in life. Guess what killed her?  You would be correct if you mentioned a man. This was the last performance by Christina Grimmie.  Her growth sprouted from the phase of YouTube of everyone and their grandmas were making covers. But the difference is that Christina can actually sing. Go watch her cover of Titanium and Rihanna's Only Girl in the World. So after this performance she was doing meet and greet with fans. Then she opened her arms to hug a fan who approached her and this dude shot her point blank in her chest and forehead. Why you ask?  This dude was deluded that she was meant to ...

There's this train of thought people like to have about if someone refuses to help them (usually financially), that the person might need their (the borrower's) help in the future. They think: "if you need my help in the future, I'm not going to help you." Maka na nụ anyị nọ secondary or university? Heck even in school then, people like to be like, if you don't tell answer in the hall, you'd need the help. Well I wasn't going to need any dullard's help in the hall before, no? There's nothing to glean from them. For the money, Nollywood has brainwashed a shit load of people... Falling from grace to grass. lol Actually in the real world, the more ventures you have undertaken and have failed, the more connections you get because people see you as "having skin in the game." And certainly, the previous borrower can get more successful, no disputing that. But so is the other person that'd already had their money. They will more li...

Chapter three of the work I’ve been reading is mostly on precision and technology. It surmises how, for instance, someone like Ferdinand de Lesseps was able to persuade governors to start with the Suez Canal and then eventually Panama. I don’t think I concentrated much on the topic, but I want to tie it back to the documentary I just finished by Untold. I’ve written about it yesterday but this is maybe a fond, forward piece on it. But I also wanted to highlight the manager, Bob Whitsitt (I can’t pronounce it). He got that role because, for some reason, he knew Paul Allen. What he brought up was that he was managing not just this, but the women’s NBA, the other subsidiaries Allen owned which spanned from the Seahawks, and I think about five businesses overall that he was managing. And the question you would ask is: why is he doing all five of them for him? Why didn’t Paul hire more people, or at least delegate some of these. Maybe have him delegate these to other people? And I thin...