Tuesday, August 21, 2012
Friday, August 10, 2012
updates - a feature for the future of e-books
I predict that the future of books, specifically e-books, is updates. Just like app developers make updates to their apps, authors would send updates to e-books too.
For example - page 10 of Reid Hoffman's book, The Start-up of You (Feb, 2012), reads "...thinking through the future of the mobile Internet with Kevin Rose at Digg and Milk (his mobile apps firm)...".
On March 2012, Google acquired Milk, and in July 2012, Betaworks acquired Digg, so that sentence is already dated. Therefore Reid could send an update to your kindle like, ."..thinking through the future of the mobile Internet with Kevin Rose formally of Digg (acquired by Betaworks) and Milk (acquired by Google)…"
For example - page 10 of Reid Hoffman's book, The Start-up of You (Feb, 2012), reads "...thinking through the future of the mobile Internet with Kevin Rose at Digg and Milk (his mobile apps firm)...".
On March 2012, Google acquired Milk, and in July 2012, Betaworks acquired Digg, so that sentence is already dated. Therefore Reid could send an update to your kindle like, ."..thinking through the future of the mobile Internet with Kevin Rose formally of Digg (acquired by Betaworks) and Milk (acquired by Google)…"
Saturday, August 04, 2012
Waiting for Happiness
The following was a text conversation with a friend.
Me:
Side story - I was at an interview yesterday, great interview, he asked great questions, he was clearly well prepared (English guy, CEO of newly formed division at d company)...at a point of the interview, I basically said indirectly that if the job was not the right fit for me, he should not hire me.
I didn't know until the interview, but it was a project management job in electrical engineering, I also said that Information Technology is where I would prefer to keep my focus on, and I have only a 3 month internship in electric engineering (from my 2nd year in university)…even though I have a BSc in electric engineering.
I basically gave him reasons not to hire me.
I felt better, cos simple honesty really beats, trying to prove what I'm not into, because I want a job.
So ill be expecting d results next wk or wk after :)
Friend:
Haha
Love it
Me:
Yea:
Friend:
I love when someone knows what they want in life and goes after it
Me:
Bear in mind that I'm broke as $#t
But I know the direction I wanna head to
The interview was at ******* (huge conglomerate group) btw
Friend:
Don't worry
Before daylight there must always be a night
Where you don't even know where to head
Everything seems dark
Me:
Yea, I'm not worried. Surprisingly enough, I'm happy.
Few months ago, I was bored to my teeth. You remember when I used to
tell you…
Now, I have so much to do, I use my calendar a lot now
I joined the church media team, I've started tutoring again
Got two job offers - the hard part is choosing. And I have two more prospective jobs that I'm in the interviewing stages of.
I may not have money, but I live, eat, and drive a car, provided by the God via the parentals.
So..I just looked on the bright side jare. My...(personal device of mine)... was stolen - don't matter, I'll buy a better one soon.
Friend:
:)
That's the spirit
When you are waiting, it's always good to be active
Me:
Exactly
Plus another lesson I needed to learn..if I keep waiting for that next job, or that next gf, or to move into my own apartment to make me happier..I might wait a long time
Cos when those things happen, I'll still need that next thing
Friend:
Yup
Yup
Me:
So why not find a way to be fulfilled now, no matter what life has in store
Friend:
Exactly. Dang God is working on my Folarin
Me
:D (laughing)
That's why I didn't wait to be comfortable to begin investing. I started when I was/am broke.
Friend
:)
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Update
The 'personal device' that was stolen was my iPad. It was stolen while I was working at church. Graciously, the church elders met and bought/replaced me a new iPad with double the hard drive
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Update
The 'personal device' that was stolen was my iPad. It was stolen while I was working at church. Graciously, the church elders met and bought/replaced me a new iPad with double the hard drive
Thursday, July 19, 2012
Software will replace physical placeholders
CDs, DVDs and Bluray disks are placeholders until internet bandwidth is cheap enough and strong enough all over the world, for us to be able to stream TV and Films. When we get there, we will no long have disks.
Paper money and debit/credit cards are only placeholders, until we have all embraced payments on our mobile phones.
Physical books are placeholders, until we all fully embrace e-books
Point and Shoot cameras are placeholders until our phones can do a better job at taking pictures. In-fact we are already at that point where point-and-shoot cameras are getting phased out.
Therefore, SLRs are placeholders until they become phased out when phone cameras become sophisticated enough with the help of camera apps
There are many more examples
Our phone's software has made obsolete or will soon make obsolete these placeholders:
Alarm clocks
Calculator
Calendar
Photographs
Paper maps
mp3 player
etc
2 years ago, I told a friend that cameras are placeholders until our eyes are actually able to take photos. Then Black Mirror also suggests that our eyes will soon be able capture video 24/7 that we can rewind and playback either to ourselves, or through a TV set.
For more, look at slides 33 - 84 here:
KPCB Internet Trends 2012
2 years ago, I told a friend that cameras are placeholders until our eyes are actually able to take photos. Then Black Mirror also suggests that our eyes will soon be able capture video 24/7 that we can rewind and playback either to ourselves, or through a TV set.
For more, look at slides 33 - 84 here:
KPCB Internet Trends 2012
Saturday, July 07, 2012
The Amazing Spiderman review
It was an excellent movie. Well cast. The scenes with Peter Parker and his love interest were better than those in each of the 3 previous films. The relationship with his uncle Ben, and aunty May was fresh, warm and they nailed it emotionally when the scene needed to.
The way they tackled the uncle Ben demise was more grounded in reality than in the first Spiderman, and what a great choice to cast Martin Sheen.
Andrew Garfield is a superstar. Tobey Maguire was a great spiderman, but Garfield I think, really gets the character a little bit more than Tobey did.
I was initially skeptical that the swinging was gonna disappoint, but it didn't. Having said that, I still prefer the swinging shots in Spidey 1 & 2.
I think what director Marc Webb did better than director Sam Raimi, was to re-imagine the spiderman character when he is in the suit. Spidey has more fun this time. He has is funnier. He moves faster in the cleverest of ways. My favourite action scene is when Spidey is fighting with the Lizard inside the school. When Gwen Stacy attempts to help, Spiderman unleashes this strong web of horror around this very powerful assailant. He weaves the web in a very fluid, musical way to hold him down. Then at some point, he crawls from the shoulders of the Lizard down to his legs and to his back…like a freaking spider. That was the best moment, that was the edge, the nuance of the character than Marc Webb and his visual effects team got over the previous spiderman films.
I think what director Marc Webb did better than director Sam Raimi, was to re-imagine the spiderman character when he is in the suit. Spidey has more fun this time. He has is funnier. He moves faster in the cleverest of ways. My favourite action scene is when Spidey is fighting with the Lizard inside the school. When Gwen Stacy attempts to help, Spiderman unleashes this strong web of horror around this very powerful assailant. He weaves the web in a very fluid, musical way to hold him down. Then at some point, he crawls from the shoulders of the Lizard down to his legs and to his back…like a freaking spider. That was the best moment, that was the edge, the nuance of the character than Marc Webb and his visual effects team got over the previous spiderman films.
Don't get me wrong Spiderman 2 set the bar so high. I won't say this is better because they are so different. I can say this one is definitely better than Spiderman 3 which was crap, still don't know why I bought the dvd. Oh, yeah because of the extra features, and a few decent action scenes.
Emma Stone nails...nails, the Gwen Stacy part. She is going to be our generation's Meryl Streep.
Thursday, July 05, 2012
Monday, June 04, 2012
How to transfer contacts from a Nokia phone to a Blackberry
Tuesday, January 17, 2012
The Descendants
Super-star actors like George Clooney, Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie are at the top of their game for good reason. They are not just famous celebrities we see on the cover of People magazine which lies in the rack at the grocery store. They act and make the best films when compared with the films that their peers make. I suppose since they are already incredibly wealthy, money no longer is the priority when choosing projects. They would much rather choose to do films like The Descendants, Moneyball or In the Land of Blood and Honey (respectively), where they can gain respect by winning accolades and awards.
I had never heard of The Descendants, which stars George Clooney, and directed by Alexander Payne until the 2012 Golden Globe nominations were announced. The Descendants is a film mainly about family. Clooney is a father and husband whose wife was in a boating accident. She hit her head and is now in a coma on life support. Clooney has two daughters ages 10 and 17. They live in Hawaii. Clooney, who is a busy real estate attorney now has to learn to raise his children who he has not had much experience with before his wife's accident, because he travelled a lot on business and was hardly around. He now also has to learn how to deal with the imminent bereavement of his wife and manage his somewhat estranged children's feelings too. The other side of this film's story is that Clooney's character is the trustee of a massive land in Hawaii worth hundreds of millions of dollars, someone even offering half a billion. He and his 7 or 8 other 'cousins' are The Descendants of this land, which may or may not be sold by the end of the movie.
Clooney's voice over at the beginning of the film was quick to suppress our stereotipical notion that everyone who lives in Hawaii lives in paradise. Or that its residents are on some permanent vacation, where everybody sips on Mai Tais on the beach everyday, without a care in the world. No, Hawaii is like everywhere else. People there work for a living. "Its residents are not immune to life."
So, the movie is about Clooney dealing with the business of getting the land sold, and dealing with his children whose mother will not wake up. There is a clever tie-in between boths stories that raises the dramatic and comedy to a high level, because, Clooney, who was excited about the sale before, now finds himself in a dilemma.
Clooney decides to take the family on a trip to inform all family and friends about the state of the wife/mother. Alex decides she wants to bring some obnoxious and impolite guy-friend along with her. Clooney disagrees at first until she says she would behave herself more if he is there with her. It turns out she did behave. This guy-friend seems to be really annoying at first, many times, never realizing how insensitive he is to an old woman's Alzheimer's or the serious situation the family is going through. However as he travels with the family, we notice him understanding things better, he even has a few seconds of wisdom to disperse. We learn that he lost his father a few months back, so maybe that is the connection Alex sees in him, and therapy she needed.
This movie is very smartly written. It is also well grounded in reality. Nothing happens that could not happen in real life. As I listened to the characters talk, I kept saying to myself, yep, that is how I would expect that character to respond...yep, if I were her, I would do exactly that. But the reason we go to movies is to see something we would not normally see in real life, therefore the dialogue is pushed a bit beyond reality just a tiny bit, so that there are witty comebacks and clever remarks, which makes it more exciting.
There were amazing performances by every single cast member. Clooney is obviously great as always. He shows that he is as adept at comedy as he is at displaying and evoking strong emotion. Even actors normally known for comedic roles like Matthew Lillard and Judy Greer were great in their dramatic parts. Clooney's father-in-law, played by Robert Forster (popularly known from Jackie Brown), is amazing as a gentle but bitter father who blames Clooney for not giving her what he thought his daughter deserved in life. A stand out performance was Shailene Woodley as Alex, Clooney's teenage daughter. At the beginning, she is a rebel, but her character arch evolves to become her dad's partner who goes on hilarious family reconnaissance missions.
I normally would not be the first to seek out dramas, but I am begining to like comedy-dramas because as soon as a scene becomes too sad, the filmmakers inject something funny, but not 'haha' funny so as not to downplay the seriousness, but the kind that makes you wanna cry and smile at the same time.
Every character gets their time to grow, learn and cry.
Director irector Alexander Payne has only made 5 films, including About Schmidt and Sideways which already makes him a master at what he does.
The Descendants won the Golden Globe award in 2012 for Best Picture - Drama, and Best Actor - Drama for George Clooney. This is a film that will be a classic which will withstand the test of time.
By Folarin Osibodu
Tuesday, May 17, 2011
TIME magazine's 100 most influential people
TIME magazine's 100 most influential people
Main article: http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/completelist/0,29569,2066367,00.html
The purpose of this article is to test how wide my knowledge is of the news in the past year or years before.
I simply pulled the list from TIME.com, looked at it and typed a description of who I recognize, and why I think they were nominated...all without clicking on their names or googleing.
1. Joseph Stiglitz - World renowned American economist. He has either won a Nobel prize or is a strong candidate for one.
2. Reed Hastings - Netflix CEO. He found Netflix either in 1997 or 99. A forward thinker in the way consumers consume home media. Pioneered mailing of dvds to home and "no late fees". This reason along with the continual reduced monthly subscription rates both attracted 10 - 20 million subscribers. It also put Blockbuster out of business. Hastings named his company 'NET-flix' not 'RENT-flix' because from the every beginning he foresaw consumers "instantly watching" movies and tv shows through streaming. DVD rental was simply a means to that end.
3. Amy Poehler - American comedian. Became widely popular on Saturday Night Live, performing sketch comedy and reporting the news with comedy. She later branched out to doing feature films which include, Baby Mama with Tina Fey, and Hamlet 2 with Steve Coogan.
She can currently be seen on the successful NBC comedy, "Parks and Recreation."
4. Geoffrey Canada - founded the Harlem Academy. The goal was to bring young minds from low socio-economic status and prepare them for college. Canada's (graduate of Harvard) enthusiasm is so apparent for this calling of his that he has been profiled in magazines, on Oprah - numerous times, talk shows, and a popular documentary was made with him and his academy at the center. The documentary is called, "Waiting for Superman" directed by David Guggenheim.
5. Mark Zuckerberg - co-founder and CEO of Facebook.com - the social network that has had an impact in me, yours and all almost 600 million users all around the world. Facebook has permeated the entire internet in just a short period of time, since 2004. Zuckerberg, also attended Harvard, except did not graduate, donated $100 million to the New Jersey School System. This announcement was featured on Oprah in 2010 along with Geoffrey Canada and mayor of New Jersey, Cory Booker. A very critical acclaimed movie was made about the founding of facebook called "The Social Network" which earned the academy award for best screenplay. The movie also grossed over $100 million.
Many high-profile guests have visited Facebook head-quarters in Palo Alto, CA, including President Barack Obama who recently held a town hall meeting.
Zuckerberg is the youngest billionaire, and Facebook is valued at about $50 billion.
6. Jilian Assange - controversial founder of Wikileaks - Assange was in the news pretty much throughout the whole of 2010. Wikileaks is a website that allows the anonymous submission of secret government details to be viewed openly, which does not make the U.S. government very happy.
7. Lamido Sanusi - Nigerian CBN (Central Bank of Nigeria) governor. He was appointed the governor of the CBN at the height of the world economic collapse around June 2009. He immediately took drastic steps - he consolidated banks, fired about 9 bank executives and hopefully began steps to reducing corruption in the country.
8. Colin Firth - actor. British actor who has never made a bad performance (my opinion) finally got his due when he won the Oscar for "The King's Speech" he also won the BAFTA for the same role. He also made an acclaimed performance in A Single Man directed by Tom Ford.
9. Joe Biden - Vice President of the United States. Besides that, I really don't know why he is on this list.
10. Cory Booker - Mayor of Newark, New Jersey. He has been very particular about the state of education in his city.
11. Michelle Obama - wife of President Barack Obama aka. First Lady of the U.S. - She was very particular about child obesity and the kind of food that children eat in schools.
12. Tom Ford - Fashion Designer and Director. Only directed one film and did an excellent job at it...A Single Man, with Colin Firth.
13. Nicholas Sarkozy - President of France.
14. Matthew Weiner - Creator of Emmy award winning tv show, Mad Men on AMC. Matthew Weiner also created The Sopranos which had a very long run on HBO (about 6-9 seasons). Interestingly, he pitched Mad Men to producers first but they turned that down. Only after the success and awards that The Sopranos had and won, was he able to make Mad Men.
15. Lisa Jackson - Michael Jackson's sister?
16. Justin Bieber - World wide singer/performer came into the limelight from posting youtube videos after being discovered by Usher. He has mezmerized young girls...and their moms, Beiber Fever. He has appeared an every talk show including Oprah, sang in the new "We are the world" video, and performed at every musical and movie award show.
17. Prince William and Kate Middleton - the are English. William in the royal family married Kate who he dated for about 8 years. They had a huge wedding in May 2011 which was broadcast live all over the world, including YouTube for the very first time.
18. Kim Jong Un - probably Kim Jong Il's son.
19. Oprah Winfrey - over 25 years of The Oprah Winfrey Show, enough said. She has interviewed everybody, presidents, royals, actors, regular people, Michael Jackson, and puppets. She ran the Oprah show under her production company, Harpo Productions (Oprah spelt backwards). She became the wealthiest African-American, a billionaire, Tom Cruise jumped on her couch, supported Obama and cried when he won. On January 1, 2011, she started her own network called OWN, in partnership with Discovery Networks. She has an XM satellite show, and has spawned tv and XM careers of Dr. Phil, Dr. Oz and that guy that does home furnishings.
20. Larry Page - co-founder of Google, Inc. Page, along with co-founder Sergei Brin, worked on their Stanford project that hoped to index the entire web and make it search very easy and effective. After Eric Schmidt, the former CEO of Google recently stepped down after nearly a decade of running the company, Larry Page stepped up. Let's see where he takes Google with other prominent competition from companies like, Facebook, Groupon, Twitter, Apple and Amazon.
21. David Cameron - Britain's prime minister.
22. John Lasseter - founded Pixar animation studios along with Steve Jobs and Ed Catmul around 1994. With him as the head of Pixar, the company is about 11 for 11. All movies have been very very successful, most have taken academy awards for best animated film year after year, while some have even made it to the best film category.
Films
Toy Story
Toy Story 2
A Bug's Life
Monster's Inc.
Finding Nemo
The Incredibles
Cars
Wall-E
Up
Toy Tory 3
Upcoming Films
Newt
Cars 2
After Walt Disney Studios acquired Pixar, John Lasseter became head of Disney Animation. He is now both in charge of movies that Pixar makes, and the others that Disney makes.
23. Mukesh Ambani - Indian Billionaire, among the world's wealthiest few. He is the guy that has that 27 story house in India.
24. Bruno Mars - Singer
25. General David Petraeus - He is the leader of the U.S. Armed Forces, the guy that led U.S. troops to Iraq and Afghanistan and stuff.
26. Matt Damon and Gary White - Matt Damon is a Harvard trained actor, he lost many pounds to be in Steven Spielberg's "Saving Private Ryan". He played Ryan. He co-wrote the screenplay of "Good Will Hunting" with his close friend Ben Affleck which won each of them Oscars.
I'm guessing the reason he in on the TIME 100 most influential people is because of Water.org The organization that looks to provide water for the those that do not have easy access. Water.org posted a challenge for teams of students in universities to come of with creative ways of solving water problems. Scholarships was provided to the winners.
27. Sting - singer, who likes to do good things around the world, I guess.
28. Michelle Rhee - Washington DC School Superintendent. When she came into office, she fired bad teachers. She was also featured in the acclaimed documentary, "Waiting for superman"
29. Mark Whalberg - actor. Recently did a good job in "The Fighter". Heard he had to "fight" to get the movie made. Not sure why he's on the list though.
30. Arianna Huffington - Created the Huffington Post. This popular blog, quickly became a source of real news, to compete with newspapers such as The Washington Post, The New York Times, The New York Post and The New Yorker. Arianna a workaholic holds about 3 or 4 cell phones at any one time. She is a vocal proponent of better education. aol bought the huffington post for $315 million recently, Arianna banks some big dough!
31. Barack Obama - President of The United States. Won Nobel Peace Prize in 2010, and donated the million dollars to charity because he felt he had not yet earned it. Did something big in Health Care. He onced played basket ball for leisure got injured on his eye and got 12 stitches.
32. Scott Rudin - film producer. He produced the award winning and financially successful movie, "The Social Network."
33. John Boehner - prominent member of the Republican party of the U.S.
33 out of 100. 1/3rd not bad.
Oops, skipped over...
Hillary Clinton - U.S. Secretary of State. She campained hard for the presidency. She may not have won, but she holds a very strong position in the White House. She travels overseas a lot to speak with world leaders. She had that worried look in the photo while Barack Obama et al watched as US Navy Seals raided Osama Bin Laden's compound
Main article: http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/completelist/0,29569,2066367,00.html
The purpose of this article is to test how wide my knowledge is of the news in the past year or years before.
I simply pulled the list from TIME.com, looked at it and typed a description of who I recognize, and why I think they were nominated...all without clicking on their names or googleing.
1. Joseph Stiglitz - World renowned American economist. He has either won a Nobel prize or is a strong candidate for one.
2. Reed Hastings - Netflix CEO. He found Netflix either in 1997 or 99. A forward thinker in the way consumers consume home media. Pioneered mailing of dvds to home and "no late fees". This reason along with the continual reduced monthly subscription rates both attracted 10 - 20 million subscribers. It also put Blockbuster out of business. Hastings named his company 'NET-flix' not 'RENT-flix' because from the every beginning he foresaw consumers "instantly watching" movies and tv shows through streaming. DVD rental was simply a means to that end.
3. Amy Poehler - American comedian. Became widely popular on Saturday Night Live, performing sketch comedy and reporting the news with comedy. She later branched out to doing feature films which include, Baby Mama with Tina Fey, and Hamlet 2 with Steve Coogan.
She can currently be seen on the successful NBC comedy, "Parks and Recreation."
4. Geoffrey Canada - founded the Harlem Academy. The goal was to bring young minds from low socio-economic status and prepare them for college. Canada's (graduate of Harvard) enthusiasm is so apparent for this calling of his that he has been profiled in magazines, on Oprah - numerous times, talk shows, and a popular documentary was made with him and his academy at the center. The documentary is called, "Waiting for Superman" directed by David Guggenheim.
5. Mark Zuckerberg - co-founder and CEO of Facebook.com - the social network that has had an impact in me, yours and all almost 600 million users all around the world. Facebook has permeated the entire internet in just a short period of time, since 2004. Zuckerberg, also attended Harvard, except did not graduate, donated $100 million to the New Jersey School System. This announcement was featured on Oprah in 2010 along with Geoffrey Canada and mayor of New Jersey, Cory Booker. A very critical acclaimed movie was made about the founding of facebook called "The Social Network" which earned the academy award for best screenplay. The movie also grossed over $100 million.
Many high-profile guests have visited Facebook head-quarters in Palo Alto, CA, including President Barack Obama who recently held a town hall meeting.
Zuckerberg is the youngest billionaire, and Facebook is valued at about $50 billion.
6. Jilian Assange - controversial founder of Wikileaks - Assange was in the news pretty much throughout the whole of 2010. Wikileaks is a website that allows the anonymous submission of secret government details to be viewed openly, which does not make the U.S. government very happy.
7. Lamido Sanusi - Nigerian CBN (Central Bank of Nigeria) governor. He was appointed the governor of the CBN at the height of the world economic collapse around June 2009. He immediately took drastic steps - he consolidated banks, fired about 9 bank executives and hopefully began steps to reducing corruption in the country.
8. Colin Firth - actor. British actor who has never made a bad performance (my opinion) finally got his due when he won the Oscar for "The King's Speech" he also won the BAFTA for the same role. He also made an acclaimed performance in A Single Man directed by Tom Ford.
9. Joe Biden - Vice President of the United States. Besides that, I really don't know why he is on this list.
10. Cory Booker - Mayor of Newark, New Jersey. He has been very particular about the state of education in his city.
11. Michelle Obama - wife of President Barack Obama aka. First Lady of the U.S. - She was very particular about child obesity and the kind of food that children eat in schools.
12. Tom Ford - Fashion Designer and Director. Only directed one film and did an excellent job at it...A Single Man, with Colin Firth.
13. Nicholas Sarkozy - President of France.
14. Matthew Weiner - Creator of Emmy award winning tv show, Mad Men on AMC. Matthew Weiner also created The Sopranos which had a very long run on HBO (about 6-9 seasons). Interestingly, he pitched Mad Men to producers first but they turned that down. Only after the success and awards that The Sopranos had and won, was he able to make Mad Men.
15. Lisa Jackson - Michael Jackson's sister?
16. Justin Bieber - World wide singer/performer came into the limelight from posting youtube videos after being discovered by Usher. He has mezmerized young girls...and their moms, Beiber Fever. He has appeared an every talk show including Oprah, sang in the new "We are the world" video, and performed at every musical and movie award show.
17. Prince William and Kate Middleton - the are English. William in the royal family married Kate who he dated for about 8 years. They had a huge wedding in May 2011 which was broadcast live all over the world, including YouTube for the very first time.
18. Kim Jong Un - probably Kim Jong Il's son.
19. Oprah Winfrey - over 25 years of The Oprah Winfrey Show, enough said. She has interviewed everybody, presidents, royals, actors, regular people, Michael Jackson, and puppets. She ran the Oprah show under her production company, Harpo Productions (Oprah spelt backwards). She became the wealthiest African-American, a billionaire, Tom Cruise jumped on her couch, supported Obama and cried when he won. On January 1, 2011, she started her own network called OWN, in partnership with Discovery Networks. She has an XM satellite show, and has spawned tv and XM careers of Dr. Phil, Dr. Oz and that guy that does home furnishings.
20. Larry Page - co-founder of Google, Inc. Page, along with co-founder Sergei Brin, worked on their Stanford project that hoped to index the entire web and make it search very easy and effective. After Eric Schmidt, the former CEO of Google recently stepped down after nearly a decade of running the company, Larry Page stepped up. Let's see where he takes Google with other prominent competition from companies like, Facebook, Groupon, Twitter, Apple and Amazon.
21. David Cameron - Britain's prime minister.
22. John Lasseter - founded Pixar animation studios along with Steve Jobs and Ed Catmul around 1994. With him as the head of Pixar, the company is about 11 for 11. All movies have been very very successful, most have taken academy awards for best animated film year after year, while some have even made it to the best film category.
Films
Toy Story
Toy Story 2
A Bug's Life
Monster's Inc.
Finding Nemo
The Incredibles
Cars
Wall-E
Up
Toy Tory 3
Upcoming Films
Newt
Cars 2
After Walt Disney Studios acquired Pixar, John Lasseter became head of Disney Animation. He is now both in charge of movies that Pixar makes, and the others that Disney makes.
23. Mukesh Ambani - Indian Billionaire, among the world's wealthiest few. He is the guy that has that 27 story house in India.
24. Bruno Mars - Singer
25. General David Petraeus - He is the leader of the U.S. Armed Forces, the guy that led U.S. troops to Iraq and Afghanistan and stuff.
26. Matt Damon and Gary White - Matt Damon is a Harvard trained actor, he lost many pounds to be in Steven Spielberg's "Saving Private Ryan". He played Ryan. He co-wrote the screenplay of "Good Will Hunting" with his close friend Ben Affleck which won each of them Oscars.
I'm guessing the reason he in on the TIME 100 most influential people is because of Water.org The organization that looks to provide water for the those that do not have easy access. Water.org posted a challenge for teams of students in universities to come of with creative ways of solving water problems. Scholarships was provided to the winners.
27. Sting - singer, who likes to do good things around the world, I guess.
28. Michelle Rhee - Washington DC School Superintendent. When she came into office, she fired bad teachers. She was also featured in the acclaimed documentary, "Waiting for superman"
29. Mark Whalberg - actor. Recently did a good job in "The Fighter". Heard he had to "fight" to get the movie made. Not sure why he's on the list though.
30. Arianna Huffington - Created the Huffington Post. This popular blog, quickly became a source of real news, to compete with newspapers such as The Washington Post, The New York Times, The New York Post and The New Yorker. Arianna a workaholic holds about 3 or 4 cell phones at any one time. She is a vocal proponent of better education. aol bought the huffington post for $315 million recently, Arianna banks some big dough!
31. Barack Obama - President of The United States. Won Nobel Peace Prize in 2010, and donated the million dollars to charity because he felt he had not yet earned it. Did something big in Health Care. He onced played basket ball for leisure got injured on his eye and got 12 stitches.
32. Scott Rudin - film producer. He produced the award winning and financially successful movie, "The Social Network."
33. John Boehner - prominent member of the Republican party of the U.S.
33 out of 100. 1/3rd not bad.
Oops, skipped over...
Hillary Clinton - U.S. Secretary of State. She campained hard for the presidency. She may not have won, but she holds a very strong position in the White House. She travels overseas a lot to speak with world leaders. She had that worried look in the photo while Barack Obama et al watched as US Navy Seals raided Osama Bin Laden's compound
Thursday, November 04, 2010
The Commercial Appeal paper written on me on my day of Bachelors degree graduation
Long journey has a degree of satisfaction -- U of M ceremonies at Forum represent opportunity to new class of graduates
Commercial Appeal, The (Memphis, TN) - Sunday, May 7, 2006
Author: Lindsay Melvin Special to The Commercial Appeal
Double-majoring in electrical engineering and computer engineering is no easy task, says Folarin Osibodu. But neither was leaving his parents and friends in Nigeria.
"Here you have a lot of opportunities," said Osibodu.[...]
[...]Before coming to the University of Memphis, he spent a semester at a Nigerian college where professors were underpaid and students jockeyed for computers.
"In Nigeria, we don't have one computer for each person, and that just doesn't bring out your best creative work," he said.
His sister attended U of M as well, and this past week, for the first time in two years, his family came together to see them both graduate with honors.
"My father says he's the proudest father ever," said Osibodu.
...
For Osibodu, school's not over yet. He's still planning to go on for his MBA, and although he'd prefer to stay in the "land of opportunity," returning to Nigeria with an education is the best solution he can think of to help better his homeland, he said.
"No matter how much money you spend, knowledge needs to be there. Knowledge is power," he said.
Edition: Final"Here you have a lot of opportunities," said Osibodu.[...]
[...]Before coming to the University of Memphis, he spent a semester at a Nigerian college where professors were underpaid and students jockeyed for computers.
"In Nigeria, we don't have one computer for each person, and that just doesn't bring out your best creative work," he said.
His sister attended U of M as well, and this past week, for the first time in two years, his family came together to see them both graduate with honors.
"My father says he's the proudest father ever," said Osibodu.
...
For Osibodu, school's not over yet. He's still planning to go on for his MBA, and although he'd prefer to stay in the "land of opportunity," returning to Nigeria with an education is the best solution he can think of to help better his homeland, he said.
"No matter how much money you spend, knowledge needs to be there. Knowledge is power," he said.
Caption: Photo
Mike Maple/The Commercial Appeal Yoon Hong (left), 27, shares a laugh with her friend and fellow graduate Kyunghwa Kim, 24, during University of Memphis graduation ceremonies at FedExForum. They were among 1,600 receiving degrees Saturday.
Mike Maple/The Commercial Appeal Yoon Hong (left), 27, shares a laugh with her friend and fellow graduate Kyunghwa Kim, 24, during University of Memphis graduation ceremonies at FedExForum. They were among 1,600 receiving degrees Saturday.
Section: Metro
Page: B1
Index Terms: graduation college speech
Record Number: 1117F4F269C4FA35
Copyright (c) 2006 The Commercial Appeal, Memphis, TN
Tuesday, October 05, 2010
I saved someone's life...financially
August 2010.
I was on a flight on my way back from Los Angeles. While in the air, the flight attendant announced that she would be passing forms from a major credit card company. It was a Master Card that had rewards of about $500,000. Really? Now, the flight attendant really sold the idea of this credit card very well...so well that even I almost saw something good in a credit card.
Over the years, I have put many hundreds of hours researching the financial industry -reading, listening to podcasts, talking to professionals. I have looked at the advantages and disadvantages of owning a credit card, I have listened to experts on the subject...looked at the Word of God, and put my own thought to it...after all that, I have come to a conclusion.
THERE IS NO REASON TO OWN A CREDIT CARD. Period.
So, after the flight attendant went through her spiel, she asked for people to raise their hand if they would like to fill a form. A few people raised their hands, including a younger sista who sat by my left. As I watched a dvd digital copy of a movie on my Macbook, I watched her through the corner of my eye as she tried to decide if she wanted to fill the form. It would be her first credit card.
As soon as she began filling the form, I stopped my movie and turned to her.
I asked for her name, she told me, and I told her mine. I said, "You don't need a credit card". "All that $500,000 reward-bonus-crap that she said, it is a lie." [Legally, she did not lie, but for 99.9% of credit card owners, it might as well have been a lie]. I explained to her why she did not need a card. I told her my story about credit cards, and how I had come to the conclusion that one can live well and survive in the U.S. without credit cards. I mentioned that I had not used a credit card in over 3 years, and here I am sitting in a plane that I paid cash for (Debit Card).
I explained to her that one's finances should boil down to a few simple rules:
Work for your money. Save your money. If you need to buy something that you cannot immediately afford, wait till you have saved enough, and then buy it. Also, give away 10% of your income.
She understood what I taught, and accepted it. Then I told her to tear the Master Card application form. The paper size was too thick to tear, so I helped her and ripped the form to shreds. We both laughed and exchanged more personal stories.
My hope and prayer is that she follows, not just this teaching, but the teachings of our grand-parents about money. Simple guidelines that work, that save people from financial disaster.
August 2010.
I was on a flight on my way back from Los Angeles. While in the air, the flight attendant announced that she would be passing forms from a major credit card company. It was a Master Card that had rewards of about $500,000. Really? Now, the flight attendant really sold the idea of this credit card very well...so well that even I almost saw something good in a credit card.
Over the years, I have put many hundreds of hours researching the financial industry -reading, listening to podcasts, talking to professionals. I have looked at the advantages and disadvantages of owning a credit card, I have listened to experts on the subject...looked at the Word of God, and put my own thought to it...after all that, I have come to a conclusion.
THERE IS NO REASON TO OWN A CREDIT CARD. Period.
So, after the flight attendant went through her spiel, she asked for people to raise their hand if they would like to fill a form. A few people raised their hands, including a younger sista who sat by my left. As I watched a dvd digital copy of a movie on my Macbook, I watched her through the corner of my eye as she tried to decide if she wanted to fill the form. It would be her first credit card.
As soon as she began filling the form, I stopped my movie and turned to her.
I asked for her name, she told me, and I told her mine. I said, "You don't need a credit card". "All that $500,000 reward-bonus-crap that she said, it is a lie." [Legally, she did not lie, but for 99.9% of credit card owners, it might as well have been a lie]. I explained to her why she did not need a card. I told her my story about credit cards, and how I had come to the conclusion that one can live well and survive in the U.S. without credit cards. I mentioned that I had not used a credit card in over 3 years, and here I am sitting in a plane that I paid cash for (Debit Card).
I explained to her that one's finances should boil down to a few simple rules:
Work for your money. Save your money. If you need to buy something that you cannot immediately afford, wait till you have saved enough, and then buy it. Also, give away 10% of your income.
She understood what I taught, and accepted it. Then I told her to tear the Master Card application form. The paper size was too thick to tear, so I helped her and ripped the form to shreds. We both laughed and exchanged more personal stories.
My hope and prayer is that she follows, not just this teaching, but the teachings of our grand-parents about money. Simple guidelines that work, that save people from financial disaster.
Friday, October 01, 2010
Topmost Tutoring - the founder's history
I would consider myself as someone who knows Mathematics, understands it, and is able to solve difficult Math problems. In my 2000 SAT, I my score placed me in the top 5% in the entire country.
Despite this Math skill, Mathematics did not come easy for me. From a very early age, I put in a tremendous amount of time and effort into studying Mathematics. I remember specifically in high school, I had great difficulty with grasping the concept of the negative sign (-).
For example, why is 3 - - 4 = 7, -3-4 = -7, -4 + 3 = -1 and 3 - 4 = -1
I used to get headaches trying to understand the rules of the negative sign. They seemed counter-intuitive to the way the mind normally worked. So, I asked 2 of my closest friends who seemed to understand it, but I could not understand their explanations. I spent countless hours studying the textbook, working on most of the problems at the end of the chapter (usually over 20 problems), until I finally got it.
I have many examples of situations in which it was difficult for me to understand a concept, but when I finally got it, I felt like nobody in the world understood it better than I did. After many years, I looked back and I could see the reason why I was allowed to go through a lot of mental pain in Mathematics...enter Topmost Tutoring.
When I started college at the University of Memphis, I was told that Math tutors were paid $10/hr. Many desk assistant jobs were paid $6.50 at the time. So, since I knew I could tutor, I applied. The manager nicely explained to me that 1st year students were not allowed to tutor, only Sophomores and above. So, I took the desk job, waited a year, applied for the tutoring job again, was hired and so it began.
Over the course of 4 years in college, I have had about 6 or 7 various tutoring jobs, depending of which was available during regular school season or the summer, or depending on what tutoring program was available. I became better at reading people, quickly understanding how they thought about a problem, then guiding them to the solution. I say guiding because I did not just hand them the answers. I would solve the first 1, 2 or 3 problems, then watch them solve the rest.
I noticed many of my students making the same mistakes that I made back in junior high and high school, mistakes that I had learned from. Therefore, since I knew how they approached the problems, it was easy for me to say, “I understand why you are thinking of it that way. It may seem logical for you to think of it that way, but that is not how it works, this is the way to think about it.”
Now, after finishing my Masters program. I want to use what I know, to add value to my community, and the world.
Topmost Tutoring was formed with the slogan, “We make difficult courses simple”. Our goal is to show that Math problems are like puzzles. When scattered, they look very complex and impossible...but as soon as you put the pieces together one step at a time in the right spots, they form one big puzzle. Ostensibly complex math problems are made up of of simple rules. The challenge to solve the problem, is that one has to know and understand every single rule that is required.
And that is where we come in. We will find out where the student is deficient. What laws were not covered in elementary school or junior high, what rules have been forgotten, and we will put it all together in a way that is easy to understand, and maybe even fun.
A friend of mine who has difficulty with Math said, “Math can be taught if the teacher is good enough, and Math can be liked if the teacher makes the subject engaging enough.” - Roberta
I told her that I would include her text message in one of our business plans, and I just did.
Our vision for Topmost Tutoring is to be the very best in Math tutoring in the world. We will make Math easy and fun to understand. Our vision is to eradicate the Math deficiency epidemic.
I would consider myself as someone who knows Mathematics, understands it, and is able to solve difficult Math problems. In my 2000 SAT, I my score placed me in the top 5% in the entire country.
Despite this Math skill, Mathematics did not come easy for me. From a very early age, I put in a tremendous amount of time and effort into studying Mathematics. I remember specifically in high school, I had great difficulty with grasping the concept of the negative sign (-).
For example, why is 3 - - 4 = 7, -3-4 = -7, -4 + 3 = -1 and 3 - 4 = -1
I used to get headaches trying to understand the rules of the negative sign. They seemed counter-intuitive to the way the mind normally worked. So, I asked 2 of my closest friends who seemed to understand it, but I could not understand their explanations. I spent countless hours studying the textbook, working on most of the problems at the end of the chapter (usually over 20 problems), until I finally got it.
I have many examples of situations in which it was difficult for me to understand a concept, but when I finally got it, I felt like nobody in the world understood it better than I did. After many years, I looked back and I could see the reason why I was allowed to go through a lot of mental pain in Mathematics...enter Topmost Tutoring.
When I started college at the University of Memphis, I was told that Math tutors were paid $10/hr. Many desk assistant jobs were paid $6.50 at the time. So, since I knew I could tutor, I applied. The manager nicely explained to me that 1st year students were not allowed to tutor, only Sophomores and above. So, I took the desk job, waited a year, applied for the tutoring job again, was hired and so it began.
Over the course of 4 years in college, I have had about 6 or 7 various tutoring jobs, depending of which was available during regular school season or the summer, or depending on what tutoring program was available. I became better at reading people, quickly understanding how they thought about a problem, then guiding them to the solution. I say guiding because I did not just hand them the answers. I would solve the first 1, 2 or 3 problems, then watch them solve the rest.
I noticed many of my students making the same mistakes that I made back in junior high and high school, mistakes that I had learned from. Therefore, since I knew how they approached the problems, it was easy for me to say, “I understand why you are thinking of it that way. It may seem logical for you to think of it that way, but that is not how it works, this is the way to think about it.”
Now, after finishing my Masters program. I want to use what I know, to add value to my community, and the world.
Topmost Tutoring was formed with the slogan, “We make difficult courses simple”. Our goal is to show that Math problems are like puzzles. When scattered, they look very complex and impossible...but as soon as you put the pieces together one step at a time in the right spots, they form one big puzzle. Ostensibly complex math problems are made up of of simple rules. The challenge to solve the problem, is that one has to know and understand every single rule that is required.
And that is where we come in. We will find out where the student is deficient. What laws were not covered in elementary school or junior high, what rules have been forgotten, and we will put it all together in a way that is easy to understand, and maybe even fun.
A friend of mine who has difficulty with Math said, “Math can be taught if the teacher is good enough, and Math can be liked if the teacher makes the subject engaging enough.” - Roberta
I told her that I would include her text message in one of our business plans, and I just did.
Our vision for Topmost Tutoring is to be the very best in Math tutoring in the world. We will make Math easy and fun to understand. Our vision is to eradicate the Math deficiency epidemic.
Monday, August 30, 2010
Skype goes public...files for Initial Public Offering (IPO)
I feel like a proud father whose son has graduated high school who is on his way to an Ivy League. Skype, the most popular Voice-over IP service is going public! Skype which was found in 2003 was acquired by eBay in 2005 for $2.6bn. It makes me happy to see a company that was formed not too long ago, going public. Skype provides incredible value to the world’s internet users, saves them money, and makes their lives easier and a little more convenient. We all know that if you can improve people’s lives & add value, you will be rewarded…the money will follow. This is the reason I am proud of Skype. I use Skype at home, companies and organizations use Skype in the office. In fact, many companies are encouraged to use Skype for international calls, rather than use the company phone, for the obvious reason-Skype saves companies millions of dollars in international calls. That is a real value.
Congratulations Skype, can wait to watch you graduate college-whatever that metaphor translates to.
Tuesday, August 17, 2010
The brain – remembrance
memory: the power of retaining & recalling past experience
remembrance: the ability to recall past occurrences
How is it that I am able to remember the words of the song that I learnt at 7 years old?
How am I able to remember
-all 4, old and new, email accounts' usernames & passwords?
-my banks’ usernames & passwords?
-my ATM PINS?
How on earth was I able to memorize one of my bank's account number and routing number?
How was I able to memorize my SSN? Okay, I guess most people remember that one.
The brain is awesome!
We have evolved computers that can compute mathematics faster than the human brain can. However, we haven’t perfected image recognition, & voice recognition in computers. Today, the computer insn’t as creative as the brain is…maybe later…
Computers have a long way to go
memory: the power of retaining & recalling past experience
remembrance: the ability to recall past occurrences
How is it that I am able to remember the words of the song that I learnt at 7 years old?
How am I able to remember
-all 4, old and new, email accounts' usernames & passwords?
-my banks’ usernames & passwords?
-my ATM PINS?
How on earth was I able to memorize one of my bank's account number and routing number?
How was I able to memorize my SSN? Okay, I guess most people remember that one.
The brain is awesome!
We have evolved computers that can compute mathematics faster than the human brain can. However, we haven’t perfected image recognition, & voice recognition in computers. Today, the computer insn’t as creative as the brain is…maybe later…
Computers have a long way to go
Monday, August 16, 2010
Full time student...no more
I recently filled a form at the dentist's office.
"Are you a full time student?"
I checked "No" for the 1st time in my life, after 26 years.
Woo! That is almost 3 decades of studying. No wonder I have a small headache. Being a student is great in many ways, but that is a topic for a different blog. But being out of school, I can actually 'do'.
What do I mean by 'do'?
I can create things now. Things that I do not have to turn in on monday morning for a letter grade. In addition to creating, I get paid for the same projects that I did in college, at work. Google's Marisa Mayer said, "Google is like Stanford, with stock options"
...
I recently filled a form at the dentist's office.
"Are you a full time student?"
I checked "No" for the 1st time in my life, after 26 years.
Woo! That is almost 3 decades of studying. No wonder I have a small headache. Being a student is great in many ways, but that is a topic for a different blog. But being out of school, I can actually 'do'.
What do I mean by 'do'?
I can create things now. Things that I do not have to turn in on monday morning for a letter grade. In addition to creating, I get paid for the same projects that I did in college, at work. Google's Marisa Mayer said, "Google is like Stanford, with stock options"
...
Team Leadership in College
Team Leadership in College
Aug 15, 2010
In all of my college & grad school courses, I do not remember any one course/project where a team leader was selected.
Our projects usually went something like this- "Okay, the 5 of us are here for this Marketing project for the rest of the semester. I guess let's divide tasks among ourselves...and we'll see how it goes..." This was the way teams worked in my experience during college.
A leader for the team was never explicitly chosen. Usually, over time, you got the sense that Mary was the unofficial team leader, or me, or Ola. Someone usually either takes the stage as the leader or finds his/herself delegating duties and stuff.
This is fine, but the problem with not explicitly naming one as the head is that no one takes the blame when things go wrong. I would encourage teachers & professors to have their class teams to select a team leader in every project. This way, everyone knows who to report to. Tasks are delegated properly, and when the "defecation hits the oscillation" (-credit http://twitter.com/jeffcannata), we know who to blame...and that is important in preparing students for life.
Aug 15, 2010
In all of my college & grad school courses, I do not remember any one course/project where a team leader was selected.
Our projects usually went something like this- "Okay, the 5 of us are here for this Marketing project for the rest of the semester. I guess let's divide tasks among ourselves...and we'll see how it goes..." This was the way teams worked in my experience during college.
A leader for the team was never explicitly chosen. Usually, over time, you got the sense that Mary was the unofficial team leader, or me, or Ola. Someone usually either takes the stage as the leader or finds his/herself delegating duties and stuff.
This is fine, but the problem with not explicitly naming one as the head is that no one takes the blame when things go wrong. I would encourage teachers & professors to have their class teams to select a team leader in every project. This way, everyone knows who to report to. Tasks are delegated properly, and when the "defecation hits the oscillation" (-credit http://twitter.com/jeffcannata), we know who to blame...and that is important in preparing students for life.
Sunday, July 18, 2010
My Life as a Business
My Life as a Business
I am my own CEO
I am my own CFO
I am my own Chef
I am my own Chauffeur
I am my own Wardrobe department
I am my own Publicist
I am my own Barber
I am tasked with thinking of Ideas
I am tasked with managing Schedules
I am tasked with having a Social life: family, friends, relationships.
I wake up in the morning, take a bath, prepare breakfast, pick out the clothes to wear for the day (Wardrobe dept), get in the car and drive to work (Chauffeur). At work, I have a heightened sense of self, making sure I present myself well (Publicist)
After work, I buy some food at the grocery store, come home, check emails.
I am now my own assistant - replying emails, providing customer service.
I look at my schedule. I prioritize from most important to least. I still want to have some fun, so I include parties and hang-outs in there.
Then I log-in to my bank account. Open my budget spreadsheet & mint.com . I am now my own Chief Financial Officer.
"How much have I spent this month?"
"How much have I made this month?"
"Am I cash-flow positive?"
"Will I have money at the end of the month or year (Net Income)?"
Time to prepare dinner. I want to make a good one this time, so I bust out the cook book. I am now wearing the Chef's hat.
Then I sit down and think of ideas. What can I do in the short term, and what can I do in the future. Write them down, create a plan, make sure to follow it up.
Overall, I am my own Chief Executive Officer. I have to make sure each department is optimized with maximizing the resources. I have to make sure everyone knows their job very well and each task is executed or carried out in a timely manner.
My board of directors are my mentors, which may include friends and family. They guide me, I present ideas and life strategies before them, and they offer constructive criticism.
At the end of the week, the hair on my head has grown to be too much. It is ready for barbing, I grab my clippers with my right hand, two mirrors (a wall mirror and a hand mirror in my left hand)...I am now my own hair salon/ barber.
You should think of your life as a business, because it is. Maybe if we did, things might run more efficiently.
What do you do that is similar to how a business is run?
I am my own CEO
I am my own CFO
I am my own Chef
I am my own Chauffeur
I am my own Wardrobe department
I am my own Publicist
I am my own Barber
I am tasked with thinking of Ideas
I am tasked with managing Schedules
I am tasked with having a Social life: family, friends, relationships.
I wake up in the morning, take a bath, prepare breakfast, pick out the clothes to wear for the day (Wardrobe dept), get in the car and drive to work (Chauffeur). At work, I have a heightened sense of self, making sure I present myself well (Publicist)
After work, I buy some food at the grocery store, come home, check emails.
I am now my own assistant - replying emails, providing customer service.
I look at my schedule. I prioritize from most important to least. I still want to have some fun, so I include parties and hang-outs in there.
Then I log-in to my bank account. Open my budget spreadsheet & mint.com . I am now my own Chief Financial Officer.
"How much have I spent this month?"
"How much have I made this month?"
"Am I cash-flow positive?"
"Will I have money at the end of the month or year (Net Income)?"
Time to prepare dinner. I want to make a good one this time, so I bust out the cook book. I am now wearing the Chef's hat.
Then I sit down and think of ideas. What can I do in the short term, and what can I do in the future. Write them down, create a plan, make sure to follow it up.
Overall, I am my own Chief Executive Officer. I have to make sure each department is optimized with maximizing the resources. I have to make sure everyone knows their job very well and each task is executed or carried out in a timely manner.
My board of directors are my mentors, which may include friends and family. They guide me, I present ideas and life strategies before them, and they offer constructive criticism.
At the end of the week, the hair on my head has grown to be too much. It is ready for barbing, I grab my clippers with my right hand, two mirrors (a wall mirror and a hand mirror in my left hand)...I am now my own hair salon/ barber.
You should think of your life as a business, because it is. Maybe if we did, things might run more efficiently.
What do you do that is similar to how a business is run?
Friday, June 18, 2010
Time
I take time seriously. I do not like to be late. I lived in the US for almost a decade, but I think my perception and principle/philosophy of time was
formed earlier than that. First, I would never be late for a formal meeting.
But further, even if I were meeting a friend for coffee, I wouldn’t be late. Anytime, I am running late, I call or text minutes before that time, and alert them. Usually, I end up being like 3 — 5 minutes late.
formed earlier than that. First, I would never be late for a formal meeting.
But further, even if I were meeting a friend for coffee, I wouldn’t be late. Anytime, I am running late, I call or text minutes before that time, and alert them. Usually, I end up being like 3 — 5 minutes late.
In college, my friends would host parties, if the party start time was 8pm. I’d be there at 8pm. The hosts would even say, you know 8pm means get here at 10pm or 11pm.
When I hosted my own party, I made sure the start AND END time for the party was clear. Cos I always thought it made no sense to have a start time but no end time. Then I got calls from my friends saying the party interval was too short, so I laughingly extended it, but still kept to the end time, because I was a busy guy — You don’t graduate with 2 Engineering degrees and not manage your time properly.
In Nigeria, where I live, being late is fashionable. Even being late for appointments is not uncommon. But despite the level of traffic, or mishaps on the way, I almost always arrive early, because it is the right thing to do.
Same principle goes for when I owe someone money, or when I have a project to turn in. Sometimes, my friends don’t like it when they say, “I’ll call you back” and I ask “When?” I like to know when, so I’ll expect and I’ll be ready for you. They are used to it now though. I am so used to scheduling
my time that I often astound myself. One time, I was at work, I said I’ll call my girlfriend in 20 minutes when I got home. 20 minutes later, not longer, not earlier, I called and she was very impressed.
my time that I often astound myself. One time, I was at work, I said I’ll call my girlfriend in 20 minutes when I got home. 20 minutes later, not longer, not earlier, I called and she was very impressed.
Nigeria currently does not have constant electricity supply. The common phrase in the event of a power outtage is, “Light has gone o” or “Light has come” when power is restored. Many years ago, maybe 6 or so, the president assured the citizens that in two years there will be constant power supply. 2 years passed, 3, 4, 5, 6, still “No light”. The plans were not properly drawn out with milestones, and realistic events to happen to make it a success.
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