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2026 1

  1. Separating concerns to speed up AI coding

2025 8

  1. Human Intelligence, and the Forbidden Fruit of Caffeine
  2. Cities and how the algorithmic timeline kills innovation
  3. Exponential growth in startups
  4. Designing a method to achieve affordable mortgages for Nigerians
  5. Empathy
  6. A further note on organisation design & feedback loops
  7. As the light dims
  8. The origin of gravity: a new idea

2024 2

  1. The danger in letting crypto platforms create tokens that mirror a countries currency
  2. My theory for the dropping global TFR - LED Lighting

2023 5

  1. About Mark Essien
  2. My Middle East Peace Plan
  3. The real population of Nigeria
  4. Boolean Logic, missing brackets and the 2023 Nigeria Presidential Election Tribunal
  5. The drama in trying to convert election PDFs to Spreadsheets

2022 4

  1. Types of people
  2. Are deep neural networks alive?
  3. Micro-monolith design pattern for software
  4. Suggestion for blog-based social media

2021 6

  1. How Government companies can be privatized successfully
  2. Techniques, Feedback loops, Reactive/Initiative activities & Micro-motivation
  3. Replicating your database on 3 machines
  4. Decentralized, global Fiat Transfers using Crypto
  5. Finishing a Project
  6. Proposal for a new stock exchange for small businesses

2020 4

  1. Designing a better Terminal
  2. Radical Focus
  3. The Butterfly In The Graveyard
  4. My battlestation

2019 1

  1. There Are No Rules

2018 2

  1. Proof of improvement
  2. The Sunflower

2017 2

  1. Mubarak
  2. Startups in early markets

2016 7

  1. The hotels.ng internship program - a recap
  2. A non-technical founder dealing with a technical team
  3. Observations about startups
  4. Observations on managing people
  5. An analysis of the hotels.ng 2012 pitch
  6. Too early an expert
  7. Building HNG Internship

2015 2

  1. Building a call center with a raspberry pi
  2. Interview questions to find a genius

2014 1

  1. Two Years In The Trenches Building Hotels.ng

2013 3

  1. 100 years from now
  2. Evaluating Startup Ideas
  3. Building Hotels.ng

2012 2

  1. An idea on how to cheaply discover if a product will take off
  2. Half-viral products

2011 3

  1. Rejections without Feedback
  2. Abstraction levels in UI design
  3. Building around a traction channel

2010 7

  1. Do you need a co-founder?
  2. A Chinese Villager Software Developer
  3. Ruthless co-workers
  4. Simplifying your product
  5. It's not enough to be smart, work hard
  6. RSS Test
  7. River Hydro-power

2009 2

  1. How to successfully hire a coder from a freelancing site like Upwork
  2. One-Hit Wonder

2007 1

  1. Doing Charity Work

2004 1

  1. Standard Mpeg Encoder

2000 1

  1. Gnumm File Sharing