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• Courage = Commitment ÷ Fear
• Here to contribute
• Your life gives your name its meaning
• Aware + Story + Action
• Your most important job
• Envious and obvious
• Flexibility vs consistency
• The best solution
• Write long, publish short
• Useful not true
• Seven little ideas and stories
• Respect yourself
• Introducing: Podcast by Damola
• Progress is not flourishing
• Never blame others
• Last respect is a living respect
• The good old days
• Talk is cheap
• Not a bug
• For the systems that refuse to fade
• There’s art in everything
• On the will of the will
• The innovation list
• Meucci error ≠ sunk cost
• Happily undignified
• Facts are facts
• Your joy is for sale
• Postponing living is an art
• The judge you didn’t think you want
• The essential can’t be done for you
• Finding bees
• Mediocre has changed
• The cousins aren’t helpful
• Hard vs soft audience
• Winning call
• Paradox of service
• Not (in the) safe
• “Congratulations on the award”
• What needless pain do we bear?
• Pulling people out of the river
• Success questions
• Hierarchy of intelligence
• Roots and stems
• Feigned courtesy
• The obvious solution trap
• Knowledge as a crutch
• Decision binary 2.0
• There are no age limits
• Subject of the matter
• Life didn’t give us lemon
• Feel at home
• Now and next
• Changed for real?
• When is the new year?
• Permission pre-granted
• Serving the title
• Searching for the old
• Problems vs opportunities
• The Pennypacker effect
• Tell me the story
• Your dog and pony show
• Nostalgia lies
• Your life’s work can change
• Journaling your next play
• False binaries
• It’s always worth remembering
• Always a next one
• The Genly problem
• This is the core
• Luxury to us
• Wear and tier
• Circles of trust
• Shipped or not
• Curious ignoramus
• On blind spots
• Turning the light on
• Do once-in-a-lifetime things
• What goals do
• A boring list
• Make your process explicit
• Plurality is near
• There’s always time
• The dream binary
• The other path to freedom
• How does my life get worse?
• The woow loop
• 2+2 ≠ 4
• Hacks work
• Fast not hurried
• Tools for goals
• Your business and theirs
• The words are missing
• Both start small
• Headlines that elevate
• Simple sticks
• Being unscripted is a good thing
• Spare me the research
• 100%
• Thought experiments
• Cheap is expensive
• No profession required
• Leave the seat empty
• Discrepancy audit
• Stories matter
• The problem quadrant
• Leader and delegation
• What should we teach kids
• What you can’t see, you can get
• Negative or positive
• Follow the incentives
• “If I had more money”
• The love audit
• Ease of abdication
• Done for you
• Scratch that?
• Questions as advice
• Ignite wonder
• Identity speak
• Normalcy is an illusion
• Passing light
• Your temperament is no badge of honour
• On using big and long words
• In praise of looking stupid
• No one can reframe for you
• “That’s not how to use it”
• Rethinking out-of-office emails
• People-watching
• Friendship goals
• Sacred commitments
• Gaming the algorithm
• The broken resilience meter
• Before you start the next company – an antiguide
• Your daily invitation to dance
• Escape
• Waiting for karma
• Avoid the shoes
• “What do you think?”
• Taste your tongue
• Return to love
• Invisibly important
• “Go build something better”
• You don’t have a new problem
• The basics apply
• Can I rely on you?
• We need more absurdities
• When did you decide that?
• Learn from therapists
• Enable copycats
• Talk and stop
• Filter for interestingness
• Easiest to work with
• Option C
• The answer is clear
• The ultimate antiguide to happiness
• Speed up slowly
• Why on earth do you want more love?
• Self-authorisation
• Name and shame
• A good apology
• What created your stress?
• Is it a small bet?
• Reality cheque
• Weird to them
• Turning pro
• Cerebral chicken and egg
• Thinking spot
• Same page
• Freedom from geographies
• Meaning is nothing
• The /ai ‘manifesto’
• The game you play
• TLDR’s tldr
• Making sentences
• Woander
• Debt-free
• Meditating right
• Debate all sides
• Like a gun
• Imperfect
• Order of greatness
• Process and outcome
• Useless to whom
• Close the loop
• My gift for you
• Kinda nice
• Experiences also pay dividends
• Outnumbered for a reason
• wu-wei
• Questions will not save you
• “I can’t believe I did that”
• Give others an escape path
• Why it KLICked
• The irony of paranoia
• What to do when vilified
• Stories over stats
• Arrived with a bad fuel
• Take your own advice
• When learning happens
• Wisdom over power
• Niches are beautiful
• Sharing experiences not advice
• Better than perfect
• Analysis can be expensive
• Integrity lives here
• Noisy responsibilty
• The reminders aren’t enough
• Do the work
• Ego’s elixir
• Lessons from 80 years
• Inspiration is overrated
• Lifestyle is medicine
• Your calendar shows your priorities
• Show me the incentives
• You aren’t most people
• The vibe test
• No trouble believing
• At what expense exactly?
• Avoiding avoidance
• The irony isn’t lost on me
• Minus one to zero
• The feedback question
• It’s not your fault
• Process vs experimentation
• Winning wisdom through iteration
• ELI5
• How not to be disappointed
• Living off-grind
• There are no formulae
• How are you evaluating new opportunities?
• No thanks
• Not just a story
• The speed of steady
• The greatness in others
• Feedback is an honour
• “It’s my toy”
• It’s less than 1 percent
• Keep surpising yourself
• They are my comrades
• The two extremes
• Hope is a lens, not a strategy
• Building a daily reflective practice
• “What do I plan to do with this?”
• Life and death
• Your most important relationship
• Write your own obituary
• The ultimate wealth
• Perfect flaws
• The safety of nothing
• Noticing the elbow
• Collaborate, then commit
• It starts with one
• Upset people gently
• Things that won’t change
• Give credit away
• Respect your audience
• Curing writers’ block
• Stop justing
• Teacher, father, and friend
• YODO
• Staying in joy
• Through you, not from you
• Personifying an ideology
• Who over how
• Childlike wonder
• Nothing else until
• Forget happiness. Choose enlargement
• On being weird
• Tiny matters
• May I have your attention?
• Early and often
• It should work that way
• Pick me
• Tension not stress
• Solve for status and affiliation
• Valuable not just useful
• Enough
• Where is home?
• Curiosity Unconference: nominate an awesome person
• Questions for conscious humans
• Trip to the Sun
• Celebrating difference is just the first step
• I have a few questions too
• It’s still a beautiful world
• New Media & the Church: Church Should Embrace (And Not Fear) Media
• Our fears don’t tell the whole story
• The Daily Vulnerable
• Suspending GDP?
• Beyond the rays
• In the dot
• A bad good
• Decision audit
• The gift of nature and history
• On using willpower
• Before you say you can’t
• There are no opposites
• No vacuum
• Principles and consequences
• Truth or delusion
• 10 seconds
• What you don’t want
• Buzzing off words
• Checked your car today?
• The learn test
• Using willpower
• Lies I believed
• Nothing is very urgent
• Before you say ‘yes’
• Introducing More! by Damola
• This is the most important skill for the future – and it is not AI
• What you don’t want
• Human-centric development
• The Future of Mentorship – [My TEDx talk]
• Africa and AI – Now and the Future
• Embracing intersection – being comfortable with the unconnected
• Mobile First or AI First?
• Beyond Oil: Transportation in Africa by 2030
• Empathy, beyond us
• Books for the future
• Getting the best out of the new year
• Your leadership brand
• How virtual reality can help you
• On perseverance and little big things
• The ‘Iyalaya Anybody’ lessons on innovation and development in Africa
• More than a million pounds
• Of flipping calendars, leadership and gratitude
• A toast to growth
• What leadership is (and isn’t)
• Blue Ocean Innovation
• Beyond the idea; making entrepreneurship work
• Of Harvard, life and mathematics
• Ebola and the #UpforSchool rising
• Of productivity and growth; lessons from the productivity award
• The main thing – reflections of gratitude and vision
• World Economic Forum and the New Vision for Education
• Bring Back Our Girls: my call for urgent action
• Our Responsibility as Humans
• Growth Galley [Podcast]
• Renewing thoughts
• Celebrating the woman
• Building productive habits as an entrepreneur
• Celebration and cerebration [Thanking You!]
• Defining success as a leader [Photo]
• Increasing responsibilities: appreciation
• Measuring your listening quotient
• Not just a new year
• Get ‘irresponsible’ – if need be!
• Defining success
• Reflective thinking: how often do you think?
• ‘Working hard’ or ‘working smart’?
• Sign your autograph on me
• 10 #ThingsToDo today
• Fault finding?
• Interested in taking initiative? Answer these questions
• Making your days here count!
• What my dog taught me
• Do you also believe these myths about leadership?
• Nurtural versus natural leadership
• Of thinking, thought, and thinkers
• Integral leadership and educational development
• Lions and lessons
• Are you #OnPoint?
• ‘I, Pencil’; how well do you know?
• Watch your thought!
• Are you 19 or under, Apply to the Thiel Fellowship
• Learn from the bee
• The ant philosophy
• Adversity and advantage
• Why you should stay hungry & foolish by Steve Jobs
• Let’s celebrate five years of building our national image
• The Sour Prime (poem)
• Exaltation (Poetry)

_{*last updated January 12, 2025}