Picking the Year's Lessons Piece by Piece 2

Hello,

I am Oluwatobiloba Caleb, a Medical student of Bowen University, Nigeria. The reason for this public documentation has changed over the months. I am doing this to increase my area of serendipity, to put pieces of myself out hoping that individuals will find intersections and that connections will be built…. I end the thought here.

In this issues, I will continue what I started last week, picking the year’s lessons piece by piece

1. I did not think well about certain things I started this year. It has become important for me to think deeply about the idea of starting something, to ask the important questions to which I provide adequate answers. To start something is to be convinced of why I am doing it and how it fits in the grand scheme. If I had just thought a year ahead, it would have been an easy NO to starting a YouTube channel.

2. The beauty of my outcomes with the things I do is inversely proportional to the number of things I am doing. Although, there could be direct proportionality if complementary relationships exist between the things I am doing. Focus is saying no to the many things and increasing the beauty of my outcome in the little things.

3. “what you do doesn’t matter as long as you are doing it well“. Bullshit! What I do matters even more who I do it with and where I do it, it matters to me. This is the deal though, at different points of my life I will be provided with varying number of options at varying degree of impact as it relates to the questions of what to do, who to do it with and where to do it. Take for example where to do it, I will be spending a lot of time in Ogbomosho for the next three years, that is a big limit on my number of options. After the three years, my options open up, it will fall on me to make the best decision at that time. At the different points of my life, I want to learn to choose the best option to the questions of what to do, who to do it with and where to do it.

In the latter part of this year, I have began to understand the importance of capital allocation in driving development. In Nigeria, my interest lies with good capital allocation from public and private entities to facilitate technological globalization to Nigeria and subsequently creation of new technologies. Since economic incentive drives people to act in predictive manner, a good percentage of the population can be engineered to upskill and reskill themselves and participate in the game of technology exacting influence in their sector of interest, I have my bias towards the health sector 😁😁. I really hope the young generation will buy into this, apart from having better inclination to this, we have substantial time on earth (relative to the older generation which have more power at the moment) to push beyond the threshold of which it can continue with ease after we are gone.

I don’t like the vibe I think I am giving in the previous paragraph 😂😂. I just have to communicate though, I am banking on the butterfly effect.

Merry Christmas in advance. Peace!

Interesting things I read this week

• I read a Paul Graham essay titled ‘How to Work Hard‘. It was long read but good

• I also read another of his essay titled ‘How to get Startup Ideas‘. I definitely enjoyed this, as it is in close proximity with my interests

• I am presently reading a book, Zero to One by Peter Thiel. It is a beautiful book. Check the internet about it, if it interests you to read it please let me know, I definitely will love to have conversations about the ideas in the book

Interesting things I listened to this week

• This in an episode of Invest Like the Best podcast. In this episode, Patrick (the host) had Alice Bentinck, a co-founder of Entrepreneur First, a start-up incubator. The topic of the discussion is ‘Building a Startup Machine‘.

• This week I decided to add the episode of the All-in podcast. I admire the besties and I hope to exist in something similar or even better someday. They keep one another on toes!!