People have ideas. That sounds really simple, and it probably is, but sometimes it’s slept on. People do have ideas. Ideas about how the world works, ideas about how other people work, ideas about how things work. Those ideas are called mental models. What are Mental Models? Mental models are simple approximations of how…

“Eat, drink and be merry, for tomorrow we die” Did 2020 ever end? I’ve asked myself this question multiple times in the past 365 days. Maybe 2020 just has 731 days(and counting) and I was never made aware of that. …

When people think about knowledge, they generally think in two ways. People can either be specialists, primarily concentrating on one area of expertise/study, and being highly skilled in that division. To understand the specialist outlook, consider this quote by Plato: “Each man is capable of doing one thing well. If…

2020 was a good year for reading. I completed upwards of 50 books, and altogether I read nearly a hundred. And why wouldn’t it be a good year? I had the entire year from February onwards completely free (in retrospect I feel I should’ve gotten more out of my time…

Back from the dead, eh? First, some housekeeping. The last time I wrote on here was in April. If I remember correctly, it was something about the Snyder Cut of the Justice League. After posting it, I felt that it was a bad take and deleted it a day later…

Another essay which I did not win, and did not expect to win. I still find it interesting, so I’ll post it anyway. In 2017, something extraordinary happened. A boy, said to be 15 years of age, was said to have survived a 12 hour-long flight from Lagos to London…

I am (or at least I would be considered in some circles), broadly speaking, a liberal. I am pro-choice, I believe in free-markets whose excesses are regulated by a sound and competent government, I am for gay marriage, I’m not a huge fan of borders, although they are necessary, I…

A few days into the new year, I got a message from a Whatsapp group about an essay competition an organization was holding. The organization was the Asido Foundation, an organization dedicated to promoting mental health literacy among Nigerians, and building communities where speaking about mental health was not looked…

2020 was a weird year for all of us, and I hope we’ve put the worst behind us, although I suspect that might not be the case. In any case, my reading in 2020 was very much dominated by the pandemic, the protests, and my general interests. …