Mark Essien

The software industry is going to collapse, unfortunately. Any good idea will have thousands of competitors, and those competitors will live on the tightest of margins, with AI helping them optimise on every single angle. The only differentiator now will be sales.

One thing about Trump is that he is a delegator, not just of work, but decisions. I think it comes from his background in construction, where management should not ever have opinions about structural work or such things, but let the experts do it. In software, management tends to…

All these AI email tools - who receives that much email nowadays? I mostly receives messages on slack, whatsapp or calls. Email seems to be declining in usage except for some very important things.

I feel like Aaliyah was better looking in her time than she would be now. Back then, she was a 10/10, now she would be like a 7/10.

When you see a generation not interested in politics, it means there was some other industry far more interesting and lucrative.

There is nothing like studying roman history to understand how utterly boring it is. They are just like us, but with far less technology, doing quite unimportant things. Things start getting REALLY interesting around 1500, this is the part of history we should study.

Everyone is wrong sometimes. But your wrongness compounds the more you try to prove to people how right you are. Because then a wrong builds on a wrong, and at some point you can't even correct yourself anymore because it's become an ego-founded worldview. There is no need to…

It is all of our responsibility to make sure Paul Biya does not win re-election. Africa will not be free if such men remain in power.

Have you noticed how few Nigerian startups have done deals among themselves? People will rather sit and wait till the company goes to zero than do a deal where they lose full control. There is very little trust.

Ethnicity is more relevant than religion in Nigeria in politics. It is easy for a muslim/muslim ticket to win, or even christian/christian but impossible for a hausa/hausa ticket to win.

Being good looking has little commercial value - you need a little bit of sense at least to use it. You can see this on TikTok - many good looking people, but very few can do anything with it.

It’s the language. German encourages precision, software is not precise, it’s mostly art. English and French are languages that encourage artistic flourishes.

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When someone has a stroke, they recover from easiest to hardest. The first thing they recover is walking, then arm movement, and last is fingers. Same is true for robotics - walking is easy, carrying is harder, and fine manipulation is the hardest of all. A dancing robot does…

It's easy to be 21 years old and criticize a 40 year old, when you are 40 you start carrying the same load and you stop criticizing anyone.

So let me tell you the real truth about doing business in Africa: If your product cannot be used by semi-literate trader with a net worth of $5k, it will never be big. There are no exceptions, except you are in a value chain that exports.

Here is a business idea if you live in UK: a physical shop where you sell "food experiences". E.g you put a yam, some tomatoes, some pepper on a shelf and call it "the fried yam experience". Sell the bundle for 50 pounds. Include a manual on how to make fried yam. Do same for Tom…

All the geo-political guys can predict everything about the next 10 years of the world, but not one said anything about Thailand-Cambodia.

As the population grows, people become more dissatisfied with existing policians (in Nigeria context). Back in the 80s, one politician could feed his community. Nowadays, the population is so large, just a few people feel the impact. The others are angry. So they will vote for…

Let's be honest: UK TechNation visa has completely drained the Nigerian startup scene. Most of the people who could have made companies are in the UK now, and you don't hear from them anymore. The UK sucked out all level-2 and level-3 people from the 2010 to 2021 startups.