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Chude Osiegbu retweeted
Let me tell you how it happened. Nigeria’s ginger export hit zero from N26 billion within 3 years.
The official story blames fungal blight.
But here is what actually happened. When Nigerian farmers lost their indigenous seed supply, grant-aided interventions arrived with replacement seeds.
An associate professor at Lagos Business School flagged publicly that some of those interventions involved GMO organisms that weakened indigenous crops and compromised soil health.
That is not a conspiracy theory because it is a documented academic concern.
Now that Nigeria spoke got destroyed by the GMO seedlings….what is not the result?
Nigeria was forced to import ginger from China to fill domestic demand. Chinese ginger has none of the pungency, oleoresin content, or quality that made Nigerian ginger a global premium product. And the ginger now sitting in Nigerian markets tastes like wood because it essentially is wood.
The two indigenous varieties that built Nigeria’s global ginger reputation, the Tafin Giwa and Yatsun Biri, had decades of soil relationship and quality built into them.
Once the soil was degraded and those seed varieties were displaced, the product that returned was a pale imitation. Nigeria did not just lose a market. It lost a seed. And without a National Ginger Seed Bank, which nobody has built, it may never fully get it back.
Chude Osiegbu retweeted
Everyone in Nigeria 🇳🇬 has to vote.
Nobody is allowed to speak to anybody beforehand.
Nobody can discuss anything beforehand.
If majority votes blue, every survives.
If majority votes red, all those who voted blue will die.
69%Vote Blue
31%Vote Red
595 votes • Final results Chude Osiegbu retweeted
Your estate runs because someone fixed the pump at midnight, swept the compound at 5am, and watched the gate while you slept.
To every estate worker: Happy Workers' Day. We see you.
Chude Osiegbu retweeted
A senior dev at a big startup got a message at 3AM.
Production is down.
50,000 users can't log in.
He opens his laptop half asleep.
Checks the logs. Nothing obvious.
Checks the database. Fine.
Checks the server. Fine.
30 minutes pass. His phone won't stop buzzing.
Then he notices it.
One line of code.
A junior dev had pushed an update 4 hours ago.
A single missing await in an async function.
That's it.
₹40 lakhs in lost transactions.
Because of one word.
The junior dev was 22 years old.
First job. First mistake.
The senior dev didn't fire him.
He made him write the post mortem.
Then made him lead the fix.
That junior dev is now the CTO of that same company.
Some mistakes teach you more than 10 years of doing everything right.
This is waaay more prevalent than you care to know. Sadly, in many cases, it's those who can't even do one job well that want to do two - or three.
I hired someone for a role. Waited 2 months for him to resume. Day 1, onboarding started and the moment I mentioned he would be assigned a work laptop, his whole mood changed.
He tried to talk me into using his personal laptop instead. I told him it’s not our practice. He accepted, collected the laptop and carried on with his onboarding.
By close of work, he stopped by my office to keep the laptop and said he came with his own and couldn’t carry both home. I collected it and bade him goodbye.
That evening, I got a text that he wouldn’t be joining. Someone I waited 2 months for.
From my observation? He didn’t resign from his current job. The company laptop would have blown his cover. He couldn’t run two jobs with two different laptops sitting on his desk.
Chude Osiegbu retweeted
Tobi built the original Shopify codebase himself in 2004. Then he spent 20 years doing what every founder-CEO does: slowly drifting into meetings, board decks, and strategy docs while the thing that made him dangerous collected dust.
94 commits in 2024. That’s a CEO who codes occasionally on weekends. 833 in 2025. That’s someone who found a way back in. 957 in 45 days of 2026. That’s a builder again.
The pattern repeating across tech right now is something nobody predicted about AI. Everyone focused on which jobs AI would replace. The bigger story is which skills AI is resurrecting. Founders who stopped coding a decade ago are shipping features. Executives who used to need a team of three to prototype an idea are doing it over lunch. The distance between “I have an idea” and “I built the thing” collapsed from weeks to hours.
Tobi’s been porting his own tools across languages using Claude as a compiler, publishing CLI utilities, and writing open source on his personal GitHub. The CEO of a $150B company is personally shipping to package managers on weekends.
That’s the part worth paying attention to. AI gave Tobi back the part of the job he loved and had to abandon to scale. The best founders were always builders first. The ones who drifted away didn’t want to. They just ran out of hours.
Now they have the hours back.
CEO of Shopify @tobi is shipping more code than ever.
2024: 94 commits
2025: 833 commits
2026: 957 commits (in first 45 days of the year)
Claude is turning CEOs back to builder mode.
Chude Osiegbu retweeted
Country is so hard. 10 yrs ago, when I started hiring local staff, I noticed a pattern. People would accept a job without having transport money to show up to work day one.
A few times, some would sum up the courage to plead for a salary loan or assistance with transport fares. I later developed a new habit of gifting new staff cash upfront to boost their confidence and ease the transition to the new role. I would tell them it was an upfront loan, but at month end, they would always receive full salary. I always noticed the excitement!
I realised it helps people maintain dignity and reduced the burdens that allowed them to put their best foot forward.
Only had two bad experiences where they took money and didn't return after a few days. Still hasn't changed my attitude. People are suffering in silence, pay attention!
Chude Osiegbu retweeted
i once got a call from a client at 2am.
their production was down.
not my bug btw.
not my system too.
still - i logged in.
dug through logs.
fixed what i could.
servers came back up.
i didn’t invoice them for that hour.
i didn’t even mention it later.
months after that -
they stopped questioning timelines.
they stopped micromanaging scope.
they started trusting my calls instantly.
that night taught me this:
you build leverage by acting like it’s your business too.
that trust compounds faster than any contract.
Chude Osiegbu retweeted
Joan of Arc was great, but nothing compared to her sister, Joan of Circumference, who was a much more rounded person.
Chude Osiegbu retweeted
I just saw a plumber fix a toilet without using Claude.
Like a total psychopath.
Chude Osiegbu retweeted
One of the most bizarre things I observed at Shell was how someone would spectacularly fail at a $$$ project, and instead of being demoted or fired, the opposite happens. They get transferred to manage another high-visibility project or even get a promotion!
It took me a long time to understand this but when I did, it changed everything for me.
You see, performance is measured in most companies on two prongs: the what and the how. The “what” is the actual result: did you or did you not strike oil after drilling that well? The “how” is the behavior you displayed during the entire process.
I was too focused on the actual results but I later found out that leaders rate behaviors higher. Hence, a project might fail in that it did not meet its stated objectives and yet the project manager might come out a winner because of how he carried himself through it all.
So what are the behaviors highly cherished by the higher ups?
First is daily updates. Forget weekly reports. Tell your boss and other key stakeholders about how the project is going at least once a day. When I say “tell”, I mean “tell.” Don’t rely solely on an email or a tool. Find a way to get in their face daily even if just for a min or two to verbally articulate the status of things. The pros at this put a standing 5-10 min meeting on their calendars and they come prepared to discuss the highlights and issues that need addressing. Which leads me to the second point.
Second, involve your superiors in solving the problem. Don’t form James Bond or Jackie Chan, trying to do it all alone. Any issue that will lead to a delay or cost overrun or any other wahala should be brought up asap to be discussed. Much easier to do if you talk with them daily. It is hard for them to blame you on the outcome of a project they have been integral to.
Third, conduct a “lessons learned” session where you perform an autopsy on the dead project. Share these lessons far and wide. You will be hailed as a sage. Suddenly you are now the guy helping the company become better by spreading wisdom gained from the school of hard knocks. This act alone has landed many people their promotion.
Bottom line: you can secure victory from defeat. The high flyers in your company do it all the time. If the project succeeds, they win. If the project fails, they win.
Be like them.
Chude Osiegbu retweeted
For supporters of the continuation of importation of fuel, when you drive to go buy fuel, please ignore MRS and other retailers selling fuel at N739 supplied by DR. Go to the other ones selling fuel at N830-N900 imported fuel.
You can’t be a ‘patriot’ of an open market and still patronize cheaper fuel from a local refinery.
Don’t be a ‘talk is cheap’ champion on X, while you quietly try to save money.
Chude Osiegbu retweeted
So a guy writes a new programming language and after he’s done, he takes out his time to write a book on his programming language.
Another guy writes a framework built around that language and when he’s done, he decides to write documentation on how to use his framework.
And you can’t take out time in appreciation to at least read all their have written down?
You want to watch a 2 hours YouTube video and call it a day.
And you wonder why you cannot compete?.
Have some respect.
Chude Osiegbu retweeted
Our CFO asked me to "audit" our software subscriptions last week.
He sent me a spreadsheet with 200 rows. Slack, Zoom, Jira, Notion, Trello, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday.
He wanted me to survey the team to see which tools were essential.
I told him: "Surveys are for people who care about feelings. I care about OpEx."
I deleted the spreadsheet.
Instead, I logged into the corporate Amex portal and reported the card as lost.
Every single auto-renewal in the company failed instantly.
I call this "The Scream Test."
It’s simple Darwinian procurement.
If a tool goes down and nobody runs to my desk screaming within 4 hours? We didn't need it.
The Marketing team was at my door in 10 minutes begging for Adobe. We renewed it. The Sales team was crying about the CRM in 20 minutes. We renewed it.
But here’s the interesting part.
The HR department’s "Employee Wellness & Engagement Portal" ($12,000/year) has been down for six days.
Not a single person has noticed.
I didn't just save money. I quantified the exact value of our corporate culture.
It is zero.
Stop auditing. Start unplugging. If it’s important, they’ll scream. If they don't scream, it’s just noise.
Chude Osiegbu retweeted
A common mistake I see is people losing an executive’s attention because they start rambling the moment someone asks for an update. Too many details, too much story. No clear point.
When someone says “Give me an update”, they just want a headline they can act on.
Example
Bad: “We had a few meetings, design is reviewing, backend is almost done, QA is waiting, we’re syncing again tomorrow…”
Good: “We’re 80 percent done. On track to ship Friday. Only backend validation left.”
If they want more details, they’ll ask. That’s when you go deeper.
Start with the answer first. Explain later. It makes everyone’s life easier.
Chude Osiegbu retweeted
I don’t know who needs to hear this, but I’m begging you. You’ve got to be shameless about anything you are building. Whether it is a product, a startup, or a career. You have to be so delusional that even the universe is looking at you with its jaws on the floor, wondering what you are drinking!
Chude Osiegbu retweeted
Never tell a man that something is impossible, because it only takes someone who is unaware of its impossibility to make it come to pass.
Chude Osiegbu retweeted
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