Back matter · Appendix B
The Register
Every essay in The Second Quarter, newest first.
33 essays · 2020–2026
2026
- 27 Aug Finding Character I started reading David Brooks’ book not knowing if I’ll find the road to character, despite its eponymous title, but I wanted to see how far along I would come, and so…
- 18 May Pillar, the Petty Thief Once in a blue moon, I think about Pillar. Pillar, the petty thief, that is, not the structure. It was in my final year of high school, in the boys’ dorm. I woke up to a…
- 24 Apr OpenAI vs Anthropic OpenAI and Anthropic are the Microsoft and Apple of today’s world. People keep pitting them against each other and framing this as a winner-takes-all race, but that is…
- 26 Jan My 2026 Reading Plan How I read, plus what I read
- 5 Jan My Predictions for 2026 The first thing you should know is that the more things change, the more they remain the same. Let's jump into my predictions for the year; these are not empirical nor…
- 3 Jan What I Read in 2025 Reading is one of the things I really enjoy doing. When I finish a good book, I get into a sorry state because I rarely want it to end. I also read like no other. I can…
2025
- 20 Oct On Keith McNally’s Book McNally touches on something crucial that we all face; the hypocrisy of the double lives we all lead. We’re all known (and sometimes celebrated) publicly for things that…
- 1 Sep Make Your Life A User Story Before we begin, a few words. There is absolutely no time too late to begin a new adventure. Too many people make the mistake of not reinventing themselves because they…
- 13 Aug Stop Chasing Legacy I do not believe in the concept of legacy. This idea that one should work tirelessly, striving to do good so that they may be remembered after death, is, in my view, an…
- 20 Jun The Elixir of Writing Most humans find it easier to speak than to write. Writing is a much more difficult task because it forces you to transform your ideas into letters and think about…
- 3 Apr A Look at Marriage Marriage as we know it today is an invention of the Government. The idea that you need to go to the Government to confirm that you love someone is a manufactured idea.…
- 18 Mar Quick one on Music and Albums I was watching a podcast recently and one of the questions was "what was the first album you ever bought". It was a question that got me thinking because the first album…
- 31 Jan The Best Product Managers I was having a performance review session with one of my product managers who recently made the switch from product design to product management and the conversation…
- 28 Jan Missed Early Opportunities I have written severally about how lucky I was to get really early starts into some of the things that define me today. Writing, reading, computers, public speaking…
- 12 Jan What I Read in 2024 Here's a link to the some of the books I read in 2023. This year was a good year, I read more pages this year than I'd ever done in a while, if not in any calendar year…
2024
- 20 Dec Major Events in my Lifetime I was inspired by Morgan Hausel's book where he talked about some of the events and persons that shaped the 20th century and how they altered the course of history. 15…
- 15 Dec The Meaning of Life I find that so many people don't understand the way life works. Not that anyone does, life is so complex and dynamic that it'd be hard for one person to fully understand…
- 4 Dec An Ode to Football Here's my football love story. In one take.Football has been the one true love of my life. I fell in love with this game more than 26 years ago. As a child, the one gift…
- 7 Oct The Rule of Love There is no room in love for fear. Well-formed love banishes fear. Since fear is crippling, a fearful life—fear of death, fear of judgment—is one not yet fully formed in…
- 26 Jul Miracle achieves INCOSE Certification Miracle Roch Onyebuchim has achieved certification as an INCOSE Certified Systems Engineering Professional (CSEP) Miracle has achieved certification from the…
- 1 May Happy Worker’s Day Nigeria Happy Worker's Day to the Employer!So many people have built their lives and generations on salaries; salaries happen because one person built a business. Today is also…
- 21 Jan What I Read in 2023 I did not read as many books as I’d have liked to read in 2023, but there are six out of the books I read that I want to highlight with small texts. Reading is such an…
- 21 Jan Book Review: Think Again by Adam Grant Adam Grant, the Wharton Professor, talks about kindness in a way that gives form to an abstract idea and I have been a direct beneficiary of that. Adam Grant personally…
2023
- 31 Dec Notes for Nigerian Minister Bosun Tijani When Nigerian President Bola Tinubu announced ‘Bosun Tijani as a Ministerial nominee, it felt like a seismic move to align with the nation’s burgeoning youth population.…
- 30 Mar Remembering COVID-19 Three years ago, life as we knew it changed. Some of the people I manage at work today have never worked out of a physical office in their career. Remote work is the…
- 23 Feb 2023 Elections: Voters Decide Winner Nigeria heads to the polls on Saturday but what are the characteristics of those who will be voting? I take a look.
- 12 Feb There Was A Currency The Central Bank of Nigeria introduced a current redesign in October, 2022. Four months later, its implementation has been badly managed. Here's how it all went wrong.
- 21 Jan Angels and Demons: A Story There are always two sides to a story and statistics have shown that most often than not, the side you pick and believe to be true is usually not the correct one. In…
2022
- 31 Dec 2022 Year in Review The best way to review the year I have had is to come back 10 years later. Depending on how events unfold in the next decade, the year could turn out to be either my…
- 30 Dec Some very quick thoughts on Marriage Some quick thoughts... I have noticed that there are two main pillars in marriage - the good days and the bad days. All marriages revolve around these two pillars, with…
- 14 Nov Twitter: Product Next Steps Long before Elon Musk acquired Twitter, it'd been the butt of jokes around the tech space for being such a poorly run company. It did not help matters that Twitter's…
- 3 Oct Compliance vs Customer When organizations create a Compliance department and get Compliance Officers in, they usually task them with ensuring the organization stays compliant with regulators…
Appendix C
The Annual Ledger
A shelf of years: what I read, what I planned, what I predicted. Pull a volume off the shelf.
Appendix D
Index
Names, places and themes, and where they appear.