Diary of a silli-mazing human
Just someone who loves to build things... and talk about them... or anything I find fascinating 🤪
Recent posts
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My Psychic Kiosk
⎯ ❤️👏5I've said it before. You didn't believe me. That's fine, I'm used to it. A little over a month ago, I mentioned I might be a little psychic. You scoffed. Or maybe you just kept scrolling. Either way, you did not take me seriously, and that's on you. Because last week, I almost walked straight into a Dunning-Kruger moment — and I didn't, because apparently my future self had already warned my past …
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Your Brain Knows When to Stop (And It's Lying to You)
⎯ ⎯ 👏🔥❤️6 If you were an attentive student in secondary school, you'd remember the scientific method: observation, hypothesis, experimentation, and conclusion. My science teacher used to say there was a 5th step — the "Fact" step. The idea being that a strong enough conclusion, tested enough times, eventually graduates into fact. I'm not there yet. But today, I'm walking you through how I arrived at a conc…
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Give Me Back My Holidays!
⎯ 👏❤️2I feel like at this point, if you’re an ardent follower of my posts, you already know a lot about my childhood. One thing you may not know though (well, now, you would), is that I grew up in a very religious country. The beauty of this? Public holidays! Oh! We observed every single Muslim and Christian holiday. So it didn't matter what your religion was (or wasn't), you benefitted. Good Friday, Ea…
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So Sure, Yet So Wrong
⎯ 🔥👏❤️3It was the middle of the night. My feet were turning cold and my chest continued to tighten. I couldn't understand why the bare memory of something that happened over six months ago would elicit such a reaction within me. Why did it feel so bad to have been… wrong? I needed to get to the bottom of this. So, as a self-proclaimed scientist, I began to come up with my hypothesis. In class, when you g…
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Being A Good Person Is Not Enough
⎯ ❤️2A young lady says "I can never date a short man. I'm just not attracted to them." What about Lionel Messi? you ask. And the awkward face twitching and stammering begins. "Uhm, ermm, you know, actually…." And honestly, this never surprises me. That's because I believe at our core as humans, we love impressive people. Here's where it gets uncomfortable though. You'd think that when impressive people…
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I Messed Up... Big Time
⎯ 👏🔥3It's 2:07 pm. I'm deep in the middle of a thousand things and fixed on an unsuspecting bug I think I just might have discovered. You know the type no user has ever reported, but reading the code, you just know something ain't right. I'm trying to figure out what's so suspicious about this piece of code and the next thing I hear "Grrr, Grrr", my tummy rumbles again. Appeasing this impatient tummy i…
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I Found the Perfect Man. Now I'm Terrified
⎯ 👏🔥5It was Sunday morning and I had just woken up. This was meant to be like every other day — until I got a beep on my watch about my heart rate. I picked up my phone to check the charts for a better view and lo and behold, my resting heart rate had decreased over the last 5 days. "Interesting," I thought to myself. What could have happened in the last 5 days to prompt this? What was different? I wen…
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The Brutal Truth: Your Job Doesn't Love You Back
⎯ ❤️🔥3I'm going to be honest — this is hard even for me to say, especially as a founder. But I've come to terms with this truth, and I think you should too. If you're a high performer at work, there's every likelihood you're working long hours, pouring your life into it, and doing your absolute best to make sure things run smoothly. There's nothing wrong with that, as long as you have the right expectat…
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Spain Made Me a Spoiled Kid
Yesterday, I had just finished grocery shopping and was walking home briskly when I noticed a young lady standing by the road, moving her arm up and down. That’s odd, I thought. A few seconds later though, a bus pulled up in front of her. Ah! She was hailing the bus. I chuckled, because that tiny moment dragged me straight back to one of my earliest culture shocks in the UK. When I first moved her…
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Waiting is not Weakness
Some problems are genuinely hard, and no amount of thinking alone will magically produce the solution. That said, many problems are not new. Chances are, someone else has encountered them before, and solved them in one way or another. At Metrifox, my co-founder and I have been working on enabling clients to customize their Product Journey lifecycle, and it has not been an easy problem to crack. Th…
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Vibe-Suffering, Vibe-Hiring, Vibe-Parenting or nah?
It’s another Friday. I was so occupied through the week that I didn’t have time to think about what I was going to write about today. Nevertheless, as usual, I picked up my laptop this morning with one clear rule: I have to write something. So I guess I’ll just go with the flow. It’s going to be a day of… vibe-writing 😂 Speaking of vibing; It’s very common to hear people say, “Go with the vibe.” …
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Dancing, Dumbbells, and Decisions: My 2025
⎯ 👏1The New Year’s Day has a funny way of losing its magic as you get older. At some point, it stops feeling like a reset or a day for “new year resolutions” and starts to feel like... just another day. Yesterday was my birthday. Yes, I was born on New Year's Day. My birthday wishes usually sound something like, “Happy New Year… and happy birthday too.” And honestly, I’ve made my peace with it. My bir…
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Problem No Dey Finish
“That’s not a place you cry when you don’t understand something.” My brother said that to me twenty years ago when I was getting into university. Jeeeezzzzz! Has it really been that long? 😱 Looks like someone’s getting old. I digress. Excellence has always been a value of mine. I grew up hearing the phrase, "Anything worth doing is worth doing well." It's one of the ones you can say really sunk …
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My Innie vs My Outie: The War
I watched the mind-bending Severance series a few months ago. It wasn’t bad at all. I can’t remember who recommended it; most likely my sister. Movies are one of the things my siblings and I bond over. We recommend them to each other like a relay of survival: If you suffered through it, I don’t have to. You suffer for all! The Innie & The Outie In Severance, there’s this concept of an "innie" and …
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Why Culture May Be Your Biggest Weapon Yet
When I was in primary school (Year 3, if I remember correctly), we learned about culture. We had to chant the definition until it practically lived in our heads. The teacher would yell, “What is culture?” and we would chorus, “Culture is the way of life of a people.” The first thing that struck me was that odd phrase: a people. My tiny brain could not compute. “A” is singular, “people” is plural. …
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The counterfeit currency of being liked
Finally, we’re here and I’m fulfilling a 2 week-old promise 💃🏽 I said I’d write about this, and yes, you’re welcome… hehe. A question for you! Have you ever heard about the Abilene Paradox? Let me rephrase: Have you ever had that “WTF look” because a friend expressed their disdain for something to you in private and then in public, went all “Yaaas, Queen!” to it? 😂 You’re there like, “Huh? What…
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We Love Pain! (Seriously?)
Hey, before you crucify me, let me crucify myself ☠ Yes, I know: in my last piece, I said this week, we’d talk about the counterfeit currency of being liked. And yet here you are, staring at a post about pain 😬 How dare I? I promise I’m not a fraud 😂 Over the last few days, I’ve been hit with a flurry of emotions — mountain-high highs and gut‑punch lows, that pushed me to see pain in a completel…
