Meet Temitayo Diadem Adegoke - The Builder | The Product Guy | The Gold Digger
THE DAY I REALIZED FEATURES DON’T PAY SALARIES
I remember it clearly.We had a beautiful product.Clean design.Smart features.A proud team.But the bank balance didn’t care.Bills were due.Salaries were staring at me.And downloads were not paying anyone.That day, something broke in me.I stopped asking, “What feature should we add next?”And started asking, “Who is paying and why?”We paused building.We picked up the phone.We talked […]
IGNORING AI TODAY IS THE SAME AS REFUSING TO USE A COMPUTER IN THE 90s
There was a time when people said computers were a fad. They trusted their typewriters. They said, “This one has worked for years.” Today, typewriters are museum items. There was a time when people insisted on VHS and DVDs. They said streaming would never replace physical copies. Now, most laptops don’t even have CD drives. […]
GOD MADE A FREE WORLD. WE TURNED IT INTO A BILLING SYSTEM
Think about it for a moment. God created the earth to sustain itself. Food grew from the ground. Water flowed freely. Energy was everywhere. Then we arrived and complicated everything. Land was given freely. Now you must buy land to build on it or pay rent forever. Miss a payment and you lose your home. […]
THE POWER OF INFLUENCE
As a kid, I wanted to become a doctor because I have an uncle who is a doctor. He dresses smartly, wears a pair of glasses and speaks in a very soothing way. This got me thinking the best thing I could ever be was a medical doctor. A friend of mine told me he […]
THE HOAX OF SIDE HUSTLE
One major reason why many of us are still poor and struggling is our ego. In fact, in a broader perspective, the reason why we get angry over anything at all is our ego. We say things like, how dare you say such to me, “a whole me” blah blah blah. There are a lot […]
LOVE IS NOT WHAT MOST PEOPLE THINK IT IS
Two days to Valentine’s Day, and timelines are already filling up. Flowers. Surprise dinners. Matching outfits. Public declarations. All nice things. But let’s be honest for a moment. Love is not the picture you post. It’s the behavior you repeat when nobody is watching. Love is replying with patience when you’re tired. It’s choosing respect […]
BREAK THE CYCLE
I grew up knowing that nobody was coming to save me. No connections. No rich uncle. No safety net waiting if I failed. And for a long time, I was angry. Angry at the system. Angry at the country. Angry at people who seemed to start life ten steps ahead. But one day, a hard […]
TIME-AND-EFFORT VS RESULTS ECONOMY
Most people live in what I call the Time-and-Effort Economy.You show up.You put in hours.You expect a predictable outcome.Entrepreneurs don’t have that luxury.The moment you choose entrepreneurship, you cross a risk line into a very different world — the Results Economy.There’s no guaranteed paycheck.No one owes you income every two weeks.No reward for effort alone.You […]