Letters

Inspired by a Kunda and Friends song, I explore adopting a child-like mindset towards growth and learning in 2025. Drawing parallels between children's natural curiosity and professional development, I highlight strategies for career advancement, continuous learning, and personal growth through the lens of childlike wonder and fearless exploration.

From a remote Nigerian village to achieving a doctorate in the United States, this my inspiring journey chronicles my determination to fulfill my late father's dream. The story follows my path through bachelor's and master's degrees, eventual migration to the USA, and the challenges of balancing doctoral studies at the University of Arkansas with a professional career at Activision | Infinity Ward (now Xbox Microsoft). The year 2024 marked significant milestones including surviving a corporate layoff, obtaining permanent residency, defending my dissertation on knowledge graphs, and culminating in a doctoral hooding ceremony that brought pride to my family and friends.

I want to journal and document my daily achievements ahead of the new year and you should join me.

Engineering requests are often abstract, with many details of the request not visible to engineers. The role of engineers is not only to write code but also to ask the right questions to stakeholders before solving technical challenges.

This very first article of the year is something I have been thinking of how to write, what to write and when to write it.It may interest you that I recreated my blog or website on December 31st, 2022 to January 2nd , 2023 has I had discontinued the brief experiment of having a blog in WordPress.I did not dish WordPress because it was not efficient, but because I wanted something I could write that permits me to have my entire article in a way I can easily port it over to any platform or without any plugin etc.