David Adepoju Blog Posts

In one of the “letter to my son” series that I share once in a while on my Facebook page, I shared a piece with the line “consistency will take you where brilliance fails”. It is not enough to be brilliant in a world that loves brilliance and genius. I know that I have at least ten books living in my belly that I must produce and share with the world, but I need the discipline to write the books. No matter how brilliant I am, I need the consistency to keep writing these books in bits. My consistency must…

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Who else is wondering what type of title is this? I am surprised myself. That was the phrase that came to my mind as I thought about what to share with you. Folarin Falana said that line in one of his songs with SIMI. He tried to use that line to brag to SIMI that he has travelled so much that he is now building his own airport. While the line sounded funny, there is a lesson in it. In life, we all desire to become experts in something or be known as an authority in a craft, a business…

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I was looking for a company that could execute a brief for a friend’s startup a while ago. I have had it rough getting a company that can do what my friend expected. I had been scouting for almost a month until one morning. How did it happen?. I went to the car wash close to my house to do my routine Sunday morning car wash before church. I was seated on the customer’s balcony of the car wash when one elderly but smartly dressed man walked to the chair beside me to take his seat. I greeted him, and…

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I am writing to you seated on my balcony, enjoying the fast dwindling Kigali sun. I am reflecting on the issue of people projecting their insecurities on others as I sip my blackcurrant tea. A prominent story that comes to mind was a senior friend who once told me that the University of Ibadan Admission is not for me because he attempted it twice and was not admitted. He told me never to try again because if he did not make the cut-off mark, someone like me would never come close to the lowest range of the cut-off. I eventually…

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A few days ago, I was going through the drive where I saved all my articles, and I noticed that I had up to 100 unpublished pieces in the drive. I was intentional enough to go through at least 50 articles to understand why I have not published them. As I read through them, one thing became apparent; I did not publish them because I was very critical of them, and I wanted them to pass through the test of time and thoughts before making them public. I did not publish some of them because I was not sure of…

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From the first day I read, someone wrote in solidarity of someone they loved, ” you can do no wrong in my eyes” I knew I would continually have issues with such love. I don’t want to be surrounded by people who love me to the point where they can no longer tell me I am wrong when I am. Love does not mean “overlooking” your wrongs. People overlook an element of love these days, which is ” saying the truth” to the one they love. I see people defend decadence with their full chest because the person in the…

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I have recently been reflecting on the idea of “safe spaces”. The word has been used probably over a million times in the last five years in corporate and smaller communities of people and professionals. I had an experience recently that made me reflect on what we truly mean by “safe spaces”. I went in for a virtual meeting, and the moderator stated clearly from the start of the conversation that we were there for candid and critical discussions. The moderator asked us all to speak our minds and hit the nail on the head. There was also the use…

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I stumbled on one of those random gossip pages on Facebook earlier today. The page posted the screenshot of a tweet by the Billionaire Femi Otedola’s daughter, DJ Cuppy. In the tweet, she mentioned how going back to school to get her third academic degree has affected her music career. I decided to check the post’s comment section, and Oh my, it was a full range of negativity. Many comments cancelled her from starting a music career in the first place. Many wrote that she should never come back to music because she sings nonsense. Many asked her to go…

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You have avoided like the plague, everyone that will tell you the truth because you don’t like criticism. The problem is that you will also lose those who could give you objective feedback while avoiding criticism. You want to be right 24/7, and your opinion must be the best in all situations. Anyone who differs from you in anything is a threat. Now you have surrounded yourself with people that will only sing your praise, give you kudos all the time and call you the greatest of all time. You don’t want friends; you only want praise singers. You feel…

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