HeyJaredMusings of a Growing Man
My reflections on becoming—about learning, unlearning, and embracing the beauty of being unfinished.
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Weak, Weak Man. (opens the original)
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I am beginning to suspect that I am not as ambitious as I have always imagined myself to be.It is an ugly thing to admit.I have called it tiredness. I have called it needing rest. I have called it waiting for the right moment, needing inspiration, having too many things to do, not knowing where to begin. I have simply become very good at giving beautiful names to my laziness.Look at me.I have dreams enough to fill several lifetimes. I want to build, learn, create, serve, become. I speak passiona
We Built What We Couldn’t Find (opens the original)
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I had an initial draft for this chapter. I woke up at 1:09 AM on Saturday to a text from a very good friend.The text read: Sylvester, was it all worth it at the end of the day? If you could turn back the hands of time, would you have rather not held positions?I deleted the draft I was about to publish and spent the next three days trying to piece this together.Subscribe nowOne of the biggest lessons the university taught me had absolutely noth
A Boy, a Notebook, and a Very Stubborn Phone (opens the original)
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The first version of Agobaba who resumed university would probably laugh if he met the person writing this today.Back then, there were no leadership positions. No awards bagged. No communities to build. Nobody was calling me “Mr. President.” There was no grand vision of working on satellites or dreaming about rockets.There was just a seventeen-year-old boy with a fresh low cut, a zip-up sweatshirt, blue jeans, brown leather sandals, a Lonsdale fanny pack hanging across his chest, two 60-leaf not
The University I Never Planned For (opens the original)
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If you had met seventeen-year-old me and asked, “So, where are you going to university?” I would have answered almost immediately:“UNILAG.”No time! <img alt="Paw Paw Reaction GIF" class="sizing-normal" height="193" src="
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