Time capsule

Today, I plugged into an old playlist to lift up my spirit at the end of work.

As music is a powerful time capsule, a flood of memories came rushing in.

One of those memories stuck around, and made me place a call to an old friend.

Immediately he picked, his first words were – “Let’s go there.” It is a catchphrase from the club banger by 9ice – Party Rider.

I followed with the usual response, “We do not know what tomorrow holds, but one thing is sure, we will enter it dancing. Let’s go there.”

I am thankful for time capsules.

Peak fragility

Like humans, ideas are at peak fragility during the start of gestation, and just after birth.

Innovators who understand this, spend their early days nurturing, with no time for show-off.

To the untrained eye, great ideas blossom “all of a sudden”. There is nothing sudden about greatness. It takes assiduous work behind the scenes.

Ignore the dopamine lure of sharing your work publicly, before it is ready.

Now, back to the uncelebrated work of creating greatness.

– Osasu Oviawe