My Reflections on life and lessons learnt
After the whirlwind that was last week, this week was much calmer. We had a one week sprint and everyone just tried to achieve the goals. Here are the highlights. Journey mapping Last week, we had several sessions with users to understand how intuitive the tool was. However, interactions with …
This is my first weeknote. Hello! I’m Tobi, Product Manager on GOV.UK. The last week (ending 16/08/2019) has been an interesting one. I started managing a new product so I thought why not start writing weeknotes now? no better time than a new beginning eh? I started working on the publishing …
2016 was a good year. I had my court wedding on the 30th of December, 2015. Therefore, I started the year on a high. I had pretty clear plans for the first half of the year: Plan traditional and church wedding, change name, apply for a new passport and UK residence permit, handover …
It’s amazing how time flies when you are having fun eh? The past 6 weeks have been amazing. Shortly after I posted about the need to make my own luck, I got a job, the type of Job I wanted. It happened pretty fast too, I had one interview and got …
I have wanted to write about Sex for a while, from a different perspective. This is not a post about having sex or not, It is about the lack of sex related discussion before marriage. In (African) Christian communities, Sex is hardly talked about with ‘before marriage’ folks, except that …
I first read about the human tendency to keep doors(options) open and how distracting this is in a book I read last year — Dan Ariely’s Predictably Irrational. We like to have options, it’s natural to us. Sometimes, we go out of our way to find said options. Humans do this …
Today, Mr T asked me a question, a seemingly simple one. How many friends do you have? Not acquittances or work friends or people you are close to on a superficial level but people you have deep relationships with, those friends that you know what’s actually going on in their …
Recently, I have been very whiny. Why? Well, It’s this darn job search. It’s been almost 3 months since I relocated to London and I have lost almost all my motivation. I have applied for lots of jobs, I have gotten a few feedbacks, I have gone for a few …
Okay, I shouldn’t have left this to the last minute…I feel like missed the deadline 🙂 2015 was an interesting year. I started it sick with chicken pox, hopeful for a job in the United Kingdom. I had little certainty about where I was going to be in the next …
I get a lot of emails. Okay, maybe not that many but I assume they will increase. Problem I ignore a lot of them, people contact me for all kinds of reasons – advice, referral, new roles or just hey, you cool. Mostly, I am keen on replying… later, that’s …