14/10/2025
I am of the school of thought that more than 99% of problems announce themselves from the start.
There’s this block-blast game I play on my phone. I only pick it up when my mind feels too full, too distracted for Netflix or Prime Video, and too restless for any conversation. It has become my hiding place and a spot I retreat to when I’m overwhelmed but still need to think through a decision.
And in the short space I have been playing this game, I noticed something. In that game, you can almost always tell from the first few moves whether you’re headed for a high score or if it’s a doomed run. If the game keeps forcing you to use retries too early, you already know the end won’t be great. It’s like chess but in a reverse sort of way. One wrong starting move and you know you are f* .
Life (and work) is a lot like that. Some problems give us early warnings. You see the red flags. You know that a deal or move isn’t clean, that that hire isn’t a fit, that project is already broken at the foundation and that the amount you conceded to collect for it means you can never deliver a good job..
But many times, maybe out of stubbornness, overconfidence, village people refusing to stop pressing on your destiny, or just “let’s see how it goes”, we keep pushing anyway. And just like in the game, we burn through retries we could have saved for the battles that matter.
Sometimes, the smartest move we can make for ourselves is to recognize a “dead game” early, cut our losses, and channel our energy into the plays that actually have a future.
But guess what? Many a times, you see this lesson? We only learn it from personal experience. Like our wafi people will say, ‘’If hand never toush you, you no go rest.’’
In another news, Ai insists this is me. Shared different images of me and it got more ridiculous with each new image I shared. I wonder if these images are of someone who exists somewhere on earth or in another universe. Cos it sure ain’t me! 🤣🌝
