Should Social Media Be Regulated?


Social Media companies are responsible for generating thousands of jobs and billions of US dollars in revenues and taxes. However they are also accused of heavy handedness, enabling screen addiction, selling user data without consent and threatening elections. Should they be regulated? You will learn the importance of ensuring balance in their regulation to avoid killing innovation.

The Adebayo Alonge Podcast Show- Season 1, Episode 2: Leveraging the Power of Social Media


Since the late 2000's we have now moved into the influencer age. Where those who are able to command attention and build social networks around them have become the nodes for economic power. We are in the attention economy, be a seller influencer not the product

Product features should be dumbed down


I always enjoin my product teams to never approach product development from a superiority complex. Many times product teams fall into the trap of aloofness when they tend to assume that users are not smart for not using a feature as intended. Features should be intuitive. Yes even dumb. One user may be stupid , … Continue reading Product features should be dumbed down

Quote: Liberty is fed by sacrifice


So often it is that those superior peoples having attained luxuries and the life of ease after so many generations at peace are no longer eager to risk discomfort to resist those upstarts who aggress against them. In so doing they lose everything, becoming serfs to those who previously served them. No peoples can long … Continue reading Quote: Liberty is fed by sacrifice

Becoming Man (I)


And so humans the so-called Homo Sapiens seeks to continuously differentiate himself from other non-humans. He does so by recreating an unnatural world purely of his own imagination. He creates clothes, tissue paper, money, skyscrapers, a trading economy, implements of war, a class system and then calls himself refined, civilized- the non-beast, the non-savage. Because to him, his civilization represents a refined state of the natural world- that unrefined state from whence he cometh, of which he is sworn never to return and in which all other non-humans and animals remain stuck. The Homo Sapien wants to become man and he will hate on, destroy anything that reminds him of who is - an ape, indeed a simple animal same as all other animals of the earth.