Written Tue, 4th November, 2022, Published on 11th January, 2023

2022 and Beyond - Dreams and Aspirations.

It is a brand new day. A brand new opportunity to make something great

Every single day I wake up with the intentions of contemplating and making the best long term strategic decisions that I can make.

I like to admire the present but I hardly expect anything to happen quickly. Those expectations will quickly drain your motivation. I have studied a lot of history about the most relevant companies of today and one thing that always cut across is that the founders usually work on the ideas for at least a decade and acquired skills within the past decade that lead to their current successes.

That’s why it is important for me at this age to make very clear, consistent and strategic decisions of my life since I am very young and trying to achieve the best I can in my short life on this planet.

I started my entrepreneurial journey by learning how to code and building startups to run them myself because I never wanted to work for anyone. None of them really worked though. I tried building, Trendz - social media platform with a dislike button. Vlick a virtual reality oriented social media platform. Yapaala.com an all-in-one room renting platform. Hammerfy.com A kind of wayfair.com for Ghanaians.

I teamed up with a dear friend and a brother to build a crypto startup bitperse to serve the African market but I quickly realised that Ghana was no Silicon Valley. Within the first few months we grew very quickly and just as we grew, we stumbled quickly and I was back to square zero.

In the past decades technically inclined CEOs have been on the rise. Most of the best CEOs in the world are not from a business management background but from engineering. It doesn’t surprise me because engineers do a lot of critical thinking and problem solving and in a world that is constantly changing one can only argue that those are the skills required for outstanding success.

What I am teaching myself now is problem solving and strategic decision making through software development. I made this decision not because I was taught in school or I was directed by a higher up. I dropped out of school so that I could focus on learning the things that mattered to me most and that goes to tell you that I am very opinionated about my decisions in life and yet very flexible to change when I learn new things. I am making this decision from what I have learnt in the past years on the internet about how the world we know today came to be and the direction in which it is going. I definitely want to be at the forefront of technological innovations that change life for the better.

I might not have a huge impact on the world Right now like I want to, but every time that I write a line of code, I am imagining that, at this young age if I am able to write software that thousands of people use, what would I build in the next decade?

As I end the year, this will be my focus henceforth.