Celestine Omin
On Software, life and everything in-between
On Faith - What I learnt from my son.
One of the things I enjoy most is picking Lee from school. I love the 10 minutes conversation that ensues on our drive back home. I love it. It’s an opportunity to get to learn about his day; who fell on the playground, who didn’t wear their masks or face...
Happy Birthday King & Queen
Every year, I try to write a letter to Lee, this year, I am writing to Livy too. If you want to read the previous ones, here are the links 1, 2, 3. The King is 4 and the Queen is 1.5. I can’t believe it’s been this long. The...
Reward behaviour, win a customer for life
I have been thinking about brand loyalty for a while now and I thought I’d share some rough thoughts about this. Nothing ground breaking, but one that I think most businesses can begin to apply if they have the right tools. Let’s start with the Loyalty Loyalty Brand loyalty is...
Failure, empathy and kindness
You can’t even fail in peace in Nigeria, maybe Africa. Everyone and their mum will come with a pitchfork and their armchair analysis. Reminding you of what you could have done and couldn’t have done. It’s sad to watch. Many years ago at Konga, the competition took a misstep and...
So you want to become a senior engineer?
Every now and then, I’ll get a DM from a software engineer asking me how they can become senior engineers and generally grow their careers. I will try to answer that in this post. Grab a glass of something lite, the class is in session. First and foremost, I generally...