performing a seemingly benign action and triggering a latent bug <<<

It’s interesting to watch people who enjoy certain freedoms today because people who never knew them risked their education and faced violence, legal persecution, bans, prison, marginalisation, death, name it, call others foolish for risking it all for other people’s freedoms.

We hit 99.99988% availability for Stripe's payments APIs in April (and at record scale). Just a hair more than one error for every million payments.

Really enjoyed my fireside chat with Stripe CTO David Singleton at the Stripe HQ in San Francisco, off the back of Stripe Sessions. Was great to share the Paystack story and demo some products we're building.

It was also great to host 30 African founders with Nubi Kay' 🎉🚀

the prudent thing to do to celebrate world password day as a paystack user is to enable 2fa on your account, and if you're an admin, enforce it for all users on your integration. 🔐

it takes a lot of gall to mindlessly spend customer funds to appear larger than life, blame a 'hack' that either didn't happen, or was a result of sheer recklessness - given the lack of a postmortem, be on the brink of company collapse, then proceed to dunk on journalists.

functionally, the ray-ban meta glasses are what the humane ai pin purports to be, but at less than half the price and without the monthly subscription fees.

I watched Oo Nwoye's speech where he said Paystack's CEO, Shola, is the ideal founder: Imagine that as a Nigerian VC, your first investment was in Paystack. Great product solving a real problem, good leadership, great culture, ESOPs, not overvalued, and an M&A exit.

details from “trinity” by aik ✨❤️

don't meet your heroes, or you might become acutely aware of how susceptible they are to tunnel vision and hasty generalizations.

“trinity” by aik

our beginning, captured in oil, immortalized on canvas ❤️✨

grateful to be a part of this community 🖤

i wish there was a way to deeply communicate your love for a person, such that no matter where there are in life, whether in a place of great mental or physical suffering, they can always viscerally feel that you love them and everything will be ok…

wishing peace for the dead.

CKTH7985 World of Statistics I'll find out when I get there. I count my blessings impulsively, and am not prone to dwell on missed opportunities. I doubt that this personality trait will fade. I have an almost off-putting tendency to reflexively accept and make light of even the most traumatic circumstances.

Adam Wathan Remembering that, at least at work, you're not doing the other party any favors by being vague, soft, or obtuse. Radical candor nailed this with the concept of ruinous empathy. Being honest and direct is a gift to the other side.

i wonder how much time in aggregate humanity has spent trying to trigger apple's facetime reaction effects since their introduction.

A common pitfall for product teams is the sunk cost fallacy. When new data or changing markets show that an idea isn't working, it's tough to pivot if you've already invested heavily.

Always remember: “Don’t cling to a mistake just because you spent a long time making it.”