A city that runs on urgency produces remarkable people. It also makes it hard to tell what matters.
If you want to understand urgency, spend a week in Lagos.
The city does not wait for you. Traffic moves in bursts, deals are made in the time it takes to cross a street, and everyone seems to be running three things at once. Visitors often describe it as chaos. People who live there know it is closer to a dense, improvised order that rewards anyone who can read it quickly.
We are handed beliefs before we can examine them. Choosing them later is a form of respect.
Opinions formed in an hour are rarely worth holding for a year.
Money is very good at one job: buying the freedom to say no. It needs clear instructions to do it.
Competition gets the blame. Cash timing, founder bandwidth and drift do most of the damage.