great thinking, great product By Chu on November 22, 2023 — 1 min read tl;dr this could really be a post about my nice new backpack . Growing up in Lagos in the 90’s, I remember a television ad for Toyota that ended with a Japanese voice saying “yoi shinai, yoi kangai – good thinking, good product”. That slogan stuck. Toyota cars are generally good products. Good products get the job... More
Table Stakes: Should Twitter have an End of The Year Round-up? By Chu on January 13, 2021 — 1 min read When I saw people tweet their 2020 recaps from Spotify and Apple Music, I wondered if Twitter’s product team observed this cross-platform sharing, and what implementing something similar with already existing data assets would look like. Maybe an End of the Year report? With consumer technology we often see once unique features quickly become the minimum offering needed to meet... More
Coworking at School By Chu on February 27, 2018 — 1 min read Nigerian schools are underutilized. They should naturally be libraries. adult education centers. co-working spaces. innovation laboratories. media production facilities. Public schools would benefit the most from this intervention. Smarter people than myself are working on this already. But remember, a school might already be one of the best places to situate your business. When you... More
