The point that a lot of people miss about online conversations: Conversations here do not aim to ENACT a new way of living. It's just different people coughing out their idiosyncrasies. And you will do well to ask questions that unearth their biases than attacking anyone.

Take it for granted that the default response you’d get to most requests is a no. So no single "no" can surprise you. /1 In that case then, you approach each request with the view to turn the default “no” into a yes. /2 For most requests, by most of us, all we need is a single “yes.” More than one yes often means we then have to say no to a yes. Therefore, the sequence in 1 and 2 above is really only iterative until a single yes.

Very good. 👍🏾

Bamboo appears to be into the business of remittances now. And like Risevest, they also now have a business offering (I think they’ve had the business offering for a while though).

If one focuses on correcting the sins of humans, one would spend literally all one’s time doing so, for humans never run out of clever, creative ways to sin. What I would rather focus on is a much simpler message: You must be born again. Because once you are born again, the nature that constantly finds creative ways to sin is removed, and a new nature, one that is completely focused on pleasing God, no matter the personal sacrifice, including the cutting off of your right hand and the plucking out of your eyes, is planted in you and begins to grow.

1. Romans 1:24 — God gave them up to uncleanness. 2. Romans 1:26 — God gave them up to vile affections. 3. Romans 1:28 — God gave them over to a reprobate mind.

Looking forward to what the 2026 would come out to. A working Nigeria is good for all.

At this point, I no longer care about model advances, at least not so much. 1. For most of the use cases that I have, a combination of Astra 6.1 and Opus 5.5, both on medium, and Astra on fast, is more than excellent. 2. Even for those, I’m yet to fully explore or appreciate their capabilities. If I wanted something more, it would be speed, just because why not. This is, however, not to say the labs should stop pushing the edges; they should, absolutely.

One long story!

One way I use AI to make sure it does its best on my task is to tell it to be “painstaking” as it works. Adjectives will save your life. Haha.

Really! Thank you, Jesus. 🙏🏾

The more you practice Christianity, the more you appreciate the importance of why the law has to be planted in your heart and not just anywhere else. The law in your heart is simply something in you that is pushing you to become more like Jesus. This is in contrast to you reading the law and then wanting to obey it. I think this again as I realised that, over the past few months, all I’ve been reading in the Bible is the book of John. A single book. If I took it for granted that all I therefore know about the word of God is from that book, it would mean all the growth I could get would be what I picked from the book. However, if the law is in my heart, it wouldn’t matter that all I’ve read and know is the single book. The law in my heart would be directing me and working in me to become more like Jesus. Such that it wouldn’t matter if John didn’t capture, as Matthew did in the Sermon on the Mount, that lust is adultery already. The moment I lust, the law in me would flag it for me, and if I am tempted to it, the law in me would constrain me. To arrive at this stage, God first told a long story by choosing the descendants of Abraham and giving them the laws to practice. This was important since that’s the natural propensity for us; we require law to guide us. It is no surprise that Christian, in The Pilgrim’s Progress, took this route too. The few honest amongst us, though, often eventually cry out in great pain and bewilderment, as Paul did when he said, “The things I would, I do not; the things I would not, those I do.” We have the law, we confess it is pure, but we can’t follow it. The law within us, though—now that’s life eternal.

Do not doubt this the slightest bit.