Nnanna's Blog

Over the last few years, I have fought the feeling of needing to own a corner of the internet under my own name-away from the doom scrolling of Twitter/X-where I can publish the occasional essay on a few of the topics that excite me at any given time (Fintech, capitalism, things I learn, finance, masculinity, Nigeria, the occasional psychology, books, Star Wars, Manchester City, and building products).

Even though I tried to run away from it, I have: published a few posts under a pseudonym, written for a couple of publications, dropped a few hot takes on Twitter/X/IG, and had some drafts critiqued by friends.

In the same period, and in an ironic twist, I have put a few friends and people I admire under pressure to publish and write more, doing my bit to keep them accountable.

I primarily decided to do this because I realized that most product managers are voracious readers, but it seems that we are all reading from the same 4 or 5 PMs. I agree that Product management content can be trite, I also agree that we should all write more, (and in our own voice, not AI please) because we never know if our own post is the 100th post that unlocks an eureka moment of understanding for the reader. So, I will try to not contribute to filling a river with recycled droplets from a tributary.

A personal example of this is how I had consumed multiple how-tos on setting up an ENS domain, but only figured it out and completed it after reading Teju’s post on the same topic. (I know at least 5 people who set up their ENS domains, and received their ENS airdrops just from reading that article).

Finally, I will take the advice of my favourite writer – Morgan Housel, and write most of these things primarily for myself and see where it leads me.

I have a few topics I want to expand on, and I will share most of them here, and on Substack because “Fintech is easy”™️🫣. It’s January 2024, and my only commitment/goal for this will be 10+ posts by the December 31, 2024. Hit that goal, and I will see where this goes.

Till then.

“Been giving other people advice for years? Give yourself the advice and see if it’s any good. Meet the market.” – Jason Fried