TechCabal's Moonshot 2024

It's Oct 28th, 2024. I opened this tab on the 11th. Now, I write.

First, pictures.

Next, fun.

I'd like to say I had tons of it, but who am I kidding. It was good, regular fun.

The fun part here being hanging out with friends, the choice of rooms and speakers, and the interaction with exhibiting brands.

No, I'll run through moments as they come to mind.

I met Toluwase Olugbemiro of BCP Origins. I'd come across his work at some point and stayed with him. He'd posted something on Medium close to the event, and I remember I still had that tab open to finish reading. I liked what I'd read and wanted to get in touch with him about setting up his own blog on Ghost. So, it was thrilling to look up and find him there.

I met David (bottom -left in the gallery) and he'd gracefully told me about DataFest coming up Oct 17 to 19. I promptly registered and I must say, meeting him has made a lot of other fortunate happenstance.

I liked the talks, particularly the speakers. I like that I left there with new information and inspiration. I acted on some of the things I learned, and others will stay with me longer till they bare fruit.

I'm running out of moments to write about. It comes as no surprise since I managed to put off writing till now.

I'm writing now because I act on what I learned at church yesterday. It centered around talking about achievements as a christian. In particular, the need to write–it's our duty to Christ to have our light shine. That's compelling to me. What's even more helpful is the right frame of mind yesterday's service gifted me–sharing to glorify God and help others, as opposed to bragging. So far, I've been mentally stuck in deciding to write at all, and then writing about it properly.

I'd originally envisioned I'd write about the benefits of conferences like this, the people I met and the things I learned, but as you can tell, I'm not quite going for that. Right now, I'm just writing.

Now that I'm happy I've written something, I'll share it.

If you're reading this from LinkedIn, know I'm proud with myself.

I feel like I have to write something that helps someone else. So I'll leave this–I did it. I dragged my feet. I was consumed with so much doubt from overthinking. But look, I did it. You can too.

This is where I'm going to leave this note.

Till another time.