🚨*[TONIGHT] Environment is destiny!*
In my most previous post (just above this one), I answered a question about Open Universities.
However, this draws from a mental model that cuts across multiple facets of life which is: Environment is Destiny!
Work is another fantastic example.
As a Third World African, be skeptical of remote work opportunities from the First World.
The issue is not in the work itself, but the remote.
The remote aspect bars you from building a reputation in that career in a manner that is competitive with those physically entrenched in that environment.
Sure, moving there to compete is not easy… nothing worthwhile is.
My job is to simply call it as it is and trust your creativity to connect all outstanding dots.
Just like distance learning, remote work offers convenience upfront.
You get to earn an income without dragging your physical form across distant shores.
If you’re lucky to be chosen, you could live anywhere (Bali, Kigali, Accra, Rio de Janeiro) and live well, though your employers are situated in the First World.
Yeah, they typically are.
But in exchange for that upfront convenience, you leave such treasures on the table.
I’ll mention just 3 for now.
Here’s what they won’t tell you you’re dropping:
*1) Proximity to power:* Those who decide promotions and partnerships are physically in the room. You’re just a face in a zoom call.
*2) Serendipity:* Those destiny defining conversations that happen in an elevator, at the coffee machine, or after the meeting that officially ended. These moments can only be created and steered by physical presence.
*3) Institutional gravity:*
Over time, the people physically embedded in an environment accumulate social weight while you remain a contractor of convenience.
Useful, but structurally disposable.
Heck, they didn’t even care enough to sponsor your work visa.
And they tempt you (or maybe you tempt yourself) into thinking “it’s the same work”…
nah, fam.
Lai Lai.
No gree.
Your in-office counterpart is not just doing the same job.
They are building a network in a geography where that network actually compounds into board seats, advisory roles, investor introductions, and lateral moves on the chessboard that you will never even hear about on your slack channel.
Remote work from the Third World is not a career strategy.
It is an income strategy.
And the difference between those two things is the difference between renting and owning.
The income feels like progress, and I get it… compared to where you’re coming from, it is some progress.
Still, even the blind can see puppet strings here.
This is not a moral judgment.
Get the bag, bro.
After all, na person wey don chop, go fit shout “SOVEREIGNTY” 😂
If you have to do that for now, sure, I get it.
But do not let them sell you a counterfeit map to the game of life.
*I will go deeper on tonight’s episode of Night School*
But remember, Environment is destiny…
because environment determines who sees you, who remembers you, who fights for you, and who thinks of you when the next door opens.
Don’t let them confine you to a screen.
Scheme your way into their physical space… by any means necessary.
Tonight on Night School, we’re unpacking this further.
Time: 9pm WAT
Registration: https://obidi.co/taa
Talk Soon,
— J.O.
PS: The whispers about an alleged inner circle have grown into louder murmurs.
Somebody cannot keep something lowkey again?
Okay, see it here: https://obidi.co/nsplus
