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  DON’T LET GREED MAKE YOU PRICE LIKE YOU ARE OUT OF YOUR MIND! LEARN THIS HACK, AND YOU’D NEVER BE PRICED LOW AGAIN (5 mins read). Last year, by providence, I landed everyone’s dream client, one that would ask you to work from wherever you are, and just be you. He just wanted results, he didn’t want to interfere with my processes. And, he has deep pockets. I mean the type that could buy food, and pay the waiter times four of the price of the food just because he could.  When I announced it to a couple of my colleagues, they said to me, “Make sure you make money o!” In Nigerian terms, it meant, “make sure you milk that large cow dry!” I chuckled, and I began to ask the question I think many creatives or freelancers or small business owners don’t ask enough: WHAT WILL I OFFER THIS CLIENT THAT WILL MAKE THEM PAY PREMIUM? And this question, ladies and gentlemen is the reason why you are a graphic designer, but they price you like you are selling corn. Or you are a copywriter, and...

  Elon Musk's Neuralink, Metaverse, and The Matrix. (10 minutes read). I was on YouTube recently, just scrolling through the app when my attention was drawn to a YouTube video that had Elon Musk in it. He was talking about something that we only had in our imaginations growing up. He was talking about inputting a chip into our brains that will allow us to communicate with tech around us. Not just that, it can restore lost body functions, and even make it slightly better According to Elon. It is said that the chip will be implanted into its first human this year.  The chip was first tested in pigs and monkeys. The last monkey test had the monkey play Mindpong only by thinking. I think he was with Joe Rogan in that video. ( Here is the link if you want to see the interview). Now this caught my attention, because what Elon is trying to do is to take a computer, insert it inside us, and have that computer augment the effort of our brains. I mean, the things he said this chip can ...