Author: Smart Megwai

I have written more articles in my career than I could ever hope to count. Ten thousand? Twenty thousand? Maybe fifty thousand. But this one is different. It carries a weight of disappointment, even sadness. Because it is about a product that had everything going for it, yet still disappeared.…

Juggling a full-time job while building a side business has been one of the most formative experiences of my life. It has taught me grit, time management, and the raw mechanics of creating value from scratch. But the most unexpected lesson was how this entrepreneurial spirit transformed my performance at…

“Why must we import everything?” As a child, I frequently asked this question whenever I noticed the “Made in China” or “Made in Japan” labels on my toys, television, or other electronics. It was surprising to me that a country as vast and resourceful as ours struggled to produce even…

I’ve recently started watching documentaries, and it has had a profound impact on my writing. If you’re a writer, I highly recommend making this a regular practice. One by Augustine Chidiebere, Founder of Delvett, tells the compelling story of a billionaire who built Nigeria’s first car brand. A line from…

When my family has a hospital appointment, there’s a place we always end up. After each visit to TopTee Medical Centre in Surulere, Lagos, we head straight next door to Chicken Republic. It started the day we strolled in for lunch and ate their chicken for the first time. Since…

The last time you and I thought about memory chips might have been in our secondary or high school, during those lessons on floppy disks and how to shut down Windows XP “the right way.” Since then, we haven’t given them a second thought. They work quietly inside our laptops…

On Friday morning, I opened my laptop to begin work. I’d left ChatGPT open the day before when I finished work and hibernated my device. As the screen lit up, Chrome restored my last tabs. But the ChatGPT on my screen wasn’t the same one I’d left yesterday. At the…

For a long time, I thought tech was truly global. You open an app, send a message, check a map, stream a song, buy something — and it all works, wherever you are. I never stopped to wonder where any of it came from. Then one day, almost by accident,…

For a long time, I thought addiction was a private struggle. Something that happened quietly, behind closed doors. Painful, yes, but mostly the result of personal choices or bad luck. I assumed it was a consequence of bad habits, poor decisions, or maybe just being born with the wrong genes.…

I remember the first time I heard about ChatGPT. Someone mentioned it passing: “There’s this tool you could just give an instruction, and it generates content for you.” I thought, “Wait! Wait! How is that even possible?” Since then, I’ve seen what ChatGPT and AI in general can do. Honestly,…

I remember the first time I saw an Acer laptop. It was around 2018 or 2019. The design caught my eye, not because it was flashy, but because it was clean, portable, and surprisingly sleek. Back then, laptops were evolving. Manufacturers were moving away from bulky, heavy builds towards something…

If you’ve been using ChatGPT just to handle tasks, then you’re only scratching the surface of what it can do. AI isn’t just for writing emails, summarising articles, or helping with quick to-do lists. It’s becoming something much more valuable. More and more people are using it to enhance their…

Ben Eluan’s journey with Flux is very compelling. I find the narrative of Flux itself noteworthy, especially the part where Ben describes how four founders, all university students, made the difficult decision to drop out. In an interview, Ben shared that he was already in his final year, at the…

The first time I realised that Google could fail at something was when I discovered a name I had never heard before: Orkut. It was a social network created by Google and launched in 2004—the same year Facebook was founded. Orkut became incredibly popular in countries like Brazil and India,…

I once worked at a large, well-known organisation that, on paper, had everything you’d expect from a great workplace. Large team. Big mission. Even a daily “morning devotion” meant to inspire us before the day’s work. But none of that mattered. Because three women managers technically held the place hostage.…

When was the last time you stopped to think about Google Maps? Probably not often. You use the app, and it meets your needs. It’s there when you need directions, when you’re looking for a coffee shop, or just curious about what that new restaurant looks like on Street View.…

I’ve scanned hundreds of QR codes, and I’m not exaggerating. From paying for groceries at the supermarket, to accessing a digital menu in a café, to filling out a form in church during announcements. Once, at a movie cinema, I scanned a QR code to check movie times, then scanned…

A while ago, I found a book online called How to Break Up with Your Phone  by Catherine Price. The title caught my eye, so I searched Google to see if I could find any reviews. Not just star ratings, but I wanted to see what people really thought. Did it…

You might not know this name, but I recently read about a man named Gary Kildall, someone who could have become as famous and successful as Bill Gates. Gary wasn’t flashy. He didn’t act like a typical business leader. But he was a quiet kind of genius, the kind who…

I’ve seen promising ideas fall apart, not because they were bad, but because the people behind them believed too much, too soon. I’ve watched startups with beautiful branding, early funding, and plenty of Twitter hype disappear within 18 months. What took them down wasn’t laziness or lack of vision. It…