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The Pursuit of Meaning is Hard & Lonely
But then you already knew that, didn’t you? Still, it’s so painfully true I think I should repeat it. The pursuit for meaning is hard and lonely. Tambaya is about living meaningfully. (And although...
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Which Would You Pick: A Life of Meaning or a Life of Fun?
I was talking to a group of secondary school students recently, in one of the more posh schools in Lagos. I began with a question: “How many of you would rather not be in school?” Maybe half the class...
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Meaning + Fun = ?
In my last post, I posed what I confessed was really a trick question: “Which would you pick, a life of meaning or a life of fun?” I called it a trick question because it portrays as “either-or” what...
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What “Dignity of Labour” Means
Headed to work the other day, I had to pass by Bar Beach in Victoria Island. As usual, that early in the morning, there was a handful of people hanging around, including the usual assortment of...
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Finding Meaning in Cooking
I don’t like cooking. That’s somewhat paradoxical, given how I like good food as much as the next guy. And the richer, the better too. It’s just that good food requires too much effort. I remember a...
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“Primum non nocere”
It’s an old medical axiom. (Hey, I am a doctor, after all.) “First, do no harm.” And like all axioms it’s easy to grasp. It almost seems too obvious for words, even. You could almost wonder at the...
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“Difficult” vs. “Important”
“That’s too difficult.” It’s one of the common responses to new situations. You’ve probably said it before yourself. And probably with good reason, because it’s often true. And mostly unimportant....
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What happens when X-men and CS Lewis collide?
So (flourish of trumpets) Tambaya is back! :-) It’s been very long indeed, I know, and it feels good to be back again after so long. This is going back to being a regular blog, and I’ll be updating it...
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Have you heard this theory about driving in Lagos traffic?
There’s this theory I have about driving in Lagos traffic. You know how when you try to overtake people, they won’t let you? How that’s exactly when they accelerate just to cut you off? (It’s annoying,...
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Meaning + Fun = ?
In my last post, I posed what I confessed was really a trick question: “Which would you pick, a life of meaning or a life of fun?” I called it a trick question because it portrays as “either-or” what...
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What “Dignity of Labour” Means
Headed to work the other day, I had to pass by Bar Beach in Victoria Island. As usual, that early in the morning, there was a handful of people hanging around, including the usual assortment of...
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Finding Meaning in Cooking
I don’t like cooking. That’s somewhat paradoxical, given how I like good food as much as the next guy. And the richer, the better too. It’s just that good food requires too much effort. I remember a...
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“Primum non nocere”
It’s an old medical axiom. (Hey, I am a doctor, after all.) “First, do no harm.” And like all axioms it’s easy to grasp. It almost seems too obvious for words, even. You could almost wonder at the...
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“Difficult” vs. “Important”
“That’s too difficult.” It’s one of the common responses to new situations. You’ve probably said it before yourself. And probably with good reason, because it’s often true. And mostly unimportant....
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Some of my favourite apps
Trello rocks for project management and collaboration and pretty much anything to do with getting things done. Android | iOS Evernote is the boss of note-taking apps. (I know most people use the ones...
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Aluu & all of us
I have silently observed the widespread outrage that has arisen in the wake of the recent deaths of young men at the hands of the people of a town called Aluu. I initially thought to merely observe the...
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The Inconsistency Inherent in “Forgiving Yourself”
“Forgive yourself,” we are often told. Nice-sounding, and well-intended, but is it consistent with reality as portrayed in Scripture? I mean, apart from the fact that there is not one instance of even...
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From My Cage to Yours
Here we stand, you and I, aching souls sentenced to life within frail cages of tissue and bone behind walls that first were fences— boundary-markers over which to meet— but now serve only to imprison...
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A Tribute To Mr Clive Staples Lewis
(Or, Eight Ways One Man Changed Me) I owe my life to Professor Clive Staples Lewis. I do not say this lightly. He truly changed, and in changing saved, my life. And, in commemoration of his death, I...
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