Power in Vulnerability | On Earth Were Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong Dolapo Adedokun 2023-12-12 | 👋🏾 Hey everyone! In this video I talk about On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong. Please leave any feedback in the comments! 00:00 - Intro01:50 - The Book's Form and Structure04:20 - Limitations of Language in Translation (from one language to another)06:14 - Cultural Hierarchies13:30 - Limitations of Language in Communicating Intergenerational Experiences17:51 - whoops :P18:34 - Vulnerability as a Cultural Value22:33 - Language and Power23:47 - Language and Immigrants27:54 - Conclusion#booktube #booktubenewbie #bookish #blackbooktubers #slowreading #books #tech #oceanvuong
Opening the Heart of a Buddha | Recent Reads Dolapo Adedokun 2024-10-03 | Hi Everyone! In today's video I discuss compassion and being open to more difficult emotions. I hope it resonates with someone 🙂. Thank you for watching! 00:00 - Intro11:10 - The Art of Happiness, Howard Cutler & The Dalai Lama14:21 - Radical Acceptance, Tara Brach#buddhism #radicalacceptance #compassion #love
Recent Reads | AI, Fourth Wing, Smoking/Addiction Dolapo Adedokun 2024-06-21 | Hey Everyone! Happy June! In this video, I talk about some recent reads across artificial intelligence, romance fantasy, and psychology/addiction. I do a bit of a deep-dive on the AI book (The Worlds I See, Dr. Fei-Fei Li), which I ended up talking about for most of the video. The other two books are discussed briefly at the end! Hope you enjoy 🙂00:00 - Intro01:40 - The Worlds I See, Dr. Fei-Fei Li33:00 - The Easyway to Stop Smoking, Allen Carr 35:22 - Fourth Wing, Rebecca Yarros#ai #artificialintelligence #stanford #booktube #addiction #fourthwing
March Reads and Pickups | Angela Davis, Ursula K. Le Guin Dolapo Adedokun 2024-03-28 | 👋🏾 Hello everyone! This is just a quick update of what I have been reading over the past few weeks (just one book haha) and some recent pickups. 00:00 - Angela Davis Autobiography 12:55 - The Left Hand of Darkness, Ursula K. Le Guin15:08 - Fourth Wing, Rebecca Yarros 16:13 - London Bookshop Meetup? Thank you for stopping by 🙂
Used and Independent Bookshop Haul! Dolapo Adedokun 2024-02-23 | Hey Everyone! Went for a little tour of independent and used bookshops around NYC. Super excited to dig into these books! 00:00 - Intro00:22 - All God's Children Need Traveling Shows, Maya Angelou02:39 - Women, Race, Class, Angela Davis 03:50 - Americanah, Chimamanda, Ngozi Adichie05:59 - Letter to My Daughter Maya Angelou07:31 - Freedom is a Constant Struggle, Angela Davis08:59 - White Fragility, Robin Diangelo#blackbooktubers #blackhistorymonth #mayaangelou #angeladavis #chimamandangoziadichie
Recent Reads | Obama, Maya Angelou, Angela Davis Dolapo Adedokun 2024-02-09 | Wanted to share some thoughts on identity, belonging, and language from recent books I have been reading. Thank you for watching 🙂00:00 - Intro / Black History Month01:26 - Dreams From My Father by Barack Obama06:38 - I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou12:45 - How We Get Free | Black Feminism and the Combahee River Collective (edited by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor) 13:50 - Angela Davis#blackbooktubers #booktube #mayaangelou #blackhistorymonth
What Ive been reading in January Dolapo Adedokun 2024-01-19 | Happy new year, everyone! Wanted to get some thoughts out of my head and share what I've been enjoying over the last few weeks. Please drop any recommendations in the comments!00:00 - Intro00:16 - Notes of a Native Son by James Baldwin cont.05:00 - How to Read a Book by Alfred Adler05:37 - Uncommon Sense Teaching by Barbara Oakley, Beth Rogowsky, and Terry Sejnowski07: 46 - Thoughts on Interleaving12:05 - Reflections on Love from Angelou and Baldwin
Lessons from James Baldwin | Notes of a Native Son Dolapo Adedokun 2024-01-02 | 👋🏾 Hi everyone, happy 2024. Sharing some first thoughts and takeaways from James Baldwin and his 'Notes of a Native Son'. Thanks for watching 🙂00:00 - Intro 02:08 - Categories and Simplifying Individuals09:58 - Viewing the present through the past13:28 - Confronting history to be morally better 16:41 - Conclusion
Reflections on Tech and Product Management Dolapo Adedokun 2023-12-26 | 🎄🎊 Happy Holidays, everyone. Sharing some thoughts and critiques of tech and had some fun experimenting with a cinematic intro for this one, inspired by @LifeOfRiza.In the spirit of iterative development (lol) please let me know what you think! Thank you for watching 🙂00:00 - Intro 01:12 - Discussion02:12 - What is a product?03:01 - A product is only as good as the value it brings to users05:13 - What does an AI product manager do?05:49 - What skills does a product manager work on?07:12 - Critiquing the tech industry09:17 - The problem with speed 11:58 - Risks of iterative development 13:06 - What we owe future generations 15:17 - Conclusion! #artificialintelligence #tech #productmanagement
Reflections on American Identity & Books for 2024 Dolapo Adedokun 2023-12-21 | 👋🏾 Hey Everyone. For today's video, I'm sharing a few reflections I've had over the past few weeks and some books I plan on reading in the coming weeks/months. Thank you for watching!00:00 - Intro00:23 - Reflections on American Identity05:35 - Book 1, These Truths by Jill Lepore06:45 - Book 2, Recoding America by Jennifer Pahlka 09:16 - Book 3, James Baldwin 10:39 - Book 4, How to Hide an Empire by Daniel Immerwahr11:15 - Closing Thoughts and Community Building!
Feeling the winter blues...so I joined booktube 🎄 📚 | Booktube Newbie Tag Dolapo Adedokun 2023-12-01 | 👋🏾 Hey everyone! This video is inspired by @NickellesNook 's first video, her channel has been wonderful to watch grow. Enjoy and feel free to leave any feedback in the comments. 00:00 - Intro 00:17 - Why did you start this channel? 01:34 - What unique things can you bring to booktube? 02:44 - What are you most excited about? 03:53 - Why do you love reading? 04:51 - What got you into reading? 05:40 - What challenges do you think you'll face?07:10 - Where do you read?08:57 - What kind of books do you like to read?#booktube #booktubenewbietag #booktubenewbie #bookish #blackbooktubers #slowreading #books #tech #computerscience
How to Make Better Decisions Dolapo Adedokun 2023-11-24 | 👋🏾 Hey Everyone! This video is about some simple tools I use to make better decisions using the WRAP framework from 'How to Make Better Decisions' by Chip and Dan Heath. Hope you enjoy!00:00 - Intro 01:56 - Widen Your Options 03:51 - Reality Test Assumptions 06:51 - Attain Distance 09:22 - Prepare to Be Wrong11:00 - Conclusion#books #decisionmaking #selfimprovement
3 Books That Transformed my Outlook on Career Dolapo Adedokun 2023-11-20 | 👋🏾 Hey! Wanted to share some books that changed the way I think about my career and work. Hope you enjoy 🙂00:00 - Intro00:14 - Book 1 (Drive by Daniel H. Pink)03:59 - Book 2 (So Good They Can't Ignore You by Cal Newport)08:24 - Book 3 (Four Thousand Weeks by Oliver Burkeman)Book 1 - Drive by Daniel H. Pink Book 2 - So Good They Can't Ignore You by Cal Newport Book 3 - Four Thousand Weeks by Oliver Burkeman#books #selfimprovement #career #tech
Simple Ways to Think About AI | from an AI product manager Dolapo Adedokun 2023-11-12 | 👋🏾 Hey everyone, I’m Dolapo! I studied computer science and AI at MIT and Trinity College Dublin, and I’m now an AI product manager. In this video, I walk through some simple and helpful ways to think about AI and its future. If you have any feedback or suggestions, would love to hear it!00:00 Intro 00:41 What is AI 01:34 What is supervised learning?03:25 Why all this AI advancement now? 04:38 Generative AI 06:00 What opportunities does AI bring?07:20 Low Code Tools and Prompting07:50 Proliferation into other industries09:29 Concerns11:26 Hope for the future Lots of the technical content here was synthesized from these videos from AI experts, please check them out if you want to learn more:Andrew Ng and Fei-Fei Li Discussion: youtube.com/watch?v=UNhC6Ox0T0o&list=PLoROMvodv4rPgrvmYbBrxZCK_GwXvDVL3&index=24Andrew Ng Business Talk: youtube.com/watch?v=5p248yoa3oE&ab_channel=StanfordOnlineAI Human Factor: youtube.com/watch?v=9B02MzWwkSo Mustafa Suleyman & Yuval Noah Harari Debate: youtube.com/watch?v=7JkPWHr7sTY#chatgpt #artificialintelligence #productmanagement #mindmapping
Why Behavior Beats Knowledge: Mindmapping the Psychology of Money Dolapo Adedokun 2023-11-05 | 👋🏾 Hey everyone! In this video essay, I discuss how our behaviors influence our relationship with money by breaking down Morgan Housel's 'The Psychology of Money'. I also use a mindmap to understand his main arguments and key ideas. Hope you enjoy! If you have any suggestions on this mindmap format, please let me know down below 🙂.Intro: 00:00Overall Mindmap Structure: 00:33 Good Habits: 01:07 Redefining Wealth: 01:17Compounding: 02:38Long Tails: 03:40Bad Habits: 05:15 Emotional Bad Habits: 05:36Misinformation Bad Habits: 10:09Recap and Full Mindmap: 12:29#mindmaps #mindmapping #personalfinance #psychologyofmoney #wealth #books #financialfreedom #moneymindset #behavioraleconomics #financialpsychology #wealthmindset #moneymanagement
3 books that helped me fall in love with fiction again (as a computer science techie) Dolapo Adedokun 2023-10-31 | Just wanted to share a few books that helped rekindle my love for fiction over the last year. Intro: 00:00Book 1 (A Wizard Of Earthsea): 00:35Book 2 (The Outsider): 03:14Book 3 (Circe): 06:35 #fiction #philosophy #books
How I became an AI product manager | Lessons from my first few weeks Dolapo Adedokun 2023-10-28 | #productmanagement #howigotstarted #tech #artificialintelligence #chatgpt #ai Sharing how I became an AI product manager, lessons I learned from my first few weeks, and where I think I can continue to learn going forward! Enjoy :)
Travel to Brazil with this solo🇧🇷 Dolapo Adedokun 2022-07-27 | #guitar #jazz #jazzguitar #johnmayer #bluebossa #brasil #brazil #coffeemusic #maj7 #bossanova
chill jazz guitar | blue bossa @tomofujitamusic Dolapo Adedokun 2022-07-23 | some licks from @TomoFujitaMusic #chillguitar #chillmusic #guitar #maj7 #neosoul #jazz #jazzguitar #bluebossa #bossanova #samba #johnmayer
redbone but even more chill #shorts Dolapo Adedokun 2022-07-21 | inspired by the @gyoshi_desu_ cover #chillguitar #chillmusic #guitar #maj7 #gym #neosoul #neosoulguitar #rnb #rnbguitar #childishgambino
Chill Groove | @rubenwan Dolapo Adedokun 2022-07-20 | Messing around with a little groove from @RubenWan! #guitar #neosoul #neosoulguitar #rnb #rnbguitar #chillmusic #chillguitar #maj7
