Tomiwa Ademidun
We turned our apartment into a coworking space and invited our friends to work on their side projects.
[Atlas](https://atlas.atila.ca/) is an AI-powered search engine that can find anything on Youtube. Search “basketball” and it will take you to the exact point in the video where they talk about Lebron James and Michael Jordan, even thou...
We’re going to make a crypto wallet that allows you to create accounts, recover accounts, send and receive crypto and view your transactions. Very similar to the popular crypto wallet Metamask but with a few extra features.
Thank you so much for attending Atila’s Playing Varsity Soccer in University info session. Summary: Here is the recording, slides and notes from the presentation. We will increase Zoom capacity next time. This email is longer than I inten...
This guide covers what players, parents, coaches and technical directors need to know about playing varsity soccer in university at the NCAA or U Sports level.
The ideal wallet is one that combines the self-sovereignty of a self-custody wallet with the convenience of a centralised exchange or custodial wallet. I will present such a wallet.
International students are using GoFundMe to pay for their tuition. How did we get here? It all started when a friend messaged me on WhatsApp that his friend was looking for funds to pay their tuition. Then I was looking for something on T...
Students will be the biggest users of cryptocurrency. They are more open minded, adopt technology and trends earlier, have dense social networks and have fewer ties to the existing financial system.
Our most recent Instagram post went viral. It got 10 times more likes than our average post and reached 2x more accounts than our current follower count. A summary of what I learned.
A list of summer 2023 internship deadlines for students interested in Tech, Healthcare, Consulting and Investment Banking.
Decentralized science makes it easy for anyone to do science. To understand why decentralized science is so important for humanity, first, we need to define what it means to do science. Then we’ll talk about why doing science must be decent...
In 1790, Benjamin Franklin gave $4,000 to the cities of Boston and Philadelphia to create an endowment fund. 200 years later in 1990, that fund was worth $7 million (more context). Perpetual crypto funds allow everyone to do the same.
We’ll learn how to contribute to an open-source project, the Ethereum.org website by suggesting a change to the Desci page. The Ethereum website uses a tool called Git and Github so first we’ll learn the basics of Git and Github, create a ...
I recently applied to the Future Forum Conference (Application Form). The questions asked were some of the best questions I’ve ever been asked on an application so I decided to write about what they did well and what makes a good applicatio...
NFTs matter because they allow people to own items digitally. Prior to NFTs, the only thing that we could own were physical goods. Meanwhile, any digital good you have is actually owned by someone else and you are simply renting it from the...
By reducing the time and cost required to start one. By reducing the time and cost required to start a scholarship or grant, more people are able to create scholarships and grants and more people are able to receive funding.
I spent a week in Miami and my flight, hotel and food cost me $0. I even made some money while doing this. 2 months ago I didn’t even this was possible. I recently learned about crypto scholarships and hackathons. Hundreds of people use...
his is my plan for marketing arthouse. At a high-level, the marketing plan is: Make a good product that people want Create content documenting how I’m building arthouse Create content that people interested in an NFT marketplace would fin...
In this tutorial, we’ll be learning how to create a multi-chain NFT marketplace like arthouse where you can create an NFT on multiple blockchains such as Ethereum, Polygon and Binance Smart using Solidity, React and Ethers.js. We’ll be wri...
Paul Kohlhaas is the CEO and Co-founder of Molecule a biotech organization that connects life science research to funding. He recorded a podcast with Zima Red talking about Decentralized Science. Here are my notes from the episode.
I spent the day at DeFi conference in Amsterdam learning about the future of Finance (aka the future of France in Amsterdam) and took some notes on the talks I attended. I also put some general thoughts on DeFi Day and conferences in genera...
I spent 36 hours at a crypto Hackathon in Amsterdam building the future. Let’s talk about what I built and my thoughts on the crypto hackathon.
Here are my notes from Coinmarketcap and Khay's excellent video about decentralized Science (DeSci).
Many of the high impact changes in society are decided at the policy and scientific levels. However, only a small group of people (~0.1%) have the ability to shape policy. Some of our brightest minds also don’t have the access to opportunit...
Ben Kuhn wrote a blog post on why Wave doesn’t use cryptocurrencies and blockchain technologies. They believe that Cryptocurrency doesn’t address the hard parts of financial inclusion. I find this highly intriguing because I have a complete...
Many of the high impact changes in society are decided at the policy level. The fundamental problem with this is that only a small group of people have the ability to shape policy. See Lawrence Lessig’s 2013 Ted Talk. Scholarships can be ...
Time is the most valuable thing we have and our attention is the currency by which we spend that time, then our attention is the most valuable type of money we have. Today, I’m going to talk about the human attention economy, the value of ...
Help students. Grow Your Business. Increase crypto adoption. If you have a product that you want to sell to young people or if you want to find talented young people to join your team, then scholarships are one of the best ways to achieve ...
The best way to learn is by doing, so you’re going to learn how to create and sell an NFT. In the process, you’ll learn about NFTs and other concepts like cryptocurrencies and blockchains.
This is about Atila's crypto scholarships
We’re going to build a web application that allows you to send the like Ethereum cryptocurrency and Binance Coin (BNB) cryptocurrency to any address using Metamask. You can see what the finished product looks like here: https://bit.dev/a...
Solana is a $45 billion cryptocurrency and the 5th most valuable cryptocurrency in the world. I can’t figure out why because every time I look at Solana all I see are red flags.
Practice Gratitude Talk to Someone Make Something Go for A Walk Eat Food with Others Get Proper Sleep
Here’s some advice on how to raise funds for your social impact project. To make it more actionable, I will use the example of an organization looking to raise funds for a scholarship, but this example can be extended to any social impact p...
The thesis is of this essay is that there are 3 possible paths for the Ethereum ecosystem and every path leads to the same endgame: Centralized production, decentralized validation, strong anti-censorship protection
When talking to a crypto-sceptic you need to do 3 things: Make modest claims (underpromise and overdeliver) Focus on a specific use case Don’t lead with crypto as a way to make money
Central Cee is going to be the biggest rapper in the world for 3 very simple music. He’s in the fastest growing genre of music His music is good + he figured out the cheat code He (and his manager) understands marketing and the business of...
As an entrepreneur and content creator, I’m in the business of studying what people want and giving it to them. When something becomes popular I try to reverse engineer it, find out why people like it and apply the learnings to my business ...
Include applications and thank you letters from previous winners Have both finalists and winners in your scholarship Avoid word count and page count restrictions Move away from manual application processes Avoid PDF and Email Submissi...
Get out of your room. Get out of Your head. Be Useful. Be Interesting. Be Interested
After doing some research, I think that the PoetryNation.com poetry contest is most likely a scam and I would encourage people not to apply. If you’re considering applying to any scholarship or contests in the future you can follow a simil...
Advice on how to write a great scholarship application: Be Specific, Give Examples, Provide Proof. Read Applications of Past Winners. Write Simply. Get feedback from others.
This is an essay I wrote for an Ivey story competition talking about Canada's energy past, present and future.
Email is the best way of communicating with your users because it’s one of the few messaging platforms that allows you to directly talk to your users without an algorithmic gatekeeper. One way to track if your email campaign rate is good i...
A guide to getting scholarships for schools in Canada for 2022. This guide covers topics like Canadian scholarship websites in 2022, assorted scholarship lists, checking if your part-time job or your parent’s job has employees for schola...
The process we follow when writing frontend code on Atila. Including React and Github best practises and advice on how to make life easier for the developer and the code reviewer.
If you’re a knowledge worker (i.e. you work in Tech, Consulting, Finance, Sales, Design, Media, Law etc.) Now is the time to invest in yourself, because the market value for your labour is about to go through the roof. This is because of ...
We analyzed 350 scholarship application essays to see if there was a correlation between the essay length and quality. Here’s a highlight of what we learned: - Yes, there is a strong correlation. Longer applications tend to score bett...
The nature of Atila’s platform means that we will eventually find ourselves in positions where we have to form opinionated stances on touchy subjects. We should start learning how to handle these situations now so we get better with time ...
We’re building a graph to visually explore every student club in Canada and their relationships with each other. You can try it out at atila.ca/clubs
The 2+1 application review system is a system for reviewing applications that makes the entire review process more fair and efficient. This system can be used for managing applications to a wide variety of programs such as scholarships, f...
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We are excited to share with you the stories of the Mojisola Rufai and Victoria Ademidun Scholarship and the Olumide and Aramide Ademidun Scholarship winners! The winner of the Mojisola Rufai and Victoria Ademidun Scholarship is Avinandi...
The Atila Team did some research on what Canadian Universities are the best for getting a job at Tech, Consulting, Investment Banking and Biomedical Companies. Using data from LinkedIn, Glassdoor, Levels.fyi, h1bdata.info and some other s...
Remember how we said that Waterloo does an excellent job at placing students in technical roles at these engineering companies? Unfortunately, that sort of performance doesn’t seem to extend to leadership roles at these companies.
I was invited to speak to some high school students and parents about my high school experience. Here's what I told them and my advice for high school and university.
Combine the interactivity of a React website with the ease of use of Notion natively ingegrated into your website.
We're extending the deadline for the Mojisola Rufai and Victoria Ademidun Scholarship and the Olumide and Aramide Ademidun Scholarship to February 21, 2021 and changing the eligbility criteria for the Mojisola Rufai and Victoria Ademidun sc...
Today, we just launched a new feature called Atila points: when you perform actions that help others on the Atila platform, you will get rewarded with Atila Points. The more points you get, the more money and gifts you get.
Now anyone can contribute to an existing scholarship for as little as $10.
A few days ago, we approached Betty Esperanza and Skateboards for Hope about sponsoring a scholarship on Atila, we were so inspired by her story we decided to share it, enjoy :)
In order to make scholarship applications more fair. Scholarship creators now have the option to hide the names of the scholarship applicant until all applications have been scored or a winner has been picked.
University would be higher quality and more affordable if students are able to attend a home university where they take a minimum of one class and the option take the remaining classes at any other accredited university in the country.
The Atila team wrote an ebook about the best Canadian Universities for getting jobs at Goldman Sachs, Google, McKinsey, Pfizer and more.
Consulting is a popular field for young people who are unsure about what career they want to go into, but want an opportunity to try a wide range of things. Getting a job at a prestigious consulting company can open a lot of doors, having a...
This is a presentation I delivered to High school students across Ontario about their life after high school. I talk about: what are your options, how to learn what path is best for you and how can you achieve your goals.
Chris Egi is the valedictorian of the Harvard University 2018 class and captain of the varsity basketball team. Currently an investment banker at Goldman Sachs in the Special Situations Group. He was also the captain of the Canadian youth ...
Del (Chinua Ofulue) is an RnB and alternative soul singer, rapper and writer. He recently graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science and Economics from Western University.
Will Richman is the founder of GrowthGenius and Bitmaker Labs. Before that he worked in Wealth management at BNY mellon and spent 12 months backpacking through Asia.
Chika is a medical school student at the University of Toronto Medical School. She graduated with a Bachelor of Health Science from McMaster University. Chika was the only student to identify as black in her first year of medical school am...
Laura Desimone is an elementary school teacher for the Peel District School Board and a Reiki master and founder of @illuminabodyandsoul. She is currently pursuing her PhD in Education at the University of Toronto.
Sefunmi Osinaike is currently a product manager at Ecobee. He previously worked at Apple and Microsoft in product manager roles. He graduated from the University of Waterloo's Electrical and Computer Engineering program.
Last week Thursday I was at the library doing some work and “somehow” I “mysteriously” ended up on Twitter. I noticed that OSAP was trending and usually when a student loan program is trending, that’s usually not a good sign. I made a threa...
3 weeks ago I participated in a pitch competition for Atila hosted by Propel at Western University and LEAP at Fanshawe College. Here is the pitch for Atila that won us $3,000. Huge shout out to the team for all their help: Aurorita, Jo...
Umesh is currently in the Waterloo Systems Engineering program. He is an incoming product management intern at Credit Karma in San Francisco. We talk about why he chose product management at a startup over 3 offers for consulting at Deloi...
Paul is an incoming management consultant at Bain and Company. Before that he was an investment banking summer analyst at RBC after declining an interview at Goldman Sachs and founder of a food delivery company called Dine Easy. He is curre...
Pei Li made an impressive turnaround from being a self-proclaimed delinquent in high-school to getting admitted into the U of T Engineering science program, one of the most competitive engineering programs in Canada. He was the second softw...
One of the most valuable skills to learn in 2019 is learning how to code. Since the hardest part to any change you want to make in your life is usually starting, here is a very detailed step-by-step guide that teaches you exactly how to sta...
Annie Zhang is a product manager at Facebook, working on the Facebook Watch team. Before that she was a PM at Shopify and the first employee at Brainstation. Annie graduated from Western with a Philosophy, politics and economics (PPE) degre...
Ruth Grace Wong joins us on this episode of Atila TV to talk about her path from getting rejected from medical school twice, to doing a Master’s in computational biochemistry and working as a software engineer at top technology companies su...
Emily Chen shares how she got into U of T medical school without a degree, advice for students studying pre med programs and the importance of work life balance and self care.
Coding tutorial on how to make website that work without internet using Angular, Firebase and Service Workers. The theory of how service workers work, a short tutorial to apply that theory to make a website that runs without the internet an...
A few days ago I was on LinkedIn and read an article about the world’s youngest self-made billionaire, 27 year old John Collison from Stripe. In the article he mentioned that his success was a result of “intense application and hard work…Bu...
Last summer, I decided that I wanted to work at a top tech company such as Google or Bridgewater. Problem. I didn't go to a target school, my grades were just okay and I had little work experience. If I wanted to get a chance at these compa...
Prior to starting Atila.ca, my previous startup was a company called Phlock. A device that let you unlock doors using your phone and share keys with friends in real time. Phlock didn’t actually fail, it did something much worse, it simply d...
Some of my friends have done some pretty amazing things and I always encourage them to share their story and how they did it with others. But they’re often worried about coming across as pretentious or boastful. 30% of the time their humili...
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How do you choose the right software tech stack for your startup when there is no definitive right answer. We'll explain Why We Chose Angular over React and Django Over Ruby on Rails to build Atila.ca.
I have been closely watching the developments in India recently and the more I know about the country the more excited and optimistic I get about the country’s future. China and Nigeria are two other countries which have evoked similar opti...
Atila is a web app that makes it easy to find an apply to scholarships. The idea is very simple: Create your profile Get matched with scholarships customized to your profile View and Save the scholarships you want
"When Aeschines spoke, they said, 'How well he speaks.' But when Demosthenes spoke, they said, 'Let us march against Philip.' " - David Ogilvy
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