To my 2,000 Subscribers

(A Heartfelt Thank You)

I come from a lineage of educators. My grandfather was a district director of education, married to a strict yet industrious housewife who raised 6 boys of which my father is/was one. My father, a scholar who earned government scholarships at every level of schooling, inherited a razor-sharp technical mind—always dissecting problems through numbers, patterns, and imaginative frameworks. The only time we truly connected? Sitting in the backyard, brainstorming solutions to engineering puzzles.

For years, I saw myself solely as his reflection: a thinker of systems, equations, and logic.

Then came high school. My English teachers always leave remarks such as: “Great writer” in my exam papers. I shrugged it off. Give me spreadsheets, data, or a list of classmates’ index numbers

(It's weird, I know, but I have this knack for remembering numbers. Yes, I still remember 80% of my undergrad coursemates' index numbers at Legon!)

and I’ll organize chaos into clarity. The writing felt foreign—until it didn’t.

It turns out that storytelling was a hidden thread in my DNA. This eidtion of What's going on? newsletter was drafted in 30 minutes between meetings, is proof.

Words flow when they’re rooted in purpose—and you are that purpose.

To my 2,000 subscribers and 1,200 consistent readers: Thank you. Your trust humbles me. When I eventually pen my memoir, you’ll fill entire chapters—not as footnotes, but as the force that pushed me to keep sharing ideas, even when imposter syndrome whispered, “Stick to spreadsheets.”

Let’s make this a two-way conversation.

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Grateful, always.

— Terry Kwame Azaglo