Ollys: Money, Skills & Habits for Young Africans

After going through layoffs, I asked myself one question: how can I become independent and employ myself? That question led me to AI training work. This guide covers what the work is, what it's really like day to day, how the pay works, and how to avoid scams. It's written from my own experience in Nairobi. The short version: AI training means helping AI systems get better by labeling data, comparing AI outputs, and checking quality. Pay and rules vary a lot between platforms, and accuracy matters more than speed. What is AI training? AI systems learn from examples that people check and label. AI trainers, also called data annotators or evaluators, do that checking. You might mark objects in a video, compare two AI-generated images, or rate which answer is better. The goal is to make the AI more accurate and more useful. The kinds of tasks I've done The work depends on the platform. In my case, it has included: Video annotation and comparison: labeling video c...

 Have you ever tried to create or form a habit? well if you have you know how hard it is to start a new habit leave alone sticking with the habit. This six-letter word can take you to unimaginable heights in the aspects of what you can accomplish and in the same way it can drag you to the gutters of life with bad habits. we cannot equate every aspect of our lives with habits but you will agree how we live our lives is for the most part controlled by habits. Talk of the kind of relationships, food, business, and life in general that we lead. Habits; are gained practices and molds systematically pursued until they turn practically unintentional. With this definition, look at the words "practically unintentional." This means that the habit is ingrained in you it is relatively uncontrollable. Concerning bad habits like procrastination, watching porn, junk eating, and so forth, it is so destructive. But with positive habits, this can be really, really good.   Basically, positive h...

 Hey, have you ever thought that the reason you are struggling with certain things in your life is because of something else other than you? Maybe how you are brought up affected how you view relationships, how you were treated in certain situations has made you change the way you view things, maybe a breakup made you declare there is no love out there, and so forth. I am sure almost every one of us has. Surely what any of us has gone through affects how we view and define these "things" in our life. Talk of relationships, money, and life in general. I mean it is only natural, We are wired the way our brains are created to be for us, to protect us, and thus if anything happens against what is expected it is a cause of alarm. In other words, if for instance what you have done before failed, it's only natural that when you have a chance to do the same endeavor you become alerted and you end up hesitating to do it, or not doing it at all. These "things" that do hap...

Updated October 2026 Starting a new habit is hard. Sticking with it is harder. If you're a student, a young professional or a freelancer trying to build a better routine, these five morning habits are a simple place to start. They're the ones that have worked for me, and you don't need all five on day one. Why mornings? Your mind is usually at its freshest early in the day, before messages, work and everyone else's demands arrive. Small wins in the morning make the rest of the day easier. Remember that you're building habits, not ticking off tasks. Each one just has to become normal. When you make great habits, they take care of you. Quick summary: the 5 habits Wake up early Drink water first Make your bed Plan your day Add some music 1. Wake up early Are you a morning person or a night owl? We love putting ourselves in one of two boxes, but I believe we become who we choose to become. Here is what matters: you can never manage time....

 Hey, every day is an opportunity if you are up you have this opportunity at your disposal to do whatever you want with it. Now how you do it or what you do is your choice, for the most part, you have to maybe, go to work, do this and that, and so on and so forth. The fact is every day is an opportunity, this opportunity has a limit though for one it has 24 hours in each. Each opportunity comes with that limit you can not take more or less that's it. One person puts it this way "it is not the number of hours, it's what you put in those hours." Now surely I am not here to give you a miraculous formula for the 24-hour day opportunity we have, but I am here to tell you there is a way of dealing with this opportunity and that is it is not the number of hours you work per day, it is working doing what? it is not how busy you are, it is busy doing what? because let us face it you can be busy the whole day and still be doing nothing and you can be busy for an hour and be doi...

Quitters never win and winners never quit. Whoever you are, wherever you are, you have to agree with that statement, it brings reality to your eyes and shows you life in black and white, you are left with one thing and that is to decide where you belong. Just think about it those who win whatever it is, they win because they are certainly not quitters they keep to their thing, for you to achieve goals and eventually dreams you have to be a winner.