# Writing — Joel Adejola

Essays, sport, investigations, poems and letters.

- [The Case for Studying Philosophy](https://adejola.com/writing/studying-philosophy/index.md) — Notes (2026-09-21).
- [The Future Has Not Arrived Everywhere](https://adejola.com/writing/uneven-futures/index.md) — Essays (2026-09-20).
- [Writing again](https://adejola.com/writing/writing-again/index.md) — Notes (2026-09-15).
- [Why the Agent-Model of Artificial Intelligence Will Not Scale](https://adejola.com/writing/why-the-agent-model-of-artificial-intelligence-will-not-scale/index.md) — Essays (2026-08-11).
- [Augmentation over Productivity](https://adejola.com/writing/augmentation/index.md) — Notes (2026-08-10).
- [The Arbitrage Window](https://adejola.com/writing/the-arbitrage-window/index.md) — Essays (2026-04-29).
- [How to Make Driving Feel Like an Adventure](https://adejola.com/writing/how-to-make-driving-feel-like-an-adventure/index.md) — Essays (2026-02-12).
- [A Black Cat Gave Me My Attention](https://adejola.com/writing/a-black-cat-gave-me-my-attention/index.md) — Essays (2026-01-25).
- [I Have ADHD. That's Not the Thesis.](https://adejola.com/writing/adhd/index.md) — Essays (2025-12-04).
- [Eight and Still Alone](https://adejola.com/writing/eight-and-still-alone/index.md) — Poems & letters (2025-11-28).
- [Coming to Terms with Burnout](https://adejola.com/writing/burnout/index.md) — Essays (2025-11-05).
- [Lessons I Learnt from My Engineering Internship](https://adejola.com/writing/lessons-i-learnt-from-my-engineering-internship/index.md) — Essays (2025-11-04).
- [Álvaro Fernández Carreras: a case study in portable traits and falsifiable projections](https://adejola.com/writing/alvaro-fernandez/index.md) — Sport (2025-11-03).
- [Two Things Harry Kane Does Better than Most Strikers](https://adejola.com/writing/harry-kane/index.md) — Sport (2025-10-31).
- [What Happens When You Get the Smartest People in the World Thinking About Sports?](https://adejola.com/writing/smartest-people/index.md) — Sport (2025-10-31).
- [I Cried in Minnesota](https://adejola.com/writing/i-cried-in-minnesota/index.md) — Poems & letters (2025-08-25).
- [Where am I From?](https://adejola.com/writing/where-am-i-from/index.md) — Poems & letters (2025-08-25).
- [Drizzled Stranger](https://adejola.com/writing/drizzled-stranger/index.md) — Poems & letters (2025-08-21).
- [My Last Lover](https://adejola.com/writing/my-last-lover/index.md) — Poems & letters (2025-08-13).
- [Epistemic Certainty in Sports](https://adejola.com/writing/certainty/index.md) — Sport (2025-07-12).
- [I Do Not Know](https://adejola.com/writing/i-do-not-know/index.md) — Poems & letters (2025-06-25).
- [10 Reasons You Got McTominay so Wrong](https://adejola.com/writing/mctominay-is-good/index.md) — Sport (2025-06-05).
- [Playing Games I Can Win](https://adejola.com/writing/playing-games-i-can-win/index.md) — Essays (2025-06-01).
- [Kant on Analytic vs. Synthetic Propositions](https://adejola.com/writing/kant-analytic/index.md) — Essays (2025-05-01).
- [One Reason Why Nigerian Students Have Lost Hope](https://adejola.com/writing/nigerian-students/index.md) — Essays (2025-04-01).
- [I Keep Finding Reasons Why History Is Important](https://adejola.com/writing/reasons-for-history/index.md) — Essays (2025-03-23).
- [How Do We Talk About Work?](https://adejola.com/writing/how-do-we-talk-about-work/index.md) — Essays (2025-02-23).
- [Transitions](https://adejola.com/writing/transitions/index.md) — Essays (2025-01-20).
- [Justified True Belief](https://adejola.com/writing/justified-true-belief/index.md) — Sport (2025-01-19).
- [What I Wrote in 2024](https://adejola.com/writing/2024-essays/index.md) — Essays (2025-01-02).
- [Epistemic Injustice](https://adejola.com/writing/epistemic-injustice/index.md) — Essays (2024-12-01).
- [Precision Play: Why Mechanics Matter](https://adejola.com/writing/mechanics/index.md) — Sport (2024-10-07).
- [Lessons from Biking on Campus](https://adejola.com/writing/biking/index.md) — Essays (2024-10-01).
- [How to Classify Running Capacity among Elite Players](https://adejola.com/writing/running-capacity/index.md) — Sport (2024-09-28).
- [How I Stopped Producing Good Mathematics](https://adejola.com/writing/good-mathematics/index.md) — Essays (2024-09-25).
- [Projections: Mali U-17's Sékou Koné](https://adejola.com/writing/sekou-kone/index.md) — Sport (2024-08-31).
- [Profiling Dominic Solanke with Ange Postecoglou](https://adejola.com/writing/profiling-solanke/index.md) — Sport (2024-08-30).
- [Liverpool, Goals from Opposition Corners, and Arne Slot](https://adejola.com/writing/opposition-corners/index.md) — Sport (2024-08-26).
- [Phones — A College Epidemic](https://adejola.com/writing/phones-a-college-epidemic/index.md) — Essays (2024-08-01).
- [Why Focusing on Strengths Leads to Better Scouting Outcomes](https://adejola.com/writing/identify-strengths/index.md) — Sport (2024-06-22).
- [A Case for Lisandro Martinez at Left-Back](https://adejola.com/writing/lisandro-left-back/index.md) — Sport (2024-06-14).
- [Precision Play: The Stiff Arm](https://adejola.com/writing/stiff-arm/index.md) — Sport (2024-06-08).
- [INEC Voter Registration: Suppression and Disenfranchisement](https://adejola.com/writing/inec-voter-registration/index.md) — Investigations (2024-06-07).
- [Post-reflective Take on Benfica's João Neves](https://adejola.com/writing/joao-neves/index.md) — Sport (2024-06-04).
- [Reflection as a Scouting Optimizer](https://adejola.com/writing/reflection/index.md) — Sport (2024-06-03).
- [Outlets: Football's Pressure Valves](https://adejola.com/writing/outlets/index.md) — Sport (2024-06-01).
- [What Should We Expect from Head Coaches?](https://adejola.com/writing/head-coach-expectations/index.md) — Sport (2024-05-27).
- [Precision Play: Features of a Great Sho(o)t(er)](https://adejola.com/writing/a-good-shot/index.md) — Sport (2024-05-23).
- [What Can Scouts Learn from Crawling Plants?](https://adejola.com/writing/crawling-plants/index.md) — Sport (2024-05-22).
- [Projections: Sheffield United's Anel Ahmedhodžić](https://adejola.com/writing/anel-ahmedhodzic/index.md) — Sport (2024-05-19).
- [Avoiding the Description Trap when Scouting (or Analyzing)](https://adejola.com/writing/description-trap/index.md) — Sport (2024-05-18).
- [More Non-Trivial Scouting Cues](https://adejola.com/writing/more-non-trivial-scouting/index.md) — Sport (2024-05-14).
- [Non-Trivial Scouting Cues](https://adejola.com/writing/non-trivial-scouting/index.md) — Sport (2024-04-20).
- [What Can we Learn From Synergies?](https://adejola.com/writing/synergies/index.md) — Sport (2024-04-17).
- [On Motivation, Arsenal's Arteta – not Arteta's Arsenal – and Throw-ins.](https://adejola.com/writing/arsenals-arteta/index.md) — Sport (2024-04-10).
- [Archiving as a Scouting Tool](https://adejola.com/writing/archiving/index.md) — Sport (2024-04-08).
- [Beyond the Playbook: The Role of Anti-Strategy in Competition](https://adejola.com/writing/anti-strategy/index.md) — Sport (2024-04-08).
- [Reverse-Engineering: How Players and Teams Poke Football's Margins](https://adejola.com/writing/reverse-engineering/index.md) — Sport (2024-01-09).
- [Consolidating Aerials and The 'Aerial Duel' Stat in Football](https://adejola.com/writing/aerial-duel/index.md) — Sport (2024-01-06).
- [Deducing a Player's Fit From Their Tackling Mechanics](https://adejola.com/writing/tackling/index.md) — Sport (2024-01-05).
- [Player Development Curriculums Need Digital Sieves](https://adejola.com/writing/sieve/index.md) — Sport (2024-01-03).
- [Projections: Manchester United's Amad Diallo](https://adejola.com/writing/amad/index.md) — Sport (2024-01-03).
- [Developing A Framework to Assess and Fine-Tune Dribbling in Football](https://adejola.com/writing/dribbling/index.md) — Sport (2024-01-01).
- [Projections: Maxi Oyedele](https://adejola.com/writing/maxi-oyedele/index.md) — Sport (2023-06-11).
- [A Catharsis: Interrogating the African Leadership Academy](https://adejola.com/writing/a-catharsis-interrogating-the-african-leadership-academy/index.md) — Investigations (2023-03-15).
- [Investigation: Nigeria's Missing Fire Trucks](https://adejola.com/writing/fire-trucks/index.md) — Investigations (2023-02-11).
- [Role Transition: Unpacking Iwobi's Move to Midfield](https://adejola.com/writing/iwobi/index.md) — Sport (2022-10-09).
- [The Tweaks Behind Manchester United's Resurgence](https://adejola.com/writing/united-resurgence/index.md) — Sport (2022-09-03).
- [On 2nd-Balls & United's Case for Casemiro](https://adejola.com/writing/2nd-balls/index.md) — Sport (2022-08-27).