Is this you, Tech?

I used to scrape the internet looking for voices in the data privacy space. Turns out, I became one. I've known about Favikon since 2025, but I only logged last week to add my profiles to it. Thanks to Coach Taiwo of 50 Circle & Co. for the push. Guess what? I currently rank as the No. 1 Creator on X and LinkedIn Nigeria for the Privacy and IP Law category.🎉 My first instinct was to keep it quiet. I've been sitting on wins for the past eight months without saying a word. Thanks for litigation take the bulk of my time. My second instinct was to call it a glitch. But then I remembered something. There was a time I'd scour X and LinkedIn looking for Nigerians talking about data privacy law and barely find anyone. That search eventually led me to my tech law mentor, the infatigable Adeyemi O. Owoade, CIPM (@Owoadeyemi). The space was quiet then. I helped make it less quiet. I. did. that. (Cringe) So no, it's not a glitch. It's compound effect. Days of learning in public. Days of sharing my wins with cringe. Weekends of learning with community. Nights of studying in sickness and in health. This win is a worthy reminder to anyone who's struggling with the cringe. The cringe is like your shadow. When you choose to stand within a glimmer of light, it will show up and never leave you. But unlike your shadow, you can embrace it. I chose to embrace the cringe and share my data privacy and data protection compliance journey with the world. And I'd say, it paid off big time. While I took a step back from building in public to ease into a pupillage role in litigation, I remain engaged to learning and growth opportunities in the tech compliance space. I've been growing in the tech compliance space. But I've not been building in public. Ranking No. 1 in Privacy Law category was the strong reminder I needed to start showing up strong again. To growth. 🥂 To building in public. 🥂 To everything still ahead. 🥂 And to showing up for the opportunities we want even when the journey gets rough. 🥂 If you're a compliance professional building in the tech space, let's connect. #DataPrivacy #DataProtection #RoryOvedje #StartupLawyer #TechLaw #50Circle #CircleEffect