Kechi Ladapo

Welcome!Hi love, my name is Ayana Zaire Cotton.I’m an artist, learner, writer, software engineer, and founder of Seeda School, a skill building platform for learning how to worldbuild through a black feminist lens.

There are no prerequisites or “qualifications” to teach what we know to be true beyond white supremacy culture, to offer what our community has told us they need, to share our skills and seeds of wisdom with the folks we dream of serving. We do so much work trying to convince ourselves we are worthy of our desires when, in fact, it is the systems o... See more

I now think of myself as a writer. I didn't realize it on my own though. It was after Sula was published; I was talking to my editor (Robert Gottlieb of Knopf) one day, and he said, "This is what you are going to be when you grow up. This is it." I said, "A writer?" He said, "That's right. Of all those other little things you do, this is it. This i... See more

When I'm talking to students who want to write professionally, I try to draw from simple analogies: the carpenter who is going to make a perfect chair has to know about wood, trees, the body and how it looks when it is in a sitting position. He should know something about the industry first of all. And then he should pick the right wood for color, ... See more

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However, marketing to an audience (marketing at scale) can cause real headaches when it comes to less standardized products and services. Azout points to examples of companies scaling to the point that the unchecked variations among its customers and conflicting internal priorities led to a breakdown of quality and effectiveness. I've seen (and exp... See more

Instead, we should pursue “five kingdom habits that build trust.’ These are the five habits that they suggest cultivating.

1. Pray. Pray for our own hearts to be soft but also pray for their whole lives.


2. Learn. We can learn what causes their distrust. Practice asking good questions.


3. Bond. Make space in your life for people. They write “The best conve

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Where the children’s story is simply the right form for what the author has to say, then of course readers who want to hear that, will read the story or re-read it, at any age... I am almost inclined to set it up as a canon that a children’s story which is enjoyed only by children is a bad children’s story. The good ones last. A waltz which you can... See more