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[Ike @47_ikechi]

"The philosophies of one age have be come the absurdities of the next, and the foolishness of yesterday has become the wisdom of tomorrow."

-Sir William Osier

[Kingmaker @nathan__oji]

The day a woman told me "sorry i have a boyfriend, just entertaining u will be hurting him" i almost cried cos i know no woman have ever said that on ma behalf.

I've mostly dated igbo women.

[Osaretin Victor Asemota @asemota]

My best man, Fidelis’ famous words about relationships ring true here. “When there is too much brain work involved in a relationship, forget it.” This is how most men deal with ALL relationships, not just romantic ones. Sane men avoid stressful confrontations.

[African Maps @MapsAfrican]

Map of Africa in 1839.

[Naruto @NarutoNolimits]

Jordan Peterson read Stephen Fry's famous answer about God back to him, then asked him what holding it actually costs:

Fry once said that if he ever met God, he would ask about bone cancer in children.

Peterson brings it up, but not to attack it. He thinks the argument works.

Peterson: "Ivan wins the argument, but Alyosha is the better person."

Fry: "I don't believe there is such a being, but if there were, I would have many bones to pick with him."

Then Peterson turns it. The argument is powerful. The problem is where it takes you.

Peterson: "there's a direction that goes in that's nihilistic and resentful and vengeful and angry, and all understandable, but it doesn't look to me like there's anything good in it."

He says he tested it on himself.

Peterson: "I've had my reasons to be resentful and angry, especially recently, and because I'm suffering a lot of pain."

Peterson: "there was nothing in that that didn't make it worse, and that therefore that must be wrong, even though it's justifiable."

Fry's answer is that he was never angry to begin with.

Fry: "I'm not really resentful and angry about the fact that there's evil in the world. I'm sorrowful very often."

Fry: "most people are so good, so anxious to be good, are idiotically good."

Fry: "every time I go off to sleep I think, how did I screw up today, how can I be better tomorrow."

Then he challenges Peterson's phrase, a higher mode of being.

Fry: "show me someone who has a higher mode of existence than I do."

Peterson: "that higher mode of existence is what your conscience tortures you for not attaining."

Peterson: "you cannot create your own values. The values impose themselves on you independent of your will."

His evidence isn't scripture. It's juvenile rats.

Peterson: "if the big rat doesn't let the little rat win 30 percent of the time, the little rat will stop inviting him to play."

Reciprocity, before anyone believed anything.

[Johan @liebert_2026]

Jordan Peterson on how to know if someone is right for you:

1. Living together first doesn't protect you. the evidence points the other way. people who live together are more likely to get divorced, not less.

2. the real test isn't love. it's whether you can negotiate. you should know someone long enough to know you two can tell each other the truth and negotiate. that's the most important part of a relationship.

3. so talk about the boring things. who buys the groceries. who pays the bills. who cooks and when. who does which chores and is it laid out fair. you either sit down like a conscious, articulate couple and negotiate it, or you bring your unconscious assumptions in and clash where they don't match.

4. attraction still matters. if you have that massive erotic attraction, you're unbelievably fortunate and you should do everything you can to maintain it. but that takes real effort and will. and you have to ally it with maturity. what does this look like at the level of detail. money. where you live. careers. children. in-laws.

5. commitment comes first, not after. unless you've made a lifetime commitment, one you're not going to back out of, you won't take the relationship seriously enough to make it high quality. an idea he took from reading carl jung. "shackled together" is a cynical way of putting it. it's more like an unbreakable bond that makes both people better.

6. the hard part is telling the truth. and the truth is generally a horrible thing. it's easy to tell the truth when everyone wants to hear what you have to say. it's very difficult when no one wants to hear it, least of all yourself.

7. you're braiding one rope. you have the strands of your life, your partner has theirs, and you tie them together into something stronger. then you undertake massive adventures. a household. joint careers. each other's mental and physical health. kids. all of it very, very challenging.

8. marriage and child rearing get a bad rap in our culture and he thinks that's a catastrophe. even if you're highly career oriented, that's two thirds of your life. his house has been a sanctuary, and that's part of why he's been effective at work.

9. and it decides your second half. he's 55. both his kids just got engaged in the same month. he might have 40 more years, and now there are grandchildren coming. all that negotiating early is what buys you something to advance into.

[Aproko Doctor Global @aproko_doctor]

Here is what I think should be done, NHIA should create a list where we can see which HMO approves fastest and pays hospitals on time before you join.

You should get your benefit list the day you enroll so people automatically know what they get before they go to the hospital

[Ike @47_ikechi]

"...do not be too eager to deal out death & judgement. Even the very wise cannot see all ends..."

- Gandalf

[Ike @47_ikechi]

"the mills of God grind slowly, yet they grind exceedingly fine & for all eternity."

- Masaryk?

[Ike @47_ikechi]

"When school is a burden, the weak learn fear & the strong learn rebellion."

- T. G. Masaryk

[Ike @47_ikechi]

think I love YouTube

[Ike @47_ikechi]

eternally grateful for the opportunity to draw air in & push it out

all happenstances while I do that, I'd consider a blessing

[carl feynman @carl_feynman]

When I was about 14, we went to a company that manufactured oxygen sensors. You dip this probe into beer, sewage, or canned food a-stewing, and it tells you how much oxygen is in the slurry. It's got two electrodes, and there's some kind of electrochemical reaction that releases exactly one electron for each oxygen molecule consumed. Measuring the electric current lets you measure the oxygen concentration. However, the electrodes are delicate, and don't work if they're not clean. So they're inside a tiny compartment covered with a membrane of oxygen-porous but everything-else-proof plastic. The oxygen has to diffuse through the plastic before it can be consumed at the electrodes. The current is determined by the rate of diffusion. Gunk on the membrane can slow down diffusion, causing it to read an incorrect low concentration. And when you take the sensor from fresh air and dip it into something, it can take a long time to consume all the oxygen in the compartment and start reading the actual flow.

So my dad suggested the following. Put a third electrode in the compartment, that regenerates one O2 molecule for each one consumed. Now the speed of diffusion doesn't matter because the oxygen isn't getting consumed. You're reading the concentration at the electrodes directly without affecting it. If the concentration around the sensor drops, oxygen can diffuse out of the compartment, instead of waiting for the oxygen to be consumed. And gunk on the membrane will slow down the reading, but it's still perfectly accurate.

We went back next year and saw them manufacturing the three-electrode sensors. IIRC, my father didn't have any good ideas that year.

[Peter Girnus 🦅 @gothburz]

Last quarter I rolled out Microsoft Copilot to 4,000 employees.

$30 per seat per month.

$1.4 million annually.

I called it "digital transformation."

The board loved that phrase.

They approved it in eleven minutes.

No one asked what it would actually do.

Including me.

I told everyone it would "10x productivity."

That's not a real number.

But it sounds like one.

HR asked how we'd measure the 10x.

I said we'd "leverage analytics dashboards."

They stopped asking.

Three months later I checked the usage reports.

47 people had opened it.

12 had used it more than once.

One of them was me.

I used it to summarize an email I could have read in 30 seconds.

It took 45 seconds.

Plus the time it took to fix the hallucinations.

But I called it a "pilot success."

Success means the pilot didn't visibly fail.

The CFO asked about ROI.

I showed him a graph.

The graph went up and to the right.

It measured "AI enablement."

I made that metric up.

He nodded approvingly.

We're "AI-enabled" now.

I don't know what that means.

But it's in our investor deck.

A senior developer asked why we didn't use Claude or ChatGPT.

I said we needed "enterprise-grade security."

He asked what that meant.

I said "compliance."

He asked which compliance.

I said "all of them."

He looked skeptical.

I scheduled him for a "career development conversation."

He stopped asking questions.

Microsoft sent a case study team.

They wanted to feature us as a success story.

I told them we "saved 40,000 hours."

I calculated that number by multiplying employees by a number I made up.

They didn't verify it.

They never do.

Now we're on Microsoft's website.

"Global enterprise achieves 40,000 hours of productivity gains with Copilot."

The CEO shared it on LinkedIn.

He got 3,000 likes.

He's never used Copilot.

None of the executives have.

We have an exemption.

"Strategic focus requires minimal digital distraction."

I wrote that policy.

The licenses renew next month.

I'm requesting an expansion.

5,000 more seats.

We haven't used the first 4,000.

But this time we'll "drive adoption."

Adoption means mandatory training.

Training means a 45-minute webinar no one watches.

But completion will be tracked.

Completion is a metric.

Metrics go in dashboards.

Dashboards go in board presentations.

Board presentations get me promoted.

I'll be SVP by Q3.

I still don't know what Copilot does.

But I know what it's for.

It's for showing we're "investing in AI."

Investment means spending.

Spending means commitment.

Commitment means we're serious about the future.

The future is whatever I say it is.

As long as the graph goes up and to the right.

[Ike @47_ikechi]

react
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[Ayo Sogunro @ayosogunro]

I’m sorry to all concerned but this brand of Christianity qualifies as a mental disorder.

[Avril Amaka @avrilamaka]

Maybe the value of the friendship you’re offering is just too easy to reject for sex.
People keep saying "men can’t handle platonic friendship" but pause for a second, ehat exactly does the average woman offer a man in friendship? Most men already get loyalty, laughter, and shared interests from their male friends. The truth is, most women don’t bring much beyond emotional dumping and a need for constant affirmation. Although there’s certainly a group of women who are sharp, funny, challenge men’s thinking, motivate them, and even share business ideas or opportunities... those women are rare. And if you keep finding that men either want sex or nothing, maybe it’s not about them being shallow maybe the friendship you’re offering just isn’t valuable enough to compete with attraction.

[STUNNER @Cr7Godbrand]

A friend of mine almost went mental after his wife gave birth because she frustrated his life with postpartum struggles. Mind you she had the baby at 40 after multiple ivf failures until God intervened. Now,

He wakes up at 5 a.m. for work, only to receive constant calls from his wife crying and complaining that she’s tired, wants to run away, or even give up.

He has to deal with her breakdowns while also handling his own job pressures. Then when he finally comes home exhausted, she expects him to take over so she can rest.

Mind you, this man needs at least 8 hours of sleep, but instead he gets only 4. He’s up at night watching the baby while falling asleep on his feet, waking in between to feed the child, and then still hearing complaints from his wife when she wakes up. The cycle continues day after day, month after month.

Imagine the toll…mentally, physically, emotionally. He’s drained at work, drained at home, and yet society still tells him, “your feelings are not valid.”?

Do you know how much pressure men endure when women pour all their problems onto them? Have you seen how unpredictable women can be during postpartum, sometimes acting like children themselves?

As a man, you live in fear…what if she snaps and harms the baby? What if you’re not there to stop it? A million scenarios run through your head, stealing your focus at work and peace at home.

So please, don’t ever say this again. I have been there with my first child so I understand.
you think you’ve seen frustration, just wait until a woman has a baby. That’s when you’ll understand what real pressure, complaints, and emotional chaos look like.

[Ike @47_ikechi]

"... it's the rules of the game
I don't make 'em
I just play."

[Steven Strogatz @stevenstrogatz]

My "Math, Revealed" series is freely available to anyone -- no paywall! -- in the thread below

[Ike @47_ikechi]

@jadefloxy Congratulations!