@LarryMadowo This is a distraction of the masses. While they celebrate, the ruling class plunders in peace. Why would police disturb that peace. Antigovernment protest does the opposite. It must therefore be thwarted by all means. Players and athletes earn so much for the same reasons.
@JayBabalola @pallnandi Literally , yes. Here is an alternative meaning. In the bible, "Woman" means Church. So many churches today purport to follow Christ when in reality, their formation is not Christlike.
@Jnkinyanjui37@_fels1 And now they are on the streets for Gachagua. Because the difference between then and now is that he was in government but now in opposition. There's nothing wrong with being tribal. That's our identity. "Kenya" is a Mzungu creation .
Boss said, "My team is burned out, but they're not even working that much."
The real problem was invisible.
"They're exhausted," the boss told me. "But most leave by 6 PM."
I'd seen this before.
"Tell me about their typical day," I said.
"Normal stuff. Meetings, projects, the usual."
"How many tools do they switch between?"
He started counting on his fingers.
Stopped at ten.
"How often do priorities change?"
"We're agile," he said. "We adapt quickly."
"How quickly?"
"Daily. Sometimes hourly."
"Show me one person's calendar," I said.
He pulled up his marketing director's schedule.
Seventeen meetings in three days.
Eight different projects discussed.
Zero focused work time.
"She's drowning," I said.
"But she's only here 45 hours a week."
"Hours aren't the problem. Decisions are."
He looked puzzled.
I explained.
"Research shows that every context switch can take over 20 minutes to recover mentally.
She switches contexts more than 15 times a day.
That's 5 hours of mental recovery time, every day.
It's only an 8-hour workday."
His face changed.
"Your team isn't tired from working.
They're tired from switching.
From deciding what's actually important.
From never finishing anything."
"What do I do?"
"Three changes:
First: One main priority per week.
Not seven. One.
Written down. Shared with everyone.
Second: Batch meetings.
All meetings on Tuesday/Thursday.
Monday, Wednesday, Friday for deep work.
Third: Pick three tools. Kill the rest."
They were using Slack, Teams, email, Asana, Monday, Notion, and four others.
Now they use three. Total.
Six weeks later:
"How's the team?" I asked.
"Same hours. Completely different energy."
"What changed?"
"Maria finished a project last week.
The whole thing. Start to finish.
First time in two years."
He paused.
"She actually smiled in our one-on-one.
Said she forgot what it felt like to complete something."
The truth about burnout:
It's not always about the hours you put in.
It's about where your attention is pulled.
You can work 40 hours and feel destroyed.
Or 55 hours and feel energized.
The difference?
Whether those hours are spent starting things.
Or finishing them.
Most leaders count hours.
The smart ones protect focus.
Because burnout doesn't come from hard work.
It comes from work that never ends.
When I was in Form I at Onjiko Secondary School, @orengo_james was the MP for Ugenya.
As young Kenyans in the 1970’s and 1970’s we admired James Orengo. We believed that he was courageous and spoke for us. However, after we became an adults and encountered James Orengo in politics, we realized—to our collective consternation—that he blew hot and cold and wasn’t a revolutionary.
I was among the ODM strategists in 2007 who insisted that Orengo had to be given a nomination certificate after Mwanga had defeated him in Ugenya. We argued that ODM didn’t need hooligans in parliament.
After Kibaki’s 2007 electoral theft and constitutional coup and Raila appointed Orengo to conduct an audit of the ECK’s tallying of the presidential vote with Martha Karua of PNU, Orengo slept at the KICC as Karua messed up the exercise. He failed to table a coherent report of the illegalities and irregularities which had marred the presidential election.
After the National Accord had been signed and the Grand Coalition Government was established with Orengo appointed both as Minister for Lands and a member of the Permanent Committee on the Management of the Grand Coalition, where I served as a Joint Secretary with Kivutha Kibwana, Orengo performed dismally.
When Orengo, Amazon Kingi and I attended the ICC Review Conference in Kampala, in 2009, Orengo and Kingi refused to present the ODM position on the ICC indictments of Uhuru Kenyatta, William Ruto & Co. I ended up presenting the ODM position.
During the constitutional review process when Kibaki and his PNU gang tried to scuttle the completion of the process and the enactment of a federal and parliamentary constitution, Orengo always hid and left me alone to battle the PNU mandarins.
When Raila Odinga dropped the ball in 2010 and proposed the Presidential system instead of the parliamentary system which ODM file and rank had proposed, Orengo kept smiling sheepishly as I argued the case for a parliamentary system, as Raila banged the table and Otieno K’Ajwang’ called me “the MAU MAU who has refused to leave the forest.”
The less said about Orengo’s dismissal performance as lands minister, the better.
In 2018, as we organized around the NRM—Kenya and resisted despots Uhuru Kenyantta’s and William Ruto’s gangsterism, Orengo, Raila & Co. betrayed me and cut deals with the Despotic Duo.
Although I beseeched Orengo to break ranks with the conservative, cowardly and reactionary elements within ODM so that we could chart a revolutionary path for the country, Orengo was too cowardly to take a stand.
He supported the HandChieth between Uhuru Kenyatta and Raila Odinga. He supported the unconstitutional #BBI even after raising concerns about it in Parliament.
Although he blew hot and cold after Raila Odinga betrayed the GenZs and had a HandChieth with tyrant Ruto, Orengo was too cowardly to openly oppose the HandChieth.
The same script was written by Sifuna and the reactionary opportunists now yelling at press conferences.
They have spent many years in parliament without tabling one single progressive pro-people legislation.
They have never tabled an impeachment motion against Ruto and his gangsters in parliament and used it as a rallying call for Kenyans.
What have they done—concretely—as those occupying public office, to fight for justice for the victims of police atrocities? What have they done to fight against corruption?
What the opportunistic reactionary cowards are doing is trying to deceive Kenyans that they care about unemployment, corruption and high cost of living when they have spent their entire lives praising and worshipping the SYSTEM which brought unemployment, corruption, high cost of living, impunity and abuse of power.
I don’t fear being attacked by naive and stupid zombies who get attracted to the newest conman in town. I’m here to expose hypocrites, conmen, thugs, drug dealers, murderers and opportunists.
Truth shall set us free!
#RutoMustGoNow
#RevolutionNow