Mark Zuckerberg tells @sama the best piece of advice Peter Thiel ever gave him:
“In a world that’s changing so quickly, the biggest risk you can take is not taking any risk.”
Via @ycombinator
Artificial intelligences do not undergo experiences, do not possess a body, do not feel joy or pain, do not mature through relationships, and do not know from within what love, work, friendship or responsibility mean. Nor do they have a moral conscience, since they do not judge good and evil, grasp the ultimate meaning of situations, or bear responsibility for consequences. They may imitate or even simulate, but they do not understand what they produce, for they lack the affective, relational, and spiritual perspective through which human beings grow in wisdom. #MagnificaHumanitas
The feeling that we have endless time to complete our work has an insidious and debilitating effect on our minds.
Our attention and thoughts become diffused.
Our lack of intensity makes it hard for the brain to jolt into a higher gear.
The connections do not occur.
For this purpose you must always try to work with deadlines, whether real or manufactured.
Faced with the slenderest amount of time to reach the end, the mind rises to the level you require.
Ideas crowd upon one another.
@mk_tycoon The challenge is making the system work the same way as the exclusion , they have access to loans in their informal ecosystem , they do not have infrastructure downtimes , their KYC systems are peer based. How do we replicate that system they use on a daily basis?
Underrated life advice: Make yourself easy to root for. Be kind. Be reliable. Celebrate other people’s wins. Work hard without complaining. Carry good energy into rooms. You'll be shocked by how many doors open for you by making life better for others.
"Hardship does not come to bury a man. It comes to measure him." - Epictetus
The world is filled with those who are buried.
The only way forward is through...
Be proudly measured by your Grit.
Bold actions, pushing forward, never stopping.
Oman has almost no freshwater - and is on track to be a top-six hydrogen exporter by 2030. Scarcity, it turns out, can be an advantage, write Rumaitha Al Busaidi and Akram Azerbayev.
https://t.co/0JZBTBxnSB
Revenue: N$16 billion turnover, N$8.2 billion profit
But:……
- Zero dividends paid, meaning Epangelo (the Namibian state entity with 10%) received nothing
- 90% Chinese ownership means most profits ultimately flow to Beijing
- Heavy reliance on a single foreign state company for a strategic resource
Bottom line: Swakop Uranium is a significant economic contributor to Namibia, but the zero-tax, zero-dividend outcome in 2025 raises questions about how much of the wealth from Namibia’s own uranium is actually staying in the country.