Edgar Gonza

[Alan Kasujja @kasujja]

This is the spirit of Uganda!

[Edgar Gonza @AtegekaEdgar]

@OrtegaTalks Can say the same about Nairobi. Or Jozi. Or Lagos.

[Edgar Gonza @AtegekaEdgar]

@AppelezmoiKizza @T_E_F_L_O_N @andrewbagala @agaba_on @MKatungi Gahahahha 😆 😂 😆

[Edgar Gonza @AtegekaEdgar]

@Spartakussug Climbing infrastructure 🤣 😂 😆

[Edgar Gonza @AtegekaEdgar]

@ForensicsKuria @kopalo Wow! 👏 👏

[Edgar Gonza @AtegekaEdgar]

@OfwonoOpondo @Parliament_Ug @ObothOboth @norbertmao Iyiii 😄 🤣 😂 why does ONLY have to be in all caps?

[Daniel Bugembe-Lule @BugembeLule]

@rwenzori_ Pathogens have ideal environments, that's why we have strains, Congo, Sudan etc. Kenya & Tz. have a very different climate, flora and fauna compared to DRC. Uganda is also nearest to the outbreak sites in DRC with more crossings of people across borders, hence transmissions.

[Edgar Gonza @AtegekaEdgar]

@roguedr0id @mkainerugaba Clever.

[Beewol @beewol]

Colleagues, when you get some time, board one of these Kayoola EV Buses moving about in town. It’s just 2k and you pay via MTN & Airtel Mobile money. It’s got free WIFI and the AC is to die for. 100% recommended.

[Edgar Gonza @AtegekaEdgar]

Excellently put.

[Alex Ponton @ponton_alex]

I have been chewing on this quote from @paulg:

"Once you've found something you're excessively interested in, the next step is to learn enough about it to get you to one of the frontiers of knowledge. Knowledge expands fractally, and from a distance its edges look smooth, but once you learn enough to get close to one, they turn out to be full of gaps."

In the West, that frontier usually means new technology.

In Africa, it more often means going deep into the nuances of markets and industries; the ones that look broken from the outside, and are, but for reasons that are inherently complex.

Dangote isn't operating at the frontier of knowledge in cement or refining; not the way a scientist building the next language model is, or the way my friend @GillVerd is, trying to roll out quantum chips.

Dangote is operating at the frontier of contextual knowledge in his markets: the local dynamics, the opaque regulators, the mafias, the power brokers, the FX restrictions, the informal trades.

In other words, Contextual knowledge more akin to a perpetual chess game rather than, as YC would say, "building something people want."

Both are frontiers. Both look smooth from a distance, and full of gaps once you get close.

The quote still stands; it just travels further than Graham probably intended.

[Edgar Gonza @AtegekaEdgar]

@OnatheDon1 On embodiment, very true. So let's say I'm in the late Raila Odinga's party and disagree with a position. How do I even start. To disagree with the position is literally to disagree with the great man. So really challenging environment.

[Edgar Gonza @AtegekaEdgar]

The idea of a legislature being independent from an executive in any polity on earth doesn't really hold in practice. They de-facto are fused. The President of party A and MPs of party A have a shared agenda, so of course, the MPs do their leader's bidding majority of the time.

[Dr. Adrian Jjuuko @jjuukoa]

With the way Anitah Among was taken down, the fusion of the Executive, Judiciary and Legislature is complete. We now have one arm of the state - the President!

[Edgar Gonza @AtegekaEdgar]

@OnatheDon1 Exactly. I've always thought of our parties as being a casualty of the top-down hierarchical nature of our societies. And socioeconomic issues. Rich old Peter starts a party, and because of cultural norms, it is almost taboo to hold a position contrary to Rich old Peter's.

[Edgar Gonza @AtegekaEdgar]

@OnatheDon1 Agree with you on being in the bounds of the law. And members being able to generate and discuss policy rather than receiving directives as is the case with many parties, at least on the continent.

[Edgar Gonza @AtegekaEdgar]

@simple_shamim You were not familiar with her game

[Edgar Gonza @AtegekaEdgar]

@witch59314 @NinyeTabz Different

[Edgar Gonza @AtegekaEdgar]

@akido256 Naye you people 😆 😂

[Edgar Gonza @AtegekaEdgar]

@AppelezmoiKizza *kujukiza

[Edgar Gonza @AtegekaEdgar]

@AppelezmoiKizza Omanyi tuli bakujukisa 😂 😆

[Edgar Gonza @AtegekaEdgar]

@the8th_onzinga Hit the nail on the head. 💯