Brian Yiiki

Movies not Novels||Entrepreneurship||
Electrical Engineering|| @makerere alumnus

[Brian Yiiki @BYiiki]

1% chance, 99% faith

[Alok Kumar @Alokkumarzz]

DURING JOB INTERVIEW:

"Why are you leaving your current role?"

Most candidates say: "I am looking for more growth opportunities and a better company culture."

THE WINNING ANSWER:

[LoneChild 🦍 @LoneChildMJB]

You’ll watch this dance video a good number of times and you won’t get enough of it.👌🏾

[Paris Saint-Germain @PSG_inside]

Mood 🤪🎶

[Desi @papi_Desi7]

The human urge to get better in this life thing

[African Hub @AfricanHub_]

Rate their beauty out of /10

[Dr. Eric Berg DC @dr_ericberg]

10 signs your body desperately needs to reset from chronic stress (& you don't realize it):

1/ Waking between 2 and 4 AM

[Alex Hormozi @AlexHormozi]

Customers become friends faster than friends become customers.

[Popcorn Plug 🔌 @PopcornPlug_]

TOP 50 CIA MOVIES OF ALL TIME🍿

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1. Bridge of Spies (2015)
2. Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation (2015)
3. Mission: Impossible – Fallout (2018)
4. Sicario (2015)
5. Sicario: Day of the Soldado (2018)
6. Jason Bourne (2016)
7. The Bourne Identity (2002)
8. The Bourne Supremacy (2004)
9. The Bourne Ultimatum (2007)
10. Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (2011)
11. Three Days of the Condor (1975)
12. Eye in the Sky (2015)
13. Snowden (2016)
14. American Made (2017)
15. Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit (2014)
16. Beirut (2018)
17. The Report (2019)
18. The Spy Gone North (2018)
19. Red Sparrow (2018)
20. Atomic Blonde (2017)
21. Spy Game (2001)
22. The Good Shepherd (2006)
23. Body of Lies (2008)
24. Argo (2012)
25. Zero Dark Thirty (2012)
26. The Courier (2020)
27. Tenet (2020)
28. The Old Guard (2020)
29. Extraction (2020)
30. No Sudden Move (2021)
31. Wrath of Man (2021)
32. Without Remorse (2021)
33. The King’s Man (2021)
34. No Time to Die (2021)
35. Beckett (2021)
36. The Gray Man (2022)
37. The Contractor (2022)
38. The 355 (2022)
39. Blacklight (2022)
40. All the Old Knives (2022)
41. Hunter Killer (2018)
42. Triple Frontier (2019)
43. 21 Bridges (2019)
44. The Good Liar (2019)
45. The Traitor (2019)
46. Spy Game (2001)
47. The Recruit (2003)
48. Official Secrets (2019)
49. Munich (2005)
50. The Interpreter (2005)

[Shubhvani @shubhvanii]

To understand the game....

WATCH

1. Undercover billionaire
2. Boiler room
3. The laundromat.

Thanks me laterrrrrrrrrrrrrr.

[HolisticHappiness | Self-Mastery® @HoliHappiness]

If you had to start over in 2026, these 7 businesses would still work.

1. Open a barber shop

[Brian Yiiki @BYiiki]

"I swear imma make it and when I do, they are gunna show this post lol"

~ Ebere Eze

[Jim Spire Ssentongo @SpireJim]

“… In 236 years, the American Constitution has been amended 27 times. In 30 years, the Ugandan Constitution has been amended 119 times ..” (Mwambutsya Ndebesa at the #MakConferenceConstitution30 )

[Joel JAFFER Aita @aitajoel]

AN ENTREPRENEUR’S MIND
A friend slipped a few copies of my book into her suitcase while on a study trip to China.

The Chinese readers devoured it.

One professor pulled her aside: “We need this in Chinese—now.”

[Brian Yiiki @BYiiki]

Easily the easiest election Museveni will ever have, in 2026. No?

@TonyNatif

[Jim Spire Ssentongo @SpireJim]

One of Museveni’s key political strengths is his ability to carefully study the characters of those who oppose him and those who ally with him. He quickly learns who to take seriously, who to ignore, who to buy, who to appease with what, and who to paralyse. A careful study of how he has cunningly managed some otherwise intelligent people shows how keenly he studied them while they naively judged him by his word or innocently looked at the small picture of his game.

Second, for the Machiavellian he is, tends to focus on outcomes and avoids being distracted by inconsequential things in-between that have no significant effect on his goals. He hardly gets excited to act impulsively or out of fits of anger. Even when he is panicking, he will cleverly conceal it from the public and to put up an invincible appearance of being in control. He knows that any appearance of panic empowers the opponent to push harder with the method causing the panic. He calculates like a hunting predator, when to strike, when to stay in the grass, when to wait for another day.

The ongoing paranoid kidnaps are are not really Museveni’s style. Even if he would desire the same outcomes as the kidnappers, he would feign and put up a facade of good intentions and democratic garments in his execution. The current actor is obviously unsophisticated. It is either an old Museveni with less energy to execute disguised autocracy or a crude new comer that only has force in his toolbox. Obviously the method of the current actor is politically unsustainable, it often precedes a bad fall. Just a matter of time. Museveni often had a clever way of embedding his autocracy into a performance of democracy - only opting to arbitrary violence as the last card, not as the default strategy or to satisfy his military ego.

As one who focuses on ends, he makes neither permanent friends nor enemies. People are seen as buttons on the board. The goodness or badness of a button is seen in terms of its location on the board and the moves the player can make with it to achieve his ends. Whether the button is black or white does really matter, for as long as it fits into big plan of the game.

[Brian Yiiki @BYiiki]

Happy birthday to me !!

[Joel JAFFER Aita @aitajoel]

YOUNG ENGINEER: WHY ARE YOU SPECIALIZING SO EARLY?
I always find it fascinating when I sit down with fresh graduates in Civil Engineering. The conversation often goes something like this:
“I’m interested in roads.”
“I want to work in water.”
“Structures are my passion.”

And my next question is always: “So why did you choose Civil Engineering in the first place?”
Don’t get me wrong—focus is important. But in a small economy like ours, where opportunities are already limited, narrowing your scope too soon can mean closing doors you haven’t even seen yet. Civil Engineering is vast, and boxing yourself into one corner at the start of your career can reduce your chances before you’ve even begun.

My Own Journey
When I graduated from university, I made a deliberate decision: I would learn everything I could, across the board.

I started in roads, then moved into water and sanitation, then into structures. Over time, I mastered structural designs, water treatment plant designs, sewage lagoon designs, and pipeline designs. I became comfortable moving from one discipline to another, learning not just the theory, but the practical skills each field demanded.

The Results of Staying Versatile
Fast-forward 20 years, and I can confidently say it was the best professional decision I ever made.
I have worked across multiple disciplines of engineering. Not once in 20 years have I been jobless.
I’ve been part of over 200 projects, both small and massive in scale. When a road project comes—whether design or construction supervision—I work like a roads specialist. When a large water project lands, I take it on like a water expert. I’ve delivered irrigation projects, supervised bridges, contributed to hydropower designs—you name it. That flexibility has kept my career not only stable but exciting. It has also made me an asset to clients and employers who value professionals that can adapt to any engineering challenge.

My Advice to Young Engineers
In the early years of your career, don’t rush into a narrow specialization. Instead: Expose yourself to all areas of the profession—roads, water, structures, geotechnics, environmental engineering, and more. Learn by doing—seek diverse projects, even if they push you out of your comfort zone.

Build a wide skill base—so that no matter the project, you can confidently say, “I can do that.” There will be plenty of time to specialize later, once you’ve built a solid foundation. But in the beginning, aim to be versatile. In a world where change is constant, versatility is not just an advantage—it’s survival.

So, I ask again:
Young Civil Engineer—why are you specializing so early?

Joel Aita
Chairman, Joadah Consult

[Brian Yiiki @BYiiki]

Does Uganda support Ugandan investors?

@TonyNatif

[Brian Yiiki @BYiiki]

@Bayo_FB Big up to you for writing facts, facts and facts.