Joseph ✍🏽

Content writer with a stutter.
I write to heal, to teach, and to grow.
Sharing real lessons on speech, presence, and self-worth.

[Joseph ✍🏽 @Chimmeriri]

I stutter.
I used to hate it.
Now, I write and speak through it.
If you're struggling with speech, presence, or confidence—
I’m walking that same road.

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[Andrew Snyder @Andrewnsnyder]

"If you are not a professional Economist and have no experience of Industry, simply being a Christian won't give you the answer to the industrial problem."

-C.S. Lewis, Answers to Questions on Christianity

[Atlas Thugged @AtlasXThugged]

Lee Kuan Yew recruited proven professionals into government instead of activists:

[Afeez @afeez_bb]

@Tunde_OD @Tunde_OD I highlighted your work in my book.

[Reads with Ravi @readswithravi]

This paragraph by Richard Feynman hits so hard:

“Fall in love with some activity, and do it! Nobody ever figures out what life is all about, and it doesn’t matter. Explore the world. Nearly everything is really interesting if you go into it deeply enough. Work as hard and as much as you want to on the things you like to do the best. Don’t think about what you want to be, but what you want to do. Keep up some kind of a minimum with other things so that society doesn’t stop you from doing anything at all.”

[Kane 謝凱堯 @kane]

Leftists hate Lee Kuan Yew because he showed in one generation that good governance is a technical and operational endeavor, not a moral performance or an exercise in redistributive grievance.

[your father figure⸆⸉ @buckdownbad]

every good writer is also someone who reads (widely and actively). not everyone who reads a lot is also a good writer.

[Michael Strong @flowidealism]

This is very much our focus at @socraticexp (in the humanities).

[Elvis Okhifo @ElvisOkhifo]

Actually,

It is God that is “begging” you through her, for you to be reconciled to Him.

He saw us all headed for eternal damnation and sent His son to die in our place and if we believe this, we will be saved from the punishment we deserve.

But Micheal, He won’t beg forever 🙏

[Ihtesham Ali @ihtesham2005]

A 100-page book written by an MIT professor in 2006 has been translated into 14 languages and quietly become the rulebook that designers at Apple, Google, and Airbnb still reference today.

His name is John Maeda, and before he wrote it he spent 12 years at the MIT Media Lab trying to figure out why the products that get loved are almost never the products with the most features.

The book is called The Laws of Simplicity. The following year, he walked onto the TED stage and compressed the entire thing into few minutes. That talk has been played over million times and is still passed around every time a design team gets into a fight about what to cut.

Here is the framework inside it that changed how I think about every product I touch.

Maeda's first law is Reduce, and it is the one everyone thinks they already understand. They don't.

He argues that the simplest way to achieve simplicity is through thoughtful reduction, but the word that matters in that sentence is thoughtful. Removing the wrong things makes a product feel broken. Removing the right things makes it feel magical. The difference is not taste. It is a method.

The method he teaches is an acronym he calls SHE (Shrink. Hide. Embody).

Shrink means making the product feel smaller, lighter, and more humble than it actually is, because when a small unassuming object exceeds expectations, the brain registers it as delight. The iPod's mirrored back was not a finish decision, it was a shrinking trick. The reflection made the device blend into its surroundings so the eye only registered the thin plastic front. You felt like you were holding something impossibly thin because half of it was optically erased.

Hide means taking the complexity that cannot be removed and putting it somewhere the user will never see it unless they go looking. The Swiss Army knife is the oldest version of this idea. A cell phone's clamshell was the modern one. Today it is every settings menu buried three taps deep in every app on your phone. The complexity is still there. The user just never has to carry it.

Embody is the one that almost nobody applies correctly. Maeda argues that once you shrink and hide, you create a vacuum where the user starts to wonder whether the smaller, simpler thing is actually worth more than the bigger, feature-rich thing. So you have to put the lost value back in through materials, weight, craftsmanship, or story. The Bang and Olufsen remote control is intentionally made heavier than it needs to be because weight in the hand signals quality. The same remote in plastic would feel cheap. Same functions. Completely different product.

The deepest insight in the talk is the one Maeda buries near the end, and almost nobody quotes it back.

He says simplicity is not a feature you bolt on. It is a consequence of being willing to defend fewer things more fiercely than your competitors are willing to defend more things. Every product eventually faces a moment where adding one more feature feels harmless and subtracting one feels expensive, and the companies that win that moment are the ones that understand the cost of adding is almost always higher than the cost of cutting.

His final law is the one he calls The One. Simplicity is about subtracting the obvious and adding the meaningful.

Read that sentence twice. It is the entire design philosophy of every product you currently love, compressed into a single line.

Maeda grew up working 3am shifts in his father's tofu factory in Seattle before MIT, before RISD, before Kleiner Perkins, before Microsoft.

He has said more than once that what he learned in that factory shaped everything he wrote in that book. Craftsmanship is not about doing more. It is about doing the right things and refusing to do anything else.

The book is 100 pages.

Read it and learn the laws of simplicity.

[Ejura @Hasken_Duniya]

You'll be surprised to know how many professing, church-going christians are pro-cohabitation and pro-fornication.

I know some.

Don't allow popular culture to drown your convictions, dear Christian.

Sin is sin, no matter how packaged it is.

[Joseph ✍🏽 @Chimmeriri]

Scripture over men's opinions and ideals. >>>>.

I'd rather stay on the Word of Life than be swayed by men's opinions, which often don't align in unison. Scriptures, sound doctrine>>>>>>>>

[Sir Dickson @Wizarab10]

All the people you fucked before, you were living with them abi?

[Joseph ✍🏽 @Chimmeriri]

I love the fact that she ignored you. And also, other believers are standing up against this sinful narrative.

If you are a believer like I am, please stand on business, your Our Father's business. Do His bidding. He is Holy, we should remain so.

[Sir Dickson @Wizarab10]

All the people you fucked before, you were living with them abi?

[Muna of the Most High @munaokoroigwe]

LIES! LIES! LIES! LIES! ‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️⁉️‼️‼️‼️⁉️‼️

Cohabitation will only lead to fornication and many other sexual immorality that will make a mess of you! God’s standard remains the standard! Cohabitation does not glorify God!

[K Kulkarni @ks_kulk]

Kanye West said this in 2022 on @lexfridman:

Lex: "What do you hope your legacy is?"

Ye: "To be forgotten. There's ego in memory. Who designed the sidewalk? Who designed the water fountain? Who designed the stop sign? Who designed the stop light? These things are so ubiquitous that the person that designed them is forgotten. If it's a good idea, it's a God idea."

[Boze Herrington, Library Owl 😴🧙‍♀️ @SketchesbyBoze]

Keeping a diary for the past few years has utterly transformed my mood. At the end of the day I jot down the books I’m reading, what I saw on my walks, various things I learned. Over time you realize there’s a lot of joy in living. Without it, you forget 90 percent of your life.

[Noah Ryan @NoahRyanCo]

Reading is the antidote to brainrot. The cognition curve is flattening faster than ever, books uniquely fight against this. Better vocabulary, better imagination, better thinking. Train your brain like you train your body. Books are weights for the mind.

[Michael Strong @flowidealism]

Einstein and Ramanujan spent most of their time thinking and imagining possibilities. High processing speed wasn't what set them apart. Depth of engagement was. Our schools tend to reward speed. The world more often rewards depth. It's worth asking which variable matters more.

[DAN KOE @thedankoe]

The greatest trait you can acquire is to work with tremendous intensity on things that matter to you, and more importantly, be strangely unbothered when those things don't work out.

[🕊️ @lichthauch]

I think a man who never builds a thing with his own hands will never know who God is, because God is a builder, and you were made in his image. to put the shovel down and stare at a glowing square for eight hours is exile. pick up a tool coward, build something stupid, build a chair badly, build a shed that leaks. your soul will start breathing again before you even finish

[Elnathan John @elnathan_john]

Singing improves singing. Not listening to music, singing.
You can study other singers, and you should. But you can listen to music every second of your life and die with the same voice you were born with.
Writing works the same way. Writing improves writing. Reading is research, not practice. You can read every book ever written and remain exactly the kind of writer you are today.
Most readers never become writers. Reading and writing are different activities that build different muscles. One is reception, the other is production. Confusing them is like believing that watching enough football will improve your passing game.
The work is the work. There is no substitute for it and no shortcut through it.