If your babe gives you attitude or gets angry if you can’t send her money when you need it, you do not have a relationship.
If your babe is only cool with you when you send her money, you do not have a relationship.
If you cannot tell your babe that you don’t have money, you do not have a relationship.
If you are borrowing money to satisfy your babes “wants” to prove masculinity and so she will not be angry, you are a fool, not a man.
If your babe threatens to end the relationship because of money, you do not have a relationship. If you are afraid of losing your relationship because of money, you do not have a girlfriend.
The thing they say about low-quality video 😄
I've seen great drivers, but this one doesn't belong on this planet. Wow. Some will still argue it's luck.
I think how much you make determines if you can consider it a full time job. The person earning N3m monthly is justified for calling it back full time job.
A job is a job. You don't need to wear suit and go to an office. If you're not well paid here, find something that pays you.
The most impressive thing Spain did at this World Cup was defending with possession and active counter-pressing.
How they shut down France and Argentina is unbelievable. The France game was even more impressive than the final because France are dangerous on the counter, while Argentina had no legs for counter-attacks.
A man spends 50 years teaching at MIT.
He knows his time is running out.
So he records one last lecture — everything he knows, distilled into a single hour.
He died 5 months later.
This is that lecture.
The most important hour you'll watch this week.
Bookmark it for later!
INSTEAD OF WATCHING AN HOUR OF NETFLIX TONIGHT.
This 1 hour Stanford lecture by Joel Peterson will teach you more about negotiation and getting what you want than most people learn in years.
Bookmark it and give it an hour, no matter what.
After Hagar fled from Sarah for maltreating her out of jealousy, she went to the wilderness where God appeared to her and blessed her because the child she was carrying was a seed of Abraham. After God blessed her, she called him ‘El Roi’ - meaning, the God who sees me.
Prior to that time, no one had ever seen her. Her only identity was Sarah’s hand maid. Sarah saw her as a maid. Abraham saw her as Sarah’s maid. People saw her as Sarah’s maid. But for the first time in her life, someone saw her. Someone saw her enough to bless her. That is also the very first time someone gave God a name - El Roi.
I don’t know what you’re going through but I know many of you are at your lowest point and nobody sees you. I pray God sees you. El Roi ❤️
It took me almost 3 minutes to see the pattern. For section S, use the formula x = a² + b² + a + b.
That is, add the two numbers connected by the line on the right, then, square both numbers and add their squares to your answer.
For the first example: you have 4 and 3
First add 4 and 3, you'll get 7
Then add 4² and 3², you'll get 25
To get your final answer, add 7 and 25. You'll get the 32✓
For number 1, our x = 512, our a = 22 and we're to find b
Using the equation above
x = a² + b² + a + b.
512 = 22² + b² + 22 + b
512 = 484 + 22 + b² + b
=> b² + b = 6
If you solve the quadratic equation above, you get b = 2 or -3. Your answer is the positive integer 2.
To check, 22 + 2 + 22² + 2² = 512 ✅
If you follow the same pattern:
The answer to number 2 is 10
The answer to number 3 is 146
The answer to number 4 is 11
SEGMENT B is more straightforward.
✓ Addition if the top two number will give you the one on tbe left bottom.
✓ Top left number = bottom right number.
Therefore:
Number 5 = 10
Number 6 = 15
Number 7 = 18
Number 8 = 75
A Fool For Christ
and the Folly of the Nations
1 Corinthians 3:18 KJV
Let no man deceive himself. If any man among you seemeth to be wise in this world, let him become a fool, that he may be wise.
Nokia could have invented the iPhone. Three years before Apple did, a Nokia engineer walked into a meeting in Finland with a working prototype: a touchscreen phone with full internet access. Management killed it. The device looked too expensive and too risky to sell. The same year, Nokia also rejected a proposal for an online app store. Apple would launch the same idea four years later.
In 2007, Nokia controlled 40% of the world's mobile phone market and was worth more than $150 billion. By 2013, it had sold its phone business to Microsoft for $7.2 billion. The company that defined the cell phone became irrelevant in less time than it takes most kids to finish high school.
In 2016, two professors from INSEAD and Aalto University spent years interviewing 76 Nokia executives, engineers, and consultants for a research paper. Their conclusion: nobody at the company could have an uncomfortable conversation.
Senior leaders were described as "extremely temperamental." One consultant remembered then-CEO Jorma Ollila shouting at people "at the top of his lungs" in front of fifteen other vice presidents. Middle managers learned the rules fast. Bad news got you fired, so they stopped delivering it.
The engineers knew Nokia's operating system could not compete with what Apple was building for the iPhone. One design team submitted 500 separate proposals to fix it between 2001 and 2009. Not a single one got approved. When a middle manager once suggested that a colleague push back against a top executive, the colleague refused. He "didn't have the courage; he had a family and small children."
The top managers were also afraid, just of different things. They worried about looking weak to investors. So they publicly defended the old operating system while privately knowing it was dying. The middle managers heard the demand for optimism and supplied it. For four years, the people who knew the company was sinking could not get that message to the people who could do something about it.
Researchers call this shoot-the-messenger culture. It shows up in cockpit recordings before plane crashes, in hospital records before preventable deaths, and in the investigations of the 2008 financial crisis. The cost of avoiding a difficult conversation is always paid later, with interest.
Nokia's case is unusual because the math is so clean: the silence cost roughly $143 billion in market value and an entire company. The discomfort would have cost a few bad meetings.