AE

I write on different subjects and pretend no one is looking. It helps me stay unhinged!

[AE @DAnalyst_]

I mostly retweet! It's my way of storing valuable data that I desire to reference at a later time. I tweet too...but I'm still building and boring my mind and brain, can't afford to let loose all I bore else I risk corrupting knowledge and information.

[Oreoluwa Bukola, CFA. @BukkyOA]

There is no way you are surrounded by greatness and won’t get pulled up by it.

Re-engineer what’s in your proximity.

[Oreoluwa Bukola, CFA. @BukkyOA]

A lot of us speak good English but still struggle to articulate our thoughts in a business setting. You know what you want to say. The words just don’t come out well. It is not your English. It is how you sort the thought before you talk. Let me show you how to fix it in this thread:

If you are an immigrant in the west, this can literally save your job

🧵

[Carolyn Rockey @CarolynWRockey]

Jo Nagai was raising swallowtail butterflies at his home in Kobe, Japan, when he noticed something odd. The ones he had looked after as caterpillars seemed to recognize him. Wild butterflies fled. His didn't.
He was in second grade. He wrote a four-page letter to Dr. Martha Weiss, an entomologist at Georgetown University who had studied whether moths could retain memories through metamorphosis. He asked if she could help him design a version of her experiment for butterflies.
She said yes.
Using a muscle therapy device, Jo trained caterpillars to associate the scent of lavender with a mild vibration. When the caterpillars became butterflies, 70 per cent of them still avoided the lavender. Their brains had been completely rebuilt during metamorphosis. The memory survived anyway.
Then he bred them.
The offspring, which had never been trained, also avoided lavender. So did their grandchildren. Without ever experiencing the vibration, two generations of butterflies inherited an aversion to a scent their grandmother had been taught to fear.
Jo documented it all in a 33-page research paper and presented his findings at the International Congress of Entomology in Kobe in 2024. He was 10.
A second grader wrote a letter to a Georgetown professor, and together they found evidence that butterflies can pass memories down through generations.

-Wilderness Whisper

[Machiavelli Bot @UnmodernmanBot]

One of the clearest ways to judge the long-term health of a civilization is to examine how its most powerful people respond when the common good requires something from them.

Ask those who have benefited most from the system to accept a modest personal cost - higher taxes, fewer privileges, or some other sacrifice that would strengthen public institutions and improve life for everyone else.

When the ruling class is willing to give up a portion of its wealth or comfort to preserve the society that made its position possible, the civilization still possesses a sense of shared destiny. But when its elites demand every benefit while rejecting every burden, decline has already begun.

A society cannot endure when sacrifice flows upward from the population, while privilege remains concentrated at the top. Once the powerful stop thinking like custodians of the civilization and begin treating it merely as something to extract from, its future becomes increasingly difficult to defend.

[AE @DAnalyst_]

Everyday bud, everyday!

[Fav ⛧ @Favwontmiss]

Being neurodivergent is noticing patterns early, warning people, being ignored, then watching exactly what you predicted happen months later. By then, everyone acts like it was obvious all along, and nobody remembers you called it first. It’s a uniquely frustrating experience.

[Fav ⛧ @Favwontmiss]

Being neurodivergent is noticing patterns early, warning people, being ignored, then watching exactly what you predicted happen months later. By then, everyone acts like it was obvious all along, and nobody remembers you called it first. It’s a uniquely frustrating experience.

[AE @DAnalyst_]

@word0taku Prevaricate

[AE @DAnalyst_]

@BukkyOA Kai.... kai, kai, kai. Arresting every minute and hour.

[Oreoluwa Bukola, CFA. @BukkyOA]

I love having smart people around me.

People who are fast,
can think and act independently,
can connect dots quickly and
mostly have usable perspectives.

[27. @dimvji]

two days at your parents house can undo years of personal growth

[Reads with Ravi @readswithravi]

A reminder from Atomic Habits by James Clear:

“It doesn't make sense to continue wanting something if you're not willing to do what it takes to get it. If you don't want to live the lifestyle, then release yourself from the desire. To crave the result but not the process is to guarantee disappointment.”

[Physics In History @PhysInHistory]

Robert Oppenheimer on Albert Einsteins's work ✍️

His early papers are paralyzingly beautiful but they are thoroughly corrupt with errors, and this has delayed the publication of his collected works for almost ten years. Any man whose errors can take that long to correct is quite a man.

-- as mentioned during Einstein's 10th death anniversary in 1965.

[AE @DAnalyst_]

@hispano_studies Essentially they were all drunken masters playing football😅😄🤣. The more the alcohol or fun the better the game.

[Oreoluwa Bukola, CFA. @BukkyOA]

Compared to my peers, I have never achieved anything in my life and career at record time.

Never.

I am the queen of trailing behind.

I would fail exams multiple times.
Fail aptitude tests
Fail at interviews
Fail at getting promoted
I stayed in roles and grades for longer than I should have.

For me, life seems to drag.

It is a pattern, and that is the story of my life.

I would try really hard, but I would fail.

I would debrief on why I couldn’t hit key milestones and see some valid reasons; sometimes, they wouldn’t make sense.

This bothered me every time I introspect, but then it stopped bothering me.

At least not so much anymore.

The reason is that I am pretty resilient.

My journey is complex, thorny, uncertain and quite complicated, but I seem to stay the course.

I realised that I do not get demotivated, no matter the number of ‘No’s I get.

It just fuels me instead.

I think that’s a superpower (what do you think?).

And I show up again and again and again because I want it badly.

So, whatever I have achieved so far in my life is not because I am good at it from the first time; it is mainly that I have become so resilient that I stay on the hill until I get it.

This is my story.

I have begged before I got
I have scraped before I ate
I have stayed knocking before the door opened for me.

There was hardly any magic or any leverage.

My leverage is my resilience, and I use it to my advantage.

That’s how I win.

Maybe that's how you win, too. I'm not sure, but you know better.

Go and be fantastic today.

#Orebukola

[James Clear @JamesClear]

In theory, consistency is about being disciplined, determined, and unwavering.

In practice, consistency is about being adaptable. Don't have much time? Scale it down. Don't have much energy? Do the easy version. Find different ways to show up depending on the circumstances. Let your habits change shape to meet the demands of the day.

Adaptability is the way of consistency.

[The Sigma Mindset @thesigmamindset]

Learning how Naval Ravikant reads books will permanently change the way you read:

[KING CHIDI @guzu_p]

• Very observant
• Can read you like a book
• Very easy to detach from people who don't respect them
• Don't care about other people's validation
• Calm and chill personality
• Will choose to be alone than date rubbish
• Talk less and do more
• If they like you, it's a solid one
• Will choose their peace over discomfort or disrespect
• They don't need to engage in different activities or events outside to meet people. They create their own happiness indoors
• Don't take their silence as weakness. They're dangerous people to mess around with

[Ghost Writer ✍️ @Prezain_LJ]

You need to see the joy on olodos' faces when a very academically sound person doesn't succeed in life. They relish it. It's almost as if it gives them more reasons to talk down on education and intelligence.

When we were graduating, after I finished as the top student in my class, many of my coursemates were really eager to see how I would turn out. In fact, I would always hear them gossiping: "No be by Best Graduating Student. To make am for life no be by acada. Street na military. We go see."

I'm glad I turned out really well. Even most of those who went to Ghana for "updates" after school and eventually resorted to fraud can't measure up to my accomplishments. Till today, many of them still randomly call me and jokingly ask, "Senior man, you just dey chop dey go. You no wan give men update na!"

Deep down, they genuinely believe I must be secretly involved in fraud. This is the society we live in, where many young people have come to believe that you can't succeed legitimately, and that every young man who is doing well for himself must be involved in fraud. Even many elderly people and police officers aren't exempt from this line of thinking.

I haven't seen a country that is trying so hard to make education unattractive like ours.

"School na scam."

"No be by BSc. You get BTC?"

"Education is the key to success. Oya, use the key start Benz na 😂."

"Lecturer pack 1999 Camry, student don pack Lexus beside am."

If we continue this way, in a few years, there will be nothing left of our educational system. We are so money-centred that we don't even realize education can be an end in itself and not necessarily just a means to an end.

Everything has become, "How much do you have in your account?" or "Use your intelligence buy Benz na."

This is one of the reasons it really hurts me to see highly intelligent and brilliant people end up poor. I'm always rooting for academically sound people to succeed because I genuinely want people, especially young people, to see that you can make it legitimately through hard work and academic excellence.

Any society where only the olodos become financially successful while the brighter minds, the ones who believe in due process, continue to struggle is a society that is bound to fail.

[AvantPrince_ @AvantPrince_]

Unstructured action is the mark of an amateur

[Robert Greene @RobertGreene]

Reading books and materials that go beyond what is required is always a good starting point. Being exposed to ideas in the wide world, you will tend to develop a hunger for more and more knowledge.