David Ngua

Electrical Engineer with a passion for Project & Contract Management, Project Engineering and Energy Management

[David Ngua @DavidNgua]

And this is the record, that God hath given to us eternal life, and this life is in his Son. 1 Jn 5:11

[Michael Strong @flowidealism]

When brilliant teachers emerge, they disappear. Jaime Escalante created one of the finest AP calculus programs in the country. He could not scale it. Marva Collins founded an exceptional school. She could not replicate her excellence across ten other schools.

The question is not why these teachers are geniuses. The question is why we have no system to transmit their genius.

If Escalante had been a martial arts master, he would have founded a school. His best students would open branches displaying their lineage. Over generations, a coherent tradition would spread. This happens in martial arts, music, dance, and craft traditions.

It does not happen in education.

I call this absence The Missing Institution. In the absence of government monopoly, we would have seen the spontaneous creation of hundreds of pedagogical lineages, each designed to transmit the artistry of a master teacher.

Instead, teacher training is controlled by education professors who publish research papers, not by virtuoso teachers who practice their craft daily.

Montessori and Waldorf escaped the system. They created their own teacher training lineages outside government control. KIPP Academies created an internal leadership program. Hi Tech High licensed its own teachers. The moment schools escape government domination, they spontaneously create The Missing Institution.

For underprivileged children, this absence is catastrophic. They need schools that transmit cultural capital through immersion in a living tradition.

[David Ngua @DavidNgua]

@grok what end product is this and what is it used for?

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The Curse Of The Kitenge, Beauty Creams, And Baskets At The African Trade Show
Just done a column in .@NationAfrica on African expos/exhibitions. They are by and large an endless, soul-crushing loop of the same few things, no matter the African country.
Yes, the brightly patterned (Ankara, Kitenge, Kente, Masaai blankets, Mlifa, Biskri etc) are beautiful. The hand-woven baskets are authentic. The small-batch curry powders smell wonderful. The vials of essential oils and tubs of petroleum jelly are the lifeblood of someone's honest hustle. And those ubiquitous metal pans? They are robust, they cook the beans.
But let us be serious - and politically incorrect. These things, the very foundation of our informal economy, have become a beautiful, brightly coloured intellectual trap. They confirm, year after year, the narrative of the “Exotic, Developing Africa”; a continent stuck in the handicraft and primary product bracket.
You walk through the halls of “Innovation” and what do you see? Not modular, locally-designed solar panels that could electrify the village, or locally-assembled lithium batteries to store the juice. You don't see affordable, locally-made diagnostic ultrasound machines or simple ventilators for our under-equipped hospitals. Where is industrial-grade PVC piping, or the high-grade fertiliser formulation that would allow us to build and feed ourselves without waiting for a container ship from Shenzhen?
We are selling beautiful souvenirs, and the rest of the world is trading in assets and capabilities.
We are so far down the manufacturing chain that we notice with horror we didn't even have to mention the heavy stuff: the MRI machines that see into the body or the industrial robotics that automate the factories.
Until we start seeing trade expos dominated by fridge compressors, flat-screen TV displays, motherboards, and locally-engineered water purification systems, we are merely hosting a market for well-meaning tourists and not a serious trade platform. We are celebrating the past, while the future waits outside the tent, holding a power drill.
And that is why we will remain at the bottom, smelling richly of shea butter and groundnuts, beautifully dressed, but perpetually borrowing the tools to build our own house.
(Full article, “We’re Maasai blanket prisoners”, https://t.co/1fjo0ZoHjO)

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Foundational principle on manhood

[Josh Barzon @JoshuaBarzon]

🧵The Bishop of Liverpool: J.C. Ryle’s Life, Legacy, & Eternal Impact

In an age of compromise, he preached with clarity. His writings still stir hearts today. Here’s the story of one of evangelical Anglicanism’s boldest voices.👇

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⁦@biofoodske⁩ would packing this great product in tetrafino or equivalent make it cheaper than in the plastic bottle? Better still could you have like 1ltr or bigger for bulk users?

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@wmnjoya Jesus’s righteousness was proven. No world system could bend him - YET WITHOUT SIN

Heb 4:15 - 15 For we have not an high priest which cannot be touched with the feeling of our infirmities; but was in all points tempted like as we are, yet without sin.

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10 Wherefore the rather, brethren, give diligence to make your calling and election sure: for if ye do these things, ye shall never fall:

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8 For if these things be in you, and abound, they make you that ye shall neither be barren nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.
9 But he that lacketh these things is blind, and cannot see afar off, and hath forgotten that he was purged from his old sins.

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6 And to knowledge temperance; and to temperance patience; and to patience godliness;
7 And to godliness brotherly kindness; and to brotherly kindness charity.

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4 Whereby are given unto us exceeding great and precious promises: that by these ye might be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust.
5 And beside this, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue; and to virtue knowledge

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2Peter 1 vs-3
2 Grace and peace be multiplied unto you through the knowledge of God, and of Jesus our Lord,
3 According as his divine power hath given unto us all things that pertain unto life and godliness, through the knowledge of him that hath called us to glory and virtue:

[PeterSweden @PeterSweden7]

HUGE NEWS

Norway is going AGAINST the cashless agenda.

Parliament just voted for a law that will STRENGTHEN the use of physical cash.

The law will ensure that people have the right to use physical cash as payment.

Meaning that shops cannot refuse cash payments from customers.

While cash payments only make 1,4% of payments in Norway today, this will ensure that people will have the right and freedom to continue using it.

The Norwegian Directorate for Civil Protection is in fact recommending people to keep some amount of physical cash at home, in the event that electronic payment systems would stop working for example.

Earlier, a poll showed that a whopping 83% of people in Sweden want to keep cash as a payment option in the future, with 29% of those saying that freedom of choice was the main reason for wanting to keep cash.

People are beginning to realize that the cashless future that is envisioned is not attractive.

In fact, the last few years, the number of people wanting to keep cash has increased.

In a cashless society it would be very easy for an authoritarian government to block people they don’t like from buying and selling.

So the fact that we now are seeing opposition to the cashless agenda is very good news!

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Nehemiah 2:17-18

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@AutoxpressKenya The kind of questions I was asked means you missed the issues I raised eg have you googled the No of kms premium tyres give at most? From analysis that is called a groove cut - yet the whole tyre is coming apart and other questions without depth….

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@AutoxpressKenya I bought 4 no @pirelli scorpion tyres under the 2yr warranty and 1 month after end of warranty they’re tearing apart and warped. No response 6 days after I queried on your other channels. The anguish of the safety situation I was exposed to isn’t your priority?

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@AutoxpressKenya @Pirelli urgently respond

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@AutoxpressKenya I bought 4 no @pirelli scorpion tyres under the 2yr warranty and 1 month after end of warranty they’re tearing apart and warped. No response 6 days after I queried on your other channels. The anguish of the safety situation I was exposed to isn’t your priority?

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@AutoxpressKenya @Pirelli This has been the standard response from Thursday last week and I’m grounded without ability to move. When I ask for the TAT I’m told it’s not known, please advice how long I should wait for next steps. My WhatsApp communication is available in your end

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@AutoxpressKenya I bought 4 no @pirelli scorpion tyres under the 2yr warranty and 1 month after end of warranty they’re tearing apart and warped. No response 6 days after I queried on your other channels. The anguish of the safety situation I was exposed to isn’t your priority?