Hearing the two sides of every story is very important. You will think Frank was the victim until you hear from his ex-wife as she drops receipt.
Nice one.
We officially opened our office in Sydney last week and when we were on the ground, people kept describing Australia as the "lucky country" based on the 1964 book by Donald Horne.
It wasn't a compliment. Horne's point was that Australia got rich on what was in the ground, not what was in people's heads. He postulated that Australia's success came from resource extraction, not technological innovation - and this fear was heightened in the age of AI.
At Sunrise, Rick Baker pointed out that Australia's instinct in this new AI era is to build data centers - the same old playbook:
Build Infrastructure.
Sell the commodity.
Let someone else capture the software margin.
His call to action was a wake up call for ANZ founders to be more ambitious.
Well, from our vantage point at @AnthropicAI, founders from APAC are some of the MOST ambitious:
It is you people that need to learn that Nigerians are not really as good as you think we areโฆ most people in Nigeria are acting with impunity within their own jurisdiction. Unfortunately, it is worse when human lives are at stake.
The day we start educating the masses about their behaviour, that day we will start seeing POSITIVE DIRECT IMPACT
I drove for more than a year in Australia with my Nigeria License. I had to switch to Australia License because my Nigeria license was about to expire.
Coming into Nigeria now for a short visit, I dare not use my Australia license because the officers are not educated enough and they refuse to educate themselves because these things are within the provisions of the law, but againโฆ. Nigerians are the problem of Nigeria.
The more I hear peopleโs stories, I tend to appreciate my family and friends more. My parents, sister, wife, and children are highly appreciated for being who they are.
I AM A BLESSED MAN!
Denying it will mean that I am lying ๐คฅ to myself!
My world is beautiful and it is still far from where Iโm heading. ๐
Trump!!! Can you please leave Iran ๐ฎ๐ท alone? This one that Iโm constantly seeing โflight cancelledโ with Qatar ๐ถ๐ฆ Air.
Why is this man causing trouble everywhere? Abeg o!!!
Donโt bother explaining, they can never understandโฆ these children can not imagine what making good music felt like back in the analogue days where you had to create your own sound from the instruments for real without that digital autotune ๐
โFela owns a Guinness World Record as one of the most recorded artists. Fela released about 52 albums. Go and do your researchโ โ Seun Kuti says as he refuses to leave Wizkid FCโs neck.