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[Andrew Ng @AndrewYNg]

New: A map of the most important skills in AI Engineering. https://t.co/VVkn1Dqp1N

[Fred Amonya @FredAmonya]

@CapitalFMUganda @UG_Airlines 1 of 2
This is a dangerous statement. And the Capital Gang didn’t challenge Girma. Twisted! It’s the same mistake Bretton Woods made under SAP, and in UG, leading to the disaster that was UNRA. Institutions, norms and values are topological. Humans are excitations. @MoWT_Uganda

[BBC News Africa @BBCAfrica]

Why does heartbreak feel like actual physical pain? Neuroscientists have found that the brain processes heartbreak in some of the same regions linked to physical pain.
@AnnOkumu explains what happens in your brain after a breakup, and what science says about healing.

[Jim Spire Ssentongo @SpireJim]

Coming soon …

[Jim Spire Ssentongo @SpireJim]

Some Ugandans don’t know that if you’re travelling with money (cash) above a certain amount you simply have to declare it at the airport for clearance. If found with it, Airport staff only have to ask you to declare it, not to take it. On the night of 12th July some staff at Entebbe Airport took a friend’s dollars. Report yourself and refund it before we expose you.

[Formula 1 @F1]

Still waiting for the five red lights to return... 👀

#F1

[CEO East Africa Magazine @CEOEastAfrica]

How Mandela Millers Won a Trademark Battle Over Supreme Wheat and Maize Flour Brands

After four years of building Supreme into a recognised flour brand, Omar Ahmed, popularly known as Mandela, discovered @MillersMandela could not protect its investment; the trademark belonged to another company. What followed was a years-long legal battle that ultimately cleared the way for Mandela Millers to secure its brand ambitions.

Read full story 👉🏾 https://t.co/4Z5encfw7m

[Al Jazeera English @AJEnglish]

Spanish Olympic skateboarder Danny Leon performed a jump as a solar eclipse occurred, timing the trick with the moon passing in front of the sun. Leon shared the epic stunt on his social media accounts and called it ‘the move of his life.’

[Dr. Sserunjogi Emma @DrSerunjogiEmma]

The reason Dr. Chris Baryomunsi, Dr. Jane Ruth Aceng and other senior doctors fighting medical interns yet Hon. Joel Ssenyoni a non medic is fighting for medical interns is simple.

I have spent most of my adult life around doctors but they're the worst people who front "EGO" in every discussion.

That's why you hear most doctors get furious when a patient questions them. The whole medical life, the ties, the books and titles shapes doctors to approach most situations with ego even sometimes at the expense of lives and it takes a lot of practice for a doctor to redeem his soul and see things with clarity.

Trust me, Dr. Chris Baryomunsi knows what he is doing is wrong, Dr. Jane Ruth Aceng did know she was wrong but to them this is a fight between intern doctors and their ego. These two doctors when they were interns did strike for the very issues interns are fighting for, so they know what they're doing but I can confidently tell you that they won't publicly say that they're wrong.

All senior doctors were paid during medical internship. I was paid, Dr. Chris Baryomunsi was paid, Dr. Omona was paid, Dr. Kiza Besigye was paid... Everyone you see Dr. And did internship in Uganda was paid for a reason and it is the same reason all countries do pay.

I don't blame the rest of Ugandans to fail to see this but fellow doctors well know all countries pay medical interns. All of them.

Kenya pays medical interns, and Dr. Chris Baryomunsi knows it.

Tanzania pays medical interns, and Dr. Chris Baryomunsi knows it.

Rwanda pays medical interns, and Dr. Chris Baryomunsi knows it.

Ghana pays medical interns/house officers, and Dr. Chris Baryomunsi knows it.

South Africa pays medical interns, and Dr. Chris Baryomunsi knows it.

Botswana pays medical interns, and Dr. Chris Baryomunsi knows it.

Namibia pays medical interns, and Dr. Chris Baryomunsi knows it.

Zambia pays medical interns, and Dr. Chris Baryomunsi knows it.

Zimbabwe pays medical interns/ junior doctors, and Dr. Chris Baryomunsi knows it.

The UK pays foundation doctors, and Dr. Chris Baryomunsi knows it.

Ireland pays intern doctors, and Dr. Chris Baryomunsi knows it.

Australia pays intern doctors, and Dr. Chris Baryomunsi knows it.

New Zealand pays first-year doctors/house officers, and Dr. Chris Baryomunsi knows it.

The United States pays resident physicians, and Dr. Chris Baryomunsi knows it.

Canada pays resident physicians, and Dr. Chris Baryomunsi knows it.

This list goes on....

I'm sure, the ego of doctors still will affect and blind the decision in this yet it's going to affect the whole medical training.

[Dr Petero wamala @PeteroWamala]

MY SON RETURNED FROM THE UK WITH A MASTER’S DEGREE. THREE YEARS LATER, I WAS STILL GIVING HIM POCKET MONEY

Andrew had always made his mother proud. Good schools in Uganda, a degree, then a Master’s in Marketing and Strategy from the UK.

Tuition. Accommodation. Air tickets. Pounds painfully converted from Uganda shillings.

When he graduated, the photographs travelled through every family WhatsApp group.

Mission accomplished.

Three years later, Andrew was 31 and his mother was still giving him pocket money.

He lived rent-free in a family apartment. She had bought him a Toyota Premio. Sometimes Mummy even provided fuel.

Yet Andrew wasn’t lazy. Every morning he searched for jobs: Marketing Manager. Business Development Manager. Strategy Officer.

He applied and applied.

Once he was offered a sales job.

“Mummy, after everything I studied in Britain, you want me to become a salesman?”

Then his mother met Uncle Rwamiti.

“My son has failed to get a proper job.”

Uncle Rwamiti asked about the apartment, car, fuel and pocket money.

Then he said: “Madam, perhaps your son doesn’t have an unemployment problem. He may have an activation problem.”

A few days later he met Andrew at Horizons Café.

“What can you do?”

“I have a Master’s degree in Marketing and Strategy.”

“I didn’t ask what you studied. I asked what you can do.”

Silence.

“Can you help somebody sell more tomatoes?”

Andrew laughed.

“I am serious. Can you help a small manufacturer find customers?”

“Yes.”

“Then perhaps you are not unemployed. You are waiting for somebody to give your knowledge permission to work.”

Uncle Rwamiti gave him an assignment: stop applying for jobs for two weeks. Find five businesses with sales problems. Choose one problem. Solve a small piece of it.

Andrew found a small furniture manufacturer with beautiful products and terrible marketing.

He improved the photographs, created a catalogue, followed up old enquiries and contacted potential customers.

Within weeks, an order came.

At month’s end the owner handed Andrew UGX 500,000.

Andrew called Uncle Rwamiti excitedly.

“They paid me!”

“Congratulations. Your Master’s degree has finally crossed immigration.”

That UGX 500,000 mattered because somebody other than Mummy had paid Andrew for value created.

One client became two. Two became four.

He made mistakes. He learned. He stopped introducing himself by where he studied and started asking:

“What problem can I solve?”

Eighteen months later, his mother sent him UGX 300,000.

Andrew returned it.

“Why have you sent the money back?”

“Mummy, I’m okay. I don’t need pocket money anymore.”

His mother cried.

Her son wasn’t rich. He had become independent.

Later she asked Uncle Rwamiti: “What did you do to my son?”

“Nothing. I helped him discover that a degree is not a job.”

“And what changed?”

“Problem. Solution. Action. Trust. Repeat.”

Perhaps some educated adult children don’t need another degree, connection or envelope from Mummy.

They need help crossing the bridge between knowing something and making something happen with what they know.

That bridge is Knowledge Activation.

Petero Wamala (Dr)
Making sense of change through ethical storytelling

[Mujuni Raymond @qataharraymond]

The @IMFNews has concluded its Article IV consultation with Uganda.

The staff report, press release and statement of the ED are enjoined here:

https://t.co/soyeecnRjO

For those keen 🙏🏽

[Charles Onyango-Obbo @cobbo3]

The US recently announced plans to impose import fees on agricultural goods from Wakanda, the fictional East African nation best known for its vibranium reserves depicted in the “Black Panther” film series.
https://t.co/uDYlG2T6vm

[Timothy Kalyegira @TimKalyegira]

Yesterday, Faustin Mugabe, in typical Daily Monitor fashion, pointed out to me that the rifle held by the Yoni Netanyahu statue is an AK-47, yet the Israeli military has never issued AK-47s.

That's why the Daily Monitor is always in trouble with the state. Too many wiseacres.

[Kakande Alex @KakandeAlex]

I dream of a day when Mabiina won’t be the selling point of everything influencing in Uganda.

Like, come on.

Tukooye.

[Siyasa Jimmy @JimmySiyasa]

Jordan B. Peterson: If you teach people to face the very things they fear and avoid, they get stronger.

[VT @VusiThembekwayo]

These kids. 😂

[Jim Spire Ssentongo @SpireJim]

In many countries outside Africa, classroom hours are less, but still people learn and develop. Perhaps Uganda is one of the countries where students stay longest in class on a typical school day - especially in boarding schools.

On top of the long class hours, day scholars return home with daily loads of homework. They’re even given more work to carry home for weekends! School books and homework become a nuisance at home! What special output justifies this intensive schooling?

Dear Minister of Education, we really need to do something about this. This kind of schooling destroys brains and wholesome growth of our people. Many grade-obsessed parents can’t speak out, some fearing the blackmail from schools asking them to take their children elsewhere. Classwork is important, but education and life in general are not all about books.

[VT @VusiThembekwayo]

Nailed it.

This man deserves a prize for his work.

[Kampala Executive Aviation @fly_kea]

One landing. A thousand dreams.

You never know who’s watching.

#aviation #futuregeneration #pilots #engineers