There are systems that need be altered, models - changed, industries - revolutionalised and wants - redefined. Systems are broken everywhere, dare to rethink it from ground up.
#ThinkDifferent#fortunefavorsthebold#SteveJobs
Dear President @officialABAT ,
Sign an executive order to repurpose NIGERIA CIVIL DEFENCE & make them indigenous based. Commit this whole week to security.
@DrCOmole@Senator_Akpabio@femigbaja
The basic issue is that either you are running a global empire with 750+ military bases worldwide, the world reserve currency, the headquarters of the UN in New York, and so on — in which case you really do need to be global #1 on everything — or you are just running a country.
If you are just running a country, then that's fine, you don't need to be a platform for global anything. But the transition from "global empire" to "country" is jarring as it's the transition from the USSR to Russia. And when you shed the empire’s downside, you lose the empire’s upside.
The reason top tech companies often hire foreign-born & first-generation engineers over “native” Americans isn’t because of an innate American IQ deficit (a lazy & wrong explanation). A key part of it comes down to the c-word: culture. Tough questions demand tough answers & if we’re really serious about fixing the problem, we have to confront the TRUTH:
Our American culture has venerated mediocrity over excellence for way too long (at least since the 90s and likely longer). That doesn’t start in college, it starts YOUNG.
A culture that celebrates the prom queen over the math olympiad champ, or the jock over the valedictorian, will not produce the best engineers.
A culture that venerates Cory from “Boy Meets World,” or Zach & Slater over Screech in “Saved by the Bell,” or ‘Stefan’ over Steve Urkel in “Family Matters,” will not produce the best engineers.
(Fact: I know *multiple* sets of immigrant parents in the 90s who actively limited how much their kids could watch those TV shows precisely because they promoted mediocrity…and their kids went on to become wildly successful STEM graduates).
More movies like Whiplash, fewer reruns of “Friends.” More math tutoring, fewer sleepovers. More weekend science competitions, fewer Saturday morning cartoons. More books, less TV. More creating, less “chillin.” More extracurriculars, less “hanging out at the mall.”
Most normal American parents look skeptically at “those kinds of parents.” More normal American kids view such “those kinds of kids” with scorn. If you grow up aspiring to normalcy, normalcy is what you will achieve.
Now close your eyes & visualize which families you knew in the 90s (or even now) who raise their kids according to one model versus the other. Be brutally honest.
“Normalcy” doesn’t cut it in a hyper-competitive global market for technical talent. And if we pretend like it does, we’ll have our asses handed to us by China.
This can be our Sputnik moment. We’ve awaken from slumber before & we can do it again. Trump’s election hopefully marks the beginning of a new golden era in America, but only if our culture fully wakes up. A culture that once again prioritizes achievement over normalcy; excellence over mediocrity; nerdiness over conformity; hard work over laziness.
That’s the work we have cut out for us, rather than wallowing in victimhood & just wishing (or legislating) alternative hiring practices into existence. I’m confident we can do it. 🇺🇸 🇺🇸
@Collins_Obi75@babaj1de@austinidiata When people resort to adhominem, it indicates lack of substance, worse still - they can't grow beyond their level of thinking.
For those interested in factual debate, first go and read Atiku's program on the Petroleum sector, then come back.
@babaj1de@austinidiata had included supporting Atiku whose policies were the real deal, you'd be vindicated.
Sorry, you warning is tantamount to selecting a C-grade over a B.
@babaj1de@austinidiata Even Obi is another hype like sai baba.
If you want to work with facts & not sentiment, 2 policies BAT implemented that are the same with Obi's, have been d major cause to the present predicament.
1. Floating the naira
2. Removing fuel subsidy (immediately).
If ur warning...
@DavidHundeyin It is the audacity for me🤨
Your tweet should be captioned
" The audacity of a ....."
Abeg, when will you apologise to Pst Poju and the rest us?😌
https://t.co/9o5yKi2otL
There's no way I can unprofile obidients has fools.
They knew they will lose but they damned the consequences.
Heartless, self-serving fools.
And they still doubling down in their folly thinking there'll be another chance, lol.
Who will give you credible election?
Lagos
@ayosogunro As a pragmatist never waste ur time arguing with idealists that are over 30.
They are neither interested in ur plight nor a tradeoff that's at par with micro-eco. They're all about d perfect moralization of issues even at your dire expense.
Case in point - Ayo after 5 admins
“I have no ambition in politics that supersedes enabling children of the poor like me to get a good education, jobs and realize their full potential. Other than this, God has been so kind to me and has done everything for me for which I am eternally grateful.”
-@Atiku Abubakar
@officialABAT@DrYemiCardoso congratulations! finally you decovered the determinant of the exchange rate. However, banning or pegging can't solve the problem, water will always find a way. As a p2pian I know how to circumvent strategy.
For solution, call me, I won't charge much
@jakeshieldsajj Everything doesn't require automatically triggered response.
Little boys&girls molested by aunties and uncles usually don't realise what's going on until years later.
Speaking from experience
@ruffydfire You follow join the thinkless people because if you dey think you for advice obi to work with Atiku.
And it not as if the obi sef get brain another wash like Bubu.
Gang awon messiah seekers