Pascal

,Industrial chemist, renewable energy, Director St. Henrys ss, Lugazi, incorruptible, farmer (🐇, 🐔, 🐖, 🦆) @smack

[Pascal @MuhindoPascal6]

@HustleKing01 Your enemies will always be less confident, less in everything. If it's behind your back, let them stay for ever behind. Don't try to bring them forward, they will be stumbling blocks for you.

[Michael Taiwo @AskMichaelTaiwo]

Poverty is not only a shortage of money. It is a tax on the mind itself.

Economist Sendhil Mullainathan and psychologist Eldar Shafir tested this in a striking way.

They gave sugarcane farmers in India the same cognitive tests twice. Once before harvest, when money was scarce and bills pressed in. Once after harvest, when they had been paid and could breathe.

Same farmers. Same tests. Weeks apart.

Before the harvest, gripped by scarcity, they scored the equivalent of about 13 IQ points lower. Roughly what you lose from a full night without sleep.

Sit with that.

Scarcity did not reveal people who think poorly. It made capable people think worse, by eating the mental bandwidth they needed for everything else.

This is why it is so hard to plan your way out of hardship while you are still inside it. The hardship is stealing the very focus that escape requires.

So if you are struggling and your mind feels foggy, you are not weak. You are taxed.

And before you judge someone trapped in scarcity for a bad decision, remember. You are grading their exam while someone holds their head underwater.

[Michael Taiwo @AskMichaelTaiwo]

Solar power is now the cheapest electricity humanity has ever produced. Global costs have fallen almost 90 percent since 2010, and in some markets a unit of solar sells for about three US cents, cheaper than diesel and cheaper than many African grid tariffs. Africa holds roughly 60 percent of the world's best solar resource, yet solar is only about three percent of the continent's power today. Sit with that gap. The sunniest continent on earth is still queuing for light. The countries that move first will not just save money. They will export energy, jobs, and dignity. The sun is free. The delay is what costs us.

[Michael Taiwo @AskMichaelTaiwo]

In World War II, the American military had a deadly problem. Too many bombers were not coming home.

So they studied the planes that did return, mapped every bullet hole, and prepared to add armour where the holes clustered thickest. The wings. The tail. The body.

A statistician named Abraham Wald stopped them.

Put the armour where there are no holes, he said. The engines. The cockpit.

They were stunned. Why reinforce the parts that were never getting hit?

Because, Wald explained, the planes hit in the engine never made it back to be studied. The survivors in that room were the lucky ones the engine shots had missed.

They had been reading the data of the winners and drawing the opposite of the right lesson.

We do this all the time.

We study the founder who dropped out and got rich, and never count the thousands who dropped out and vanished. We copy the visible survivors and call it a strategy.

The most important information in your life is often the data that never survived to reach you.

Before you copy a winner, ask a harder question. Who is missing from this room, and why.

[Reads with Ravi @readswithravi]

I’m in love with this sentence:

“Everyone knew it was impossible, until a fool who didn't know came along and did it.”

[🥷 @_iamhabeeb]

One of the cruelest things poverty takes from you is the freedom to make mistakes. Every decision has to work.

[Charles Onyango-Obbo @cobbo3]

"In times of crisis, people revert to the womb of the tribe/ethnicity."
The most renowned scholar behind this insight is the Kenyan philosopher and theologian John S. Mbiti. In his foundational work ‘African Religions and Philosophy’ (1969), Mbiti observed:
"In times of emergency and crisis, [people] revert to their old beliefs and practices."
Mbiti argued that even when individuals adapt to modern education, urbanisation, or new religious conversions, an existential crisis (such as sudden illness, death, or disaster) often drives them back to primary cultural roots, ancestral traditions, or indigenous spiritual frameworks for protection and security. Look around you, the evidence is everywhere.

[Ucheego @Ucheagalii]

When I newly got married, my mother-in-law came to stay with us for a while.

There was one thing she always did.

Whenever food was served, she would ask, “Nwam eriela nri”
Meaning “Has my son eaten?”

At first, I didn’t think much of it. After all, that’s her child.

But one particular day, I had gone to the market, come back tired, entered the kitchen straight away, cooked, and served everyone.

By the time I finished dishing her food, I was exhausted.

She called me and asked the usual question:

“Has my son eaten?”

That day, I wasn’t in the mood to keep quiet.

I looked at her and said,

“Have you asked me if I have eaten?”

“You saw me leave for the market. You saw me come back and start cooking immediately. You have not asked if I have rested, if I have eaten, or if I’m okay. The only question is whether your son has eaten.”

I told her, “I know he’s your child, but am I not also your child now too?”

Immediately, she apologized.

She said, “No, no, don’t say that. You’re my last born now. You’re my baby girl.”

I told her, “I don’t feel like a baby girl right now.”

We talked about it, and that was the end of it.

But do you know what happened afterward?

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[Ucheego @Ucheagalii]

From that day until she left, whenever food was served, she would ask, “Has Ugodiya eaten?”

If I hadn’t eaten, she would tell them to serve me food too.

She never forgot again.

That experience taught me something…..

Many times, people are not intentionally trying to hurt you. They’re simply operating from habit.

People are not mind readers.

Teach people how you want to be treated, and many of them will gladly adjust.

The things we keep bottled up in our hearts are what  one honest conversation can solve

[Pascal @MuhindoPascal6]

@afekualfred @mkainerugaba I thought I saw Dr. Kiyonga and Afande Mbadi somewhere from kasese. Or did I ee the wrong list??

[Pascal @MuhindoPascal6]

@GabrielBuule @JoelSsenyonyi A parliamentary commission that was found to be corrupt too. Corruption has no party it's all encompassing.

[Dr. Arinaitwe Rugyendo 🇺🇬 @RugyendoQuotes]

NEWS: Uganda and Egypt are the only two African countries that have qualified for the Underwater Robotics World Competition in Canada next month. I salute our team from @ASIST_Uganda & @YoungEngneersUG for making out nation proud, once again! https://t.co/E4uYMnxSzJ @Ronkawamara

[Noora🌷 @Amma__tuuh]

The first time my sister visited her fiancé’s family house, she thought they were pretending.

Everything was too orderly.

Not rich just… intentional.

Shoes were lined neatly by the entrance. The television volume stayed low even when nobody was talking. Plates disappeared into the sink the moment people finished eating. No one shouted across rooms. No doors slammed. Even the dog waited patiently before eating.

[Silver Kayondo @SilverKayondo]

When you're doing investment and cost-benefit analysis, you compare like for like. Coffee bags have gone up, but that doesn't mean all the other investments can be compared using the same metrics. These are loans. Demonstrate viability of the projects to generate payback revenue.

[Julian @julianblacks_]

A woman sat across from me on the train holding a torn grocery bag against her chest like it contained something fragile. Bread. Cold medicine. Birthday candles. Dog treats. Every time the train stopped, she checked the bag again. Not her phone. Not the time. The bag. When we reached her stop, one of the candles slipped out and rolled near my shoe. I picked it up for her.

[Pascal @MuhindoPascal6]

@SoloKing02 She is army on addition to VP. Once army always army.

[Pascal @MuhindoPascal6]

@JackieAkampwera Information flows faster now just without screening by editors and producers.

[Pascal @MuhindoPascal6]

@SimonTekno85824 @wekesa_amos @Thomas_Tayebwa @RebeccaKadagaUG He just hopes these MPs as the highest earning block in Uganda to invest in tourism sector. Those guys have experience as tourists and so can be a better investment block

[Cathy Wabomba @Cathiewabomba]

If I were Dangote, sitting atop a 650,000 barrels-per-day refinery on the East African coast, I’d still find myself drawn to Uganda’s refinery project. Not as an afterthought, but as a serious strategic play.

The reason comes down to what Uganda actually offers.

Yes, the planned Ugandan refinery starts modestly- 60,000 bpd, and scaling to 120,000. But it sits right at the crude source. And surrounding it is already a constellation of infrastructure - an industrial park, a network of roads, an airport, and direct access to some of the fastest-growing landlocked markets on the continent: Uganda, Rwanda, eastern DRC, South Sudan, western Kenya, and beyond.

Uganda’s refinery isn’t just a ripe project; it’s an automatic door into one of the most underleveraged regional markets on the continent. Step inside, and you’re not just refining crude you’re planting a flag at the beating heart of East and Central African commerce. That kind of experience doesn’t just add value to a project like this, it unlocks it.

A coastal refinery does what coastal refineries do best; it serves export flows and maritime logistics with quiet efficiency. A Ugandan refinery does something different. It puts refined product close to where people actually live and consume, cutting through the expensive last-mile problem that has long plagued inland supply chains.

As emphasized by H.E. @KagutaMuseveni the Uganda refinery and the East Africa one aren’t rival bets. They’re two complimentary vantage points within the same regional energy system ; one anchored at the water’s edge, the other embedded deep in a hinterland where demand isn’t coming; it’s already here.

That’s how I’d see it, anyway.

But again, I’m not Dangote (and will never be) and he definitely knows things I don’t!

[Pascal @MuhindoPascal6]

@kafuumajo871 @KagombeWilson @NUP_Ug What will motivate the numbers to increase? If NRM is grabbing some of his pie(DP and UPC etc) how will he make the numbers to grow to matter?

[Pascal @MuhindoPascal6]

@EdjoeTomusange @KagombeWilson @NUP_Ug Was only challenging his ability to unify the opposition. Try to make all the parties on that side speak the same language. Including DPs Mao and UPCs Obote. He has been great at his job save for that seemingly small failure ( challenge) of opposition within opposition