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[OscarKM 👆⭐️⭐️ @Oscarkhomotsoh]

Good old days..... were you there? 😠

[The Sigma Mindset @thesigmamindset]

This millionaire exposed a cheat code to get rich ‼️‼️

[my book is better than my tweets @MichellCClark]

Stop glorifying urgency. Not every dream needs to be chased in panic. Some of what is meant for you will require patience, rhythm, and a nervous system that finally feels safe enough to receive it.

[HONITEL👑 @HonitelHQ]

There is money in this world. Insane money. Your mates are making ridiculous money out there because of information, access, and network. Pressure yourself, you are not doing enough.

[B.C @BoitumeloCaleb]

Mafia feeling pure with the Mercedes-Benz S600 V12 Coupe. 👌

[Veloria 🌊 @veloriahq]

“𝘓𝘦𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘺𝘰𝘶𝘯𝘨 𝘮𝘢𝘯 𝘨𝘰 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘩𝘶𝘯𝘵, 𝘪𝘧 𝘩𝘦 𝘬𝘪𝘭𝘭𝘴 𝘢𝘯 𝘦𝘭𝘦𝘱𝘩𝘢𝘯𝘵, 𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘱𝘰𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘵𝘺 𝘦𝘯𝘥𝘴... 𝘪𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘦𝘭𝘦𝘱𝘩𝘢𝘯𝘵 𝘬𝘪𝘭𝘭𝘴 𝘩𝘪𝘮, 𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘱𝘰𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘵𝘺 𝘦𝘯𝘥𝘴.”

— 𝘈𝘧𝘳𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘯 𝘗𝘳𝘰𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘣𝘴

[Dre @DreDrexcii]

If we date, don’t stop being you. Keep having fun, keep seeing your friends, keep chasing your goals, and keep enjoying your life. A relationship should add to your life, not take away from it. Just make sure you save time for us too.

[Yasmine Khosrowshahi @yasminekho]

Dyson is a $25 billion company.

It is 100% owned by James Dyson.

No investors. No venture capital. No public shareholders.

But there was a time when he had no job and his wife was working to keep the house running.

In 1974, James Dyson left a steady engineering job at a company called Rotork to start his own business. He'd spent four years there designing boats. Stable salary. Respected employer. He walked away from all of it to make a better wheelbarrow.

That company eventually failed. By 1978, he was running a workshop on borrowed time and that's when a broken vacuum cleaner changed everything.

He was vacuuming his house when the suction died mid-clean. He opened the bag clogged with fine dust. The machine lost power every time the bag filled more than a third of the way. He was paying for something that failed at its only job.

At his factory, he'd seen an industrial cyclone, a cone that spun air at high speed to separate paint particles from the air. No bag. No filter. Just centrifugal force and a clean exhaust.

He thought: what if you did that to a vacuum cleaner.

He didn't know it would take five years and 5,126 prototypes to find out.

His wife Deirdre taught art to keep the family going. They remortgaged the house to fund his experiments. Then again. Then a third time. Every prototype got a number. Every failure got documented, not just that it failed, but exactly how, and exactly what he'd change next.

5,126 times he built something that didn't work.
5,126 times he went back to the workshop.

By prototype 5,127, the cyclone geometry was right. Constant suction. No bag. No power loss. It picked up what every other vacuum left behind.

He was 32. He had a working prototype and no idea what to do next.

He went to every major manufacturer. Hoover. Electrolux. Every big name.

They all said no.

One Hoover executive later admitted they'd looked at it, understood exactly what it was, and passed because it would kill their replacement bag revenue. The vacuum cleaner bag market was worth over $500 million in Europe alone at the time. They knew his machine worked. That was precisely why they declined.

He spent years being rejected. Banks wouldn't lend. Investors wouldn't back a product the entire industry had already reviewed and passed on.

Then a Japanese company licensed it. Sold it for the equivalent of £3,500 a unit. It appeared in design galleries. Won awards. It made him just enough to keep going.

In 1993, the Dyson DC01 went on sale in Britain. By early 1995, it was the best-selling vacuum cleaner in the country.

He was 46 years old.

Here's what the story is actually about.

He built a $25 billion company without giving away a single share to an outsider. No VC round. No IPO. No co-founder dilution. Just a remortgaged house, a wife's teaching salary, and 5,126 failed experiments.

Most founders at his level had given away 60-70% of their company long before reaching scale. Dyson gave away nothing because he had nothing anyone wanted to invest in. The rejection that looked like a curse was the thing that kept him whole.

Since 2018 alone, the Dyson family has collected £5 billion in dividends. Not from selling the company. From never selling it.

In 1999, Dyson sued Hoover for copying his cyclone technology with their Triple Vortex vacuum. The High Court ruled that Hoover had deliberately copied a fundamental part of his patented design. Hoover agreed to pay £4 million in damages.

He said it wasn't about the money.

It was about the executives who'd looked at his machine, understood exactly what it was, and chosen bag revenue over building something better.

Dyson wanted them to know he remembered.

[Don Rasta™🇿🇦 @Ras_Pompe]

Since bo My Friend left Kasi, we are able to sell 30 loaves per day.

Foreigners were blocking local economy😢🤌🏿

[Euphonik™♛ @euphonik]

100%

[Harsh hada @Theharshhada7]

Someone rich once told me:
"Money loves water."

It took me years to understand...

[ً @artfuIchaos]

It's interesting watching people underestimate you until they realise you were being humble, not incapable.

[Africa Facts Zone @AfricaFactsZone]

Africa's Largest Employers of Labour.

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

Researchers at the University of Bergen ran a study comparing 213 Sudanese men. Half brushed their teeth with a chewed tree root. Half used a regular plastic toothbrush. The tree root group came out with healthier gums and less plaque.

That stick is called a miswak. The WHO has been quietly recommending it since 1986. In 2011, scientists at Sweden’s Karolinska Institute finally cracked the chemistry.

The active ingredient is benzyl isothiocyanate, a natural plant defense compound from the same family of sulfur molecules that give cabbage and mustard their sharp bite. The compound punches through the outer wall of bacteria that cause gum disease. From there, it dismantles the chemistry that keeps the bacteria alive. The Karolinska team isolated it by running root extracts through a chemical analyzer that identifies individual molecules.

The stick comes from the Salvadora persica tree, which grows in dry parts of Africa, the Middle East, and India. Inside the wood you also find natural fluoride, a gentle abrasive called silica that polishes off plaque, sulfur compounds, and tannins that tighten gum tissue. A separate team at Sweden’s University of Gothenburg ran another trial. They soaked the sticks in a fluoride solution. The fluoride left in the test group’s saliva came out higher than what people got from regular fluoride toothpaste.

A more recent systematic review pulled together a stack of randomized trials. Miswak on its own controlled plaque about as well as a regular toothbrush. Used alongside the toothbrush, it actually beat brushing alone on both plaque and gum inflammation scores. The Princess Nourah University trial from 2024 complicates that. Over two weeks, the miswak group’s plaque held steady while the toothbrush group’s dropped further. And gums in the miswak group got noticeably worse for people who sawed at their teeth too hard. Aggressive horizontal scrubbing tears at the soft tissue along the gum line.

One stick costs under 10 cents in the regions where the tree grows, and a single twig lasts for weeks. In sub-Saharan Africa, herbal toothpastes built around miswak and neem (another bitter chewing-stick tree) made up over a quarter of toothpaste sales in 2023.

The honest caveat is that Western dental literature treats the miswak as an add-on rather than a replacement, mostly because reaching the back molars with a stick is awkward. Used correctly, with soft perpendicular brushing along the gum line and no aggressive sawing, it does what a toothbrush does and adds a low-grade antibiotic on top. For most of human dental history, this is what cleaning your teeth looked like.

[T. @__T_touch]

Normalize dating kind women, soft women, consistent women, and well-mannered women. ❤️🙏🏼💯

[Crazy Vibes @CrazyVibes_1]

Ordering a Pizza for Delivery

1995
– You call
– You order in 2 minutes
– It arrives in 30 minutes

2005
– You go to the website
– You customize it
– It arrives in 45 minutes

2026
– You download the app
– You create an account with email verification
– You add your address with a PIN on the map
– The map can't find your street – You add it manually
– You select a pizza
– The ingredient you want has an extra charge
– You add a card
– Payment error
– You pay with another method – "Your order will arrive in 85 to 140 minutes"

[Men of Purpose @Men_Of_Purpose]

She just explained men in the best way possible

[Kalenga @Hamnjela]

South Africans please take full advantage of your Tax Free Savings Account. Your tax system is already very aggressive when it comes to investing. Dividends are taxed. Interest is taxed. Capital gains are taxed. That is just the reality.

But inside your TFSA none of that applies. The government gave you this tool to build wealth, but most people either don't use it or use it incorrectly. Please do not use it as a savings account. Depositing cash and leaving it sitting there is not investing. Cash barely grows and the tax free benefit on near zero growth means near zero advantage.

Your tax system is working against you everywhere else. This is the one place it is working for you. Please use it wisely.

This is financial education not financial advice.

[smoothie @shedrinkswater]

Most men who operate in extremely high-stakes environments, whether as founders, builders, executives, or creators, will inevitably become absorbed by the magnitude of what they are trying to build.

If you are with a man like that, then yes, he probably will not be able to give you constant time and attention. But people immediately interpret such a dynamic as a red flag, or assume the woman is subtly “hinting” that something must be wrong.

So most women in these relationships learn to keep certain things to themselves, because the reality of that arrangement is difficult for most people to understand. It becomes important for the relationship to remain largely free of unnecessary drama, because he is already fighting enough battles externally.

The goal then is to create as little friction as possible so he can win in life, because the world is already waiting to consume him the moment he weakens.

And that does not mean the loneliness that comes with someone like that disappears. It simply means that speaking about every feeling of isolation to people who fundamentally do not understand the architecture of your relationship is often counterproductive.

They project their own cynicism, fears, and relational assumptions onto your situation, and slowly begin placing ideas into your mind that disturb the peace within the relationship itself.