Michael Obiero

In trying to be, you become.

[Ancent Kamwanza @AncentKamwanza]

@isthatEdd Huwanga mbaya.

[Michael Obiero @Obi96Mike]

@AncentKamwanza @isthatEdd 😂😂😂😂Kamwanza mwenyewe

[Michael Obiero @Obi96Mike]

@asemota 😂😂😂

[Jason Applebaum @Jason______A]

I have a friend with a 130ft yacht. One day we were chilling on it …

I said “I need to own this boat someday”

He said “no it’s too big, hard to find dock space, to much crew. The best boat I ever had was my 90ft”

I said “so sell this and buy a 90ft”

He said “fuck that, I’ll sell this for a 190ft”

That was the moment it hit me.

He won’t ever be satisfied with all his shit and striving to his level means I am not satisfied with all my shit.

We will both forever be on the Hedonic Treadmill.

[David Hundeyin @DavidHundeyin]

A university semester's worth of international economics and geopolitics delivered under 4 minutes by @Big_Mck for @Spearhead_Af

[Kikonde Mwatela @KikondeMwatela]

I have so many funny stories about my mother. I remember when she got appointed acting Governor of the CBK, they had this Range Rover assigned to her. She got so pissed off about it, she hardly used it. She liked her Peugeot 504 which used to jerk from a sensitive clutch.

[Nairametrics @Nairametrics]

Tosin Eniolorunda, founder and Chief Executive Officer of Moniepoint, has said the next phase of growth in Nigeria’s payments ecosystem will come from building credit products directly on top of existing payment infrastructure, using transaction data to unlock financing for the millions of small businesses that have historically been shut out of formal credit markets. https://t.co/BfWGsHBeac

[I may have @QuincyWandera]

I was working with the red cross when the Kyanguli fire happened. The morning after the fire we went to pick up bodies. I removed severed limbs of kids that tried to escape through the roof. The dormitory door had been chained from outside. At the said door, was a pile of bodies

[Osaretin Victor Asemota @asemota]

I was discussing with my wife about her colleague's son, who has a crush on my 10-year-old daughter, and I started wondering about the girl I had a crush on in primary school. We used to compete to see who would come in first position in class in those days; she was exceptionally brilliant.

Then, I Googled her name. Apparently, she is on Facebook with her old last name as her middle name, which made her easy to find. She is now a Law Professor and is married with 4 grown kids. Two boys and two girls who have graduated with first-class degrees and distinctions.

I don't know much about her husband, but I am sure he is accomplished and also in the academic space. My theory about growing up in a university environment, helping to create more stable families and more accomplished kids, still stands.

Most of my friends who went the academic route have exceptional kids. We all also grew up within the university's boundaries. This is why I was more than happy to change my son's school when he was mixing with kids whose parents had no scruples about cheating in school games.

Those parents also likely cheated in business and in life, and most of the kids in his school were always bragging about what their parents had. One of them (a Lebanese kid) was bringing cash to school to flash around. It was an uphill task to reorient my kid on what mattered the most. His new school now does an excellent job at that, and he is flying.

My wife also grew up in a university environment at Cape Coast. The last time I visited the place they used to live, it reminded me of UNIBEN, where I grew up too. I really wish I had raised my kids around academics.

Where and how you raise your kids matters a lot, especially if you don't want to support failed adults in retirement. I don't know about golfing helping kids to become millionaires, but it likely helps them have the right role models around them.

[Onyango_tate @Wuodnyakach_]

You can only stay guided

[The Instigator @Am_Blujay]

President of Botswana 🇧🇼 Duma Boko stunned the audience after stopping midway through his speech to deliver a brutal but powerful lecture on relationships, loyalty, and trust.

[SokoAnalyst @SokoAnalyst]

The brutal truth is that TikTok has made price discovery instant. A customer can watch 5 different sellers live, compare prices, ask questions, check comments, see product demonstrations and order immediately. In the US, social commerce was projected to reach about $87B in 2025, and TikTok Shop was expected to control nearly 20% of that market. That is not a small shift. That is a new retail economy.

[Michael Obiero @Obi96Mike]

To be honest, really sad.

[femiiiiii. @femiiiszn]

to be honest, i never want to lose the childishness in me, because it's probably the reason why i'm such a happy person.

[ThePrimeagen @ThePrimeagen]

I foretold the prophecy
It has come true

The AI token efficiency consultant class is being assembled now.

They are the agile coach of this generation

[SightBringer @_The_Prophet__]

⚡️High-paid workers are quietly admitting they do not trust the corporate ladder to protect their future.

The deeper move is converting temporary wage advantage into exit velocity.

A Meta engineer making 300K+ and living like a monk is using money as a weapon against dependency.

The salary is not the dream.

The salary is the extraction phase.

Spend almost nothing, accumulate assets, buy optionality, escape before the machine changes the terms.

That is the real psychology.

The old prestige path said: get the elite job, upgrade lifestyle, buy the apartment, lease the car, join the consumption class, signal success, keep climbing.

This new path says: take the elite paycheck, refuse the lifestyle trap, stack capital, minimize attachments, and get out before work absorbs your life.

That is a very different relationship to status.

The reason this is spreading among successful young tech workers is obvious: they can feel the bargain degrading. Layoffs. AI compression. corporate politics. burnout. housing insanity. dating dysfunction. meaning collapse. endless performance culture. rising cost of normal adulthood. The job pays well, but the job no longer feels like a stable identity. It feels like a temporary arbitrage window.

So the rational response is: monetize the window while it is open.

The bleak part is that even winners are building escape plans. When people making 300K feel the need to live without basic comforts to retire early, that says the culture has lost faith in continuity.

They are not planning lives inside the system.

They are planning exits from it.

[Michael Obiero @Obi96Mike]

@OCMakinya @korir_alan 😂😂😂

[Chief John Oladapo @0esq0]

1. At entry level, prioritise being indispensable over being dependable. While you can't be indispensable without the other, you can be dependable & easily dispensable.

2. Never mix romance & work. If you don't have a full grip of your emotions, don't date a colleague. And the

[Michael Bloch @michaelxbloch]

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