Blu

all in on decentralised utilities

[Blu @Roger_Blu]

Now you can’t play Not like us without mixing in 2 hard 4 The Radio😂

[Blu @Roger_Blu]

I would invite people to listen to the @AcquiredFM episode on Qualcomm to figure out who Claude was named after.

[Spandrell @spandrell4]

Makes me wonder what went on in Anthropic when they decided to give it a male name.

You'd think rationalists would have done the feminist thing. But they're also an anti AI cult of sorts so they probably didn't want people to worship it as a female name might have facilitated.

[Blu @Roger_Blu]

ergo https://t.co/nGN9bHztVM

[Meistermind @mistameister]

I need to find my way into a decision-making role for creatives or innovation in this government. Walahi! I’m brimming with solutions for Ghana.

[Blu @Roger_Blu]

It's clear the world is betting big on renewables but here's the catch: that growth needs smarter grids and storage to handle the solar and wind's unpredictability.

I expect investments to flow into tools and systems that make renewables stick. Excited to see this unfold.

[Visual Capitalist @VisualCap]

Charted: The Shift in Global Energy Investment (2015-2025) ⚡

https://t.co/EbZ0XfrTL7

[Blu @Roger_Blu]

Surely it’s about time the energy market is liberalised?

[Joy 99.7 FM @Joy997FM]

ECG proposes 225% increase in its Distribution Service Charge for 2025 to 2029 tariff period; requests charge is raised from 19 pesewas to 61.8 pesewas per kilowatt-hour

#JoyNews

[Blu @Roger_Blu]

Betting this is coming to lots of places as well. Sub-Saharan Africa for example gets more sun hours than anywhere else but only 1% solar use now. Solar + BESS will be the ticket to ditching energy deficits.

[Chamath Palihapitiya @chamath]

At some point in the near future, the largest power utility in America will be a company that a) has sold 10Ms of households the ability to generate their own electricity and b) uses an app and sensors to tie them all together as a distributed power utility.

[Blu @Roger_Blu]

I was today years old when I found out the Akan keyboard is ƆWERTY

[Blu @Roger_Blu]

@barketiewantho Nope. Ghana drives on the left hand

[Blu @Roger_Blu]

The ordinary driver's license of a country with <3000km of paved roads is recognised internationally meanwhile Ghana is nowhere to be found. What a country.

[Wode Maya ® @wode_maya]

How The President Of Burkina Faso Constructing More Roads In His Country 🇧🇫

[Blu @Roger_Blu]

@peakji Would love to try Manus out.

[Blu @Roger_Blu]

Bruh!

[Rowan Cheung @rowancheung]

I think China's second DeepSeek moment is here.

This AI agent called 'Manus' is going crazy viral in China right now.

Probably only a matter of time until it hits the US.

It's like Deep Research + Operator + Claude Computer combined, and it's REALLY good.

[Blu @Roger_Blu]

Reminds me of when I was creating the logomark of our agency, Wrinkle Creative, and building our philosophy around our initials...fun times 😅

[Jason Levin @iamjasonlevin]

This is the logo for a $13B software company. Stop overthinking. Just ship hard.

[Blu @Roger_Blu]

Oh but you paa…money we dey take feed athletes for 18days you take build a whole city..with change?

[MrBeast @MrBeast]

We spent $14,000,000 building a city in a field for the contestants in Beast Games to live and compete in.. December 19th is almost here 🥰

[Trung Phan @TrungTPhan]

Interesting story on a small business pitching a new product to Costco:

▫️Florence Dennis creates a Ghanaian peanut-and-corn mix snack (“Flows Tasty Treats”) in 2017

▫️In 2020, she cold e-mails Costco and a buyer agrees to see pitch deck but passes

▫️Dennis e-mails the buyer anytime
there’s a positive review of her snack and he passes her to a 2nd buyer, then a 3rd buyer (they all try samples)

▫️In summer 2024 — 3+ years after first contact — Costco puts in a trial order for 37,000 bags (they offer Dennis $375,000 and will retail for $11.98, which is an ~18% margin on top of the product)

▫️Costco’s order is more than 2x entire revenue for Flows Tasty Snacks in 2023 ($153,000)

▫️Typically, Costco will trial a new brand for 8-12 weeks and the product basically has “five seconds at 5 feet to get the member’s attention” per WSJ

▫️Since packaging is so important, Costco works closely with Dennis on the snack bags (she spends $50k and does 30 iterations over many months)

▫️Costco agrees to pay Dennis 15 days after recieving the product but won’t do supplier financing (Dennis has to grind out small business and inventory loans to fill the order)

▫️Costco buyers know within a few weeks if the product will be a keeper

▫️In October 2024, Flows Tasty Treats hit shelves in ~30 Costco stores in the Northeast US

The 41-year old has been going to each store — including home of New Jersey — to promote the product like crazy. She is doing all of this while working a full-time job at New York City’s Department of Education.

Next-level dedication and hoping her snack makes it up to Costco Canada (will def try while picking up an oversized tub of C4 Pre-Workout Mix).

***

Full WSJ read here: https://t.co/DuOtu098IE

[Blu @Roger_Blu]

‘We dey go higher than Duplantis’ about to become an overused lyric in 3..2..1..

[ANGEL TOPEDO @ThoughtPillow]

@OleleSalvador This guy is unreal

[Blu @Roger_Blu]

Bron….James Bron was right there

[²³𝙻𝚎𝙱𝚛𝚘𝚗𝚌𝚑𝚒𝚝𝚒𝚜🏀☄️🌎💞 @BronGotGame]

LeBron’s new commercial is priceless😭

[Blu @Roger_Blu]

I’m completely scandalized! Will it ever get better? 🤦🏾

[𝕏 Ghana 🇬🇭 @xghana_]

Market women cheer a teacher at Oyerepa FM/TV after DNA test results exclude him as the father.

[Blu @Roger_Blu]

This is why I always rate my high school athletics coach...man was more obsessed aboutthe baton change than the actual running and will make you practice his almost perfect technique a million times before a race..

[Blu @Roger_Blu]

I really get vim for the 4x100..we can pull a medal…

[Blu @Roger_Blu]

Great run @benjaminazamati . 🔥🔥