Slow motion of a Boeing 777’s triple bogie gear touching down. The front and rear wheels spin up first while the center tyres stay still until the struts compress and the aircraft fully settles onto the runway. Peak engineering
📹: j_aviation_photo
History proves that a nation's average IQ directly contributes to the quality of its governance and systems.
High-IQ societies like Japan and Germany rebuilt from literal ashes and nuclear bombs in less than 20 years.
Vietnam was bombed into the Stone Age and is now a global manufacturing hub.
A high-IQ society is intolerant of dysfunction. It views a collapsed power grid or a bad road as a systemic rejection of its identity.
In contrast, a society struggling with low cognitive stewardship becomes resilient, a polite word for adapting to failure.
When a society treats a paved road or a functioning sewer as a miracle or a gift from a politician, it reveals a collapse of cognitive standards.
National IQ is the difference between a country that builds the future and a country that merely collapses.
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Botswana’s President Duma Boko:
Africa is poised to rule the world.
Tucker Carlson:
So, what are your plans for the world once you rule it?
Boko:
To make it fairer, to make it more equitable. To ensure that intellectual property is internalized in every part of the African continent, that innovation serves humanity and not just a predatory elite, and that everybody can partake equitably and benefit from the fruits of the economy and the vast opportunities that are available in the world.
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Dangote: In the last two months, billions of liters have been imported into Nigeria. It’s Nigeria that is losing, not me, Dangote. I live a simple life and actually don’t need the money. If it was about being rich, I would have invested in Google and Microsoft. I would have been richer. Maybe today people might not appreciate us, maybe in the next 50 years, when we are not around, people will remember what we have done.
My people,
Today I’ve been busy coordinating over 10 sugar and cooking oil samples in Nairobi, Kisumu & mombasa for delivery to three independent labs for testing.
I’m happy to report that everything is going on well.
We’re testing for eight dangerous and cancer-causing compounds the kind of things that shouldn’t be anywhere near our food but we already found in previous tests
The process isn’t cheap. We’ve spent over Ksh 45,000 today so far , including Ksh 18,000 for one of the labs. I’ll share that receipt in the replies for transparency. Some details are hidden to prevent interference from the companies involved.
The first results from all our testing that started early last month should be ready by Saturday or Sunday, God willing. So tune in here.
From our previous tests, we already discovered one cooking oil brand that was extremely unsafe. That’s why I’ve now arranged for extra samples from Nairobi, Kisumu, and Kakamega, to confirm if the contamination affects all batches or only specific regions.
This work takes time, energy, and resources. It’s not easy, but it must be done, because Kenyans deserve to know what they are consuming.
All our samples were re-packaged without brand labels before submission, to ensure labs give honest and unbiased results.
Let me be clear: the same companies poisoning your food are the ones that thrive through corruption at KEBS. But they can’t bribe citizens like us.
We are doing this because Kenya belongs to all of us and our health is not for sale.
My people, if you believe in this mission, stand with us. We’re running low on funds but plan to expand these tests to more food items across the country.
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"We are officially announcing that we are expanding the Dangote Refinery from 650,000 barrels per day to 1.4 million barrels per day, which will make it the largest refinery in the world ever. With this expansion, we will require over 65,000 workers."
- Dangote.
The Chinese didn't stay blaming the UK for colonialism, the Opium disasters & the Japanese for their invasions, they built themselves up to a superpower
The Japanese didn't stay blaming the US for the destruction of their cities by Atomic bombs & fire bombs (Japan attacked 1st tho⚠️)
The Vietnamese didn't stay blaming France for colonialism & the US for the devastating Vietnam War.
Many countries were colonized and yet doing so well today.
Now enter my African continent, we have buffoonic entities here saying 'NEOCOLONIALISM' is the reason we are currently where we are, blaming anybody but themselves & their leaders. No doubt foreign interests do exist, but because of greed & selfish interests, u & ur leaders let them in, it is still ur fault⚠️
I can bet anything that if it was an African country that was hit/destroyed by a nuclear bomb, the place will still be a desolate underdeveloped place for 100 years
Why???
The people will keep blaming the bomb, the bombers, going to pilgrimage, crusades, praying for development to fall from the sky, engaging in frivolities instead of making sure their leaders use their resources & money to give them a better life & also being patriotic citizens.
Africa wake up ⚠️⚠️⚠️⚠️
YC CEO Garry Tan: “Moat is not a noun. It’s a verb”
Popular belief says startups win because they have one big, game-changing insight.
But Varun Mohan (Windsurf CEO) argues that’s a myth.
“Every single insight we have is a depreciating insight.”
In other words: the value of your insight declines fast. Competitors catch up. Markets shift. What was once novel becomes table stakes.
He uses Nvidia as the example: Even at a trillion-dollar scale and 70% gross margins, they still have to innovate, or AMD catches up.
The real advantage?
Continuously generating new insights — and executing on them.
“It’s not about the insight you had one year ago. It’s whether you can compound that advantage over and over again.”
That’s why Varun tells his team: being wrong is fine, but being stagnant isn’t. You need to stay sharp, learn from the market, and compound your edge over time.
Or as Garry Tan (YC CEO) puts it aptly:
“A moat is not a noun. It’s a verb.”
Video source: @ycombinator (2025)
Steve job once said:
"The most powerful person in the world is the storyteller"
But most people don't know how to tell stories
5 Storytelling techniques to make your business unstoppable:
Rory Sutherland once said: “A change in perspective is worth 80 IQ points.”
Brands like Coca-Cola, Dove, and British Airways didn’t change the product.
They changed how you felt about it.
Here’s how his obsession with psychology turned him into advertising’s greatest weapon: