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Meet Désiré Kabengele, a Congolese engineer and founder of Desire Tech, turning everyday problems into practical innovations🇨🇩
One of his standout inventions is Kivu Fitness a wooden treadmill that operates without electricity or a motor, powered entirely by the user’s own movement.
But that’s not all. His innovations also include:
1. Congo Recycling turning plastic waste into usable fuel.
2. Agri Africa, developing affordable machinery for small-scale farmers, including a multifunctional mini-tractor developed in 2025.
In 2022, Kabengele was selected by Light RDC among 50 promising young talents in technology.
No electricity. No motor. Just engineering, creativity and determination.
Today is Tim Cook's last day as CEO at Apple.
I first met Tim in 2014 and I've been fortunate to call him a mentor and friend ever since. I want to share something about him that I've found remarkable.
He's the best example I've seen of an old Zen saying:
"What do you do before enlightenment? Chop wood, carry water. What do you do after enlightenment? Chop wood, carry water."
When we met, I was just starting my career in finance. I was getting to the gym at 4:45am so I could get to the office by 6:30. Tim happened to be one of a tiny group of others who showed up every morning at that early hour.
For the first six months, I had no idea who he was. I wasn't in tech and, having played college sports, I was frankly quite oblivious to the entire business world.
I remember being shocked after someone told me that the guy I was talking to in the mornings was the CEO of Apple.
For two reasons:
1. He had zero pretension about him. I never would have known how important or powerful he was.
2. He was already successful. Why the hell was he waking up at 4am to go to the gym?
Now, to be fair, in 2014, there were still questions about whether he was going to be an impactful successor to the legend that was Steve Jobs. A lot of people weren't sure he would be able to fill those enormous shoes.
But a few years later, he was still there. He had created a trillion dollars of value. People were calling him one of the best CEOs in the world. And he was still showing up at 4:45am. Still doing the same thing.
Chop wood, carry water.
As you start to experience success, notoriety, and achievement, it’s easy to lose sight of the work that got you those things in the first place. It’s easy to get distracted by results. By recognition. By the illusion that success somehow exempts you from the basics.
It doesn’t.
The outcomes may change. The titles may change. The scale may change. But the work doesn’t.
Chopping wood and carrying water means showing up when no one is watching. Doing the boring work well. Being reliable. Executing consistently. Returning to fundamentals even when you think you’re above them. Especially then.
Tim has been an example of that in my life. I'm grateful for having been able to see it up close.
And I also know that whatever he does next, the same thing will apply.
Chop wood, carry water.
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To give context to this passage, let us first look at Psalm 127:1
"If the LORD does not build the house, the work of the builders is useless"
This clearly states that your hard work is in vain unless it is blessed by the Lord.
Now we look at verse 2 which says
"It is useless to work so hard for a living, getting up early and going to bed late. For the LORD provides for those he loves, while they are asleep".
Having understood the context that comes before this passage, what this verse is clearly talking about is that peace and prosperity comes to those who trust in God and not in their own hardwork.
You may want to counter this and say, but we have wicked people who do not believe in God and they are also successful. Even Jeremiah in Jeremiah 12:1 asked this same question.
Psalm 73 also addressed this question and lets us know that the prosperity of the wicked is temporary, they may gain the whole world and still lose their soul.