Yves Kayiranga

Here to learn | Student at @RICA_Rwanda | Hydroponics Enthusiast and Systems developer

[Yves Kayiranga @YKayiranga]

Yes, We built it from scratch! Every component Locally sourced!

Looking forward to creating more and more..

#Foodsecurity #Verticalfarming #Urbanfarming

[Yves Kayiranga @YKayiranga]

Humbled to officially graduate from RICA! Honored to earn my degree and be recognized for outstanding leadership by my Class of '26 peers & RICA administration. Endless gratitude to @RICA_Rwanda & the HGB Foundation for this profound gift. Time to give back!

#RICA4THGRADUATION

[Rwanda Institute for Conservation Agriculture @RICA_Rwanda]

“Go out and help your country and support your farmers in the best way that you can”. Howard G. Buffett, RICA’s Chancellor and Founder of The Howard G. Buffett Foundation, tells the Class of 2026. #RICA4THGRADUATION

[Akolade Quam Olamide pka Quamcash @cashweber77]

*_The pursuit of knowledge may seem tiring, but it carries a pleasure of its own; a mysterious delight that makes the journey both rewarding and painful at once_*

[Rwanda Institute for Conservation Agriculture @RICA_Rwanda]

RICA Itorero - Day 2: During today’s interactive session with RICA’s new student, the Class of 2029, @RwandaAgri PS Dr. @olivikam highlighted Rwanda’s agricultural priorities under Vision 2050, NST2 and PSTA 5, focused on boosting productivity, innovation, food security and resilient agri-food systems.

Emphasizing the need for skilled, purpose-driven young leaders in Rwanda’s agricultural transformation, he highlighted the scale of the country’s ambitions and the opportunities available to the next generation of agricultural leaders.

[Ministry of Agriculture & Animal Resources |Rwanda @RwandaAgri]

Today, Hon. Minister @T_Ndabamenye visited #RwandaAgriShow2026, where he interacted with exhibitors, farmers, and agribusiness actors, encouraging them to increase productivity through innovation and modern farming practices to accelerate the transformation of Rwanda's agriculture and livestock sector.

#RwandaAgriShow2026

[Ministry of Agriculture & Animal Resources |Rwanda @RwandaAgri]

Uyu munsi turasusurutswa na MARINA!!

Imurikabikorwa ry'ubuhinzi n'ubworozi ku nshuro ya 19 rirakomeje, aho rifite insanganyamatsiko igira iti " Twihutishe ivugurura ry'Ubuhinzi n'Ubworozi binyuze mu guhanga ibishya n'ubufatanye".

Ntucikwe no gusura ibikorwa bitandukanye bikomeje kumurikwa n'abarenga 600. Ni buri munsi ku Mulindi, i Kigali.

Kwinjira ni UBUNTU!

#RwandaAgriShow2026

[Lewis 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @WaldronLewis]

Elon Musk literally sat down for a 45-minute talk with Y Combinator that explains how to build world-changing companies better than any business school on earth. This is the advice he gave a room full of young founders:

1. Don't try to build something great. Try to build something useful.

Everyone obsesses over greatness. Musk says that's the wrong target. "I didn't originally think I would build something great. I wanted to try to build something useful. I didn't think I would build anything particularly great. Seemed unlikely, but I wanted to at least try." Aim for useful first. Greatness, if it comes, is a byproduct.

2. When you can't get in the front door, build your own door.

Before Musk started his first company, he tried to get a job at Netscape. "I sent my resume into Netscape and nobody responded. I tried hanging out in the lobby to see if I could bump into someone, but I was too shy to talk to anyone. So I'm like, this is ridiculous, I'll just write software myself." He didn't set out to be a founder. He became one because no one would hire him.

3. He slept in the office and showered at the YMCA.

The origin of his first company was not glamorous. "We couldn't even afford a place to stay. The office was 500 bucks a month, so we just slept in the office and showered at the YMCA." He couldn't afford proper internet either, so he drilled a hole through the office floor and ran a cable to the internet provider downstairs. That was the founder of the future richest man on earth.

4. Keep the chips on the table.

When Musk sold his first company, he received a $20 million cheque. His bank balance went from $10,000 to $20 million overnight. Most people would have stopped. He put almost all of it straight back into his next company. "I kept the chips on the table." He did the same thing decades later, over and over. He hates money sitting idle. Money is fuel for the next mission.

5. Start with the mission, then work backwards to make it a business.

Musk didn't start SpaceX to make money. He went on the NASA website to find out when humans were going to Mars, and there was no plan. So he decided to build one. "There had been no prior example of a rocket startup succeeding. A small chance of success is better than no chance of success." The mission came first. The business model came later.

6. He started SpaceX expecting to fail.

He is brutally honest about the odds. "SpaceX started in mid-2002 expecting to fail. Probably 90% chance of failing. When recruiting people, I said, we're probably going to die, but small chance we might not die." The first three launches failed. The fourth one worked with no money left. "If the fourth launch hadn't worked, it would have been curtains. We made it by the skin of our teeth."

7. Break every problem down to physics.

This is the core of how Musk thinks. "First principles means break things down to the fundamental elements that are most likely to be true, then reason up from there, as opposed to reasoning by analogy." His example is rockets. Everyone priced them based on what old rockets cost. Musk asked what a rocket is actually made of, priced the raw metals, and found the materials were only 1-2% of the historical price. The rest was inefficiency he could attack.

8. When told something takes 24 months, break it down and do it in six.

Last year xAI needed a giant computer to train its AI. Suppliers said it would take 18 to 24 months. "It's like, well, we need to get that done in six months or we won't be competitive." So he broke it into parts. Needed a building, so he found an old factory. Needed power, so he rented generators. Needed cooling, so he rented a quarter of America's mobile cooling capacity. He slept in the data centre and ran cabling himself. It got done.

9. Watch your ego-to-ability ratio.

Musk's single sharpest piece of advice for young founders is about staying honest with yourself. "A major failure mode is when your ego-to-ability ratio gets too high. Then you break the feedback loop to reality." Keep the ego small, internalise responsibility for everything, and stay ruthlessly connected to what's actually true. "You want to close the loop on reality hard. That's a super big deal."

10. Chase work, not glory.

His closing philosophy ties it all together. "It's so hard to be useful. The area under the curve of total utility is how useful you've been to your fellow human beings times how many people. If you aspire to do true work, your probability of success is much higher. Don't aspire to glory, aspire to work."

He was ridiculed for years. The press called him "internet guy attempting to build a rocket company." He agreed it sounded absurd. He did it anyway, because a small chance of doing something useful beat no chance at all.

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[Rwanda Institute for Conservation Agriculture @RICA_Rwanda]

Today, RICA welcomed the Class of 2029 during a pre-orientation session. Our 84 new students were introduced to RICA’s culture and values, campus life, experiential learning model, and our commitment to conservation agriculture and the One Health philosophy.

We’re excited to see these future leaders begin their journey to become changemakers in agriculture.

#RICA #ClassOf2029 #ConservationAgriculture #OneHealth

[Dhaboy 😎 @dhaboy01]

You actually don’t need HDMI to connect your laptop to your TV.

Just Press Windows+K

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

@AJamesMcCarthy Read books, talk to people & iterate rapidly with hardware & software

[Andrew McCarthy @AJamesMcCarthy]

This applies to many niche skills. I didn’t learn astrophotography from school, I learned it by getting my hands dirty & spent every night learning how NOT to do it.

If you want to do something, just start doing it. Waiting for someone to teach you might leave you with nothing.

[Alex & Books 📚 @AlexAndBooks_]

One of the best feelings from reading is when you find a sentence so good that you have to close the book and stare at the wall for a minute.

[Paul Graham @paulg]

Something I taught 14 yo: Most progress is a mix of steps forward and steps back, just with with more of the former. But you can get a run of steps back. So to judge progress accurately you need to use a big enough window, or it could look like you're failing.

[femiiiiii. @femiiiszn]

i love that feeling when you're reading a book & get to the part where you find out why it's titled the way it is.

[Curious Minds @CuriousMindsHub]

Steve Jobs:

“It takes a lot of hard work to make something simple.”

Simplicity isn’t easy. It’s refined.

[Rwanda Institute for Conservation Agriculture @RICA_Rwanda]

"A modern economy cannot be built on outdated skills. This is why today’s conversation is so important. We are bringing together education institutions, industry players, and policymakers because no single actor can solve this alone. Skills development is the bridge between education and economic transformation; and we must build that bridge together."

- Hon. Joseph Nsengimana, Minister of Education, addressing participants at the Workshop on Education in Agriculture hosted by RICA on March 26, 2026.

[Rwanda Institute for Conservation Agriculture @RICA_Rwanda]

Today, we were honored to host the Hon. Minister of Education, @JoNsengimana and the Hon. Minister of Agriculture, @T_Ndabamenye , alongside leaders of Higher Learning Institutions (HLIs) and stakeholders in the agricultural sector, for a conversation on the future of agriculture. The one-day workshop brainstormed strategies to effectively align agricultural education, skills, development, and innovation with the national priorities outlined in the Govt of Rwanda’s NST2.

[Rwanda Institute for Conservation Agriculture @RICA_Rwanda]

We were honored to welcome Mr. Howard G. Buffett, RICA’s Chancellor and Founder of the Howard G. Buffett Foundation, for his annual visit today. During his visit, Buffett inspected ongoing campus projects aimed at advancing Conservation Agriculture, students’ innovative ideas, and staff welfare initiatives. He also reviewed progress at the RICA Seed Center, and held strategic discussions with the leadership on long-term priorities.

[Tomasz Łakomy @tlakomy]

Reviewing Claude Code output before pushing directly to prod

[𝐑.𝐎.𝐊 👑 @r0ktech]

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