alesh.

for friends & intrusive thoughts

[alesh. @__alesh]

📌

[Ben Bader @benhbader]

nearly every risk is mentally constructed illusion that has no actual downside. it either goes well and potentially changes your life forever. or you go back to the way your life was before, now a bit wiser.

[alesh. @__alesh]

@JolaosoSolomon sha send invite.

[Imade. @ImadeIyamu]

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[Air Katakana @airkatakana]

why is no one talking about *how* the usa and allies effortlessly captured the head of state of one country and killed another?

these countries have militaries. they’re investing tons into making sure these things don’t happen

what does the usa have now that made it so easy?

[TechCrunch @TechCrunch]

Cluely CEO Roy Lee admits to publicly lying about revenue numbers last year https://t.co/30zyPTyjmG

[Robert Greene @RobertGreene]

Everything worth doing has a learning curve. When it gets hard, remember the goal: reaching the cycle of accelerated returns.

[Mehdi (e/λ) @BetterCallMedhi]

I spent time in Shenzhen last year and when I saw Merz come back from China saying Germans need to work more I immediately knew what broke his brain because I lived the exact same cognitive shock

my first week in Huaqiangbei I burned through 4 prototype iterations of a motor controller board for less than a thousand bucks total, back home a friend was working on something similar and spent over 12 thousand for a single revision that took almost two months to arrive

when you live that contrast in your own hands with your own project something permanently shifts in how you see the world and it goes way deeper than speed & cost

what Shenzhen actually built is a collective learning organism, imagine 20 PCB fabs 15 injection mold shops 30 component distributors and a hundred firmware freelancers all within a 2km radius, looks insanely redundant from the outside until you realize redundancy is actually information density in disguise

I watched this firsthand with an injection mold supplier I was working with, this guy had seen a hundred founders iterate similar thermal designs over 6 months so he proactively modified his tooling before I even opened my mouth, he knew what I needed before I knew what I needed, the intelligence lives in the relationships between the nodes and it compounds daily

the west thinks about manufacturing as a cost center you optimize by centralizing…

China accidentally built a distributed neural network of manufacturing intelligence where knowledge diffuses horizontally across thousands of agents faster than any single western company can process internally

so when Merz comes back and says we need to work a bit more I think he saw the problem but COMPLETELY misdiagnosed the solution, telling Germans to work harder is like telling a horse to gallop faster when the other side built a combustion engine

the gap is ARCHITECTURAL

it’s ecosystem density, you need a custom connector in Shenzhen you walk 200 meters, in Munich you send an email and wait 3 weeks

it’s iteration speed, parallel search vs sequential optimization at the system level, it’s risk tolerance, Chinese founders ship something broken on Monday fix it Tuesday ship again Wednesday while European companies are still in the approval phase for the pilot program of the feasibility study…

and Merz only saw the surface, what he missed is the tier 2 cities like Hefei Chengdu Wuhan replicating the Shenzhen model at scale right now

BYD going from irrelevant to outselling every european automaker combined in roughly 5 years, Huawei building its own 7nm chip under maximum sanctions when every analyst said it was physically impossible & behind all of that a government that treats advanced manufacturing as an existential national priority while europe debates whether AI needs another ethics committee

I think what we’re watching is the most asymmetric economic competition in modern history and most western leaders are still framing it as a productivity problem when it’s actually an ontological one

Europe & America are optimizing variables that China stopped tracking years ago meanwhile China is compounding on dimensions the west has no framework to even measure
Merz at least had the courage to name

it out loud and I respect that genuinely but working a bit more inside a broken architecture just means you arrive at the wrong destination slightly faster

[Osaretin Victor Asemota @asemota]

I don't know why people don't listen properly when women are talking. People are making this all about income inequality when it is not. She mentioned two key things:

1. She is about to enter her 30s. From my experience, this is when women are the most ruthless because there is no more time.

2. The guy seems comfortable enough not to hustle too hard, and the drive is mismatched. This shows very different backgrounds and value systems.

Not making any excuses for her and not blaming her, but I have been on the other side of this, and I only learned lessons. This is character development for the guy, and the only thing I will tell people is not to drag things out for this long.

5 years is too long to decide. She was likely thinking it would work the first 3 years and has been looking for an exit in the last two. This is a final break and she is forcing herself to move forward. I wish them both all the best and new learning.

[Imade. @ImadeIyamu]

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[Medical Mirror @Medical_Mirror]

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[Mr. Jola 💐 @JolaosoSolomon]

Scorned exes are interesting. I almost had my share around this time last year. There is no name on earth I wasn’t called. Delusional and dishonest women.

ABiodun questioned Ezra Intelligence for allowing such person into his space. I also questioned my own intelligence too

[alesh. @__alesh]

@Illusionist_126 omooo...

[alesh. @__alesh]

@AkinpeluYusuph Congrats, big man!!

[Naval @naval]

All of the desirable people - the ones that you actually want to work with, spend time with, or date - won’t apply for the job.

They have to be identified from afar and hunted down.

[alesh. @__alesh]

@JolaosoSolomon one day, somebody's daughter will love me too and i promise you sleepless nights!!

[alesh. @__alesh]

8/
Leadership Legacy

Buhari was handed massive goodwill in 2015.
He left behind:
— A poorer nation
— A less secure nation
— A disillusioned citizenry
— Weak institutions

[alesh. @__alesh]

7/
Anti-Corruption

1984: Brutal crackdowns, but no structural reform.

2015: Came in as "Mr. Integrity" but left with cronyism & hypocrisy.
— Selective prosecution
— Allies untouched
— EFCC politicized
— Transparency didn't improve