Gichuhi

...learn the importance of leaving me alone

[scott 🌞 @scottdomes]

this is an avoidance approach. avoidance works in the short term but tend to have a long term cost

the opposite of avoidance is confrontation. confrontation is hard in the short term but tends to have long term benefits. that’s the choice we all have

confrontation here would mean getting real curious about the guy inside you: what’s his deal? why does he just want to sit around? why does that feel like the most satisfying life, when it clearly wouldn’t be?

the best case here, which I’ve seen many times, is you befriend the guy inside you and no longer have to spend so much energy trying to outwit/outrun/outlast him

[Sara Wahedi @SaraWahedi]

Made it my life’s mission to become the Taliban’s worst nightmare:

A highly educated Afghan woman.

First, Columbia University at the top of my class, and now Oxford University.

Give Afghan girls one chance and see what they can achieve.

[Joseph Kabuleta @JKabuleta]

Every time the Congolese put their foot down and say they don't want UN in their country, there's a sudden Ebola outbreak. But I guess correlation does not mean causation

[Nathan @OIuwatosin]

This TV show called FROM, I don’t think even the writers know what is going on

[Saitama @Zabraku_NM]

@OIuwatosin I ll break my screen if I hear fucking anghkooey one more time

[Krissy 🇬🇩 @KrissyLionz]

While on that, I am a firm believer that some professions should leave no room for mediocrity. Like, competence is not enough. You need to be exceptional.

[rene.pdf (draft) @odanga_r]

There are very real and rational reasons why a slim majority of Kenyans voted for Ruto in 2022. Very real and material reasons. And it is important to understand them. Yes, even at the time it was a mistake, but this kind of condescension doesn’t get us anywhere going forward.

[scott 🌞 @scottdomes]

it’s a bit ridiculous to say “the time you spend scrolling could be spent building a business/writing a novel/reading the classics”. sometimes that’s true but usually scrolling happens as a result of cognitive fatigue, and the idea that you can just “swap in” another intellectually demanding task means you’re treating your body/mind as a machine

a better approach would be “the time you spend scrolling could be spent taking a stroll/napping/staring out the window/having a meandering conversation with a friend”. that’s both more palatable and probably what we’re actually craving when we reach for our phone: a brief break from the demands of life, and a time to let our mind relax

[Stanley Macharia @StanleyMachaari]

Train yourselves to see systems. Systems produce the same results consistently. Capitalism will always have the same economic results no matter who you elect.

[Eshan Sharma @iameshansharma_]

Today’s book recommendation is Mineke Schipper’s Never Marry a Woman with Big Feet. It examines more than 15,000 sayings about women, drawn from 150 countries and more than 240 languages. Through proverbs, it looks into the status of women in cultures and societies in the world.

[Maia @maiamindel]

kim kardashian failing the bar exam so many times that she gives up on being a lawyer is making me realize the american bar association might just be one of like three remaining institutions in the us that won't just roll over and give the exorbitantly wealthy whatever they want

[DUA LIPA @DUALIPA]

Last night I did the introduction speech at the 10th anniversary of the International Booker Prize. An honour to speak about books and translated fiction, something I hold very dear to my heart infront of writers, translators, judges and book lovers. Thank you for having me @TheBookerPrizes 🤍📚
@service95

[Zarrar Khuhro @ZarrarKhuhro]

''When Small men begin to cast big shadows, it means that the sun is about to set.' - Lin Yutang

[Ang. @AngThaDean]

Y’all hate annoying people more than you hate evil people and that is exactly why the seats of power are held by charismatic demons

[D. @Lush_Beauty1]

Do you guys remember when we used to be able to finish instagram

[Jo🍒 @jojohalle_]

Cheating and clubbing doesn’t make you a bad girl

[The Nobel Prize @NobelPrize]

The first woman to be awarded a Nobel Prize, the first individual to be awarded two Nobel Prizes and still today the only individual with two Nobel Prizes in two different scientific categories: Marie Skłodowska Curie.

Skłodowska Curie developed the term radioactivity, discovered the chemical elements polonium and radium and contributed to develop new cancer treatments. For her scientific dedication and remarkable breakthroughs, she was awarded the 1903 physics prize and the 1911 chemistry prize.

Learn more: https://t.co/dysmKgnI8A

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