Nurudeen Ali III

Lord, Rasuul,mama,folks@fellas, #LFC_4_lyf

[Zunaira @ZunairaSaeedAi]

I DON'T UNDERSTAND WHY SO MANY PEOPLE WANT CITIZENSHIP IN THE U.S., UK, CANADA, OR GERMANY.THESE ARE 9 PLACES WHERE YOU CAN FIND REMOTE WORK THAT PAYS IN USD FROM ANYWHERE IN THE WORLD:

[Priyank Ahuja @ahuja_priyank]

Apple sold you an iPhone with its top camera settings switched off. On purpose.

$1,200 for a camera you've never actually used. Six settings are off by default, and they're the ones that can make your photos look dramatically better.

Fix these 6:

[Grudy Smith @grudy_smith]

You can start investing in Ghanaian real estate for GHS 100.
No land guards. No "the chief sold it to 3 people." No agent chasing you for months.
There's a licensed REIT that's been doing this quietly since 1995. Most Ghanaians have never heard of it. 🧵

[ＤＯＣＴＯＵＲ @wakawaka_doctor]

If you know anyone who needs to book cheap flights , send them this thread 🧵

[Oscar @HeyOscarx]

A woman has flown 1.2 million miles on Delta in the last 8 years.

She's a management consultant. 48 weeks a year on the road. 3–4 flights a week. She knows the airline system better than most gate agents.

She told me most passengers throw away between $200 and $800 per trip because they don't understand how airline pricing, seat selection, and rebooking actually work behind the counter.

"People treat flights like vending machines. You put money in, a ticket comes out, and you accept whatever you get. But airlines are running a dynamic negotiation 24/7 adjusting prices, opening seats, and issuing credits. They just built the app to make you think the first price you see is the only price that exists."

She said the gap between what a casual flyer pays and what a smart flyer pays on the exact same flight, same day, same destination is embarrassing.

"I've sat in first class next to someone who paid $1,400. I paid $180. Same flight. Same meal. Same landing time. The difference wasn't status. It was that I understood 10 things the airline doesn't explain to you."

Here are the 10 things she does before every flight that most travelers have never tried:

🧵

[Jaxon @jaxoncoder]

"Sorry for the late reply" makes you look junior.

Senior leaders never say it.

Here are 6 things they say instead:

[Christopher Ward @modelstrangers]

Could this be your future?

50 million views across social media.

Watch as an 88 year old man reveals his one regret.

👇🏼

[Maikolll @MZora0419]

HÁBITOS QUE ROBÉ DE LA GENTE RICA

1. La regla de un solo teléfono

[Stephon 🤠 @Stephon_JB]

This going up on IG and Tik Tok, maybe you need to hear it, too!

Your delay is working in your favor.

[Monza @thmonzo]

NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden on why your phone isn't yours

freeze it at 1:20 - that's the second he says what Google and Facebook never wanted out loud

"if you have to be the president of the phone and the phone is as complex as the United States government, we have a problem, guys"

"they can see everything about you... and they can do whatever they want with your device"

"before we understood what we were giving up, they were making billions of dollars"

bookmark this, then watch

[Alvin @Alvin1492840]

A guy bought a $1,500 Samsung TV 3 years ago.

He watched Netflix. He watched YouTube. He thought the picture looked fine. He assumed that's just what a TV looks like.

His friend, a home theater installer who calibrates TVs for a living, walked into his apartment and looked at the screen for 5 seconds.

"You're watching everything in demo mode. The motion smoothing is on. The eco dimmer is cutting your brightness by 40%. Your TV is taking a screenshot of your screen every 30 seconds and selling your viewing data to advertisers. And you're watching a $1,500 panel in the same picture mode Best Buy uses under fluorescent lights to make TVs pop on a showroom wall."
He changed 9 settings in 12 minutes.

The picture looked like a different television. The soap opera effect disappeared. The colors became natural. The TV stopped spying on him.
Here's every setting he changed 🧵

[Martin H. de Lima @derleemah]

@Rusia_HD Why can’t there just be peace in the world. The most intelligent species on the planet and all we think about is killing each other.

[Technical Ben @TechnicalBben]

Once you learn how to shop directly from China, E.g Temù or shien your wardrobe changes completely. Call me cheap I don't care I ain't rich, I don't do fraud.😭

It's knowing what to search for.

Here's my style after making plenty of mistakes.

1. T-shirts:

Skip 100% polyester unless you're buying gym wear.

Instead, search:
• 100% Cotton
• Combed Cotton
• Heavyweight Cotton
• 240-300 GSM Cotton
• Premium Cotton
• Mercerized Cotton

The heavier the GSM, the thicker and more premium the shirt usually feels.

2. Jeans:

Denim Jeans
Temu is surprisingly good for denim if you know what to search.

Search:
• Denim Jeans
• Cotton Denim
• Raw Denim
• Selvedge Denim (if available)
• 98% Cotton + 2% Elastane
• 99% Cotton

Avoid jeans with high polyester content. The more cotton, the better they'll age and feel.

3. Body-hug clothing:

Search:
• Ribbed Knit
• Modal
• Viscose Blend
• Cotton-Spandex Blend

They hold their shape much better than cheap polyester.

4. Hoodies
Search:
• 400 GSM
• French Terry
• Cotton Fleece
• Heavyweight Hoodie

5. Chains
Search:
• 316L Stainless Steel
• Titanium Steel
• PVD Gold Plated
• Vacuum Plated

These are far more resistant to fading than ordinary fashion jewelry.

6. Earrings
Search:
• 925 Sterling Silver
• 316L Stainless Steel
• Hypoallergenic
• Moissanite (if you're buying stones)

7. Scarves
Search:
• Mulberry Silk
• Silk Blend
• Cashmere Blend
• Wool Blend
• Viscose

Avoid the shiny, thin polyester scarves if you're after a premium look.

8. Loafers
Search:
• Genuine Leather
• Cow Leather
• Full Grain Leather (rare but worth looking for)
• Rubber Outsole

9. Sneakers
Search:
• Rubber Outsole
• EVA Midsole
• Breathable Mesh
• Leather Upper
• Stitched Sole

Pictures lie a lot

The description usually tells the truth.

Here's how I shop:

1. Read the material composition before anything else.

2. Sort by Most Orders or Best Selling, not cheapest.

3. Only buy products with lots of reviews or pictures or even better when a Nigerian has purchased it before they always tell the truth.

4. Read the 1-star reviews first. They'll tell you what the seller won't.

5. Look at customer photos, not the product photos.

6. Check the weight of the product. Better quality clothing is often heavier.

7. Read the size chart. Don't assume your Nigerian size matches.

8. If the title has words like "luxury," "premium," or "designer" but the material is 100% polyester, not everything but still move on.

Your best friend isn't the product picture.

It's the material, the reviews, and the customer photos.

That's how you separate the gems from the junk.

I hope this help.

Things are to expensive for a country this poor.

[د. عبدالرحمن @c1li9]

الشيف الخاص بعائلة روتشيلد كان عنده قاعدة ما يتنازل عنها:

إذا تعدّيت الأربعين، فيه أكلات ما تدخل السفرة من الأساس.

والغريب؟ كثير منهم عاشوا لأكثر من 90 سنة.

وهذي الأكلات اللي كانوا يستبعدونها تمامًا: 🧵

[Olivia Chowdhury @Oliviacoder1]

A guy used AirPods Pro 2 for 2 years.

He pressed play. He pressed pause. He answered calls. He switched to noise cancellation on planes.

That was it. 4 features. On a $249 device with 30+.

His coworker — a sound engineer at a recording studio — borrowed them for 10 minutes at lunch.

He handed them back with a look.

[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.

Here's the thing though....

Musk became the most followed founder alive because everything he does happens in public. The launches, the failures, the talks like this one. The companies made him powerful. The personal brand made his every word travel around the world before he finishes saying it.

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[oziọma @rsvptemple]

since like 2019, this account has been saving my life. from the day I got that plantain frittata right, I knew we were locked in 😭😂