Abdulazeez A.

Muslim, Gregorian, Libra ❤ Libra, Man Utd. FC, Astute achiever...

[Habu Sadeik @HabuSadeik]

The Millennial Silence Problem

Why one of the most experienced generations on the internet stopped talking and what it's costing all of us.

Millennials are online more than ever. Scrolling at 2am, saving posts they'll never revisit, consuming reels endlessly. But they've stopped posting. Stopped writing, stopped making videos, stopped sharing what they know from years of actually doing the work.

An entire generation's worth of lived experience, pattern recognition, and hard won nuance is sitting in people's heads doing nothing for anyone.

In that silence, Gen Z took over the internet.

Not just the trends and aesthetics, the opinions. The frameworks. The "here's how the world works" content.

Career advice, financial advice, relationship advice, industry explainers.

They picked up the mic enthusiastically, confidently, and often without the context that only comes from having lived through enough cycles to know what you don't know.

A 22 year old with 8 months of work experience makes a confident video titled "Why your manager is gaslighting you" and gets 4 million views.

Meanwhile a 37 year old who's managed teams for a decade, navigated three downturns, hired and fired and been fired, has genuine scar tissue from real leadership mistakes, watches the video, thinks "this is so untrue," and says nothing. Posts nothing and does nothing. Everyone loses. The creator never gets a thoughtful counterpoint. What's worse is the audience builds mental models from a sample size of one.

There's a term for what's happening and it's called premature authority. Speaking with the certainty of an expert from the experience base of a beginner.

Financial advice from people who've never lived through a real crash with actual money at stake.

Career advice from people who've had two jobs.

Parenting content from people who don't have children, repackaging attachment theory PDFs as lived wisdom.

The production quality is high. The confidence is high.

What's missing is the depth that only comes from having been wrong enough times.

Algorithms don't measure depth of experience. They measure engagement.

A confident, slightly provocative take from someone with zero context will outperform a nuanced "well, it depends" take from someone who's actually seen both sides every single time. And millennials know this. Which is partly why they don't post. They think "my take is too complicated for a reel." So they say nothing. And the reductive version wins by default.

This isn't theoretical.

People are making career decisions based on LinkedIn posts written by people who've had one job.

Financial decisions based on threads from people who started investing in a bull market and think that's just how it works.

Worldviews about politics, health, business, relationships all shaped disproportionately by people who haven't had the reps yet.

And the people who HAVE had the reps are right there in the audience, rolling their eyes, saying nothing.

Let me be clear, this is a millennial abdication problem.

Somewhere around 2018 to 2019, millennials collectively decided that posting was cringe. That it was for "influencers."

They retreated into group chats and dinner table rants that go nowhere.

They became the generation of "I could write a whole post about this" but never does.

By stepping back, they didn't opt out of the attention economy. They handed the microphone to whoever was willing to pick it up.

Your silence isn't noble. You have lessons, frameworks, stories of failure and recovery that could change how someone navigates a hard decision.

Every day you don't share it, someone else fills that gap with something shinier but thinner.

You don't need to become an influencer.

You don't need to post daily.

Just occasionally write down something you know to be true from experience that you don't see anyone else saying.

The internet doesn't need more content. It needs more lived content.

Varun Agarwal

[gbemisoke @Gbemisoke]

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[Fabrizio Romano @FabrizioRomano]

Lamine Yamal after his first World Cup goal. 🇪🇸

[Anuj @anujcodes_21]

🚨 Anthropic just showed a 24-minute workshop on how to actually do prompts for Claude.

Taught by the people who built it.

Free. No registration. No paywall.

I've seen $300 courses that don't cover what they teach in the first 8 minutes.

Watch it and bookmark it now.

[Cowrywise @cowrywise]

Before upgrading anything, ask yourself: Can I comfortably maintain this for the next 2-5 years using my current income and total net worth?

If the answer is no, don't buy it.

[Dr. Priyam Bordoloi @DocPriyamMD]

A patient asked: "If sore throats are strictly caused by viruses or bacteria, why does drinking ice-cold water or sleeping under a direct AC instantly trigger one?"
The answer surprises almost everyone.

[Real Madrid C.F. 🇬🇧🇺🇸 @realmadriden]

👋 Welcome, Mourinho 👋

[Premier League @premierleague]

The best match from the 2025/26 season, as voted by YOU 🫵

🔴@Arsenal 2-3 @ManUtd ⚫️

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[FIFA @FIFAcom]

The new laws of the game which are set to debut at @FIFAWorldCup 2026 ⚽️

[Michael Taiwo @AskMichaelTaiwo]

Yesterday, I talked about how Shell uses the CAR framework during interviews.

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And mentioned how STAR works.

But what if I told you that the real OGs don’t even use STAR?

They use STAR-R.

This thread is about that second, all-important, R. 🧵

[The Grid Post @TheGridPost]

BIG CHANGE:
YOU CAN NOW OFFICIALLY
GENERATE ELECTRICITY FOR YOURSELF, USE WHAT YOU NEED, AND SELL EXCESS ELECTRICITY BACK TO THE GRID THROUGH YOUR DISCO

The Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) has commenced the Net Billing Regulations 2026, a new framework that allows eligible electricity users to generate power mainly through solar energy for their own use and export excess electricity back to the distribution network.

In simple terms, if your solar system generates more electricity than you consume, you can now send the extra power back to your DisCo and receive credits under a regulated billing arrangement.

This effectively creates what the sector calls a “Prosumer” ;meaning you are both a consumer and producer of electricity.

However, there are conditions.

This is not yet targeted at the average small residential solar setup.

To qualify:

-You must already be connected to a DisCo network.

-Your renewable energy system must have a minimum installed capacity of 50kWp and a maximum of 1.5MWp

-You must obtain approval from your DisCo.

-You must sign a Net Billing Agreement and register with NERC.

Approved users will receive bidirectional meters that track: ➡️Electricity imported from the grid
⬅️Electricity exported back to the grid

[Dr. Akinwumi A. Adesina, CON, CGH @akin_adesina]

Teaching my grandchildren Yoruba, my language. Language is a central part of one’s culture, roots, and identity. I want to anchor them in their heritage and identity. 💕💕

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

Researchers at the University of Bergen ran a study comparing 213 Sudanese men. Half brushed their teeth with a chewed tree root. Half used a regular plastic toothbrush. The tree root group came out with healthier gums and less plaque.

That stick is called a miswak. The WHO has been quietly recommending it since 1986. In 2011, scientists at Sweden’s Karolinska Institute finally cracked the chemistry.

The active ingredient is benzyl isothiocyanate, a natural plant defense compound from the same family of sulfur molecules that give cabbage and mustard their sharp bite. The compound punches through the outer wall of bacteria that cause gum disease. From there, it dismantles the chemistry that keeps the bacteria alive. The Karolinska team isolated it by running root extracts through a chemical analyzer that identifies individual molecules.

The stick comes from the Salvadora persica tree, which grows in dry parts of Africa, the Middle East, and India. Inside the wood you also find natural fluoride, a gentle abrasive called silica that polishes off plaque, sulfur compounds, and tannins that tighten gum tissue. A separate team at Sweden’s University of Gothenburg ran another trial. They soaked the sticks in a fluoride solution. The fluoride left in the test group’s saliva came out higher than what people got from regular fluoride toothpaste.

A more recent systematic review pulled together a stack of randomized trials. Miswak on its own controlled plaque about as well as a regular toothbrush. Used alongside the toothbrush, it actually beat brushing alone on both plaque and gum inflammation scores. The Princess Nourah University trial from 2024 complicates that. Over two weeks, the miswak group’s plaque held steady while the toothbrush group’s dropped further. And gums in the miswak group got noticeably worse for people who sawed at their teeth too hard. Aggressive horizontal scrubbing tears at the soft tissue along the gum line.

One stick costs under 10 cents in the regions where the tree grows, and a single twig lasts for weeks. In sub-Saharan Africa, herbal toothpastes built around miswak and neem (another bitter chewing-stick tree) made up over a quarter of toothpaste sales in 2023.

The honest caveat is that Western dental literature treats the miswak as an add-on rather than a replacement, mostly because reaching the back molars with a stick is awkward. Used correctly, with soft perpendicular brushing along the gum line and no aggressive sawing, it does what a toothbrush does and adds a low-grade antibiotic on top. For most of human dental history, this is what cleaning your teeth looked like.

[Manchester United @ManUtd]

Challenge: Watch our Goal of the Season just once ⚽️🔥
Difficulty level: Impossible 🤤🔂

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[90s Football @90sfootball]

A classic Barcelona vs Manchester United match from 1998.

[Dr Joe Abah, OON @DrJoeAbah]

Guys, if you have a successful marriage, it is grace given to you by God o. It’s not because you know how to do it. You can only do your part to be good. You can’t legislate for the other party. Just do your best to be a good guy and pray for grace.

I am Ezemmuo. I know things.

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

Three people just died of hantavirus on a Dutch cruise ship. The strain kills nearly 40% of the people it infects. And yet no virologist on earth is panicking about a pandemic, because the reason it stays small is one of the strangest rules in disease science.

The rule is simple. The deadlier a virus is, the harder it is to spread.

If a virus kills you in days, you can't ride a bus, board a plane, or even leave the hospital. You're in a bed or a body bag. Either way, the virus killed its only ride.

Hantavirus has been around for at least 70 years, but fewer than 1,000 Americans have ever caught it. The CDC says it kills 38% of those who do. The cruise ship strain, called Andes, kills closer to 40%. If hantavirus spread like COVID, it would kill billions. But it can't.

Most hantaviruses spread only one way. You breathe in tiny dust particles from rat or mouse pee, droppings, or spit. No mice in your house, no virus. The cruise ship is the rare exception, because the Andes strain can spread between people, but it usually needs close contact like spouses sharing a bed. A Johns Hopkins virologist called Andes spread "unbelievably rare."

Compare it to the viruses that scared the world. Ebola kills 60 to 90% of people, but only through bodily fluids and only late in the illness, so each patient passes it to fewer than 2 others. SARS killed 10% before being wiped out in 8 months. MERS killed 35% but never spread far beyond the Middle East. None of them became pandemics, because the spread was always too slow.

Then COVID showed up. It killed about 1 in every 100 people who caught it. That is almost nothing compared to hantavirus. But COVID was mild enough that you could work for a week without knowing. You would ride the bus, hug your kid, eat lunch with a coworker, and infect four other people. It killed 7 million.

Flu works the same way. Mild fever, sore throat, but you still drag yourself to school or the office. The virus walks right into the next host.

Hantavirus is the opposite. Within 4 to 10 days, your lungs fill with fluid. There's no medicine that fights it and no vaccine to prevent it. The only treatment is a machine that breathes for you, and even that just cuts the death rate from 50% to 20%. Every outbreak, from 3,200 UN soldiers in the Korean War, to the 1993 Four Corners cases, to Gene Hackman's wife Betsy Arakawa last year, traces back to mice.

The viruses that worry scientists are the boring ones. The ones that give you a sniffle for a week and let you walk around the city while you're contagious. Hantavirus, brutal as it is, never had the spread to do real damage.

[Abdulazeez A. @amooazeez]

@ifeosaa Congratulations 👏

[CyrilXBT @cyrilXBT]

A MIT professor gave a 1-hour lecture in 2019 that has 18 million views.

He died 5 months after recording it.

It was his final gift to the world.

Patrick Winston taught at MIT for 50 years.

The smartest engineers on earth sat in his classroom.

And he spent his last lecture teaching them the one skill their degrees never covered.

How to speak.

15 lessons that will change how you communicate forever:

Never open with a joke. Your audience is not ready to laugh yet. Open with a promise of what they will know by the end.

Your ideas are like your children. You are too close to them. What is obvious to you is invisible to everyone else. Explain the obvious.

The 5-minute rule: the first 5 minutes of any talk determine whether people will listen for the next 55. Spend more time on your opening than anything else.

Repeat your most important idea 3 times in 3 different ways. Once is never enough.

Build a fence around your idea. Tell people what it is NOT before you tell them what it IS.

Verbal punctuation. Pause. Let the idea land before moving to the next one.

Ask questions nobody will answer. Then wait 7 seconds. The silence is not awkward. It is processing.

Never read your slides. Your audience can read. They cannot listen and read simultaneously.

Use the board not the slides. Writing forces you to slow down. Slowing down forces clarity.

Inspire before you inform. Nobody learns from someone they are not inspired by.

End with a contribution not a summary. Tell them what you gave them. Not what you said.

Never say thank you at the end. It is weak. End with something that lands.

Stories make ideas stick. Data makes ideas understood. You need both. In that order.

The quality of your communication determines the quality of your ideas in the eyes of the world. Not the ideas themselves.

Practice is not preparation. Practice IS the skill.

Patrick Winston understood something most people spend their entire careers missing.

Your ideas are only as powerful as your ability to transfer them into someone else's mind.

You can be the smartest person in the room and be completely invisible.

Or you can master communication and make average ideas feel like breakthroughs.

He chose to spend his last lecture teaching this.

Watch it tonight.

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