philip anyanya

extrovert, conservative, adventurous...Passionate about Real Estate, Equities, Fixed Income, Art Enthusiast, Angel investor

[philip anyanya @anyanyakegode]

@droid254 No poggen hol or Kohler kitchen

[TY Kim @ty_kimx]

This guy @SaeedAmidi, a legendary Silicon Valley investor, rented office space to early-stage founders and took stock instead of cash. Some of them became PayPal and Google.

Saeed Amidi grew up in one of the richest families in Iran. But then the revolution happened, and his family lost everything.

He was studying in the US at the time, and his plan was to go back to Iran and grow the family business. But he couldn't go back, so he had to build something new for his family in the US.

He built a few businesses in California, including bottled water and packaging, co-working spaces, and selling rugs.

He wasn't a tech founder, but he wanted to be close to tech founders. So he started renting his properties and taking stock in the startups, and they became some of the most successful deals in Silicon Valley.

That's the beauty of Silicon Valley. Immigrant founders can succeed. And sometimes you get lucky with a deal that returns over 1000x. That's what makes Silicon Valley optimistic, and it's why people are kind to each other. Because no one knows who's going to build the next Google, OpenAI, or Anthropic.

Plug and Play is now one of the best accelerators in the world. Unlike Y Combinator, they run a lot of offices across many countries, and they invest in and support founders all over the world. They also match enterprises that want to innovate with tech founders, and if the POC works well, they invest in it too.

Saeed is still the person who gets to work first at the Plug and Play Tech Center in Sunnyvale, and the person who leaves last.

He was my 7th interviewee, supported by a Korean director in @PlugandPlayTC

[philip anyanya @anyanyakegode]

@dr_evenakato Guten Abend, schalfen gut mama go luki luki

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@vanmutoka1 Poetic justice

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If you want to know how Africa was colonized look at Kenya's president

[Millie Marconi @MillieMarconnni]

A Japanese immunologist spent 20 years proving that the chemicals trees release into the air walk into your bloodstream, hunt down your stress hormones, and arm your immune system in ways no therapist or pharmaceutical has ever matched, and most of the data has been sitting in Japanese medical journals for two decades waiting to be translated.

His name is Qing Li.

He is a clinical professor at Nippon Medical School in Tokyo and the president of the Japanese Society of Forest Medicine. The Japanese government has been funding his research since 2004, and the body of work he has produced is the reason forest bathing is now an officially prescribed clinical therapy in Japan and Korea.

The story actually starts in 1982, when the Japanese Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries coined the term shinrin-yoku to describe the practice of slow, mindful walking in a forest. They did it for a practical reason.

Japan was urbanizing fast, stress-related illness was climbing, and the country had thousands of square kilometers of forest sitting unused. The idea was to give people a reason to walk into the trees... They had no idea what was actually happening to the human body during those walks until Qing Li ran the first proper experiment in 2005.

He took twelve healthy adult men on a three-day, two-night trip to a forest park. They walked for a few hours each day. Nothing strenuous. No prescribed routes or breathing exercises. They simply walked slowly through the trees, breathing the air, looking at the forest.

Li drew blood and urine samples before the trip, on the second day, on the third day, on day seven after returning home, and again on day thirty.

The numbers that came back from the lab were not what anyone expected.

The activity of a specific type of immune cell called the natural killer cell, which is the cell your body uses to hunt down cancer cells and virus-infected cells before they can spread, had jumped by roughly 50 percent during the forest trip. The actual number of natural killer cells circulating in the bloodstream had increased significantly.

Three different anti-cancer proteins that those cells produce, called perforin, granzymes, and granulysin, had all risen sharply. And the effect did not disappear when the men went home. The immune boost was still measurable on day seven and was still partially present on day thirty.

Two hours a day in a forest had upgraded the immune system for a full month.

Li ran the same experiment with women a year later and found nearly identical results. Then he ran it with a control group who took a three-day trip through an urban area with the same amount of walking, the same hotel quality, and the same diet.

The urban group showed no measurable change in natural killer cell activity at all. The forest was doing the work, not the vacation.

The mechanism turned out to be a class of airborne molecules called phytoncides. Trees produce these compounds to defend themselves against insects, bacteria, and fungi. Pine, cedar, oak, and cypress trees release them in particularly large amounts, especially in warmer weather and after rainfall.

When you walk through a forest, you are inhaling those molecules into your lungs and absorbing them through your skin, and once inside your body they appear to directly stimulate the production and activity of the very immune cells Li was measuring in his lab.

Roughly 50 percent of the health benefit of a forest walk, according to Li's data, comes from the chemistry of the air itself. The other half comes from what the forest is doing to your nervous system.

This is where it stops being only about the immune system and starts being about stress.

A separate Japanese research team measured cortisol, the body's main stress hormone, in 84 participants across 35 different forest sites. They drew samples before and after a 30-minute walk in each forest and compared them to control walks in matched urban environments. The cortisol levels of the people who walked in the forest were lower than the cortisol levels of the people who walked in the city by a significant margin. Their heart rates were lower. Their blood pressure was lower.

The activity of their parasympathetic nervous system, which is the part responsible for rest and recovery, had gone up. The activity of their sympathetic nervous system, which is the part that drives fight or flight, had gone down.

Then a researcher at the University of Michigan named MaryCarol Hunter ran the cleanest version of this experiment ever done. She recruited participants from a city and told them to take a nature pill three times a week for eight weeks.

They were free to choose the time, the place, and the duration of the nature experience, as long as it was outside, in daylight, and free of phones, conversations, and aerobic exercise. They sent her saliva samples before and after each session so she could measure cortisol changes accurately and rule out the normal daily drop in stress hormones that happens to everyone.

The result was that participants experienced a 21.3 percent drop in cortisol per hour spent in nature, with the biggest payoff happening between minutes 20 and 30 of the walk.

After that, the cortisol kept dropping, but more slowly. The threshold dose for measurable stress relief was just 20 minutes outside in something that looked and felt like nature.

What none of this means is that nature is a substitute for therapy or for medication when someone genuinely needs them. Therapy treats different things than a walk does, and Li himself has been careful in interviews to call forest bathing a complementary intervention rather than a replacement for clinical care.

But what the research has settled is that the human body has a physiological response to being among trees that operates on the same biological systems modern medicine is trying to reach with drugs and clinical protocols, and that response is fast, measurable, and free.

The strangest part of Li's work is the implication he keeps repeating in interviews. The average person now spends more than 90 percent of their life indoors. Their cortisol stays elevated. Their natural killer cells stay sluggish.

Their parasympathetic nervous system rarely gets a chance to take over. The system that was tuned by millions of years of life under a canopy of trees is being asked to run permanently inside a box made of drywall and screens.

Your body has not forgotten what it is supposed to do in a forest. It is waiting for you to walk into one.

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@ahmadsalims sema tu nywele laini

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@georgediano kenyans are loyal to their brands look at coca cola, blue band

[Handre @Handre]

In 1956, the federal government opened thirty-three eleven-story towers in St. Louis. By 1972 the city was dynamiting them on live television. Sixteen years. That is the lifespan of one of the most celebrated public housing projects in American history, a complex that won an architecture award from the same profession that designed it.

Pruitt-Igoe cost about $36 million to build, funded under the Housing Act of 1949 and the dreams of planners who believed you could engineer the poor into prosperity by stacking them in concrete. Minoru Yamasaki drew the towers (he later designed the World Trade Center, which also came down on television, though that is another story). The men who approved the project answered to no price signal, no profit, no loss. They spent other people's money on buildings nobody chose to live in voluntarily, then acted surprised when the tenants treated the property accordingly.

Here is what central planning cannot solve: nobody owned the place. Not really. The residents rented from a housing authority that collected rents capped by law and below the cost of maintenance. So the elevators stopped working. The heating failed. Windows broke and stayed broken. By 1971 occupancy had collapsed to roughly 600 people in buildings designed for 10,000. You do not need a degree in economics to understand a building where the toilets back up and no one is responsible. You need only to have read Mises on property without owners. When the bureaucrat spends appropriated funds, he can never replicate the discipline of an owner facing a balance sheet.

The planners diagnosed the failure as a design problem. Too many high-rises, they said. Not enough community space. They never asked whether the entire model of subsidized, politically administered housing produces exactly these results, because asking that question puts the planner out of a job. Charles Jencks called the 3:32 PM demolition on March 16, 1972 the death of modern architecture.

It was the predictable end of property without owners, paid for by taxpayers who never set foot in St. Louis and were billed anyway.

[Listen Brother @Listen_Brothers]

Human limits you need to understand

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@IanECox Starter kit for Mombasa druggies

[CBS News @CBSNews]

His taxi was destroyed after a Knicks game, leaving Noureddine Bitat so traumatized that he said he is longer able to work as a driver.

French Montana heard the cab driver's story and wanted to find him. Not only did he connect with Bitat, he harnessed the power of strangers to raise $75,000 for him. #nyc #knicks #newyork

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@kamauwaruhiu @10k Would work on check off system from salaries

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@Eyaaaad In Africa a man is shown land where he builds his own house and starts his family with one cow

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@Elkrosmediahub 1 & 2

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@RamzZy_ Narrow bodied and not wide

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@Kristinartz Pace maker

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@HassanAliJoho Talk is cheap

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@Haky49501827 Are you looking for a wife

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@WilliamsRuto Who's your ally in Africa, apart from money what's else can we identity you with