Three weeks on from the horrific diving accident in the Maldives, where 5 Italian divers sadly lost their lives 🇮🇹
One of the most accurate videos, with an excellent hypothetical reconstruction of the events as they happened
Based also on the heroic recovery of the bodies
Questions that are being asked by adults I used to ask myself while I was a kid. Like;
If we walk without stopping will we touch the wall at the end of the earth?
If you drill a hole, will it come out from the other side?
God talks about corners too.
For me, Earth is Flat.
Have you ever noticed that the worst people keep getting promoted?
You’re sitting in a meeting thinking, How is this person in charge?
That’s not bad luck. That’s a system working exactly as intended.
Here’s the truth:
A lot of workplaces don’t promote the most capable people; they promote the least threatening ones.
The people who move up fastest aren’t always driving results.
They are the ones who keep leadership comfortable.
- They don’t challenge decisions.
- They don’t surface problems too clearly.
- They make things feel calm, even when nothing is actually improving.
Real competence creates friction.
When you are genuinely good at your job, you expose gaps, weak processes, bad decisions, and poor leadership.
And that makes people above you uncomfortable.
So instead of developing strong leaders, many organizations quietly sideline them.
What gets rewarded instead is loyalty, predictability, and the ability to manage optics.
Once that pattern starts, every layer protects the one above it.
Promotions stop being about skill and start being about safety.
And over time, the people doing the real work either burn out from carrying everyone else or they leave.
- That’s how mediocrity becomes a culture.
- That’s why leadership can feel hollow.
- And that’s why, when you look around and wonder why so many managers seem unqualified, the answer isn’t random.
It’s structural.
They didn’t fail upward by accident.
They were rewarded for not rocking the boat.
James Sexton, divorce attorney who's seen it all, drops a raw truth bomb:
Our entire society is engineered to distract you from the one fact that would shatter the consumer machine—if you truly internalized that you're going to die, you'd stop buying most of the meaningless shit they're selling.
He proposes a radical reset: Mandatory 1–2 years of hospice volunteering at 18.
Why? Because spending time with the dying strips everything bare.
They don't talk about their bank accounts, status, or possessions.
They talk about:
- The people they loved
- The connections they made
- The beautiful (and painful) experiences
All the "important" drama in your day evaporates the moment you walk out of that room.
Sexton shares his mom's final cancer surgery—20 minutes in, doctors closed her up: cancer everywhere, nothing more to do. In that instant, every other worry in his life got turned down to zero volume. All that mattered was time left to love her, to make sure she knew.
Reminder: There is a finite number of times you'll kiss your wife, hug your kids, call your parents. You don't know the number. You'll only realize it after you've passed it.
That finitude is what makes every moment sacred.
Living forever would be a curse.
Right now, the people you love are alive—right now.
Kiss them as many times as you want.
That is the greatest thing in the world.
Powerful, uncomfortable, beautiful perspective. Keep death in your line of sight—it's the ultimate clarity filter.
Back in the early 2000s and even further back, mornings used to feel impossible. We just didn’t want to get up.
Sleep was deep, peaceful, truly restorative… it was sweet like that.
These days, it doesn’t hit the same anymore. The magic is gone. What happened?
When we were young, our parents never set a specific time for us to go out and play or to return home. All we had were chores to complete during the day. Once those were finished, we were free to go.
Raila Odinga's passing marks the end of a significant chapter. May it foster reconciliation and unity, dissolving the animosity some in the Mt.Kenya region have held over the years toward him and the Luo community.