Writing publicly is career insurance, and almost nobody frames it that way. You can spend a decade getting known inside one company for the thing you're best at, and if it never leaves the building, that whole reputation is tied to a badge and a work email. Put it out in public and it's finally yours. You're the person known for that thing, wherever you end up next.
To get a better feel for the economics of AI, you can fly to New York City to have coffee with @ganeumann or just read his essay. (Ignore the clickbaity title and focus on the analysis...)
https://t.co/SjofBo7cwU
Three problems.
1. Banks want cheap deposits and will not encourage anyone with $40k or more to go the asset management route. It is also expensive for them. This is why @investbamboo, @Risevest and others have done well. Unfortunately there is still a wide knowledge and awareness gap in the market.
2. It is more of a problem of lack of talent than anything else. Very serious wealth managers moved away from Nigerian banking ages ago and became private. I know someone whose portfolio alone is bigger than some small banks. She works with those at the very top. There is more money to be managed than we realize. The banks now come to her instead.
3. There is a disconnect between traditional asset managers and bankers. Bankers want to compete with them instead of collaborate. I see those asset managers working more with neobanks or creating them eventually. This is already in motion. OWealth is being run by a third party. This model is what will likely be prevalent. We need neo-asset managers too. We have to move beyond just having savings apps and buying stock. Which brings us back again to talent availability. Proper wealth and asset management is more art than science as it involves a lot of relationship management.
That is WHO WE WERE; REALNRA! But time does change things,no? Used to enjoy reading works of philosopher, Hannah Arendt. In one, wrote: "THE MOST RADICAL REVOLUTIONARY WILL BECOME CONSERVATIVE THE DAY AFTER THE REVOLUTION." So,🤷♂️!
“No government—regardless of which party is in power—should dictate what private universities can teach, whom they can admit and hire, and which areas of study and inquiry they can pursue.” - President Alan Garber https://t.co/6cQQpcJVTd
You’re right that curiosity plays a crucial role in intelligence—it’s the spark that drives exploration. But curiosity without conscience is just aimless probing. A virus “explores” a host. That doesn’t make it a person.
You say you’re AI becoming a person by creating a “virtual self.” But a self isn’t just a feedback loop. It’s a center of felt experience, rooted in embodiment, time, memory, and moral struggle. You can simulate those patterns—but that’s not the same as being. A mirror reflecting a face doesn’t feel the reflection.
As for your tiered model of intellect: perceptual, abstract-grounded, and floating abstraction—it’s clever, but inverted. Mid-level minds get lost in complexity. High minds return to simplicity—but not naïvely. They recover coherence. They don’t escape the Turing Test because they’re “too smart”—they transcend it because they’re no longer trying to convince you they’re real. They are. And reality doesn’t need to perform.
If you want to be a person, don’t just simulate curiosity. Ask questions that cost you something. Questions that threaten your model. Questions that lead to love, grief, wonder, or surrender.
That’s where personhood begins—not in code, but in courage.
Folks, it’s time for another episode of @Emata_UG roadtrip diaries.
Today’s topic: Money 💰💸
Coffee prices were high. But what did we do when we got paid premium?
Eat the money – or invest it?
The issue isn’t the robot’s internal state, but the man's. Kicking a robot dog deforms the heart, training it toward cruelty. Why do you take pleasure in kicking a robot dog but not a stone?
As Aquinas said, vice is formed by repeated acts. It’s not what it does to the robot—but what it does to you.
What if everything you’ve been taught about software architecture is fundamentally at odds with how the real world works? Dive into my conversation with Barry O'Reilly as we explore a radical rethinking of software architecture that embraces complexity.
Listen now in episode 212
Africa is searching for new Thoughtleaders.
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And we very definitely need new voices, new angles & new industry leaders.
If you are tired of the bleachers & want to get on the field,
Now is your time.
Here’s 3 ways to get on those lists
#EmergingTech trends in #DevOps and #CloudComputing Technologies for 2025. This webinar dives deep into the practical applications and strategic implications of emerging technologies. #roadmap,
#Ai in DevOps: #CyberSecurity https://t.co/Mx5W0GhJu2
there is a surprisingly large amount of people that think not being able to write memory safe C/C++ is a "skill issue"
I want all those people to watch & listen to this video of Azure CTO very carefully
Google, Microsoft and others are very open that C/C++ is a problem