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Windows 11 is sending a near-constant stream of data to Microsoft servers right now.
Even while you're just sitting doing nothing. Even after you "turned it off" in Settings.
A cybersecurity researcher caught it live on video. Microsoft confirmed it in their own docs.
11 settings to actually stop it:
Your Android phone is sending data to Google every 4.5 minutes.
Even when you're not touching it. Even when the screen is off.
A peer-reviewed study from Trinity College Dublin confirmed it.
12 settings to change right now:
Don't depend solely on your formal education. Develop a specialized skill that gives you an edge over others.
Which specialized skill of yours has created the most opportunities for you?
Then do your insurance through an Islamic Insurance called Takaful.
At the end of the year, there's what they call SURPLUS sharing where the Insurance company shares to its premium holders the surplus money after all claims.
If you were in Nigeria, then I could recommend
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@ElizabethDese Well, knowing your worth/value is one thing, and knowing how much your worth is perceived by others is the flex that guarantees you get better opportunities.
This is from my personal experience.
Internal confidence x External value perception = Growth
@AltbriMarius Possible reversal downward in 24-36 hrs to test the support structure, then go up to complete the fib extension. Afterwards, crash to form a new pattern. Patience.
The man who can predict the future:
Balaji.
He was an early investor in Bitcoin, Ethereum and Eight Sleep.
He just said, "Social media is about to become far, far more lucrative than people realize."
His 4 shocking predictions on the future of social media & wealth creation:
I'm going to say something, and I hope it will be understood as coming from a place of love and concern.
A few weeks ago, I hosted a space with a prominent African entrepreneur. The space was curated in such a way as to give equal representation to different African nationalities so that it wouldn't skew toward Nigeria because of me.
The unfortunate result of this was that it was painfully easy to draw connections between the speakers' countries of origin and the quality of their submissions. All the Kenyans who spoke had useful, important, well-communicated submissions. Ditto the Zimbabweans, the South Africans and the Anglophone West Africans (Gambians, Ghanaians, a Liberian, and a Sierra Leonean).
And then there were the Nigerians.
I remember giving the mic to 8 Nigerians, and first of all, 7 of them went overtime. These 7 seemed very keen to speak and had a lot to say, but within 2 minutes of listening to them, you had this disappointing realisation - this man (they were all men) has no point. Rambling, disjointed, unfocused, random point-hopping, lacking in joined-up thinking, missing any sort of conclusion and ultimately only stopped by the "can you please round up in 15 seconds?"
I was so embarrassed, and I wondered whether the entrepreneur who co-hosted the space noticed what I had noticed. The answer is yes. She did. In fact, she specifically mentioned to me afterwards that everyone who came up and reduced the intellectual level of the space was Nigerian. "What's happening with education in your country?" was her exact question. I didn't have an answer.
That's just 1 anecdote. I have several. I have met many, many other people who have similar stories. In fact it is often the case now that before accessing certain rooms on the continent, recommendations from other Africans need to go ahead of me, because the fact of being Nigerian in and of itself makes people take me less serious if they don't know who I am.
Nigerians have always had a reputation in Africa for being loud and overbearing, but it used to be the case that we were seen as loud and domineering, but also eminently capable and useful - which made us just about tolerable. Now, it is increasingly the case that we are perceived around the continent as loud and stupid - the Special Needs children who have nothing upstairs, but believe they must express that nothing as frequently, and in as many grandiloquent words as possible.
I cannot fix Nigerian education. I have no power to do so. Even if I did, it would take at least a generation for the effects to become visible. That's why in the meantime, all I can beg my countrymen (because again, it is men) to do if they are reading this, is to start making a conscious effort to talk less. Reduce your volume. Speak less. Listen more. Read more. Read for the sake of keeping the knowledge in your head, not for the sake of "performing" intelligence by spitting it out at people.
The world will tolerate a loud but competent man. It will have sympathy for a quiet, incompetent man. But a loud, incompetent man?
God abeg