Exodus 33:16 NIV
How will anyone know that you are pleased with me and with your people unless you go with us? What else will distinguish me and your people
Football has a way of reflecting life.
Alexander Sørloth's decision not to square the ball to Erling Haaland, who was perfectly placed for what looked like a simple tap-in, may well have cost Norway a place in the World Cup quarter-finals.
Norwegians must be seething today.😡
Sadly, the same mentality exists away from the football pitch.
In every workplace, organisation and even friendship circle, there are people who would rather see the whole team fail than allow someone else to enjoy success. Envy can be so powerful that personal pride takes precedence over the collective goal.
The strongest teams are built on trust, selflessness and knowing when a teammate is in the better position. Everyone wins when egos are left at the door.
I have witnessed that kind of envy in broadcasting, where one individual's actions contributed to several diaspora presenters, myself included, losing our shows. It showed how personal agendas can sometimes outweigh the success of the wider team.
Whether it's football, the workplace or life itself, selfishness has a habit of punishing everyone in the end.
Have you ever experienced a "Sørloth-Haaland moment", where someone put personal glory or envy ahead of the team's success?
#WorldCup2026 #Haaland #Soloth @norway #Norway #England
Underrated life advice: It’s never too late. You can wake up and choose to see things differently. You can change. You can completely reinvent your life. “Too late” is an internal fantasy, not an external reality. Every time you think it’s too late, it’s probably still early.
Underrated life skill: Be a multiplier. Teach what you know, spotlight others, connect dots. With no strings attached. Ironically, it's one of the fastest ways to level up your own life as well. Want more success? Be the reason someone else gets theirs.
As a cattle farmer who has integrated into the meat retail business, my eyes have been opened to the insignificance and vulnerability of farmers. The middleman is king. Farmers may not know their animals are not as valuable as they think they are until it's a cut steak or chop
Sticking with a bad decision is not a triumph of commitment. It's a failure of courage.
The quicker you are to admit you were wrong, the sooner you can start making it right.
Persistence is not about staying on a path. It's about finding a better path to your goal.
Early in my tech career, I used to make investors sign an NDA before I would even speak to them.
I was worried that if somebody knew my idea, I could be outpaced or out-executed. Secrecy was an asset as it allowed me to build without tipping off any potential competitors.
Over the last decade, my view on this has completely changed. I no longer believe that being secretive was helpful. In fact, it might have been detrimental to hiring and raising capital.
What I have learned is that the only real competitive advantage in technology is the number of product iterations and the progress made between those iterations. Essentially, I value the rate of progress in the highest regard.
I no longer worry about someone copying me, nor do I think it matters. What matters is my team’s ability to execute at the fastest possible rate and to continue innovating over time. I also believe that sharing publicly is net beneficial for many reasons, including hiring top talent who understand your vision, raising capital from investors who are following your story, signing commercial customers, gathering feedback, and the list goes on. So I’ve been building my companies in public and I urge my fellow founders to do the same.
The rate of technological progress is the only true competitive advantage.
If you hire competent people
1 Measure results, forget templates (outcome over process)
2 Step aside, let them do the work (Empower)
3 Expect them to have a brain of their own (diversity & initiative)
4 Express what you stand for, from the onset (permission to play values)
we believe the world needs more ai infrastructure--fab capacity, energy, datacenters, etc--than people are currently planning to build.
building massive-scale ai infrastructure, and a resilient supply chain, is crucial to economic competitiveness.
openai will try to help!
Stop living based on these four things:
1. Other people's opinions
2. Fear of failure
3. Emotional scraps
4. Comments on your tweets
Start living based on these four things:
1. Your terms
2. Lessons learned from mistakes
3. Respect and support
4. More vegetables
The secret of personal growth is to assume that you are the unluckiest person alive, and overcompensate every day with hard work in the right direction.
All the people I know who enjoy a pleasant life as a result of bold, unusual choices, had a lonely, painful, difficult past, where they had to learn how to quickly get smarter, wiser, mentally stronger. You naturally become self-driven once you realize no one is coming to help.
You can avoid a lot of drama by simply avoiding people who have no goal in life: those with too much free time have a tendency to create problems out of nowhere.
People will constantly attack you in life. One of their main weapons will be to instill in you doubts about yourself – your worth, your abilities, your potential. They will often disguise this as their objective opinion, but invariably it has a political purpose.