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[Finance Historian @BoardLotSultan]

A former Britam Company Secretary once told us a hilarious story. He was going to same gym with Edwin Dande. After Dande was arrested, they expected him to drop off. Instead the guy kept coming and lifted more than anyone ele. Ilibidi watoke hiyo gym wakaachia Dande na trainers🤣

[CyrilXBT @cyrilXBT]

Most people will go to bed tonight the same way they woke up this morning.

Spend 1 hour with this.

A MIT lecture on generational wealth that teaches you more about money, compounding, and building something that outlasts you than 20 years inside any hedge fund, investment bank, or financial institution ever could.

Wall Street teaches you how to make money for someone else.

This teaches you how to build something for yourself.

The people who watch this tonight will make one decision differently this week.

That one decision will compound for the next 20 years.

The people who skip it will keep taking financial advice from people who profit when they stay confused.

Completely free.

Bookmark this before you open Netflix 👇

[Rony @Ronycoder]

This 2 hour Harvard interview with Lee Kuan Yew, the man who turned Singapore from a tiny island into one of the richest nations on Earth, will teach you more about leadership, discipline, and nation-building than most business books ever will.

[Aariv Khanna @AarivKhanna]

Growth Marketers Who Can
Prove ROl

Not followers. Not impressions.
The ones who drive measurable revenue.

Businesses don't scale on vibes they scale on math.

[Rony @Ronycoder]

Instead of watching an hour of Netflix, watch this 2-hour Stanford lecture on AI careers. It will teach you more about winning in the AI race than all the AI content you’ve scrolled past this year.

[Shabnam Parveen @shabnam_774]

Instead of watching an hour of Netflix, watch this 2 hour hour Stanford lecture will teach you more about how LLMs like ChatGPT and Claude are built than most people working at top AI companies learn in their entire careers.

[ぱうう @09pauai]

元マッキンゼーの社長が言ってたんだけど、人間が変わる方法って3つしかない。時間配分を変える。住む場所を変える。付き合う人を変える。たったこれだけ。

逆に最も無意味なのが、

[Dhaval Makwana @heyDhavall]

Instead of watching Netflix tonight, watch this 2-hour Stanford lecture.

You’ll learn more about how ChatGPT, Claude, and other LLMs are built than most people at top AI companies learn in years.

[Jackson Hinkle 🇺🇸 @jacksonhinkle]

❤️🇨🇳🇺🇸 I had the great honor to meet Communist Party of China National Hero Huang Dafa — the modern Yu Gong — who spent 36 years chiseling a 9km canal through Guizhou’s mountains to bring water, irrigation, and prosperity to over 5,000 villagers, lifting them out of poverty.

Nearly 10 million residents in Guizhou were lifted out of poverty over 8 years, culminating in 2020 with the elimination of poverty in all 88 counties.

[Goya @davidlaozi]

@Ark1660346 @WolfKriegerEsq @ShadowofEzra @grok did the US intentionally attack civilian infrastructure in desert storm?

[Sahil Rana @SohelBloom]

You’re bored because you’re not doing side quests, man.

Life is more than just working and then throwing yourself into bed doing nothing.

Here are 50 side quests to complete:

[the VC almanac @theVCalmanac]

Chamath: Work-life balance is the worst thing happened to young people.

"The first and most important thing is you have to be on Broadway."

"If you're into politics, you need to be in Washington D.C. If you want to be in finance, you need to get to New York or London. If you want to be in crypto, you probably need to be in Abu Dhabi. If you want to be in tech, you just need to be in Silicon Valley."

"There is no shortcut for any of these decisions. You have to be where the fish are."

"The number of young people I encounter who talk about all of these idiotic things like work-life balance. I don't even understand what that means."

Remote work is convenient. Being where it happens is how you win.

video: @chamath

[Martin Oduor-Otieno @OduorMartinO]

You promoted your best salesperson to sales manager.

Six months later, they're struggling, and you're wondering what went wrong.

This happens everywhere. We promote our best doers into management, then wonder why they can't lead.

Here's why:

1/4

[Aziz Mire @aziz_mire]

Everyone talking about Kenyan avocados, but did you know, in 2023, Kenya was world’s second-largest goat meat exporter (about 17,493 tons, $83.2M)!?

The Kenya ASAL region has been neglected for long, but these regions brought home significant revenue from goat farming. THREAD

[Reads with Ravi @readswithravi]

“Beware: learning more is a smart person’s favorite form of procrastination.”

― Mark Manson

[Mageba @Mageba_____]

Never understood why stairs waste so much space

[Jash Dholani @oldbooksguy]

Books that taught me a lot about art:

- Birth of Tragedy by Nietzsche (1872)
- 10 Books on Architecture by Vitruvius (33 BC)
- Heretics by GK Chesterton (1905)
- The Art of Writing by RL Stevenson (1905)
- Sexual Personae by Paglia (1991)
- The Biology of Art by Morris (1962)

[Dylan O'Sullivan @DylanoA4]

Strange things happen to creativity at dusk and dawn, hence so many writers work in the early morning or late at night. The edges of the day are thin places, the conscious mind is not fully awake and the subconscious can bleed through, Arthur Koestler called it "the marshy shore"

[Rosalind @rosalindmar19]

Kurt Vonnegut on buying an envelope

[Jash Dholani @oldbooksguy]

John Fowles explains in "The Aristos" (1964) how high IQ can subvert your will to act: "High intelligence leads to multiplicity of interest and a sharpened capacity to foresee the consequences of any action. Will is lost in a labyrinth of hypothesis." Rule 1: Do not lose the will