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[BSAT Properties @BSAT_Properties]

I was on a train in Tokyo. We stopped between stations. Announcement in Japanese, then in English: "We apologize for the delay. We will resume shortly."

The delay was maybe 3 minutes. Not a big deal.

When the train started moving again, another announcement: "We sincerely apologize for the delay. We were stopped for 3 minutes and 20 seconds. This is unacceptable. Thank you for your patience."

Three minutes and twenty seconds. They measured it exactly. And called it unacceptable.

When I got off at my stop, there were station staff on the platform bowing and handing out delay certificates.

I took one out of curiosity. It was an official document stating that the train had been delayed by 3 minutes and 20 seconds, signed and stamped.

The staff member said in English "for your employer. So they know the delay was not your fault."

I said I'm a tourist, I don't need it. He looked confused. "But the delay affected you. You deserve an apology."

Three minutes. They were treating a three-minute delay like a major incident.

Later I mentioned this to a Japanese friend. They said "oh yes, delay certificates are normal. Trains are supposed to be exactly on time. If they are late, they must apologize."

I said three minutes isn't late, it's nothing. My friend said "in Japan, three minutes is late. On time means on time. Not approximately on time."

They said the train company probably investigated why there was a 3-minute delay. "They will find the cause and fix it so it doesn't happen again."

I kept the certificate. It's framed in my apartment now. A reminder that somewhere in the world, people care about three minutes.

© 6IX.

[Algeria FC @Algeria_FC]

Trophies are won on the pitch 🇸🇳⭐️⭐️

[The Scientific Lens @LensScientific]

When Albert Einstein was asked about the speed of sound, he replied:

“I do not carry such information in my mind since it is readily available in books… The value of a college education is not the learning of many facts but the training of the mind to think.”

[Clement Uwajeneza @cuwajeneza]

In 2017, I stepped onto the Facebook campus in Menlo Park. They took us to the Oculus VR lab first. A geeky engineer gave us a demo of the VR features and ended on the haptic gloves that let you "feel" virtual objects without touching anything real. Then he paused, voice almost reverent: “Imagine connecting anyone in the world… real social interaction… without ever leaving home.” The demo was amazing but I walked out with a strange feeling. This guy is "solving for humanity" and is excited about a world no longer needs physical human connection

We passed a long hall of developers. One guy—Black, friendly—leaned over his monitors and asked where the group of us (mostly Africans) was from. We chatted. His desk had big screens, half-eaten snacks, the faint smell of takeout lingering. His neighbor, paler watched curiously but, too timid to join. The desks were comfortable, the food smell everywhere, as it was available in every corner. It all felt… contained. Like this campus was its own sealed ecosystem, where the world outside was just data to optimize.

Fast-forward to 2020. I work at Andela, where we placed remote engineers with Silicon Valley teams. Some companies flew their leads over to meet the "remote" teammates in person. When they visited the Kigali campus I went to dinner with them. They were 5. Of this dinner I vividly remember 2 conversations. One guy launched into how "all humans are actually lactose intolerant after infancy… we're the only species that keeps drinking milk." They all nodded, confessed their own intolerances like it was a quirky universal truth. Then came the photos: a dog's birthday party. Balloons, cake, friends invited. The owner beamed like it was his kid's party. I love dogs. But something twisted in my chest. These are the people shaping the tools billions use every day—yet their version of care, connection, family… felt redirected, abstracted.

Now it's 2026, and Sam Altman says training an AI costs less than "raising a human"—because it takes "20 years of life and all the food you eat during that time before you get smart." He compared childhood—first steps, heartbreaks, scraped knees, bedtime stories, learning trust—to server racks and electricity bills. I think back to that VR promise of connection without leaving home… to offices smelling of food and isolation… to dogs celebrated like children while real human messiness gets optimized away

[Empire Mindset | Wealth Architect @guideforman]

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[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

The reason government programs are so inefficient is that, unlike a commercial company, the feedback loop for improvement is broken, because they have a state-mandated monopoly and can’t go out of business if customers are unhappy.

No matter how bad the service is at your DMV (sorry to pick on DMVs), you still have to use your DMV, because it’s a monopoly.

[Tomi 🇺🇦🇫🇮🇪🇺 @TallbarFIN]

Finnish President Alexander Stubb calls reforms to UN in his speech:

"No single country should have a veto in UN.

A Security Council member should also lose its voting rights for a fixed period if it violates the UN Charter."

💯🎯 Our president couldn't be more right!

[SriSathya @sathyashrii]

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[Lilly @lillybilly299]

When my mother first moved to Japan, she tried to jaywalk while pushing a stroller on an empty residential street. She was immediately stopped by an old, well dressed Japanese man who solemnly told her in perfect English "the downfall of society begins with the individual"

[Shawn Chauhan @shawnchauhan1]

In 1959, when Lee Kuan Yew became prime minister, Singapore was suffocating under poverty.

But then Lee made three controversial decisions to transform Singapore from swamps to a first-world country.

Here is what he did (and why it worked): 🧵

[Didas @didacer]

@kamran_h_ahmad @Kivuchoice This is next level in data driven business mgmt. Any chance to take a peek this algorithm?

[Charles Onyango-Obbo @cobbo3]

Three lessons for Africa’s success from East Asia:
1. Reduce reliance on external sources of finance and mobilise domestic capital.
2. Build public grain reserves and incentivise farmers to produce more staple indigenous crops by subsidizing seeds and fertilisers, delivering extension services, and guaranteeing minimum price support for their output.
3. Industrialise at warp speed.
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[Le journal Afrique TV5MONDE @JTAtv5monde]

#Rwanda : comment la jeune génération participe à la transmission de la mémoire ? L'activiste Jessica Mwiza est l'ancienne vice-présidente d'Ibuka France, l'association pour la mémoire du génocide des Tutsis du Rwanda.

[Alvin Foo @alvinfoo]

“Words have powers,
Words are powers,
Worlds could be your power.
You can change a life,
Inspire your nation and make this world a beautiful place.” - Mohammed Qahtani, a Saudi Arabian engineer who won the Toastmasters World Championship of Public Speaking

[Louise Mushikiwabo @LMushikiwabo]

Un compatriote exceptionnel, #DamasGisimba,vient de nous quitter. Pendant le génocide,Damas a risqué sa vie en hébergeant "kwa Gisimba" des centaines d'enfants Tutsi. Je suis venu des USA le rencontrer en 1999 au nom du Rwanda Children's Fund.Dieu te garde près de lui,cher Damas!

[Brandon Stanton @humansofny]

“The whole world’s a fucking casino. In a casino some of the smartest people in the world are doing everything to keep you gambling. They’ve taken the clocks off the wall. They’re pumping in oxygen. They’ve even thought about the patterns on the carpet. Everything has been scientifically engineered to keep you pulling that lever. And that’s our entire world now. It’s one big casino where some of the smartest people in the world are asking themselves: ‘What is the best way I can get people to eat more? What is the best way I can get people to watch more pornography? Or take more pills? How can I use artificial intelligence to serve people the exact succession of sixty second videos that will keep them staring at their screen for an entire day?’ I used to be a personal responsibility guy. A big reason for that is I have insane discipline. If I needed to completely stop eating candy for ten years, I could do it. Done. So if I ever saw someone who was obese, I’d think— I could do it. Put me in the exact same situation, and I’d lose the weight. But now whenever I see an obese person on the jogging trail, I just want to give them a hug. It’s almost enough to make me cry. I think God—this must be so fucking hard for you. And it’s going to take perfection: insane discipline, and time, and money, and listening to all the right podcasts. Every day of the week needs to be perfectly regimented. Five years of absolute perfection. That’s what it’s going to take. Because a ton of the smartest people in the world are getting paid massive amounts of money to figure out a way to make you fail.”

[Lonzen Rugira @LonzenRugira]

The kid was pleading to the killers to spare him by promising to moderate his being Tutsi but the killers thought he was being absurd & killed him.

🇺🇸 and 🇬🇧 should learn from him.

Genocide targets being. You can’t moderate being. Moderates believe.

“Sinzongera kuba Umututsi!”

[James Hall @hallaboutafrica]

Adaptable agriculture. When Russia's war on Ukraine cut off Ukrainian wheat exports, Ethiopia boosted wheat production 70% and is now Africa's 3rd biggest wheat producer, after Morocco and Algeria. 2023 harvest of 160million kilos will see Ethiopia exporting wheat for first time.