Doots

The definition of intelligence is the ability to reason.

[David Deutsch @DavidDeutschOxf]

A symptom of something deeply wrong.

[Peter H. Diamandis, MD @PeterDiamandis]

Hot take: Universities charge $300,000 for a degree that teaches you skills any LLM can do for free. At some point we need to have an honest conversation about whether higher education is the greatest individuals misallocation of capital in recent history.

[EXPLOREREYES @Gary161718]

Launching Soon in West Nicholson District Zimbabwe.

[Peter H. Diamandis, MD @PeterDiamandis]

The human body became a software engineering problem the minute CRISPR arrived. Now, AI writes better code than humans, with every disease becoming a potential coding challenge.

[Peter H. Diamandis, MD @PeterDiamandis]

Optimism is not the belief that everything will be fine, but the belief that problems are SOLVABLE, combined with the willingness to actually go solve them. That thesis has built every good thing we have.

[Jack V Lloyd @jackvlloyd]

Socialism is not rooted in "empathy."

It's rooted in envy.

[Peter H. Diamandis, MD @PeterDiamandis]

Folllow the data, not the news. The data shows us extraordinary progress. The news is dystopian. If it bleeds, it leads.

[Mrs Fox 🕊️ @CaliforniaFrizz]

Correct.

[Nicholas Woode-Smith @NWoodeSmith]

Prosperity requires freedom.

Property rights. Reliable electricity. Safe streets. An independent judiciary. A competent civil service. Lower barriers to business.

The ANC offers the opposite.

[Peter H. Diamandis, MD @PeterDiamandis]

The cost of starting a company used to be $5 million. Then $500,000. Then $50,000. Now it is closer to $500. The only expensive thing left is your unwillingness/fear to begin.

[Magatte Wade @magattew]

When I first arrived in Silicon Valley, I watched two guys go to lunch, sketch an idea on a napkin, walk into a VC's office that afternoon, and have funding by the end of the week.

Back home in Senegal, that same idea would've taken two years of permits, bribes, and government approvals before it could legally exist. 

By then, the moment would be dead and the founder would be broke.

That gap between what's possible in a free system and what's impossible in an unfree one is the reason I do what I do.

[Nicholas Woode-Smith @NWoodeSmith]

You cannot create jobs while attacking job creators.

You cannot build prosperity while undermining property rights.

You cannot fix the state while rewarding incompetence.

The ANC knows this. It just doesn’t care.

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

The Power of Words, one of the best speeches ever

[📹 Mohammed Qahtani]

[Doots @dugoib]

That is why they are losing votes in the educated cities but maintain votes in the uneducated rural areas

[Nicholas Woode-Smith @NWoodeSmith]

The ANC doesn’t want South Africa to be prosperous.

A prosperous population is harder to control.

People with jobs, property, savings, businesses and options don’t need to beg politicians for survival.

[Magatte Wade @magattew]

🎯

[South African Sentinel @SentinelfromSA]

There are few positions more deplorable than that of a white [guilt] South African boomer/gen x liberal.

[Arjun Khemani @arjunkhemani]

“If you’re good at course correcting, being wrong may be less costly than you think, whereas being slow is going to be expensive for sure.”

— @JeffBezos

[South African Sentinel @SentinelfromSA]

🚨 ESKOM SERIES ANNOUNCEMENT – THE DEEPEST, MOST EXPLOSIVE DEEP DIVE WE’VE EVER DONE
South Africa has been circling the drain for years.

Load-shedding destroyed businesses, hospitals ran on generators, families sat in the dark, and the economy bled out while politicians played games.

We’ve covered water crises, construction mafia, cadre deployment, and state capture.

Now we go to the root of it all.
I’m launching the definitive Eskom series. A full 8 massive parts that will be the reference pieces people link for years.

This isn’t another surface-level rant. This is forensic, receipt-heavy, no-holds-barred investigative journalism that connects every dot: Medupi & Kusile’s R300–400 billion technical disasters, cadre deployment destroying competence, Gupta-era state capture and the coal mafia, the REIPPPP procurement history that actually worked, virtual wheeling mechanics that are quietly revolutionising private power, sabotage allegations, the human carnage, the political shield, and the real solutions that could fix it.

What you’re getting:
Part 1 – Medupi and Kusile: The R300–400 Billion Megaproject Catastrophe (full technical autopsy with hydrogen explosion, chimney collapse, boiler defects, exact cost escalations, and visuals)
Part 2 – Cadre Deployment and The Destruction of Technical Competence
Part 3 – State Capture 1.0: The Gupta Era, Coal Mafia and Zondo Bombshells
Part 4 – REIPPPP Procurement History: How Competitive Bidding Actually Delivered GWs Fast and Cheap
Part 5 – Virtual Wheeling Explained: The Software-Powered Private Sector Alternative (mechanics, Eskom’s 2025–2026 platform, trader aggregation, NERSA rules, and why it’s scaling while state megaprojects failed)
Part 6 – Sabotage, Arson and The Uncomfortable Questions
Part 7 – The Human and Economic Carnage (hospitals, businesses, jobs, daily life destroyed)
Part 8 – The Political Shield and The Fix (Western Cape contrast, RICO-style solutions, what real reform looks like)

Every part will be long, densely sourced (Zondo full reports, SIU filings, AGSA audits, Eskom official statements, engineering investigations, court records, and the full primary source list I’ve compiled. Please see below), with timelines, diagrams, before/after visuals, and zero fluff.
Why now?

Because Eskom is the single biggest reason South Africa is falling apart. And, like clockwork, the private sector (REIPPPP + virtual wheeling) is already showing a better way. This series will be the one people reference when they argue about energy policy for the next decade.

Primary Sources (partial, full bibliography in every part):
https://t.co/SteD1WkVWG
https://t.co/79rYR9GGq2
https://t.co/6LKkSnGiUU
https://t.co/XVYV8bD2Da
https://t.co/54ZpZxksRW
...and dozens more from Zondo, SIU, AGSA, NERSA, https://t.co/EW2OZ470nb, https://t.co/c9QhqmFFd9, etc.

Part 1 drops very soon.
Get ready. Follow. Turn on notifications. Share this post.

This is going to be the deepest, most revealing, most referenced Eskom exposé ever published on X or anywhere else.

South Africa deserves the unfiltered truth about why the lights went out, and how we can turn them back on.
Who’s ready? 🔥

#EskomExposed #MedupiKusile #VirtualWheeling #REIPPPP #SouthAfricaEnergyCrisis #StateCapture #ConstructionMafiaLevelFailure

[David Deutsch @DavidDeutschOxf]

"[Britain] dominated the world despite being small because of institutions, ideas and character—and the luck of being an island so we could develop very differently to Europe. Institutions, ideas and character repeatedly dominate scale." Dominic Cummings https://t.co/nbtjhyeMHC

[🎶𝗖𝗹𝗮𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗹 𝗠𝗲𝗹𝗼𝗱𝗶𝗲𝘀 ✨ @Old_But_Gold50s]

It would be sad to live on earth without talented and cheerful people.❤️