Daughter of Africa

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[Shad @Shad_khalif]

Parents lemme plug you on this platform from MIT. It’s a cool and interactive coding platform for your kids, they learn coding like a game. Trust me on this, it’s the best thing you’re gonna do for your kids. It’s called Scratch

[ruru @shiru_synthesis]

British shows have 6 episodes but it's usually the best 6 episodes of your life.

[Cyprian, Is Nyakundi @C_NyaKundiH]

Barack Obama just gave a sharp warning. AI could wipe out jobs on a level not seen in a century. He says 2026 will be the turning point.

[Jemedari @MrJemedari]

Please teach your kids about social capital.
About pouring kindness into their friendships and interactions. About building a community around them.
About being resourceful and contributing to the greater good of their circle outside of just family.

[signüll @signulll]

working at a big company is basically an accelerated course in how power actually works. once you see the sheer level of inefficiency, rent-seeking, & arbitrary decision-making, it kind of breaks all illusions about big companies.

the best part is realizing that half the people in charge have no clue what they’re doing but just sound confident. once you internalize that, you stop overestimating the competition & start realizing that most barriers to entry are just psychological.

[kvng Baff @kvng_baff]

In 1965, Singapore was forced out of Malaysia.

No army.

No resources.

No fresh water.

A tiny island of 2M people living in slums.

Then ONE man's ruthless vision built modern Asia's greatest success...

A long thread 🧵

[Daughter of Africa @EWKithinj]

@Nyandia_G Hatujachoka please

[Yator Boss☚ @Bossyator]

Toyota Landcruiser Prado TX was either meant to massage the ego of semirich niggas and kill them before they become rich or something. This is one of the most dangerous rides you can drive on the road. Accident prone!!

[Daughter of Africa @EWKithinj]

@olumuyiwaayo Masters in Public policy

[Daughter of Africa @EWKithinj]

@CynthiaWMwangi 🤦🏾‍♀️

[Nick Velkovski @nikolak47]

Japan is legendary when it comes to business longevity. 52,000 Japanese businesses are 100+ years old

(The average lifespan of an S&P 500 company is just 15 years)

Japan also has 19 companies that survived for 1000+ years using their ancestor's business wisdom:

THREAD

[Oscar Hoole @theoscarhoole]

In 2015, Apple tried to CRUSH Spotify.

• Threatened to remove them from App Store
• Demanded 30% of all revenue
• Blocked their app updates

But Spotify's response was genius.

Here's how a Swedish startup outsmarted the world's biggest company 🧵

[Vivek Ramaswamy @VivekGRamaswamy]

The reason top tech companies often hire foreign-born & first-generation engineers over “native” Americans isn’t because of an innate American IQ deficit (a lazy & wrong explanation). A key part of it comes down to the c-word: culture. Tough questions demand tough answers & if we’re really serious about fixing the problem, we have to confront the TRUTH:

Our American culture has venerated mediocrity over excellence for way too long (at least since the 90s and likely longer). That doesn’t start in college, it starts YOUNG.

A culture that celebrates the prom queen over the math olympiad champ, or the jock over the valedictorian, will not produce the best engineers.

A culture that venerates Cory from “Boy Meets World,” or Zach & Slater over Screech in “Saved by the Bell,” or ‘Stefan’ over Steve Urkel in “Family Matters,” will not produce the best engineers.

(Fact: I know *multiple* sets of immigrant parents in the 90s who actively limited how much their kids could watch those TV shows precisely because they promoted mediocrity…and their kids went on to become wildly successful STEM graduates).

More movies like Whiplash, fewer reruns of “Friends.” More math tutoring, fewer sleepovers. More weekend science competitions, fewer Saturday morning cartoons. More books, less TV. More creating, less “chillin.” More extracurriculars, less “hanging out at the mall.”

Most normal American parents look skeptically at “those kinds of parents.” More normal American kids view such “those kinds of kids” with scorn. If you grow up aspiring to normalcy, normalcy is what you will achieve.

Now close your eyes & visualize which families you knew in the 90s (or even now) who raise their kids according to one model versus the other. Be brutally honest.

“Normalcy” doesn’t cut it in a hyper-competitive global market for technical talent. And if we pretend like it does, we’ll have our asses handed to us by China.

This can be our Sputnik moment. We’ve awaken from slumber before & we can do it again. Trump’s election hopefully marks the beginning of a new golden era in America, but only if our culture fully wakes up. A culture that once again prioritizes achievement over normalcy; excellence over mediocrity; nerdiness over conformity; hard work over laziness.

That’s the work we have cut out for us, rather than wallowing in victimhood & just wishing (or legislating) alternative hiring practices into existence. I’m confident we can do it. 🇺🇸 🇺🇸

[Jackie Ritacco @HappyGrammy]

Why did @VivekGRamaswamy start such an immigrations fire storm?

Brutal truth: We've gotten too comfortable making life easy for our kids.

Working in healthcare, I saw it firsthand. My immigrant colleagues' kids crushed it in STEM and medicine while many American parents sheltered their kids from struggle.

Hard work isn't child abuse. It's preparation for life.

My own wake-up call came watching 16-year-old interns from an immigrant families outworking our entire team.

They had been taught excellence was non-negotiable.

We can't expect our kids to develop grit while we bubble wrap their existence.

Want exceptional kids? Start by being exceptional yourself.

Tough love time: Are we raising the next generation of innovators and leaders, or are we raising professional excuse makers?

What's your take - have we gone too soft on ourselves and our kids?

[Arjun Khemani @arjunkhemani]

Books I reread this year (and will probably reread again next year):

- The Beginning of Infinity by David Deutsch
- The Fabric of Reality by David Deutsch
- Man, Economy, and State by Murray Rothbard
- Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand
- The Meaning of It All by Richard Feynman
- The Ascent of Man by Jacob Bronowski
- Science and Human Values by Jacob Bronowski
- The Myth of the Framework by Karl Popper
- The Almanack of Naval Ravikant by Eric Jorgenson
- Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse
- 1984 by George Orwell

[Robert Greene @RobertGreene]

So much depends on your reputation in life. @ChrisWillx

[Jay Yang @Jayyanginspires]

I revisit this Sam Altman post nearly every month:

[COCO @TWOTIMESABITCH]

someday your kids are going to figure you out. i promise you they will. the type of parent you are. the type of spouse you are. how you treat other people. how much effort you put into them. you are either going to be someone they look up to, or someone they never wanna be like.

[Mutua.base.eth @Mutuabrian_M]

People laughed at the internet in the ’90s. They doubted crypto in the 2010s. Now Web3 is here, and it’s about to change EVERYTHING. Will you adapt or get left behind?

[Ayiela Lucia @ayielar]

It's just occurring to me that we have 2 sets of Millenials. The 80's Millenials who almost behave like Gen X, they have some digital knowledge but prefer the analogue ways and the 90s Millenials who embraced tech and are digital savvy way more closer to the GenZ.
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