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@NikBoyle @HistoryWJacob 😂

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@John_Attridge 😱 cerebral shootouts may lead to rabbit holes that may not serve the immediate scholarly function.

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@EuginhoCortez In what way(s) was it a myth? Celebrating high school valedictorians? Brilliant professionals in fields like aeronautical or automotive engineering, creatives in the Arts? Paying no attention to gang culture that mainstream media was showcasing? Pray, tell, how was it a myth?

[JJ @Jomilojju]

Men spend more waking hours at work than anywhere else.

It is where performance is the currency. Where output is measured and emotion is not. Where the man who struggles is the man who cannot be relied upon. Where asking for help can cost a man his standing.

The workplace did not create the silence. But it perfected it.

In the UK, work-related stress, depression, and anxiety account for over half of all working days lost to work-related ill health. Men are significantly less likely than women to disclose mental health difficulties to an employer. The disclosure gap is a rational response to a culture that punishes vulnerability with professional consequence.

Suicide is the leading cause of death for men under 50 in the UK. Unemployment and financial pressure are among the strongest predictors. The man who loses his job does not just lose income. He loses the identity the workplace gave him. And in the silence that follows, no system is waiting.

In Nigeria, the stakes are higher and the safety net is thinner. A man who cannot work cannot feed his family. Nine in ten Nigerian men work in the informal economy. For them, there is no sick pay. No employee assistance programme. No HR department with a mental health policy. The economic consequence of stopping is total. So he does not stop. He does not speak. He carries it until he cannot.

The workplace is where the silence is most enforced. It is also where the most men could be reached.

Every organisation that posts about men’s mental health this month without examining its own culture is performing the awareness it claims to address.

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#MensMentalHealthMonth #MentalHealthAwarenessMonth

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@JosephAyuk 🔥Op-Ed worthy piece.

[EGBENCHONG ♊ @JosephAyuk]

In my POV, it will have to be scale. Not the technical definition of scale, but what it actually takes to achieve it.

Tech loves to talk about scale as though it's a feature you unlock after deploying enough servers or adopting the latest architecture. In reality, scale is usually the result of solving distribution, incentives, trust, customer behavior, operations, regulation, and economics. The code is often the easiest part.

This is especially visible in startup ecosystems. Founders often think they're building a technology problem when they're actually facing a systems problem. They app everything. They automate everything. They optimize everything. Yet the bottleneck is often human behavior, organizational adoption, market structure, or institutional constraints. Technology amplifies systems; it rarely replaces them.

That's why so many products that look brilliant in demos fail in the real world, while seemingly simple businesses become giants. People understand the technology. What they don't fully understand is the social, economic, and institutional machinery required to make technology scale sustainably.

[Ihtesham Ali @ihtesham2005]

A TV writer with no philosophy degree read Aristotle, Kant, Bentham, and Scanlon back to back, built a sitcom around what he found, then explained in one book why the trolley problem is no longer a thought experiment and the people who need to understand this most are the ones building AI.

His name is Michael Schur.

He co-created Parks and Recreation and Brooklyn Nine-Nine. But The Good Place was the project that broke him open. On the surface it was a comedy about a woman who accidentally ends up in heaven. Underneath, it was a philosophy seminar. Every episode was built around a real ethical framework. He had to actually understand all of it to make any of it funny.

After the show ended, he wrote the book anyway. He called it "How to Be Perfect." It begins with the most honest opening line in any philosophy book ever written: Should I punch my friend in the face for no reason? No.

That is not a joke. That is his method. He starts with the obvious and builds toward the impossible.

Here is the framework he built, and why the most dangerous people in tech right now are running exactly one of the four schools of thought without knowing any of the others exist.

The first school is Virtue Ethics. Aristotle built it around 350 BCE. The question it asks is not "what should I do?" It asks "what kind of person should I be?" The idea: become genuinely good, and good actions will follow naturally. You build courage. You build honesty. You build practical wisdom. Then you trust the person you built.

The second school is Deontology. Kant built it in the 18th century and it is the exact opposite. Kant did not care about the person. He cared about the rule. His version: act only in ways you would be comfortable turning into a universal law. If everyone lied whenever it was convenient, the concept of truth would dissolve. So you never lie. Even if the truth gets someone killed. The rule is absolute because the moment you make one exception, it stops being a rule.

The third school is Utilitarianism. This is the one that should stop anyone building AI cold.

Jeremy Bentham invented it in the late 1700s. The principle sounds beautiful: the right action is whichever one produces the greatest good for the greatest number of people. Pure math. Pure outcome. Intention means nothing. Only consequences count.

Schur runs it through the trolley problem, the most famous thought experiment in philosophy.

You are driving a runaway trolley. Five people are tied to the main track. You can pull a lever and redirect it to a side track where only one person is tied. Do nothing and five die. Pull the lever and you kill one to save five.

A utilitarian says pull the lever. The math is obvious.

Now the same problem with one change. You are on a bridge above the track. A large man is standing next to you. The physics are clear: if you push him off the bridge, his body stops the trolley. Five people live. He dies. The math is identical.

Almost nobody will push the man. Even people who pulled the lever instantly in the first version refuse.

The utilitarian has no answer for why these two situations feel different. The numbers are the same. The outcome is the same. The only thing that changed is whether you are using another human being as a tool.

That gap between the math being correct and the action feeling monstrous is exactly where AI ethics collapses every single time.

The fourth school is Contractualism, built by the philosopher T.M. Scanlon. It asks the question that Kant's rules and Bentham's math both miss. What principles could be justified to everyone affected? Not the majority. Not the person with the most power. Everyone. Including the one person who ends up on the shorter end of the calculation.

Schur's conclusion is the part that people who live inside growth frameworks and optimization loops will resist the hardest. None of the four schools is correct on its own. Each one has a scenario where following it perfectly produces something most humans recognize as evil. Pure utilitarianism justifies harvesting one person's organs to save five dying patients. Pure deontology says you cannot lie to the murderer asking where your friend is hiding. Each system, taken to its logical extreme, becomes a machine that produces monsters while generating perfect internal justification for doing so.

The way out is not picking the right framework and following it harder.

The way out is using all four as lenses. Ask what Aristotle would do. Ask what Kant would allow. Do the utilitarian math. Then ask Scanlon's question: could you justify this to the person it hurts most?

Where those four answers overlap, you are probably on solid ground. Where they pull in different directions, you are in territory that deserves far more than a two-hour board meeting.

Schur also coined a term that has been stuck in my head since I finished the book. Moral Exhaustion. The feeling of living in an age where you can know, in real time, every ethical implication of every product you use, every company you work for, every piece of code you ship. The gap between what you know and what you can actually change becomes so large that the easiest response is to stop asking.

He says that response is understandable. He also says that choosing not to ask is itself a moral choice, and the consequences of that choice scale in exact proportion to the power you hold.

A person building a product one billion people will use is not operating at the scale where shrugging is a neutral act.

The people who built the most consequential technologies of the last decade were not evil. Most were genuinely trying to do good. They ran the utilitarian math. They saw a billion users. They saw engagement numbers that looked like impact. They optimized for the greatest good for the greatest number and did not notice until much later that the people being turned into variables in the math were still people.

Schur read 2,500 years of philosophy and the lesson he came out with fits in one sentence. You cannot use a single framework because every single framework, followed perfectly, eventually produces the wrong answer.

The people who cause the most damage are not the ones who do not care about ethics. They are the ones who found one framework they liked, felt good about it, and stopped asking.

The trolley problem is not a thought experiment anymore.

It runs on servers. It gets optimized overnight. And the people making those decisions right now have never once asked what Scanlon would say.

[EGBENCHONG ♊ @JosephAyuk]

I understand the direction you are heading, but industrialists don't appear out of thin air. They are usually the product of ecosystems that already have functioning infrastructure, capital, technical talent, supplier networks, and institutions. You can't simply declare that a country needs industrialists and skip the foundations that make them possible.

The countries we admire today didn't jump from subsistence economies to industrial giants overnight. They built layers of workers, engineers, SMEs, financiers, logistics networks, and service providers. Industrialists emerged from those ecosystems and then scaled productive capacity through manufacturing, exports, and value-added industries.

The real issue isn't that Africa has too many entrepreneurs. It's that too much entrepreneurial energy is directed toward rent capture, arbitrage, and surviving broken systems rather than building productive capacity. Industrialists are not an alternative to entrepreneurs; they are what healthy entrepreneurial ecosystems eventually produce.

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[Leke Alder @LekeAlder]

The advantage the old have over the young is experience. The unfortunate thing about experience is that you can't carry it back into the past and apply it. The advantage of youth, on  the other hand, is strength. May that strength not be applied to destructive affection.

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@DrJoeAbah @DrJoeAbah You know things. Plain, simple etiquette.

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@Olu_Lumotz "a country that performs under pressure, but collapses in consistency". ✔️🔥 Gun-to-head performance only delivers momentarily. Excellence is built by and on strategy, systems, structure...

[Olufemi AWOYEMI @OlufemiAwoyemi]

Education is not only about literacy, employment, or certification. Its deeper civic purpose is self-regulation.

An educated citizen understands boundaries, responsibility, and consequence to reduce the cost of deviance in a society.

They are better able to manage choices, respect institutions, and shape the outcomes of their own lives without waiting for the state to direct every action.

This only works, however, where government provides the basic minimums that establish the floor: security, justice, access, opportunity, and credible public systems.

Where that floor exists, education turns citizens from dependants into participants. It gives society the capacity to govern itself from within.

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[Oaks And Lions 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 @oaksandlions]

One of Britain’s most common sayings began over 700 years ago.

“By hook or by crook.”

Today, it means getting something done by any means necessary.

But the origin dates to medieval England, likely as early as the 14th century.

Ordinary people were allowed to gather firewood from common land, but only using simple tools.

A hook to cut branches.
A crook to pull them down.

No chopping down trees. No taking more than your share.

So you gathered what you could...

By hook or by crook.

In other words, do what you must, with what you have.

What phrase have you heard but never understood?

Follow @oaksandlions for more interesting posts like this.

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@JosephAyuk @JosephAyuk
🔥👏🏾 Profound. Unvarnished. Empathetic even. Real, raw discourse that shifts paradigms and initiates practical policy thrusts. Genuine, even if unsexy, systems thinking that helps to build sustainable ecosystems.