Matsobane

[Matsobane @ItuRamphisa]

@Stake Can't wait

[Sam Altman @sama]

one of the quotes i find most inspiring on a hard day:

"Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with all your might, for in the realm of the dead, where you are going, there is neither working nor planning nor knowledge nor wisdom"

Ecclesiastes 9:10

[Ben Wilson @BenWilsonTweets]

"Only by being able to endure what people cannot bear, can you do what people cannot do."

- John D. Rockefeller's Letter to His Son

[SAWCE. @mnqobi_ngubanee]

BOYS OF SOWETO - The Towers Knitwear Golfer CNCPT | Designed by Myself

[Mbongiseni Mbatha @Mbatha10]

Frame 1 - 2023 and Frame 2 - 2025

How running saved my life 👌🏿

[My Mixtapez @mymixtapez]

Master P reveals he’s making custom colorful wheelchairs for kids in need 🙌🏽💯

[Matsobane @ItuRamphisa]

no nobility in wealth either, money can't justify you

[Dhaboy 😎 @dhaboy01]

Too real..

[Matsobane @ItuRamphisa]

@krishdotdev I can't remember if I have ever been on Instagram.

[Valentina Vee @valentinavee]

how it started / how it’s going

[Dr. Tau Braun @drtaubraun]

At 52 years old, I can tell you, with certainty, that the majority of the world is retarded.

[Steve the Beaver @beaversteever]

I was confused when the new intern said my name 10 times in the span of a 2 minute conversation,

then I saw this on his desk:

[History ZAR @HistorySAZAR]

Fathers carry each other’s sons at a protest march by residents of Port Elizabeth in the Eastern Cape during nationwide calls for the abolition of segregation. Photo by Cecil Sols

[Ponzi Trader @buyerofponzi]

Gm

[Nathan @OIuwatosin]

If babies understood embarrassment, most of them would never learn to walk or speak because of the amount of failure required to improve.

This was one of our first lessons in life but somehow, we forgot

[Andrew Côté @Andercot]

I used to work 6am - 6pm, 6 days a week, on a construction site in my early 20s.

Honestly? It fucking sucked, dude. I would sit in my car outside the site at 530am, desperately drinking a coffee, telling myself over and over again, "god I wish I was in sciences"

Because every night when I got home what did I do? Watch Walter Levin MIT Open Courseware physics lectures. I had already exhausted all the popular science books long before so just started on undergrad level physics. The alternative was drinking a six pack of beer like everyone else and watching bullshit TV.

The construction site job was actually better than what I was doing before. Landscaping, stone masonry shit. Backbreaking labor, truly. Breaking concrete slabs up with a sledgehammer and carrying bricks all day. That's literally a punishment in prison.

There was a company event for the property development Corp doing the construction I was working for where everyone talked about their degrees. Most people had been at the company for almost a decade, did random unrelated degrees.

I realized. If I didn't take control of my life the years would tick by. So I went back to school for engineering physics at age, like, 25. I probably wouldn't graduate until I was 30, but shit.

You're going to turn 30 one day anyway. Might as well be doing something you chose.

A year into schooling I had my first paying job in a physics lab, basically minimum wage, but my god. I was getting paid to work in a physics lab. I could drink coffee and read papers, build cool stuff. It was insane.

The kids around me had no idea how lucky we were to be there. They hadn't suffered being trapped in dead end jobs that leave you too exhausted to really think, plan, get ahead. So I viciously worked my ass off through out engineering physics to play the game as best I could. Get the best internships, connections, etc. By the end of undergrad I was taking graduate level classes and outperforming the PhD students at them.

Everything since then had gone better than I could've imagined. I used to think - wow, the dream would be designing fusion reactors, if only. Now I have patents in fusion reactor design. I've worked on particle accelerators, LEO satellite communications, beam driven fusion devices, finite element analysis for RF source design at SLAC.

So no. Fuck mind breaking manual labor. Leave it for the robots. Choose your own path.

I will say though. There are few things as therapeutic and full body workout as shoveling sand. I can show you at least a dozen different sand shoveling techniques to work every muscle in your upper body. Also wheelbarrow technique.

[Matsobane @ItuRamphisa]

@Miggs_NotMigos Bangers!

[GOD GULUVA @Zweli_Thixo]

Meet Mr Mongwane who I consider one of the best lawyers in South Africa, someone was owing me R20,000 for 6 months, and they didn't want to pay me back.

He asked, “Any proof that they owe you money?” I told him no, I gave the person cash. He then instructed me to write the person a whatsApp text to pay me my R50,000. I was now confused, “Sir, but what he is owing me is R20,000.”

He looked at me and said, “Don't worry, just do as I have told you.” Well, I continued and did as I was told and sent a text to the guy and told him he owes me R50,000. The person replied and said “What!! Uyanya NO, I owe you R20,000 and not R50,000.”

I then showed Counsel Mr Mongwqne the reply. He was like “Take a screenshot of that Message, that is the evidence we will use in court that he owes you money.”

Today we won the court case and I will be getting my money.🫡

[AI with MERLIN @Weeleey6]

Men celebrate things they tried soo hard to achieve. Birthday is not one of them.

[Jeremy Trimble @jeremytrimble]

I didn’t start doing physics until I was 33 and now I work on a cutting edge research project at one of the top labs in the world. You can just do things

[Matsobane @ItuRamphisa]

@Zoe_Modiga The way you held composure after that closing remark was powerful, salute!