The Asuran

- Husband of an Angel. Ancient Grandad. Cats & Physics.
- Act according to the maxim where you can at the same time will that it should become a universal law.

[The Asuran @jephcollins]

Peter F. Drucker's management was revolutionary for its focus on setting clear goals, empowering employees, prioritizing customer needs, decentralizing decision-making, and transforming traditional practices. #30Days #PracticeYourManagement

[The Asuran @jephcollins]

@Ondit_O @kamauwaruhiu Born again means symbolic rebirth. While physical birth is but once, the Agikuyu custom allowed for symbolic rebirth into a family and lineage.

[The Asuran @jephcollins]

@timothyturunga The President must of consequence chose between a legacy of competence or wanton machiavellianism.

It is okay to appoint your tribesman but can he at least, and of necessity, be competent? Can you hold him accountable? That's all we need.

[The Asuran @jephcollins]

@Ondit_O @kamauwaruhiu Nonsense. Read. Kikuyu customs were very elaborate and detailed about adaptation and cooption into a family. When that was done it was as good as being born again.

[The Asuran @jephcollins]

@DrJuma_M Mungu mbele 🙏

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@stressjudo @ShegunTweets Yes. In films they do. It would take unimaginable number of hours to build the context that would allow that scene to make sense. So they trust the viewer to use their imagination and get entertained.

[The Asuran @jephcollins]

@MoseO65718 @MrKipkalya It should be MATINA (MATIangi and sifuNA) going by the branding approach that keeps it simple and memorable.

[SimonK @DrSimonMK]

@Netflexxguyy This clearly tells you we've a societal problem. The thuggery we see with politicians, civil servants & people in positions of influence stems from our moral degradation. You're boasting how you conned an organization without blinking!

We need to change or perish coz of greed.

[Sizwe SikaMusi @SizweLo]

Many Africans are proud of Ethiopia for being the only African nation that was never colonised.

However, they rarely say anything about how when Ethiopia defeated European colonial invaders at the Battle of Adwa in 1896, the Ethiopian army was actually marching under the banner of the Christian Orthodox Church.

This was not even a result of modern European colonisation either, as Ethiopia converted to Christianity 1200 years before transatlantic slavery and 1500 years before Africa’s colonisation, around the same time the Roman Empire was only just beginning to tolerate the faith.
In fact, Coptic Christianity in Ethiopia and ancient Egypt developed entirely independently of European colonial influence.

The Nubian kingdoms of Sudan converted to Christianity in the 6th century AD, influenced by Egyptian Coptic and Ethiopian Christian missionaries. The resulting Nubian Christianity persisted for nearly 1000 years, only gradually giving way to Islam after the 13th-14th centuries.

It was actually Islam that prevented Ethiopia and Egypt from spreading Christianity across the Sahel and into West Africa.

It’s true that Western/Protestant Christianity spread through colonial missionary activity in Sub-Saharan Africa. In places like Nigeria, Kenya, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe, and South Africa, the modern religious landscape was shaped by European missionaries and colonial institutions. But that doesn’t take away from 1500 years of indigenous African Christianity.

So, while Christianity is not originally African, it’s also not originally European, having originated in the Levant in West Asia. In fact, large parts of Africa were Christian before many parts of northern and eastern Europe were.

So, when we focus on just one screenshot of Christianity’s spread by European colonisers as the whole story, it erases a rich chapter of African history while attempting to defend it.

The bigger picture is that there was a continuous tradition of African Christianity that existed for centuries as an African phenomenon, completely independent of Europe.

[The Asuran @jephcollins]

@NatyYifru Is it easier to pontificate than to appreciate the nuances of post-independence Africa. We are fragments of past warring ethno-centric kingdoms woven together by only one common string: who colonised us. But we need to start asking better questions - like where do we go from here

[Mohammed Hersi : Mr Optimist @mohammedhersi]

3/3 Consider the numbers that should keep every Kenyan awake at night. The entire Dangote fertiliser investment in Ethiopia is $2.5 billion. We lose comparable sums in Kenya through corruption and shady deals, and nobody is held accountable. A hundred million dollars the kind of money that could set up a meaningful manufacturing operation and employ thousands — disappears into the pockets of a few. We are not poor. We are wasteful. We are not incapable. We are distracted.

Ethiopia is building. Ethiopia is manufacturing. Ethiopia is exporting. Ethiopia is transforming its cities from the ground up and it is doing all of this with remarkably little noise and fanfare.

What would it take for Kenya to match this urgency?

First, we need a moratorium on perpetual politicking. Governance is not a campaign rally. The men and women we elect must be compelled by public pressure, by civic demand, by sheer shame if necessary to spend more time in helping to attract investors to set up factories and not be hurling insults at funerals, more time studying industrial policy than crafting insults for social media.

Secondly we need to learn from our neighbours without the false pride that has long prevented us from doing so. Rwanda taught us about cleanliness and order. Ethiopia is now teaching us about industrial ambition and execution speed. There is no shame in learning. The shame is in refusing to.

I write this as a Kenyan who loves his country deeply. I write it as someone who has watched, from right here in Kenya and i have had the opportunity visit both Ethiopia and Rwanda.

Ethiopia is quietly and systematically building the foundations of an industrial economy while we argue about who said what on social media. We are witnessing the China of Africa rising to our north, and it is doing so with little noise and less fanfare. While we debate, they build while we campaign, they manufacture while we point fingers, they lay foundations.

As always, I choose to remain an optimist. But optimism without action is just daydreaming. And our neighbours have stopped dreaming. They are wide awake and they are building a country their people in Johannesburg, Pretoria, and Cape Town can finally come home to.

Nevertheless I still choose to remain an optimist

[Paul Boag @boagworld]

I spent longer than I'd like to admit still thinking in CSS float layouts after Flexbox arrived. Not because I couldn't learn Flexbox. Because I'd gotten fast and confident with the old approach, and fast and confident is genuinely hard to give up.

That same pattern plays out with every major shift. Responsive design. Component libraries. Now AI. The actual learning curve is usually manageable. The harder part is unlearning the instincts that used to serve you well.

With AI tools, the equivalent isn't about prompting syntax or which model to use. It's letting go of the assumption that your value is in the execution. A lot of what we've been doing manually, AI handles in seconds. The role shifts toward judgment, framing, and knowing when something's wrong.

Which is probably where the interesting work was all along.

#UX #CareerDevelopment #AITools

[The Asuran @jephcollins]

@FaithOdhiambo8 @justinewanda Best LSK president ever, by a mile.

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@HonOscarSudi Wewe focus na kuuza pombe Bruv. Politics zina levels. Ya walking-constitution hata ikiekwa kwa viu sasa, huwezi afford kuiona.

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@kijana_misa 🤣🤣🤣Aki algorithm ya X imedecide aje na mimi? I am too old for this isht.

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@mlaguzi0 🤣🤣 sasa hizi ninini mnaeka kwa internet.

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@Ojayy031 @ivymuthe 🤣 Wewe labda yesu wa tongaren ndio atakuokoa. Juu aii hizi ni dhambi promax.

[The Asuran @jephcollins]

@The_BmR_Empire @JmJuma1 Savage

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@baroswahjr This is Mr. President-in-waiting

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@tin_tinti9 @lynn_ngugi1 Prophet.

[The Asuran @jephcollins]

@ledamalekina I remember when I was introduced to you. At that time you were interested in the presidency and was an idealist with a grand vision for Kenya. Your speeches were inspirational and aspirational.

How far you have fallen. I can barely recognise you today.