Jide

diaspora kid building trust infrastructure | founder @ BLIA unlocking African real estate for the world tech + storytelling + stubborn optimism @blia_africa

[Jide @JideThinks]

The diaspora sends $54B to Africa for real estate yearly. Most of it funds theater. Shiny brochures, fake promises, your money gone.

I got tired of watching people get played.
So we built the real thing: @blia_africa

[Jide @JideThinks]

@ijkTA1619 @okaythenfuture You’re arguing that players matter, but also saying that without those players the teams wouldn’t be worse??? Huh?

[Jide @JideThinks]

@ijkTA1619 @okaythenfuture That makes no sense. Do you know the story of Bear Bryant and John McKay?

You’re arguing “players don’t win championships, organizations do” which the Last Dance did a great job disproving

[Jide @JideThinks]

@ijkTA1619 @okaythenfuture In the 60s the Kentucky basketball was dominant with no Black players. Alabama football was dominant with no Black players. Today those teams are still dominant with mostly Black players. It’s difficult to argue they don’t owe modern success to black athletes.

[Jide @JideThinks]

@HowladerAr29033 @okaythenfuture Is that how you believe societies work?

[Jide @JideThinks]

@okaythenfuture I read it as:

People who vilify immigrants don’t recognize how much value they add to their society. Football is an obvious way to point to that. Where would these teams be without immigration?

[Jide @JideThinks]

@Uzumaki_Narutok @NaijaFlyingDr Only if you pay money, go to the restaurant, and actually try the food

[Eche Emole 🅰️🌶 @Echecrates]

@NaijaFlyingDr My own is if you’re going to position yourself as a serious intellectual critic, your analysis should be enriched by having some skin in the game. There’s a difference between a snide tweet and a genuine intellectual contribution.

[Jide @JideThinks]

@godfreyvibez2 @unknownTweed @_JoeAlexanderr Team was 8th when Maresca left btw. No way you can look at the names on this squad and conclude it’s anything better than mediocre

[Jide @JideThinks]

A reminder that cynicism is cancerous. 6 months ago the prevailing wisdom on this platform was this guy would be a fraud. You were told you ignore your instincts and go with people you knew were useless, because cynically they could “manage the office”.

Ignore cynics.

[Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @NYCMayor]

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City workers fix thousands of tiny annoyances every year, from broken basketball rims to bike path bumps. This year, we’re highlighting 16 of those fixes.

From the exacerbating eight to the frustrating four, every item in each round will be repaired…but you’ll be voting on which fix will be done by me on day 100 of our admin.

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[Jide @JideThinks]

This week has confirmed it for me. I canceled my chatgpt subscription and just paid more to upgrade to Claude max

[Jide @JideThinks]

@okaythenfuture Haiti’s tragedy is that external oppression and internal dysfunction reinforced each other in a doom loop. The early external punishment made good governance harder, and bad governance made Haiti more vulnerable to external exploitation. The Vietnam analogy falls flat, diff world

[Jide @JideThinks]

The stock market outperforms real estate.
But your grandparents would still leave you the house over a million dollar portfolio.

Why?

For them, land isn’t just wealth.
They don’t care about the math.
You’ll never convince an 80 year old Black elder that a portfolio is better

[Del Johnson @DelJohnsonVC]

I've never said it before, but I'll say it again:

If you exempt an industry from anti-discrimination law (constitutionally dubious)

You end up with an industry that becomes a huge attractor and power accumulation center for the most bigoted scoundrels the country has to offer.

[Jide @JideThinks]

@madwonk @BrianCTabatabai @dylanmatt Also a lot public schools don't take kids in any of the major sports that don't have travel experience. If your school does it probably means your school is trash at the sport

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@jasonxsigmon @natssauer The school in question of course being Lafayette elementary 😂. You guys are so pressed to get your talking points off

[Jide @JideThinks]

@Frediculous You don’t know what you’re talking about

[Jide @JideThinks]

@cedricshine No way you're going to take a man who grew up on jollof rice and cassava leaves and think he'd be impressed with the food in Italy lol.

Get my boy to the Prem so he can get taken care of by some Caribbean gyal dem

[Jide @JideThinks]

@antoniogm Is the implication here that Nkrumah was somehow bad for Ghana????

[Jide @JideThinks]

@t0sinm As someone who went through the old system as a kid, and is going through the system now as a parent. A hill I will die on is that US soccer is behind because of culture. Its not talent, its not money.

MLS Next is free for the best talents, and the outcomes are the same as ECNL

[Jide @JideThinks]

@Trap_Jesus Wait it’s not like this everywhere else??