KC Maiyo

| Just a simple guy trying to figure out my role & place in life, you can follow me if you like, but I don't know where I am going yet.|

[KC Maiyo @kcmaiyo]

Sunflower Friday.
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Embracing Love.
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@VincentOshana DEI

[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. 🇺🇸 🇺🇸

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@Toaster_Pastry 😆😆

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What’s in a reflection?

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There’s sunsets, then there’s this one.

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@elonmusk @NPR @elonmusk , you shouldn’t be the first to throw a stone if you live in a glass house.

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@elonmusk Wasn’t @SpaceX partly funded by tax payers?

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Sunset at Sleepy Hollow State Park.

@MiStateParks @PureMichigan @awesomemitten @MichiganTourism

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Incredible sunset at the Grand River.

[Oakland County @OakGov]

What a stunning sunset from Lake Sixteen! Thanks for sharing your beautiful shot, @kcmaiyo.
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[TUKO.co.ke | The Heartbeat of Kenya @Tuko_co_ke]

US-based Kenyan photographer KC Maiyo partners with Michigan State Parks, Trails and Waterways as their photo Ambassador in 2023.

"My photography journey started during the pandemic as a way of using my free time. Two years later, this is where passion has brought me."

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@MightyBobby47 @Tuko_co_ke https://t.co/t3YcOW9EYm

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@Tuko_co_ke Thank you for sharing. Here’s my Instagram.

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Another day ni @PureMichigan

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@60Minutes At least Canada admits it’s horrific past, the US has been relentless in blocking inhumane treatments of blacks.

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@SenGaryPeters Hello, I’m a nurse living in Michigan. I, & many other nurses are strongly against RN wage cap proposal, instead, let’s cap the outrageous prescription prices, stand with the working class, not hospital administrators/millionaires.

Sincerely,
Concerned & Tired RN.

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@SenStabenow @POTUS @SenateDems Hello, I’m a nurse living in Michigan. I, & many other nurses are strongly against RN wage cap proposal, instead, let’s cap the outrageous prescription prices, stand with the working class, not hospital administrators/millionaires.

Sincerely,
Concerned & Tired RN.

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@RepSlotkin Hello, I’m a nurse living in ur district. I, & many other nurses are strongly against wage cap proposal, instead, let’s cap the outrageous prescription prices, stand with the working class, not hospital administrators/millionaires.

Sincerely,
Concerned & Tired RN.