Kos Ngune

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[Moe @moneyacademyKE]

43% of young Kenyans aged 20–29 are now borrowing money to meet daily expenses, according to an Old Mutual report

[St.Paul's University @SPUKenya]

Until you see the results, never delete the PDFs
~ John F. Retaker~ (1846)

[hayden @haydendevs]

i dont think i can pass a technical interview anymore

[🥷 @_iamhabeeb]

One of the cruelest things poverty takes from you is the freedom to make mistakes. Every decision has to work.

[Moe @moneyacademyKE]

KRA has been blocked from taxing property service charges collected by management companies.

The Tax Appeals Tribunal ruled that the money belongs to property owners and is not subject to VAT or income tax.

[Floro S. @sflorimm]

If you join a startup and they give you:

- a MacBook
- Codex and Claude subscriptions
- your job offer on a Sunday night
- a random urgent task on your first day
- a founding team with kids

you’re probably in the right place.

If they give you:

- a Windows laptop
- one responsibility for the next six months
- Outlook
- PowerPoint decks
- an office on the outskirts of town

good luck. You’re going to need it.

[Mwangî @archiemwas]

Our ICT guy quit citing “hostile environment” allegedly and I think management is regretting. That guy had only two cons: fat and untidy but he could fix anything. Even your life. Software, hardware, furniture, anything. Now they have to pay to source people for each problem

[Fox News @FoxNews]

EXCLUSIVE: Former NBA first-round pick Royce White says he's declaring for the 2027 WNBA Draft, claiming he now identifies as transgender for the purpose of playing professional basketball.

The 6-foot-8 former Houston Rockets draft pick follows fellow former NBA player Enes Kanter Freedom, who announced his own plans to declare amid the growing debate over transgender athletes in women's sports.

White told Fox News Digital he believes he'd be "unstoppable" in the WNBA and suggested he could pursue legal action if denied an opportunity to play.

White said the move is meant to challenge the WNBA to clearly define its eligibility rules for transgender athletes, saying: "I'd like to know what the parameters are."

[Polymarket @Polymarket]

JUST IN: WNBA Commissioner announces the league is meeting to review what a woman is, after multiple former NBA stars announced plans to join the league.

[@LegalEase_KE🇰🇪 @LegalEasy_KE]

Taxation 101

A party litigating through the services of in-house counsel is not entitled to Party & Party costs since such a party is deemed as "acting in person".

[Owen @Owennfa]

I Paid off my mortgage last month. Thirty years.

Bank sent the deed over, congratulations, it's yours free and clear.

Two weeks later the county tax bill shows up. $9,400. And that's not a one time thing, that's every year until I die.

Stop paying it and eventually they take the house. The one I just spent three decades buying.

So what actually changed here?

For thirty years I paid a bank so I could live in my own house. Now I pay the county so I can live in my own house.

Different envelope. Same arrangement.

Nobody ever finishes paying for a home. You just run out of banks.

[Neet @neet_sol]

Employment is a humiliation ritual

[Moe @moneyacademyKE]

The Communications Authority of Kenya has opened a regulatory sandbox for tech developers.

The platform allows startups to test 5G, IoT and cybersecurity solutions in a controlled environment before applying for full market licences.

[Polymarket @Polymarket]

JUST IN: Billionaire John Morgan declares his children must sign prenups before marriage — or they’ll only inherit $1 million a year.

[Turner2😅 @Harrkejdj]

Here is a summary of a series of challenges being experienced by Affordable housing home owners. Just watch and decide for yourself of you want to endure this as your hard earned home.

[The Kenyan Vigilante @KenyanSays]

Netizens and Rift Valley residents were left shocked by this old white man's mastery of the Swahili and Kalenjin languages.

[Lumen @lumenxbt]

Ten million people have watched an MIT professor accidentally destroy the executive coaching industry.

He filmed the lecture once in January 2018 and died eighteen months later.

Executive coaches charge fifteen thousand dollars a session to teach a third of what he covered in one hour for free.

His name was Patrick Winston. He ran the MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory from 1972 to 1997 and wrote the AI textbook every computer science major in the world read for thirty years.

Every January for four decades, he gave a lecture called "How to Speak."

His entire framework fits on a napkin.

Do not read. Be in the image. Keep images simple. Eliminate clutter. Start with an empathetic connection. End with a punch line the audience can repeat over dinner. Never open with a joke. Never end with "thank you."

That last rule alone has probably cost the executive coaching industry a hundred million dollars.

"Your success in life will be determined largely by your ability to speak, your ability to write, and the quality of your ideas. In that order."

That is the actual opening line of the lecture. Winston believed it strongly enough to spend fifty years teaching computer scientists how to talk.

Founders spend $80,000 on an MBA and then hire a communications coach to teach them the same material Winston filmed once for free. Engineers write brilliant code and lose promotions to teammates who watched this lecture on the train.

The lecture is free on MIT OpenCourseWare. The textbook is free on his page.

Winston died in 2019. Almost none of the ten million viewers have actually implemented the four rules on the napkin.

The napkin is free. The willingness to actually use it in your next meeting is the entire edge.

[aether @bluewdrift]

With books unread, muscles untrained, and thousands of skills untouched - if you're bored, you're not even trying.

[Tech with Mak @techNmak]

"Do not learn to code" is the worst career advice of the decade.

People are telling college students to skip Computer Science because AI will just automate it all. Andrew Ng just killed this myth at Stanford with a brilliant analogy.

When he tried to generate images with Midjourney, he typed: "make pretty pictures of robots" and got garbage.
His collaborator, however, understood Art History. He knew the exact vocabulary of lighting, genre, and palette. He spoke the "language of art," and generated masterpieces.

Andrew Ng is seeing the exact same thing happen in software engineering right now.

AI didn't replace the need to understand Computer Science. It made Computer Science the required vocabulary to control the AI.

If you don't understand how computers actually work, you are just typing "make a pretty app" into Cursor and shipping fragile, unscalable logic.

Here is Andrew Ng's exact hiring hierarchy today:

Level 1: 10 years of experience, but codes by hand (He won't hire them).
Level 2: Fresh college grad, but highly fluent in AI-assisted coding (He hires them over the 10-year veteran).
Level 3 (God Tier): Deeply understands CS fundamentals AND uses AI-assisted coding.

When humanity went from punch cards to keyboards, coding got easier, and more people coded. We are at that exact inflection point again.

AI doesn't replace fundamentals. It multiplies them.

[Cyprian, Is Nyakundi @C_NyaKundiH]

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