Ndwiga Irvine 🇰🇪

👨🏿‍🌾 farmer | 💎 founder | 🇰🇪 hustler

[Daily Stoic @dailystoic]

"Devote the rest of your life to making progress." -Epictetus

[Ndwiga Irvine 🇰🇪 @moraythi]

🙌🏾

[Annie Yang @annieqyang]

The most dangerous person in the age of AI is someone who was mediocre at coding but has taste, and can now build anything

[Ndwiga Irvine 🇰🇪 @moraythi]

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[Ali Yahya @alive_]

Barbell strategy for killing it in an age of superhuman AI:

Simultaneously get as close to AND stay as far away from AI as humanly possible.

1. Get close — play with AI models, use them to help you think, ask them to teach you about the world, get them to help you create, work with them to write code, understand what makes them tick, embed them into your everyday life, have fun.

2. Stay far away — learn to tell stories, make eye contact, build a team, lead with courage, connect far-flung ideas, build lifelong friendships, debate persuasively, think forbidden thoughts, handwrite ideas, confess your fears, fall in love.

Spend less time trying to master mental transformations that are purely mechanical — building spreadsheets, analyzing trades, balancing accounts, writing code by hand, following playbooks, searching for needles in haystacks. These are the emerging no-man's land, squarely the domain of AI.

Venture to the extremes. That’s where all the fun is anyway.

[Ndwiga Irvine 🇰🇪 @moraythi]

Oy! 🤣😂😅

[shafu @shafu0x]

forward deployed engineer just means the guy is not fucking autistic

[darkzodchi @zodchiii]

https://t.co/kx4hKgCVSE

[Russell Brunson @russellbrunson]

There will be days you want to quit. Keep going...

[Ndwiga Irvine 🇰🇪 @moraythi]

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[kitze the 🐐 @thekitze]

you are 7 markdown files and 5 cron jobs away from solving your problems and you're laughing at ai slop tiktoks instead, incredible

[Ndwiga Irvine 🇰🇪 @moraythi]

@richardchen39 You know ball

[Ndwiga Irvine 🇰🇪 @moraythi]

@johncoogan I swear we live in a simulation. I just pinged a VC and this was my thought process. I’m already considered washed, so might as well go for it.

[Ndwiga Irvine 🇰🇪 @moraythi]

@james_bachini @BuildOnStellar @OpenZeppelin Awesome! Thank you for this

[Ndwiga Irvine 🇰🇪 @moraythi]

@tonyolendo @blend_money Nah bruv, that would be @blend_capital 🫡

[Ndwiga Irvine 🇰🇪 @moraythi]

@fiddyresearch sir i think we call that @blend_capital

[Ndwiga Irvine 🇰🇪 @moraythi]

“The hardest part is sticking around after every plan gets blown up and you have to rebuild with less optimism and more scar tissue.” 💯

[Hiten Shah @hnshah]

Most people have no idea what it actually takes to be a founder. They talk about vision, grit, or passion. Those words are props.

What you really sign up for is a life where every decision feels like it costs something real. You will spend years being misunderstood. By your team, your family, even the people you hire to help you. You will fail in public and still need to keep the energy up in private. Every founder lives with the weight of knowing that you can do everything right and still get crushed by luck, timing, or somebody else’s mistake.

Founders aren’t braver than anyone else. They just get used to uncertainty, then stop waiting for clarity. Most of your wins won’t feel like wins at all. The first revenue will be too small. The first team will outgrow you or leave. The first product that feels right will barely matter to the market. You will doubt yourself in private, sometimes every week. The founders who last figure out how to keep moving while the ground shifts underneath them.

Most outsiders want the founder badge but none of the scars. They want the upside, not the drag. The hardest part is sticking around after every plan gets blown up and you have to rebuild with less optimism and more scar tissue. What makes it work isn’t relentless hustle or some mythical trait. It’s learning to make peace with constant discomfort, and then making decisions anyway.

If you need constant reassurance, you’ll give up before the real work begins. If you want everyone to like you, you’ll never make the calls that matter. If you can’t handle months where nothing feels certain, this life will eat you alive.

But if you can hold your own in chaos, get better at being wrong, and still want to show up and try again, you just might have a shot at building something that matters.

That’s what it actually takes. And nobody cares until you make it work.

[Justin Welsh @thejustinwelsh]

The world bets against you every single day.

Your job is simply to prove them wrong.

[Orange Book 🍊📖 @orangebook]

Not having any other choice is actually a competitive advantage.

[Russell Brunson @russellbrunson]

Every delay costs you compound growth. Urgency is leverage.

[The Turning Point @theturningpts]

Ego wants to be the expert; wisdom prefers being the student.

The truth is, knowledge doesn’t owe us clarity; it evolves, contradicts itself, and demands we adapt.

The real flex isn’t knowing everything; it’s being willing to unlearn, relearn, and stay curious even when it’s uncomfortable.

Mastery isn’t about control; it’s about surrendering to the fact that there’s always more to see.

[Robert Greene @RobertGreene]

Knowledge is always progressing. Don’t let your ego fool you. You are always knowledge’s inferior.

[Guillermo Rauch @rauchg]

The long way is actually the shortcut

[Ndwiga Irvine 🇰🇪 @moraythi]

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