Mr Artdevivre

TAO of refined anyhowness

[Mr Artdevivre @mrartdevivre]

Why do the so called new elites and socialites of Nigeria have their car seats all wrapped in PE (plastic bags/covers)?

Please enlighten us. Those seats were made to be sat on #povertymindset #bushmen

[Mr Artdevivre @mrartdevivre]

Add Egypt 🇪🇬 to this list

[MaZwangendaba @mamakaCleo]

As long as you are black avoid these countries:
UAE
Kuwait
Oman
Bahrain
Qatar
Saudi Arabia
Cambodia
Lebanon etc
You might think you are safe but their hatred for black people knows no bounds. In their eyes you got no rights and you are already guilty of something

[Tucker Carlson @TuckerCarlson]

Russia’s longtime foreign minister describes the war with the United States and how to end it.

(0:00) Is the US at War With Russia?
(12:56) Russia’s Message to the West Through Hypersonic Weapons
(17:47) Is There Conversation Happening Between Russia and the US?
(23:18) How Many Have Died in the Ukraine/Russia War?
(28:21) What Would It Take To End the War?
(36:11) What Happened to Alexei Navalny?
(39:45) Boris Johnson Wants the War to Continue
(45:43) Sanctions on Russia
(56:31) The Chinese/Russian Alliance
(1:02:18) Who Is Making Foreign Policy Decisions in the US?
(1:05:05) Biden Pushes the US Toward Nuclear War Before Trump Takes Office
(1:08:52) What’s Happening in Syria?
(1:13:08) Lavrov’s Thoughts on Trump

[Mr Artdevivre @mrartdevivre]

@morpheuswhale Done

[Mr Artdevivre @mrartdevivre]

@Badiru_ Pls dm

[Mr Artdevivre @mrartdevivre]

@KamalaHarris No you can’t 😂

[GREG ISENBERG @gregisenberg]

Status symbols today:

- Long Strava runs
- Empty calendars
- Caring about microplastics
- Electric cars
- Mortgage rate below 3%
- Having lots of followers or being off social completely
- Being sober
- Eating "clean"
- Type of water you drink
- Private school for kids
- Traveling to Japan
- Premium skincare
- 2nd house
- Backyard pizza oven
- 2+ fridges
- Sauna/cold plunge regiment
- Charcuterie boards
- Private chef
- Dyson vacuums
- Beautiful workstation
- Le labo products
- Second hand goods with stories
- Eating organic
- HiFi audio
- Reading books
- Work-life balance
- High end coffee regiment
- Digital detoxing

What did I miss?

[Osaretin Victor Asemota @asemota]

Funny observation: People who post a lot of rubbish here and insult others do not try it on LinkedIn. Why?

It is too close to their money and livelihood.

Seems that there is something here that changes people into the worst version of themselves and on LinkedIn, they behave.

[Ben the Seer @MikaelCBernard]

Na,

Rehoboam is not going against Dangote. He’s doing what Putin did to Boris Berezovsky and the oligarchs in the early 2000s.

Rehoboam is consolidating power. It’s a “Bow to me or I crush you” situation.

I believe Alhaji would bend the knee and they’d sign a consensus.

And if Alhaji doesn’t bend the knee, he’d replace him with Wale Tinubu, or use NNPCL as a front to take control.

The Meffy X Alhaji heist is just a distraction.

[Osaretin Victor Asemota @asemota]

I have studied many “rich Africans” and one thing I can say is that amongst them are some of the most insecure people in Africa. I love comfort and believe everyone who has means should get comfortable. When you have to flaunt that comfort then there is something deeper at play.

[Osaretin Victor Asemota @asemota]

Take care of yourself first before you care what others think about you. Those who take care of themselves are happier and can achieve more. It is the first secret of success. Many want to jump to the answer without solving the question.

[Mr Artdevivre @mrartdevivre]

@JasonNjoku @LordshipAbba 🤣🤣🤣

[Mr Artdevivre @mrartdevivre]

@hackSultan Same way that I noticed on the menu of a top restaurant in Lekki where a bottle of billecart salmon champagne was listed at 22000 NGN while same bottle sells for 40€ a bottle at the winery in France and about 120€ at restaurants 🤦🏾‍♂️

[Osaretin Victor Asemota @asemota]

I have read this thread several times and shake my head each time. My first corporate client was a firm. They grew oil palm and processed it at Okomu in Nigeria. I knew how hard it was for the seven years I was with them. Africa is rich but we are not wealthy. Wealth is knowledge

[Mr Artdevivre @mrartdevivre]

@winexviv At cruise altitude/mid flight in a pressurized aircraft, she can not simply open the emergency exit even if she wanted and tried. Compression & torsional forces are acting on the fuselage concurrently and hence laws of physics and aerodynamics apply. However, that can be scary.

[Osaretin Victor Asemota @asemota]

Screw it, let me write it.

If you are a black African, without a cofounder who is not black (as I had), and trying to sell to enterprise software or services to people in Africa who are black, you will crumble fast without playing stupid games. Find foreign clients first to validate.

It is a sad fact that we don't trust our own until someone else has validated it. I have been using Calendly to drive impact (and get some income) in the last few weeks and each of the people I spoke with had products that could have potential global reach and I asked a few of them why their minds are still stuck in Africa where you can't even ascertain proper market size? Why can't you build for the world like Tope?

If @TopeAwotona had built for Africa, he would have long been history. I have met several Israeli founders who have this global mindset from day one and their ecosystem supports it. More importantly, they build bridges to those markets. We now have the bridges but they are still looking back home. WTF?

Anyway, back to my original gist. You will crumble if you don't hack the African enterprise market by validating elsewhere. That adage of “nobody ever got fired for choosing IBM” is very true in enterprise. Someone here rightly said that the goal of enterprise SaaS is to make people in enterprise look good and not get fired. That is the simple goal.

I won't say don't play in it because the global enterprise market is massive. If you must in Africa, get a foreign cofounder or you will end up in the mother of all rabbit holes. I lost a lot because I didn't belong to the right clubs or belonged to the wrong nationality and ethnic group. Meanwhile, my Indian competition didn't need to do any of that shit.

They showed workings in other markets and charged double. They were also not above corruption. I couldn't do corruption because I didn't want to and also because it would have been a self fulfilling prophecy. The Indians used Africans to do corruption for them. Those Africans became quite rich.

A caveat, don't use fronts and don't deceive people but know that when you are thinking of building for the world, the world has to trust you. Unfortunately, they don't trust us enough yet and sadly we have to either keep using props or build products 100x better. Both are possible and not mutually exclusive.

Getting foreign enterprise partnerships in Africa is the dream but it is also comes with a lot of compromise. You know they are bullshitting and you play along because you have mouths to feed. I know people playing that game now for decades but I opted out of it. Why? I went outside and saw these same companies hustling and in decline.

Africa is a frontier market that they are bleeding until Africa awakens. The few places worth building for are compromised but more are growing to become big enough. The awakening won't happen because of small startups. You have to go outside to form a Voltron of African enterprise products.

A word is too much for the wise.

[Ewoma Vese @womiv]

1/3rd of Brazil is poor, but most have washing machines, TVs, earn at least $150/month, have constant light, water & at least $150 in social welfare from government, #economics #socioeconomics,
https://t.co/Cbnyrknysk

[Mr Artdevivre @mrartdevivre]

@UncleChike_ @asemota 🤣