Mshila Sio

[Mshila Sio @mshilasio]

Using 4 quartz of electricity and 24 liters of water while at it

[Justine Moore @venturetwins]

Me using Claude Opus 4.8 to rename a file

[Nderi, J @nderi_j]

Lesson; you can't financially engineer your way out of an economic problem. At best, all you'll do is buy time.

[Guinness World Records @GWR]

Congratulations to Max Dowman, who has become the youngest person to win the Premier League 🏆

[Mshila Sio @mshilasio]

@KikondeMwatela @SamoraKariuki I’d like to circle back to this conversation. As per my last email… ahem.
I will NOT be buying and barbecuing a Dorper

[Mshila Sio @mshilasio]

@KikondeMwatela @SamoraKariuki I’ll buy and bbq a Dorper if Arsenal don’t win the league or UCL next season

[Nderi, J @nderi_j]

In short you are guilty until proven innocent... a broke govt is a very bad thing!

[OmiFlo Africa @OmifloAfrica]

🎉 100,000 views.

When we set out to fix broken sanitation in Sub-Saharan Africa with floating plants, we weren't sure the world was watching.

It is. 🌍

Thank you for being part of the movement. Clean water shouldn't be a privilege and together, we're proving it doesn't have to be.

▶️ Watch: https://t.co/JbtvNSaJzQ

#GreenTech #Sanitation #WaterForAll #Omiflo #PHYTOFIX #ClimateAction

[Mshila Sio @mshilasio]

@SafaricomPLC why does your app care whether or not I’m using private relay on my phone?

I can’t use it anymore it asks for verification every single time

[Kikonde Mwatela @KikondeMwatela]

@asemota has made this point recently. I was just looking at a company that I invested in that went through a world of hurt that would have killed any business. They recently concluded a fundraiser and I was assessing their cap table and it was dozens of small cheques raised in the US. They enjoyed the tailwind of being a selected YCombinator portfolio company. In short, YC is really more YCommunity than anything else.

Now, if you then look at our own local investment culture into early technology businesses, there’s simply no community unless through external force. SACCOs have proven very successful in Kenya because they are community but of course, they are inadequate and not fit for purpose for new industries like technology. This has led me to believe that community-building is actually one of the most critical skills required in Kenya and that the University diplomas in Political Science, Anthropology and so forth are actually very high value skills if applied in the right contexts (not just electoral politics).

I studied PoliSci and it helped me when building a grassroots network for Twiga’s farming supplier network. We built a nationwide Farmer Engagement Program, had offices etc across 40 plus areas in Kenya. That was a political program to mobilize food supply and it worked. Can we develop political programs to mobilize capital resources for early stage companies and how do we do that?

In a sense that is what the NGO, humanitarian and environmental sector are for expatriates. A founder leading a climate impact company from say Denmark, will find a network of European professionals across sectors ready to mobilize to support that endeavor. Kenyans are like buoys, floating, visible but stagnant and working hard against a current. Young Kenyans cannot just adopt technical skills but must develop broader skills in these community development areas to help institutionalize their knowledge beyond themselves which is what a community is.

Worth thinking about.

[Mshila Sio @mshilasio]

@KikondeMwatela @nderi_j “Amekauka” fitness levels

[Mshila Sio @mshilasio]

Leverage activated

[Moe @moneyacademyKE]

Uganda secures two board seats at Kenya Pipeline Company after threatening to withdraw support for KPC IPO.

The move saved the sale of Kenya’s 65% stake, which was at risk of collapsing amid low investor commitments.

[Mshila Sio @mshilasio]

I saw a presentation at our school. The kids were presenting mathematical challenges and having physical play simultaneously. Footballs, tennis balls and other things flying around. We dodged blackboard erasers so it’s not too different… but I was impressed nonetheless

[⚽️Pedro Mendonça🧠 @PedMenCoach]

At Arsenal FC, players must be alert from the very first minutes of training.

Under Mikel Arteta, the staff constantly use balls of different sizes to trigger reactions.

Perception.
Immediate focus.
No autopilot.

From the first touch, the brain is on.

[Mshila Sio @mshilasio]

@KikondeMwatela @MisterAlbie Abegistan is such a well crafted nickname. There’s no fat, you cannot add or subtract 😂

[SokoAnalyst @SokoAnalyst]

KRA is busy collecting our taxes & even before they deposit with CBK, the political class vanishes with the taxes. Someone share this Kenya Kwanza & OD.

[Guillem Balague @GuillemBalague]

Now that Arsenal fans are booing their own team and former players are lining up to criticise, let me offer the bigger picture, the one you hear across Europe.

Arsenal are not seen here as a team that has stalled. They are seen as a reference point. As the team many look at when trying to understand where elite football is heading.

The game has shifted, it is no longer enough to dominate the ball or to attack well. The top sides now compete in, and often decide matches through, the four phases that make teams excellent: organised attack, attacking transition, defensive transition and structured defence. At the highest level, those phases matter more than possession percentages or aesthetic debates.

This is where Arsenal stand out.

Under Mikel Arteta, Arsenal control space, time and another very important element, rhythm. They are aggressive without being chaotic, but can create chaos to find gaps, they are compact without being passive. Their pressing is prepared in detail, lose the ball and the reaction is immediate. The opponent is denied oxygen.

Across Europe, this is understood as modern dominance.

The key battleground today is transition. Not what you do with the ball, but what happens the instant you lose it. Defensive rhythm has overtaken offensive rhythm. Space is smaller and time is shorter. The teams that survive are the ones that arrive first, win duels, plus reset order before danger appears.

Arsenal do this as well as anyone.

In Europe, Arsenal are seen as a team that has absorbed Guardiola’s ideas and pushed them forward, they have strengthened them for a football world that now plays faster, presses harder, and it totally punishes hesitation.

At the very moment Arsenal are being questioned at home, they are being analysed as a model.

Progress is often uncomfortable and it rarely moves in straight lines. Arsenal don’t look lost. In my eyes they look early!

[Moe Suttle @moesuttle]

This how I know you don’t even watch your bestie’s podcast because if you did, you’d just share this clip from his episode with Jon Stewart to your “big brother” before he published his stupid book.

Next time, listen to Trevor.

[Mshila Sio @mshilasio]

@sholard_mancity Following patiently

[Mshila Sio @mshilasio]

@komu_wairagu This is how we know 2026 will be incredible. Nitafute please

[Komu Wairagu @komu_wairagu]

Turkana's oil field development plan(FDP) is before parliament. The oil will be transported via trucks(no pipeline) and the first oil will be trucked at the end of the year.

Small thread with useless figures and thoughts.
1/n

[Mshila Sio @mshilasio]

@komu_wairagu Great thread Komu

[Mshila Sio @mshilasio]

@nderi_j @KikondeMwatela Kenyan version of Krav Maga 😂