Njuguna Ndung'u

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[EMDG @EmanDaGoon]

Beautiful ❤️

[Guinness World Records @GWR]

Couldn't catch him! 🔥 Congratulations to Sabastian Sawe on his fastest marathon (male) at 1:59:30. He also beats Eliud Kipchoge’s fastest marathon distance #londonmarathon @LondonMarathon

[adidas @adidas]

1:59:30. Humanity just got faster.

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#YouGotThis

[World Athletics @WorldAthletics]

HISTORY HAS BEEN MADE 🫨

Sabastian Sawe becomes the first person ever to break the 2-hour barrier in official race conditions, storming to a historic 1:59:30‼️

@KejelchaYomif, on his marathon debut, also breaks 2 hours with a stunning 1:59:41 and @jacobkiplimo2 clocks 2:00:28, also faster than the previous world record 😤

[Sky Sports News @SkySportsNews]

BREAKING: Sabastian Sawe has broken the marathon world record as he wins the London Marathon 🚨

He becomes the first person to run under two hours in a race.

[Njuguna Ndung'u @njogz]

Just made a UI mockup with Claude and it is using Kenyan names like Davide Otieno and Mary Njeri in it's fake data. Small thing but it's made me so happy.

[Njuguna Ndung'u @njogz]

Bringing American tipping culture here and allowing business owners to pass on wages costs to their customers is a big mistake.

[Nyandia Gachago, ACIM @Nyandia_G]

Okay I see this question come up a lot. In East Africa, in most of the hotels I know (A lot since I have had a good run in C-Suite Hospitality locally and Internationally), Most established hotels (typically 3-star to 5-star) split Operations staff compensation into two main parts: 

1. Basic Salary: A fixed monthly wage that covers the standard duties of the role.
2. Service Charge: A mandatory fee (typically 5% to 10%) automatically added to a guest's bill for food, drinks, or accommodation. This is not considered hotel revenue but is a "pooled liability" held in trust for the staff. Tips will often fall here.

So Utapata F&B staff/Kitchen (dining & service), Housekeeping (room cleanliness & laundry), fall here. Hii Payment structure incentivizes high service standards to drive tip revenue.

So ukienda hizi 3-5 star hotels and you are in a position to, just tip. It goes directly to salaries zao. I promise a high percentage are barely making do well.

And yes yes We could always go after these chains owners (pun intended) but mostly it hurts the workers.

[Njuguna Ndung'u @njogz]

People working in tech have been joking about automating themselves out of the job for years and it's finally happening. This will give more companies validation to make cuts.

[jack @jack]

we're making @blocks smaller today. here's my note to the company.

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today we're making one of the hardest decisions in the history of our company: we're reducing our organization by nearly half, from over 10,000 people to just under 6,000. that means over 4,000 of you are being asked to leave or entering into consultation. i'll be straight about what's happening, why, and what it means for everyone.

first off, if you're one of the people affected, you'll receive your salary for 20 weeks + 1 week per year of tenure, equity vested through the end of may, 6 months of health care, your corporate devices, and $5,000 to put toward whatever you need to help you in this transition (if you’re outside the U.S. you’ll receive similar support but exact details are going to vary based on local requirements). i want you to know that before anything else. everyone will be notified today, whether you're being asked to leave, entering consultation, or asked to stay.

we're not making this decision because we're in trouble. our business is strong. gross profit continues to grow, we continue to serve more and more customers, and profitability is improving. but something has changed. we're already seeing that the intelligence tools we’re creating and using, paired with smaller and flatter teams, are enabling a new way of working which fundamentally changes what it means to build and run a company. and that's accelerating rapidly.

i had two options: cut gradually over months or years as this shift plays out, or be honest about where we are and act on it now. i chose the latter. repeated rounds of cuts are destructive to morale, to focus, and to the trust that customers and shareholders place in our ability to lead. i'd rather take a hard, clear action now and build from a position we believe in than manage a slow reduction of people toward the same outcome. a smaller company also gives us the space to grow our business the right way, on our own terms, instead of constantly reacting to market pressures.

a decision at this scale carries risk. but so does standing still. we've done a full review to determine the roles and people we require to reliably grow the business from here, and we've pressure-tested those decisions from multiple angles. i accept that we may have gotten some of them wrong, and we've built in flexibility to account for that, and do the right thing for our customers.

we're not going to just disappear people from slack and email and pretend they were never here. communication channels will stay open through thursday evening (pacific) so everyone can say goodbye properly, and share whatever you wish. i'll also be hosting a live video session to thank everyone at 3:35pm pacific. i know doing it this way might feel awkward. i'd rather it feel awkward and human than efficient and cold.

to those of you leaving…i’m grateful for you, and i’m sorry to put you through this. you built what this company is today. that's a fact that i'll honor forever. this decision is not a reflection of what you contributed. you will be a great contributor to any organization going forward.

to those staying…i made this decision, and i'll own it. what i'm asking of you is to build with me. we're going to build this company with intelligence at the core of everything we do. how we work, how we create, how we serve our customers. our customers will feel this shift too, and we're going to help them navigate it: towards a future where they can build their own features directly, composed of our capabilities and served through our interfaces. that's what i'm focused on now. expect a note from me tomorrow.

jack

[Njuguna Ndung'u @njogz]

Mark Carney's speech at Davos is worth a listen in full.

[African @ali_naka]

Their Money is in Foreign Banks

Their Property is in Foreign Land

Their children are in foreign schools

They die in Foreign Hospitals

What are you mourning?

Fokof!!

[KamtuKaMbao @kampupi]

Tinga survived everything even covid but couldn’t survive ruto’s presidency.

[Bevalyne Kwamboka @bevalynekwambo3]

Rest in peace.

[Thanos (25/26 🏆) @Muchang_i]

I AM A HAPPY MAN

TO HELL WITH THE BROAD BASED GOVERNMENT

[Billy @tweetsbybilly]

If you're in Nairobi County, I made a custom map showing over 300 gazetted registration centres.

https://t.co/mYRZNuJWSn

[Sam Altman @sama]

gpt-oss is out!

we made an open model that performs at the level of o4-mini and runs on a high-end laptop (WTF!!)

(and a smaller one that runs on a phone).

super proud of the team; big triumph of technology.

[Njuguna Ndung'u @njogz]

There is an opportunity to build verified AI agents. There are already many startups that do KYC and verifying you are who you say you are and I think the next logical step is having a way to verify that an AI agent is truly acting on a user's behalf.

[Cloudflare @Cloudflare]

Perplexity is repeatedly modifying their user agent and changing IPs and ASNs to hide their crawling activity, in direct conflict with explicit no-crawl preferences expressed by websites. https://t.co/yToVAmwcwn

[Njuguna Ndung'u @njogz]

Hi @PeterNduati, I am working on a venture targeted at the insurance industry. Check it out at https://t.co/C1OiLtH4IP. Would love to have you onboard as an investor/advisor if it sounds interesting to you. What would be the best way for me to get in touch?

[Njuguna Ndung'u @njogz]

https://t.co/KMEwOHfHmS

[Njuguna Ndung'u @njogz]

Watching the BBC Africa Eye documentary just reminded me of how patriotic I felt during the finance bill protests.