Singapore has no minerals. Japan was bombed to rubble in 1945. Vietnam was at war for decades. All three built cities with parks, public squares, functional public transport, and green urban spaces that serve their people.
Walk through Accra, Lagos, Nairobi, Douala, or Kinshasa and find somewhere to sit that is not a shop, a bar, or a church. You will not find it.
These cities sit inside some of the most fertile, green, tropical land on earth. And somehow every trace of it was designed out of the urban experience. No parks. No shade. No public squares. Nowhere a person can simply exist without spending money.
The geopolitics argument runs out when you look at who recovered from worse and built better. We are collectively and embarrassingly disorganized and we need to start saying that out loud.
Change does not start with governments. It starts with enough people refusing to accept this as normal. Share this if you agree. Talk about it. Demand better from your city.
If you’re wondering what happened to the 5G conspiracy theory, just know that both the pastors who spread it and the people who believed it are now using the same 5G network to spread conspiracy theories about vaccines.
The greatest value of marriage for me, is the bet of friendship and nothing reveals how precious and necessary that is, than adulthood. To have someone who is even willing to listen to you and understand you at all, is nothing short of a miracle.
We will continue to speak consciously about how doctors are treated in this country. The time to save our lives in now . Please Nigerians help us amplify this nefarious situation the time is kicking
I've been thinking a lot about how we handle long-running tasks in backend systems.
Durable executions a concept where stuff picks up right where it left off after crashes are a total game changer.
I wrote about how I implemented this in NestJS using Temporal.
👉 https://t.co/pLMaMwHQjN
You’ll have several examples of stable couples in your families & friends and still say ‘how can I believe in love again’ when a random celebrity couple splits.
Yeah, whatever you choose to get influenced by is your responsibility. You can keep outsourcing your values, just don’t blame anybody for that.
You shouldn’t worry too much about the vain pursuit of greatness my friend.
What you must do, is relentlessly“become” the best version of yourself everyday. That much you can control.
The world may not understand it at first, but time has a way of revealing what truly endures.
That's how it has always been.
Truly "I like you because, I love you despite" has always held true.
People often forget that someone is also choosing to tolerate their own red flags, it goes both ways.
We've become too self-centered/absorbed & that's partly the problem.