Jokingly said I’ve never been past Nanyuki so my mom and I decided to make that trip…initially we were to stop at Marsabit but everything was so beautiful tulifika Moyale Ethiopia🥹
Day 1 slept at Archers post
Day 2 marsabit town
Day 3 Moyale Ethiopia things are cheap huko North
Julius Campbell is a WWII veteran who turns 100 next month and still walks to his post each day to help Milwaukee students cross safely. That's 30 years of protecting children and showing what service truly means. We honor him and give him his flowers while he can receive them.
Nicholas Irving, known across the Ranger battalions as “The Reaper,” was one of the deadliest snipers the U.S. Army ever produced.
Through the glass of his SR-25 rifle, lovingly nicknamed “Dirty Diana”, he ended insurgent after insurgent with cold, surgical precision. In a single deployment he racked up dozens of confirmed kills, a number that climbed faster than most snipers manage in an entire career. To the men on the ground with him, he was a guardian angel perched on a rooftop & to the enemy, he was a ghost they never saw coming.
But every trigger pull left a mark that bullets never could. The faces stayed with him. The sounds replayed on loop. When he finally came home, the war didn’t end. It just changed battlefields. Nightmares, rage, alcohol & suicidal thoughts. He fought them all with no spotter, no cover, no clear target. The same steady hands that once held a rifle at 800 yards now shook when he tried to hold his own life together.
Then, in 2016, his son was born.
That tiny heartbeat gave him something the battlefield never did. A reason that outweighed the pain. He got sober. He started talking, really talking about what he’d seen & what it had done to him. He wrote books, spoke to veterans, mentored younger troops carrying the same invisible wounds. He turned the same relentless focus that once tracked targets across Iraqi rooftops into rebuilding himself, one day at a time.
Nicholas Irving learned that real courage isn’t always measured in kills or medals. Sometimes it’s measured in the quiet, brutal fight to get out of bed, to stay alive & to become the man your Child believes you already are.
The Reaper didn’t die in war. He chose to live afterwards & that took more guts than any shot he ever took. ❤️
Frontiers of Colonialism
ed. Christine D. Beaule, Univ Pr of Florida 2017
Preliminary Material & Ch.1 Challenging the Frontiers of Colonialism , Christine D. Beaule
PDF 🎯
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My weekend read - 'Taxing Mobile Money: Theory & Evidence' by the International Monetary Fund.
4 key take aways from my reading:
· The tax is regressive, it increases transaction costs disproportionately for unbanked users
· The tax increases informality since it triggers a substitution effect where those most affected switch back to cash
· The tax creates dead weight loss (i.e. The increase in users’ transaction costs > the increase in tax revenue realised)
· The tax is inefficient, with the excess burden reaching about 1/3rd of revenue collected. This ties to the dead weight loss argument above
Suffice it to say, per IMF's analysis mobile money taxation based on transaction value is a poor tax policy instrument.
You don’t realize how ruthless the burden of performance is until you stop performing for a while and watch how fast people’s respect evaporates; as a man you’re not graded on who you were, only on what you can deliver today, and that reality doesn’t care how you feel about it.
A professor once explained ‘marketing’ like this:
1. You tell a girl, “I’m rich, marry me.”- That’s Direct Marketing.
2. Your friend tells her you’re rich- That’s Advertising.
3. She walks up to you and says, “You’re rich, marry me.”-That’s Brand Recognition.
4. You tell her you’re rich and she slaps you. - That’s Customer Feedback.
5. Before you say anything, your wife arrives.- That’s Market Restriction. 😄
Beginning of Jan, I wrote done 365 things I wanted to accomplish this year. No matter how big, small or silly it was, I wrote them down and said I would open that book end of Dec and tick off all the things I managed to do…
this has been a very productive weekend. back to back thanksgiving dinners which were a success! patronise me for all your private catering and meal prep services! DM for details