Mr. Opany

Systems & processes automation and digitization consultant | Solutions Architect | Chairman @foundershubafri | Founder @Marketfeller

[Mr. Opany @OpanyThinker]

Mzee anasafisha rada lakini kitu hajui ni kuwa watu si wajinga huku.

[Yoweri K Museveni @KagutaMuseveni]

I have just learnt that Senator Cyrus Jirongo passed away last December in a motor accident. I was not aware that he had died.
This is very sad. Jirongo was a good and patriotic leader who served his country with dedication. We shall miss him. My condolences go to his family, relatives, friends and the people of Kenya. May his soul rest in peace.

[Mr. Opany @OpanyThinker]

@VkBoit Angalia Wozzap kindly.

[Mr. Opany @OpanyThinker]

@AlhajiKe My soul doesn't like him. Kumbe kuna kitu?

[Mr. Opany @OpanyThinker]

In Kenya's startup ecosystem, I have suffered financial blows both as a customer (conned) Founder (machozi), investor (conned), and ecosystem builder (machozi). I understand it in and out. And given what I now know, I don't wish to be associated with anything "startups."

[Mr. Opany @OpanyThinker]

@shiambula Number 39 kubwa ama 40 ndogo. This should be a nobrainer.

[TheTruePath @The_Truepath]

HABITS I STOLE FROM PARENTS WHOSE KIDS ACTUALLY LISTEN THE FIRST TIME.

1. They stopped using "sweetie" and "honey".

[Robert Greene @RobertGreene]

What has worth is worth paying for.

By paying your own way you stay clear of gratitude, guilt, and deceit.

It is also often wise to pay the full price—there is no cutting corners with excellence.

[Joan @busayo__joan]

The unsexy, raw realities of a long-term relationship or marriage that no one warns you about:

[Mr. Opany @OpanyThinker]

@lewis_ngunyi 😂

[Mr. Opany @OpanyThinker]

@VkBoit Tulipigia customer care. Will follow up nione kama mtakubali mimi nibaki na 75%

[Mr. Opany @OpanyThinker]

Nafanya injili yenu huku Lower Kabete, UoN buana @VkBoit

Niwekeni kwa payroll

[Mr. Opany @OpanyThinker]

So, official opposition?

Mimi buana going forward adwaro sirkal.

[Royal Ambassador @JaokooMoses]

I'm very pleased with the information that the KDF has cleared Edwin Watenya Sifuna to be placed under Military Protection Protocol. Such an honor was accorded to Raila Amolo and currently Rigathi Gachagua. This effectively means that his security and safety will be GUARANTEED.

[Mr. Opany @OpanyThinker]

@gitongakariuki_ @amerix A word like this exists?

[Robert Greene @RobertGreene]

Make your vagueness attractive by using words of great resonance but cloudy meaning.

[Nanyuki Billionaire🇰🇪 @lewis_ngunyi]

This is very dark, but in 2017/18 I think, I got dangerously close to ending things. Backstory is very long, but that's not the point.

The point is, I couldn't do it because I had built a very intricate theory on Jon Snow as 'Azor Ahai', and Daenerys as the 'Mad Queen' which had been foreshadowed for so long in Game of Thrones. I knew Jon would have to kill her somehow, and then ride a dragon (as he, himself is a Targaryen) to a dragon fight with the Night King.

So I wanted to find out if I was, indeed, right. I dedicated my life to waiting out Season 8 of Game of Thrones, while rewatching the show to see if I'd missed any more cues, then I'd be gone after Sn 8. And the more rewatches I made, the more of the original material and sub-reddits I read, the more convinced I got that there surely, must be a purpose for me somewhere, however small. But my life was so burdened by (what are now) such trivial weights to bear that I was convinced that either life itself, or me, must die for me to be fine.

Maester Aemon's statement to Jon, however, stuck with me, "Kill the boy, and let the man be born." Jon Snow's story was especially significant for me because he, of all people in the show, had the claim of giving up because he'd been dealt an unjust hand, as I felt at the time. His story answered a very solipsistic question I had then, "but I didn't deserve this," yet he still bore the adventure of his life, unjust as it was, to his ultimate destiny somehow.

The coming back to life of Jon was equally symbolic, in a sense - that he was on a second lease of life. But also, because almost in a literal sense, this represented the 'killing of the boy and the birth of the man'. Everything he did since was resolute. They were choices he made, not merely pre-determined social norms, and he took up the consequences with a clear conscience such that his suffering never needed to be more than the substance of the suffering itself.

To mean that if he broke an arm running, all he had to deal with was the agony of a broken arm, and not existential questions around, 'why did I even go there where they break arms for running?'; because the running, for him, would have been a decision whose consequences, known and unknown, he was okay with in the first place.

He could leave the Night's Watch, pick a new path entirely, marry a queen, go back home etc. I figured that since I was gonna end it anyway, I might as well then pick up a new adventure as my 'second life' at least in the interim, as an experiment until season 8 comes. I had no reason to be anything or anyone so I could be anything or anyone.

I was at this point, as well, struggling immensely with my faith, and stumbled, almost comically upon the verses about New Wine and old wineskins. As well, the words unless a man is born again...I discovered I was due a rebirth of sorts.

I'd been previously constrained by lies, so I opted to pick a path of truth. I haven't been entirely successful at it, not exhaustively at least, but this has formed my foundational higher-self pursuit since. Life has gotten harder, and more complex over time, and I've faced multiple higher-stakes adversities but I have never felt the compulsion to sacrifice my ideals. Not strongly enough at least.

This is not to mean I haven't succumbed to lower-self urges and insticts. This means that they haven't been a consequence of externally-influenced corruption. You couldn't make me do something I believed to be bad, unless I wanted to do it myself.

You could lie to, or manipulate me, or convince me that your way was better modelled, if you were good enough. But could never get me to abandon a post of fundamental truth because of persuasion or personal gain, unless I very badly wanted to pursue that personal gain unjustly myself.

When my livelihood got interrupted by a protracted State-motivated court case during the protests in 2024, I received offers to sell my conscience politically, for a reprieve from my suffering and a substantial financial windfall. It was the first time my new self would be tested unfairly, at that scale, and in service of the man that had been born, I didn't budge. I consider it my baptism by fire moment, because my former self would not have had the resilience to weather that storm.

Anyway, long story short, Game of Thrones saved my life and somehow brought me closer to God and to the man I am, in a very strange process.

A word of advice to young men. If you ever feel like you need to off yourself, it's more likely that you need to kill the boy inside, that the man may be bort, than it is that you need to off yourself on the whole.

I do not know exactly how your life is structured but I believe that you cannot go wrong if you start with;
1. An honest assessment of where your life is, and taking responsibility for it
2. Pursuit of truth as you know it to be, deep down (this is not about 'my truth' btw, but absolute truths)
3. Aiming up, and walking up, despite how many times you stumble
4. Suffering the consequences of a higher pursuit without letting it make you cynical.

Then you probably might just enjoy life in its most basic, boring state. Oh, and watch Game of Thrones, please!

[United Zone @ManUnitedZone]

🚨 Lisandro Martinez when asked who’s his favourite on the @CBSSportsGolazo show:

“Thierry Henry”

Jamie Carragher to Lisandro: “What about the defenders? Defenders look after defenders.”

Lisandro Martinez to Jamie: “I watch quality players” 🤣💀

[Mr. Opany @OpanyThinker]

Nice sport.

[AYO💡💡 @sepril23NG]

When the traps he set for the mice that invaded his farm proved insufficient, the man grabbed his sniper rifle and night-vision scope and hunted the mice down one by one.

[Lion @LionInCrisis]

tiger really be waking up every day just to do absolutely nothing. mf sleeps all day, gets up to piss on a TREE, then walks around like he just conquered the forest, bro catches one deer and suddenly thinks he's him. he's NOT him, this mf stays alone because nobody wants to deal with his ANNOYING ASS. TIGRESS out here raising the cubs while bro is somewhere in the bushes doing fuck knows what. mf don't build shit, don't grow shit, don't help nobody, he just eats, sleeps and kills whatever he can catch, and y'all really got the nerve to call him king. king of what bro? taking naps? this mf got stripes and an ego bigger than his whole body. he literally an oversized house cat with anger issues and a fucking PR team.

[Robert Greene @RobertGreene]

Understand the superior value of getting what you want through hard work.

[Mr. Opany @OpanyThinker]

@muchogokariuki Woi woi woi woi wooi