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…There’s a drop of greatness in every man | Uncorrelated Asset Class.

[‘Pelu @Pelu_MAF]

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[Mr. Láyí @layiwasabi]

life has fewer pleasures for the ambitious

[‘Pelu @Pelu_MAF]

Life unfairness teaches that he who makes the rule has potential to break it. It is what it is. (And there’s nothing you can do about it!) 😂

[Nikita Bier @nikitabier]

@JensenHuang @nvidia Hello, follow 4 follow?

[‘Pelu @Pelu_MAF]

@nikitabier @JensenHuang @nvidia Life unfairness teaches that he who makes the rule has potential to break it. It is what it is. (And there’s nothing you can do about it!) 😂

[Alex Onyia @winexviv]

I struggle to understand public officials who proudly celebrate sending their children abroad while the schools they oversee are collapsing.

It's not about whether they can afford it. They have every right to spend their money however they choose.

It's about emotional intelligence and leadership.

Publicly celebrating your escape from a system you are responsible for fixing sends the wrong message to millions of families who have no such option.

The goal of public service shouldn't be to build an exit plan for your own children.

It should be to build a country where every parent's child has access to an education so good that leaving becomes a choice, not a necessity.

That's the standard we should demand.

[Jensen Huang @JensenHuang]

For my first post, I’m sharing a letter @NVIDIA signed on why open models matter.

AI will transform every industry, power every company, and be built by every country.

Open models strengthen safety and cybersecurity, accelerate innovation and diffusion, and enable sovereignty.

The world needs both frontier closed models and frontier open models.

https://t.co/AUKzoQ5Ikb

[Alex Onyia @winexviv]

Today, the T.N. Onodingene Family of Abor, Udi LGA, Enugu State, made this facility available for free to serve as one of the 2027 South East Mathematics Olympiad Preparatory Centre and also one of the official examination venues.

The facility features a 60-computer CBT centre, 24/7 internet access, a physical library, an 80-seat conference hall, and three dedicated workstations.

Students from any part of the country are welcome to use the facility free of charge.

This is the kind of investment in education that transforms lives and creates opportunities for generations to come.

We hope to see more families, individuals, organizations, and communities make similar contributions across the South East and beyond.

Please join us in appreciating the T.N. Onodingene Family for this remarkable act of generosity and their unwavering commitment to advancing education and empowering the next generation.

[Timaya @timayatimaya]

GOD can do it again, again and again! Believe…

[Deep Psychology @DeepPsycho_HQ]

"If you cannot call wrong as wrong, you're at the last stage of slavery".

- Che Guevara

[‘Pelu @Pelu_MAF]

In every functional society, the position of the opposition is neither undermined nor destroyed.

GOD no gree wipe out devil, He give am space to dwell! #Omituntun

[Bryan Johnson @bryan_johnson]

This is it.
Everything learned spending millions on longevity.

From: Your Immortal Unc and Auntie.
To: Our Immortal nieces and nephews.

0. Sleep is the world's most powerful drug.
1. Be in your bed for 8 hours
2. Same bedtime every night, any time before midnight
3. Don’t eat right before bed
4. Calm foods for dinner
5. No screens 1 hour before bed
6. Avoid added sugar (be aware it’s in everything)
7. Avoid all things in an American convenience store
8. Avoid fried foods
9. Shoes off at the door
10. Eat whole foods, particularly veggies fruits nuts legumes berries
11. Walk a little after meals or air squats
12. Get your heart rate high routinely
13. Lift heavy things
14. Stretch daily
15. Water pik, floss, brush, tongue scrape, morning and night
16. Make an effort to drink water
17. Get sunlight when you wake up (UV is low)
18. Protect skin in midday sun
19. Stand up straight
20. See at least one friend once a week
21. Avoid plastic where you can (in all things)
22. Circulate air in rooms
23. When stressed, breathe, learn to calm your body
24. Go to the dentist
25. Avoid sitting for long times
26. Protect your hearing, the world is too loud
27. Alcohol is bad for you
28. Finish coffee before noon
29. Avoid bright lights after sunset
30. If obese, look into a GLP
31. Sleep in a cold room
32. Texting while driving is dangerous
33. Turn off all notifications
34. Limit social media use
35. Don’t smoke anything
36. If you struggle to sleep, read a physical book before bed
37. 1 hour before bed have a calm wind down routine: bath, read, light walk, listen to music
38. The body is a clock and loves routine. Have a daily morning and evening schedule.
39. Avoid long distance travel where you can
40. Baby steps first: incorporate new things slowly
41. Do less… most things don’t work.

Bonus points if you get your blood checked.

Start here, it will change your life.

[Michael @OladejiTosin15]

Let me share what I have done in the past as a PmP mapped into the 5 steps from @DrOlaBrown's article.

Quick background so you understand where I'm coming from. During my YCT days, I used to work in some plastic factory hence the reason for my hard palm 😀😅. I also had to borrowed money to pay my first UNILAG school fees. I was visibly pako😀

disclaimer: Me, I’m not trying to be as rich as Dangote or Otedola 😅. far from it.
In fact, I’ve said before that once I hit my personal target of about $2m liquid assets, I’ll probably disappear to Igbotako for community development work and a quieter life.

Also, I am not rich yet. but we thank God

Now, lets see how the steps in the article fit into what I have done ... of course there are other things and steps that help

Step 1: Get into a good university.
I didn't stop at polytechnic. Even at YCT during my ND, I pushed for UNILAG. Finished with First Class in Accounting. BGS in both the department and faculty for both institutions. Over 20 academic awards.

I knew early that my CV has to scream for me given that no one could make the calls for me.

At my Sahara 2016 GMT programme final interview, they projected my CV to the chairman and other board members present at that interview - ND Distinction, First Class, BGS twice, ICAN, ACCA, 20+ awards.

The Chairman and the entire board couldn't even ask me a question. He just said: "Do you have any life? Did you have fun in school?" I can see how impressed and couldnt just say know...I knew I already got the job.

Step 2: Work in financial services.
I moved into consulting, focused on financial services and a very niche complex area (actuarial and quant). And I don't just deliver on client engagements. I want them to see the difference.
Two of the biggest insurance companies CEO in Nigeria wrote to Partner about how exceptional I was on a projects..That actually added more case to a back to back double promotion

I have slept in the office because of client deliverables. not once, not twice as a Senior and as a Manager.
There is no substitute for hard work. I keep telling younger ones this. You cannot shortcut excellence when you don't have connections backing you up.

Step 3: Realise it will take longer.
I play the long game. One reason I stayed back in Nigeria is because I can see the massive opportunities ahead in the space I work in.
The difference in my earnings over the last decade vs now is significant and it's still very far from what's possible.

Today I told some LASU students if they could imagine that some folks earn ₦30m+ per month in this Lagos?
The good thing about the path I chose is that seeing those numbers ahead is always comforting. The ceiling is high. You just have to be patient enough to climb.

Step 4: Grow your network.
Naturally, I am a very shy person. Extremely introverted. But in the last 5 years, I've pushed myself to connect with clients, colleagues, and people outside my comfort zone.
We've won engagements just because of a presentation I did for some years ago.

I make myself available for some pro bono work. My last IFRS 9 video took over 12 hours to produce, even though you all see 4 hours of content.
Some clients call me outside work hours. I focus on how to make them look good with their boss too. Networking is really just giving.

Step 5: Be aggressive about self development.
This is the biggest one for me.
ACCA. ACA. CFA. FRM. SCR. And now actuarial exams IFOA and SOA. Passed 14 papers across both in 3 years. Also failed 10 papers in that same period.
Failing is part of it lol. I'm quite aggressive.

Last December, I was in the office from Dec 26 to 4AM on January 1st writing a 96hour SOA assessment. I actually spent over 80 hours on it.
That means I literally started the new year in the office.
Extreme? Yes. I don't encourage anyone to do that. But that's what it took.

Working your way out of poverty comes with massive tradeoffs. And it's perfectly rational to decide not to do it that way. But if you choose this path, know that momentum compounds.
The early years are the hardest. The loneliest. But every exam, every late night, every relationship you build, it stacks up.

May be when I buy my AMG G 63😎, I will come back and confirm that yes it's possible. for now lets keep trusting the process.

I'm not even rich yet. But I'm always thankful for how far I've come. Grateful for everyone that has been part of my joinery...friends, family, colleagues , scholarships companies, bosses etc

TBT to my 2020 birthday...one clown had to remind me how I be pako for undergrate

[Race 🕊️ @multiplanet1]

Before Elon Musk built rockets, he read every textbook on rocket propulsion ever written.

Not summaries. Not blog posts. Not YouTube videos. The actual textbooks. Cover to cover. Multiple times. Orbital mechanics. Propulsion physics. Materials science. Structural engineering. Aerospace manufacturing.

He did this while running two other companies.

When he walked into meetings with aerospace engineers in the early days of SpaceX, they expected a tech billionaire who would nod along and sign checks. Instead he asked questions so specific they assumed he had a PhD in the field. He didn't. He had a library card and an obsession.

This is the part of the Musk story that nobody wants to hear because it's not glamorous.

The rockets are glamorous. The Tesla reveal is glamorous. The Mars vision is glamorous. Sitting alone in a room reading a 600 page textbook on orbital mechanics at midnight is not glamorous. But it's the actual foundation of everything else.

Most people who want to "be like Musk" study his habits. His schedule. His management style. His tweets. They skip the reading because reading is boring and doesn't look good on social media.

Musk reads 5 to 10 hours a day. He has done this since childhood. His brother Kimbal said he would read two books a day as a kid. Not children's books. Encyclopedias. Science textbooks. Science fiction. History.

By the time he was 20 he had read more books than most people read in a lifetime. By 30 he had absorbed the foundational knowledge of four or five separate industries. By 40 he could hold his own with the world's top experts in rockets, batteries, AI, tunneling, neuroscience, and manufacturing.

This is not genius. This is volume.

The reason most experts can't do what Musk does is not intelligence. It's that they read deeply in one field and broadly in none. They know everything about their domain and nothing about any other. Musk reads deeply across six domains which means he sees connections that single domain experts can never see.

Battery chemistry from Tesla applied to energy storage. Manufacturing techniques from automotive applied to rocket production. Software architecture from PayPal applied to vehicle autonomy. AI research from xAI applied to robotics. Each domain feeds every other domain because one person holds all the knowledge simultaneously.

This is the real superpower. Not IQ. Not work ethic. Not risk tolerance. Cross domain knowledge accumulated through thousands of hours of reading that nobody sees and nobody talks about because it's not exciting content.

I started reading seriously two years ago. Not scrolling articles. Reading actual books and technical material for hours. The difference in pattern recognition after 6 months was noticeable. After 12 months it was dramatic. Ideas from one domain started solving problems in completely different domains.

The secret to Musk isn't in his tweets or his rockets or his schedule.

It's in the thousands of books nobody saw him read before any of it existed.

Reading is the most underpriced asset in the world. Unlimited knowledge, zero cost, available to anyone.

Almost nobody uses it.

[Brad @BradleyKellard]

1. Most people spend their lives “playing not to lose.”

That mindset destroys both investing and life.

When you obsess over protecting downside:
• you avoid risk
• avoid heartbreak
• avoid embarrassment
• avoid uncertainty

And eventually, you avoid growth itself.

[Osaretin Victor Asemota @asemota]

Just maintain the same ratio at any income level.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Incentives drive outcomes

[‘Pelu @Pelu_MAF]

@GraceLaDoja Somebody say GRACE…😎

[Nicholas Fabiano, MD @NTFabiano]

Repetition rewires your brain.

Repeat what you want to become.

This is neuroplasticity.

[Bayo Adeyinka @greaterbayo]

The Yorubas have a way of saying it:

‘Pansa o fura, pansa ja!
Aja o fura, aja jin
Onile ti o ba fura
Ole ni o ko lo’
The dry calabash was careless hence it was plucked. The rafter was careless hence it caved in. The household that is not careful will be cleaned out by thieves