Nick Twinamatsiko

Books. Buildings.

[Nick Twinamatsiko @TheNicklison]

Always pushing yourself to 100% for clients who can't tell 50% and 100% apart can seem like a curse in the short term, but it's a blessing in the long term.

[Nick Twinamatsiko @TheNicklison]

@BeineByron @EganTabaro44450 @dabirungi Don't forget Ruhima.

[Nick Twinamatsiko @TheNicklison]

There was a time when some people seriously said that our local languages (Runyankore-Rukiga, Luganda, Luo, etc) were in danger of extinction. And very many people believed them.

It's one of the most ridiculous false alarms ever made.

A language like Runyankore-Rukiga is spoken by nearly 10 million people. By 2050, that number will have increased to nearly 20 million people. More than 80% of these people live in the Ankole and Kigezi regions and use the language for just about everything, including news and music consumption. Those who go to church use the language in services. How can a language go extinct when its users are rapidly increasing in number?

[Nick Twinamatsiko @TheNicklison]

@Ruharabu @sejudav I think he knows the difference between evolution and extinction but has to say anything that can make "Bagyendanwa" appear relevant. Fortunately for him, there are lots of people that can't see the hollowness of his statements.

[Nick Twinamatsiko @TheNicklison]

Also, there are people who confuse evolution of language with extinction of language. Going by their logic, English must have gone extinct centuries ago since the English of 15th century Chaucer or even 16th century Shakespeare was quite different from that of 19th century Dickens.

These people will cite some term from 19th century Runyankore that's no longer in use as they argue that the language is going extinct.

Dictionaries are always being updated because languages naturally evolve. That evolution is not extinction.

[Nick Twinamatsiko @TheNicklison]

There was a time when some people seriously said that our local languages (Runyankore-Rukiga, Luganda, Luo, etc) were in danger of extinction. And very many people believed them.

It's one of the most ridiculous false alarms ever made.

A language like Runyankore-Rukiga is spoken by nearly 10 million people. By 2050, that number will have increased to nearly 20 million people. More than 80% of these people live in the Ankole and Kigezi regions and use the language for just about everything, including news and music consumption. Those who go to church use the language in services. How can a language go extinct when its users are rapidly increasing in number?

[Nick Twinamatsiko @TheNicklison]

I was at some Mbarara restaurant a few hours ago. When I entered the MoMo pay number, the name of the recipient turned out to be one of those that featured yesterday in the X debate on the ethnicity of the new PS appointees. The name does indeed look Nothern, but some people insisted that the man is from Kazo.

"Is your boss now a PS?" I asked the waitress.
She answered in the affirmative, with a hint of pride.

It seems the people doing well in the private sector are the people doing well in the public sector.

[Nick Twinamatsiko @TheNicklison]

Now there is even Runyakitara, which combines Runyankore, Rukiga, Rutoro and Runyoro. I think it's a university course, or a course unit. But it's Runyankore-Rukiga that has a long history. The two ethnic communities have used the same Bibles, hymn books, story books (e.g Abagyenda Bareeba), movies (e.g Rutamirika, Omwana W'abandi), music, Radio Uganda/UBC news and entertainment programmes, etc, since the 1960s. The dialects may been significantly different in the first half of the 20th century and earlier, but the gap has been narrowed over the past few decades by the use of the same resources.

[Duzz💖💕💰 @thani80862]

ADHD people screenshotting and bookmarking everything because they’re scared of losing an idea.. then never opening it again, because the pile itself becomes a whole new overwhelm.

[Franklin Graham @Franklin_Graham]

I watched @CBS @60Minutes tonight, and Ross Douthat interviewed President @realDonaldTrump. Toward the end of the interview, they talked about something far more important than politics. He asked the President, at 80 years of age and after surviving multiple assassination attempts, what he thinks will happen when he dies. President Trump said he wants to go to Heaven and not to Hell. Most people, if asked, I believe would say the same. But Heaven has borders. Heaven has unique and very strict entrance requirements. To enter Heaven, the Bible tells us that you must acknowledge your sins, turn from them in repentance, and receive Jesus Christ by faith. That means, believe that Jesus Christ is God’s Son, that He paid the penalty for your sins by dying on a cross, was buried in a tomb, raised to life on the third day, and walked out of that tomb. He’s alive! If you put your trust in Jesus Christ, you will be in God’s presence for eternity. Religion can’t save you—only a relationship with the Savior, Jesus Christ, can save you. Do you have that assurance?

[Nick Twinamatsiko @TheNicklison]

Birthday essays.

Full text of frames 1 and 2 are in the book, Being Nicklison, which is available in Aristoc and on Amazon.

[Nick Twinamatsiko @TheNicklison]

Yes, I have always been a little too candid. Maybe disdainful. Maybe even delusional.

But one thing I can say for myself is that I have never written anything that I didn't believe was true. And I still believe every sentence of this three-year old post. I may be annoying, but I am honest.

Glossing over things or sugarcoating them would require more time and effort than I usually have when I am typing on social media.

Whatever you make of the tone of my posts, I say with Martin Luther (the reformer) that,

"Here I stand, I can do no other; so, help me, God."

[Nick Twinamatsiko @TheNicklison]

It’s possible to go a big library, and devour all its contents, and generally become a walking encyclopedia, without becoming a thinker.

Very many modern graduates know far more than the likes of Socrates did without becoming even a hundredth the thinkers they were.

Our schools fill students’ minds with facts without training them to think. UNEB exams test how much one knows, rather than their capacity for independent thought. When Socrates said that education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel, the education he had in mind wasn’t the kind that’s offered in our country, which is all about the filling of vessels.

You don't know have to look far, or to do some complicated research, to find evidence of what I am saying; it's all over X. How much thinking goes into the posts that one reads on Ugandan X? I follow very many Americans -- Paul Graham, Sherry, Isabel, etc -- and that's because their posts are thoughtful and thought-provoking in a way that would make Socrates smile.

The only reason why I have written books such as this one 👇 is that I noticed, early in life, that if I was to become a thinker, I needed to educate myself. If I had agreed to become a normal student, the books I would have written, if I had written any, would have been full of facts but deficient of thought. They would have acquainted the reader with lots of facts, without making them think. In other words, I would have written books in the very spirit of our education system, for I, being the logical product of that system, would have been capable of knowing things and sharing what I know, but not of thinking.

[Nick Twinamatsiko @TheNicklison]

All practice should fit within theory.

If any effective practice falls outside the scope of theory, then theory needs to be updated or expanded through research.

If some elements of theory fall outside the scope of practice, it may simply mean that their time has not yet come.

[pirupi ʚ♡ɞ @pirupiisu]

in the end, it all comes down to what you loved when you were 12-14

[Julius Mucunguzi @j_mucunguzi]

My friend, mentor and mukwano gwabangi -- a friend of very many--former Prime Minister Dr @RuhakanaR is 79 years old today.
He first met me swimming in Lake Bunyonyi in April 1993, when I was a small boy in senior 3 studying at Lake Bunyonyi Secondary School on Bwama Island--and after assigning me to be a tour guide of his friends around the island, we stuck a friendship that continues to date.
The man did not previously know me , but when he me asked a question about Kigezi and its people and culture and I answered it firmly and confidently, we struck a code and started a conversation that lasted over two hours as we walked around Bwama Island.
Here is a photo we took in November 2000.
Happy Birthday Ndugu RR--I wish you many many more healthy and blessed years, because you are a good human being.

[Justin Skycak @justinskycak]

You cannot optimize what you haven't mastered manually. You haven't earned the right to automate until you've felt the friction of the manual labor.

[Nick Twinamatsiko @TheNicklison]

IF the other two teams in relegation zone win their games today, we will have dropped to position 20 by the time we start the game against Aston Villa. And I am even sure we can win that game. It's a tough time to be a Manchester United fan.

[Nick Twinamatsiko @TheNicklison]

I hope nobody is trying to start a guerilla war.

I hope the p'ple that attacked Busiika Police Post were just thugs.

One thing is for sure: Regime change in UG can't come through guerilla warfare.

Not in 2022.

The early 1980s were a unique period in our history. They passed.