Owayne

Poet. Writer. Christian. Entrepreneur. Co-Founder of @OWN_it__

Apart from that: Je suis Congolais 🇨🇩

[Owayne @TheOWN123]

2025
By 2030, ....

[Doctor Of The Future™ @g_diets_]

Both of them were 46.

Both Hausa.
Both from Kano.
Both moved to the UK.

Musa in Coventry.
Ibrahim in Leicester.

Thirty minutes apart.
Close enough to visit.
Close enough to compare.

Both were diagnosed with type 2 diabetes within six months of each other.

Same GP model.
Same medication.
Same advice.

Reduce sugar.
Eat more vegetables.
Exercise more.
Lose weight.

Ibrahim followed the instructions.

He reduced sugar.
Switched to brown rice.
Bought whole wheat bread.
Started walking in the evenings.
Took his metformin daily.
Checked his glucose regularly.

Two years later.

His HbA1c barely changed.
His fasting glucose stayed between 7 and 8.
His medication was increased twice.

Now a second drug is being considered.

He does not understand what he is doing wrong.

Because he followed the plan he was given.

Musa reached out.

His diet before was the same.

Bread and tea in the morning.
Rice or pasta for lunch.
Dinner cooked in vegetable oil with seasoning cubes.
Malt drinks on weekends.

No liver.
No real traditional fats.
No structured meals.

We changed the structure.

Two meals daily.
Real food.
Built around his body.

No brown rice.
No whole wheat bread.
No “healthier versions” of the same pattern.

Just food his body could use.

Eggs.
Meat.
Fish.
Vegetables.
Traditional fats.
Fermented foods.

Nothing processed.

Three months in.

Fasting glucose dropped from 7.9 to 5.1.
HbA1c returned to normal range.

His medication was reduced.

Six months later.

Metformin stopped.

His numbers held steady.

His GP acknowledged the change.
But never asked what he ate.

Ibrahim is still on medication.

Still following the same plan.

Still waiting for results.

Two men.

Same background.
Same condition.
Same starting point.

Different outcomes.

The difference was not effort.

It was direction.

One was taught to manage the condition.
The other changed the foundation.

Musa said something recently.

“I told Ibrahim everything. He said he will think about it.”

He is still thinking.

If this made you pause, do not stay in that pause too long.

Reach out for a well-structured meal plan designed to support blood sugar balance and long-term health. Send a message on WhatsApp: [phone] to get started.

[Mike Netter @nettermike]

In 1897, the U.S. Army wanted to know if bicycles could replace horses for infantry. So they took 20 Black soldiers of the 25th Infantry – the Buffalo Soldiers – and gave them a mission: ride from Fort Missoula, Montana to St. Louis. 1,900 miles.

The “Iron Riders” carried 60-pound packs, rifles, and one spare tire each. They crossed the Rockies, the Badlands, and the Great Plains on heavy, single-speed bikes with no roads. Private John Findley fixed flats with strips of his own shirt. They drank from cattle tanks and were refused water in Wyoming towns.

It took 41 days. They averaged 52 miles a day. When they rolled into St. Louis, the white newspapers called it a “stunt.” The Army said “impractical” and shut the program down. But the Iron Riders proved it could be done.

Their commanding officer wrote: “No horse could have made it. These men did.”

[𝕭𝖊𝖓𝖓𝖎𝖊✨ @Bennieeexyz]

sat next to a kid on the bus who asked if I was sad because I "looked droopy."
Me: Droopy?
Kid: Yeah. Like a sad plant.
Me: That's specific.
Kid: My mom says I'm observant.
Me: Where's your mom?
Kid: Back there. She said don't bother people but you look like you need bothering.
Me: I'm fine.
Kid: That's what sad people say.
Me: You're like seven.
Kid: Eight. And you're changing the subject.
Me: Okay yeah I'm sad.
Kid: Why?
Me: Lost my job today.
Kid: That's bad.
Me: Yeah.
Kid: You gonna get a new one?
Me: Eventually.
Kid: Then it's not that bad.
Me: How do you figure?
Kid: Bad is when there's no eventually. You have eventually.
His mom called him back.
Kid: Feel better droopy plant lady.
Me: Thanks kid.
His mom mouthed "sorry" but I shook my head.
He was right.
I had eventually.
Started applying that night.
Got hired three weeks later.
Sent a mental thank you to that weird kid.
Sometimes eight-year-olds see things clearer than adults and we should listen.

[Owayne @TheOWN123]

On this day of July 2026
All the cash in my wallet is 620mille Franc Congolais(230USD)
Having lost everything, 😢
I'm relocating(rent, food, matress, etc) all in that 230 USD..

I'm not complaining but just a testimony that God is in control...
Above all, God begun everything

[Esperanza @Jaachi_light]

At sixteen.

My daughter told the court.

She wanted to live with her boyfriend instead of me.

She called me controlling.

Said I ruined everything.

People in the courtroom stared like I'd already lost.

After the hearing.

She walked past without looking at me.

For almost two years.

Every birthday card I mailed came back unopened.

Still, I mailed another one every birthday.

Then one freezing February night.

Someone knocked on my door.

It was her.

Holding a newborn.

No suitcase.

Just a diaper bag and eyes that looked a decade older.

I didn't ask what happened.

I took the baby while she stood in my hallway crying so hard she couldn't breathe.

Months later she confessed she'd almost turned around because she was convinced I'd slam the door.

She was shocked the porch light was already on.

Some children don't come home because life defeats them.

Sometimes they come home because they finally believe they're still welcome.

[Owayne @TheOWN123]

On this day of July 2026..
All the cash in my wallet is 620mille Franc Congolais(230USD)
Having lost everything, 😢
I'm relocating(rent, food, matress, etc) all in that 230 USD....

I'm not complaining but just a testimony that God is in control.... i won't harm myself.
🚀

[Amos Wekesa @wekesa_amos]

TRAVEL STORIES

On our flight from Addis Ababa 2 days ago, Zion and I sat next to a 26yrs old young Man from SUDAN called Abdul.

Abdul has been doing business since he was 16yrs old, since Sudan has been troubled, he buys electrics from Dubai and sells to different countries.

He said, I come to Uganda once every 2 months for one week holiday because it’s peaceful, people are really nice, I enjoy the food in Uganda.

And he is like since you guys have food, the population generally speaking doesn’t care about what matters, all this in not so good English.

He said for example Asians control 80% of electrics business , pharmaceutical supplies around same %age and I have never sat with a single Ugandan who cares about these topics.

He adds, if your focus is on less important things, you will never take time to learn from the Asians how that business is made and how you can also control a better part of the money.

He adds, if you don’t control things that make money, you become the visitors in your own country. You are the visitor, visitors don’t generally come with much and therefore don’t own much in the home.

He adds, you can’t control space you don’t fight for, eh. I was impressed by the young man and parted ways. I was challenged at the same time.

I wanted to tell him you guys make fun of me about the 2 planting seasons, some of you think am less brilliant one when I emphasize 2 planting seasons.

[Owayne @TheOWN123]

T'as déjà bien resume ma vie..... haha

[Carla @puarangue]

Quelqu’un peut m’expliquer comment une seule personne est censée réussir à travailler de 9 h à 18 h, faire 10 000 pas par jour, aller à la salle de sport trois fois par semaine, cuisiner des repas faits maison, garder la maison impeccable, passer du temps de qualité avec sa famille, dormir huit heures par nuit, lire des livres, apprendre des langues, avoir des loisirs, prendre soin de sa santé, être séduisante en permanence… et réussir malgré tout à ne pas finir avec un trouble anxieux ?

J’ai l’impression qu’on nous a vendu une image de la vie qui est tout simplement impossible à tenir dans la réalité.

[Trump Girl 🇺🇲🦅🇺🇲 @MAGA__Patriot]

I had no idea..

"This man was born in 1809.
In 1816, at age 7, he was forced to work because his family was expelled.
In 1818, he lost his mother.
In 1828, he lost his sister.
In 1831, he opened his first business and went bankrupt.
In 1832, he stood in the legislative elections and lost.
In 1833, he borrowed money to open another business and went bankrupt again.
In 1835, he met a wonderful woman. He falls in love with her, they get engaged, and she dies.
In 1836, he entered a dark period of his life: deep depression.
He remains bedridden for 6 consecutive months. But he gets up.
He gets up and in that same year of 1836 he runs in the legislative elections and loses again.
In 1840 he presented himself as an elector; he loses.
In 1842, he met the woman he would end his life with.
They fall in love, get engaged, get married and she gives him 4 children and they lose 3 (three).
In 1843, he appeared at the congresses and lost.
In 1845, he appeared again at the congresses and lost again.
In 1850, his son died.
In 1854, he ran for the Senate and lost.
In 1856, he ran for Vice President, he didn't even have 100 votes.
In '58, he ran again for the Senate and lost again.

And in 1860 ABRAHAM LINCOLN was elected President of the United States of America 🇺🇸.
He was elected for two exceptional terms (he was assassinated in beginning of the second term.) He was one of the most respected and impactful Presidents in the history of the United States 🇺🇸.

It's important to tell this story of perseverance because we see the hero, but we don't see the backstage of the afflictions. "

Wow. ...
I think this is a great example of Never Never Never Give Up! 🇺🇸🇺🇸

[Gbenga Samuel-Wemimo @GbengaWemimo]

Did you know that when Bowen University was founded, a huge number of muslim students were sponsored by one rich Iwo indigene to buy the University's Entrance Forms, and after they secured their admission, they began to agitate for a mosque on campus and hijab for female students, etc
When they were turned down, they began to hold prayers on the school field in defiance
When the school authority protested, they started a riot.
I have never seen Christians going into muslim schools or companies or institutions and demanding that rules must be changed for them
They knew it was a Baptist University, they knew it was a Christian institution, and yet they did all that.
The Inaugural Vice-Chancellor of Bowen University, Professor J. T. Okedara, had to retire early because of the trouble these students gave him
It took the intervention of the Nigeria Baptist Convention and a change of Vice-Chancellor for these students to be rusticated and for peace to be restored.

I was reading the news about International School, Ibadan, and I can see the same spirit of disruption and troublemaking at work.

I have never seen bandits wearing cassocks, carrying Bibles and shouting Hallelujah as they behead people

It is a paradox that people practising a religion can be fomenting trouble without provocation all over the world and still claim that they are a religion of peace.

Indeed, there is a spirit at work in every human being based on the faith they embrace.

[Owayne @TheOWN123]

@ApolloBuregyeya Arguably, 95% or less/so of that gold is smuggled from DrCongo.

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

Dirac couldn't get hired as an electrical engineer. A 19-year-old with a Bristol degree in 1921, during a post-war depression that had no use for him. So he stayed at Bristol and studied math for free because there was nothing else to do.

Two years later he got a fellowship to Cambridge. His advisor, Ralph Fowler, handed him proofs of an unpublished Heisenberg paper in August 1925. Dirac read it and realized the math resembled Poisson brackets from classical mechanics. Within months he had built an entirely new mathematical framework for quantum theory.

He published 11 papers before submitting his thesis. Eleven. Most PhD students struggle to publish one. Dirac had a body of work that constituted an entire theoretical foundation, and he still needed to package it into a dissertation to satisfy the degree requirements.

The thesis title tells you everything about the confidence level. When you title your PhD "Quantum Mechanics" at age 23, you are either delusional or correct. Dirac was correct. It was the first PhD thesis ever written on the subject.

Two years after that he wrote the Dirac equation, unifying special relativity with quantum mechanics and predicting antimatter before anyone had observed it. By 1932 he held the Lucasian Professorship of Mathematics at Cambridge. The same chair Isaac Newton held. He was 30.

Nobel Prize at 31. The youngest physics laureate at the time.

The entire arc from unemployable engineer to owning Newton's chair took 11 years. The field he named his thesis after is now the operating system of modern physics.

[iNspiritextra @iNspiritextra]

A reminder to pay attention and be careful.

Sermon title: The Doctrine of the Church.

✝️ Apostle Michael Orokpo

[The Instigator @Am_Blujay]

President of Botswana 🇧🇼 Duma Boko stunned the audience after stopping midway through his speech to deliver a brutal but powerful lecture on relationships, loyalty, and trust.

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

Winston Churchill fought his depression with bricks. He'd lay them for hours at his country home in Kent. He joined the bricklayers' union. And in 1921 he wrote about why it worked. It took psychology another 75 years to catch up.

He called his depression the "Black Dog." It followed him for decades. His method for fighting it back was as basic as it sounds: laying brick after brick, hour after hour.

Churchill spelled out his theory in a long essay for The Strand Magazine. People who think for a living, he wrote, can't fix a tired brain just by resting it. They have to use a different part of themselves. The part that moves the eyes and the hands. Woodworking, chemistry, bookbinding, bricklaying, painting. Anything that drags the body into a problem the mind can't solve by itself.

Modern psychology now calls this behavioral activation. It's one of the most-studied depression treatments out there. Depression sets a behavior trap. You feel bad, so you stop doing things, and doing less means less to feel good about. Feeling worse makes you do even less. The loop tightens until you can't breathe inside it.

Behavioral activation breaks the loop from the action side. You schedule the activity first, even when every part of you doesn't want to. Doing it produces small rewards: a wall gets straighter, a painting fills in, a messy room gets clean. Those small rewards slowly rewire the brain. Action comes first, and the feeling follows.

Researchers at the University of Washington put this to the test in 2006. They studied 241 adults with major depression and compared three treatments: behavioral activation, regular talk therapy, and antidepressants. For the people who were most severely depressed, behavioral activation matched the drugs. It beat the talk therapy. A 2014 review of more than 1,500 patients across 26 trials backed up the result.

Physical work like bricklaying does something extra on top of this. It crowds out rumination, the looping bad thoughts that grind people down during the worst stretches of depression. Bricklaying needs both hands and gives feedback brick by brick: each one is straight or crooked. After an hour you can see exactly how much wall you built. No room left for the mental chewing.

The line George Mack used in his post, "depression hates a moving target," is good poetry. The science behind it is sharper. Depression hates a brain that has somewhere else to be.

[Brivael Le Pogam @brivael]

Elon Musk avait dit un truc qui m'avait marqué sur l'allocation de ressources. En substance : passé un certain niveau de richesse, l'argent n'est plus de la consommation, c'est de l'allocation de capital.

Cette phrase change tout.

L'économie, dans le fond, c'est juste un problème d'allocation. Tu as des ressources finies et des usages infinis. Qui décide où va quoi ?

Imagine une cour de récré. 100 enfants, des paquets de cartes Pokémon distribués au hasard. Tu laisses faire. Très vite, un ordre émerge. Les bons joueurs accumulent les cartes rares, les collectionneurs trient, les négociateurs trouvent des deals. Personne n'a planifié. Et pourtant chaque carte finit dans les mains de celui qui en tire le plus de valeur. Le système maximise le bonheur total de la cour. C'est ça, la main invisible.

Maintenant fais entrer la maîtresse. Elle trouve ça injuste. Léo a 50 cartes, Tom en a 3. Elle confisque, redistribue, impose l'égalité. Trois effets immédiats. Les bons joueurs arrêtent de jouer, à quoi bon. Les mauvais n'ont plus de raison de progresser, ils auront leur part. Les échanges s'effondrent. La cour est égale, et morte. Elle a maximisé l'égalité, elle a détruit le bonheur.

Le problème de la maîtresse, c'est qu'elle ne peut pas avoir l'information que la cour avait collectivement. C'est le problème du calcul économique de Mises, formulé en 1920. L'URSS a essayé de le résoudre pendant 70 ans avec le Gosplan. Résultat : pénuries, queues, effondrement. Pas parce que les Soviétiques étaient bêtes, parce que le problème est mathématiquement insoluble en mode centralisé.

Quand Musk a 200 milliards, il ne les consomme pas, il les alloue. SpaceX, Starlink, Neuralink, xAI. Chaque dollar est un pari sur le futur. Et lui a un track record. PayPal, Tesla, SpaceX. Il a démontré qu'il sait identifier des problèmes immenses et y allouer des ressources avec un rendement spectaculaire.

L'État aussi a un track record. Hôpitaux qui s'effondrent, éducation qui décline, dette qui explose, services publics qui se dégradent malgré des budgets en hausse constante. Le marché identifie les bons allocateurs, la politique identifie les bons communicants.

Le profit n'est pas une finalité, c'est un signal. Il dit : tu as alloué des ressources rares vers un usage que les gens valorisent suffisamment pour payer. Plus le profit est gros, plus la création de valeur est grande. Quand Starlink est rentable, ça veut dire que des millions de gens dans des zones rurales ont enfin internet. Quand un ministère est en déficit, ça veut dire qu'il consomme plus qu'il ne produit. L'un crée, l'autre détruit, et on appelle ça redistribution.

Dans nos sociétés il y a deux catégories d'acteurs. Les entrepreneurs et les bureaucrates. L'entrepreneur prend un risque personnel pour identifier un problème, mobiliser des ressources, créer une solution. S'il se trompe il perd. S'il a raison, ses clients gagnent, ses employés gagnent, ses fournisseurs gagnent, l'État collecte des impôts. Il est la cellule de base du progrès humain.

Le bureaucrate ne prend aucun risque personnel. Son salaire est garanti. Au mieux il maintient une rente existante. Au pire il la détruit par excès de réglementation, mauvaise allocation forcée, incitations perverses qui découragent ceux qui produisent. Mais dans aucun cas il ne crée.

Regarde les 50 dernières années. iPhone, internet civil, SpaceX, Tesla, Google, Amazon, Stripe, mRNA, ChatGPT. Toutes des inventions privées, portées par des entrepreneurs, financées par du capital risque. Pas un seul ministère n'a inventé quoi que ce soit qui ait changé ta vie au quotidien.

La France est devenue le laboratoire mondial de la dérive bureaucratique. 57% du PIB en dépenses publiques, record absolu. Une administration tentaculaire, une fiscalité qui pénalise la création de richesse. Résultat : décrochage face aux États-Unis, à l'Allemagne, à la Suisse. Fuite des cerveaux. Désindustrialisation. Dette qui explose.

Et le pire c'est que la mauvaise allocation s'auto-renforce. Plus l'État prélève, moins les entrepreneurs créent. Moins ils créent, moins il y a de base fiscale. Plus l'État s'endette et taxe. Boucle de rétroaction négative parfaite. La maîtresse pense qu'elle aide, et chaque année la cour produit moins.

Dans nos sociétés, ce sont les entrepreneurs, toujours, qui font avancer la civilisation. Les bureaucrates au mieux maintiennent une rente, au pire la détruisent. Aucune société n'a jamais progressé en taxant ses créateurs pour subventionner ses gestionnaires.

La question n'est jamais qui a combien. C'est qui alloue le mieux la prochaine unité de ressource pour maximiser le futur de l'humanité. La réponse depuis 200 ans n'a jamais changé. Ce ne sont pas les fonctionnaires.

[CyrilXBT @cyrilXBT]

A MIT professor gave a 1-hour lecture in 2019 that has 18 million views.

He died 5 months after recording it.

It was his final gift to the world.

Patrick Winston taught at MIT for 50 years.

The smartest engineers on earth sat in his classroom.

And he spent his last lecture teaching them the one skill their degrees never covered.

How to speak.

15 lessons that will change how you communicate forever:

Never open with a joke. Your audience is not ready to laugh yet. Open with a promise of what they will know by the end.

Your ideas are like your children. You are too close to them. What is obvious to you is invisible to everyone else. Explain the obvious.

The 5-minute rule: the first 5 minutes of any talk determine whether people will listen for the next 55. Spend more time on your opening than anything else.

Repeat your most important idea 3 times in 3 different ways. Once is never enough.

Build a fence around your idea. Tell people what it is NOT before you tell them what it IS.

Verbal punctuation. Pause. Let the idea land before moving to the next one.

Ask questions nobody will answer. Then wait 7 seconds. The silence is not awkward. It is processing.

Never read your slides. Your audience can read. They cannot listen and read simultaneously.

Use the board not the slides. Writing forces you to slow down. Slowing down forces clarity.

Inspire before you inform. Nobody learns from someone they are not inspired by.

End with a contribution not a summary. Tell them what you gave them. Not what you said.

Never say thank you at the end. It is weak. End with something that lands.

Stories make ideas stick. Data makes ideas understood. You need both. In that order.

The quality of your communication determines the quality of your ideas in the eyes of the world. Not the ideas themselves.

Practice is not preparation. Practice IS the skill.

Patrick Winston understood something most people spend their entire careers missing.

Your ideas are only as powerful as your ability to transfer them into someone else's mind.

You can be the smartest person in the room and be completely invisible.

Or you can master communication and make average ideas feel like breakthroughs.

He chose to spend his last lecture teaching this.

Watch it tonight.

Bookmark this first.

Follow @cyrilXBT for more lessons from the people who built the future.

[The Conservative Alternative @OldeWorldOrder]

CHARLIE KIRK: "If the most important thing for you is just FEELING good, you're gonna end up miserable. But if the most important thing is DOING good, you'll end up purposeful.

Purpose will give you happiness."

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

If they’re willing to die to assassinate, imagine what they will do if they gain political power