I like to look at Africa as a country. I’m an aAfrican citizen.

Buli omu asiba Kiwani!😂

"The work you choose needs to have three qualities: it has to be something you have a natural aptitude for, that you have a deep interest in, and that offers scope to do great work." ~Paul Graham

here are my notes from Brian Chesky’s founder mode talk - leadership is presence not absence - dont manage the team, manage the work - power is not zero-sum. everyone can feel empowered

What African name would you give a place where founders meet?

2) Become Who You're Afraid To Be Nobody has ever done anything special by avoiding what they feared. Once you know what you’re scared of, you also know what will give your life the most meaning.

Either school time should be reduced or experimentation time should be increased. If you spend 3-5 years in an institution, in a world where knowledge shifts every 18 months. You'll have more employed entrepreneurs than craftsmen😂. Curriculums should be revised @ 6 months.

we're bringing back "the humble startup" episodes! 🎬 this has always been a passion project for us, and i’m thrilled to see us getting closer to producing the kind of content we’ve envisioned. building a business/brand like arudem means embracing a unique approach to

AI is incredible at writing code. But that's not enough to create software. You need to set up a dev environment, install packages, configure DB, and, if lucky, deploy. It's time to automate all this. Announcing Replit Agent in early access—available today for subscribers:

The safety net you are holding so tightly onto could be a tip of the iceberg of the reward of the risk you never act on. Jump!

Losing several chess games is an allegory to build the risk-taking muscle. If you deliberate in learning from each loss, you will understand how your brain approaches strategy. Then you can learn from grandmasters to improve your play.

My favorite sentence in this incredible book: “He had learned something by now. Opportunities exist on the frontiers where most men dare not venture, and it is often the case that the farther the frontier, the greater the opportunity.”

This is Uganda 🥶 youtu.be/PjqhavNQM5M?si…

Teamed up with my boy Bakka David to host a meetup for readers and chess lovers at dawn restaurant in Nairobi🇰🇪 Attendees will be charged a 500 KES entrance fee, which is redeemable for a glass of wine/drink and snacks 🍷 Come let’s connect!!

Jared, Kidd, Sarah, and Anna walking down the crew arm ahead of entering Dragon

· Take risks · Sell every day · Wake up at 6am · Relentlessly cut distractions · Do what you say you are going to do Do this for 2 years & people will say you got lucky.

Conflict is necessary in any relationship. It is an opportunity to reinforce strengths, seek help, or end the relationship. Managing it well is an opportunity for innovation. There's a thin line between conflict & toxicity. Leaders should reinforce this in teams.

Reaching an apogee of ~1400 kilometers during the Polaris Polaris Dawn mission today, Anna Menon and Sarah Gillis — both SpaceX engineers — have traveled farther into space than any women in the history of humankind! They are amazing people. I am so proud of them.