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Do you struggle to just get things done? Do you have a hard time fighting procrastination? I made a video documenting how I am overcoming mine. I’m no expert but you might find the information very useful Check it out: youtu.be/0GR56jeq7a0?si=cbFJ…
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POV: You’re a software dev that edits cars during lunch break
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All that work for a 15-second edit 😂
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Quick question: Would you buy a Cadillac Escalade 600 if money wasn’t an option?
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Time to go all in
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Embrace the grind
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The pain of discipline is nothing compared to the pain of regret. Build your dreams.
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Sheesh this looks really good
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It’s been a looong week…
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Also picked up #codm finally (Call of Duty Mobile)
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Holy…
Just crossed $1M in revenue on Contra The first one on the platform
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This should be fun

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Just keep creating. Adapt if you have to. But don’t stop creating 👌💯🥂
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Bro, Sis, that idea in your head? Just do it
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Well… since it’s been clarified that the #NITAbill affects only those directly interfacing with critical government infrastructure, let me get back to my cozy day of writing some code.
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Oh my dear beloved Ghana
Ministry of Agriculture website has also been hacked.
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Let the games begin 😂😂😂
The moment the government started pushing a bill targeting tech bros in Ghana, the Interior Ministry website got hacked within 48 hours. Maybe this should send a message to them that you can’t control us, but we can help make the country a better place when they start enabling us. I hope they learn from this and drop that bill.
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By far one of the most constructive feedback I’ve seen regarding the @NITAGhana bill. This post needs more views.
Thank you Minister @samgeorgegh for engaging publicly. A few points in good faith. You are right the bill has not been laid before Parliament. That is exactly why we are speaking now. It is easier to fix a draft than a law. The concerns are in the actual text. Section 46 bars any uncertified person from being appointed as an ICT professional in any public or private institution. I studied Renewable Natural Resources Management at KNUST and taught myself to code. Under that provision I would not have been hireable at the company I founded. Section 35 criminalises operating without a NITA licence. Section 37 restricts licences to companies wholly owned by Ghanaian citizens. That bans foreign investment in our tech sector. These are not bandwagon claims. They are in the document. On the 1% revenue levy. Not profit. Revenue. What does the Ghanaian tech sector receive in return? Here is what could move the needle. Open 95% of state funded tech contracts to go to or through Ghanaian companies on merit. Use our AU and AfCFTA seat to open Pan African procurement to our best companies. Build a regulatory sandbox for ECOWAS market access. Introduce tax holidays before taxing growth. And you do not have to do this alone. The Foreign Ministry is doing an amazing job opening doors across the continent and beyond. Work with them to put Ghanaian tech companies in those rooms. Partner with the Energy Ministry to fix the power that every founder in Ghana is losing money to every single month. Work with Transport to reduce the logistics costs that eat into every hardware and infrastructure deployment. There are real ideas in this conversation worth engaging with. Open online dialogues that anyone can join from anywhere would go a long way. Not everyone can make it to a consultation room in Accra or a closed Zoom meeting. I am rooting for you to succeed Minister. Your success is our success. Revise the draft, open the conversation, and let us build this together.
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Prince Kongo retweeted
here is something most people do not know. though the initial, official deadline for feedback has passed, the nita bill is still technically in the "public consultation phase" which means your formal submission is legally part of the process. here is how to make your voice count beyond the timeline. 🧵 #StopTheNITABill #ReviewTheNITALaw
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I barely do this but I beg any Ghanaian to read the following write up by Chris-Vincent Agyapong. Bookmark, share etc cos wtf 😳 1/4 “Ghana's NITA Bill 2025: How a Government That Cannot Fix Potholes Wants to Certify Your Keyboard Strokes There is a particular brand of Ghanaian governance that operates on a simple, well-rehearsed logic: identify the one sector in which ordinary young people, without connections, without family money, without a politician uncle are actually building something for themselves, and then erect a magnificent bureaucratic tollbooth right in the middle of it. The National Information Technology Authority Bill, 2025 currently making its way through Ghana's legislative machinery with the quiet confidence of a document probably written by a majority of people who have never debugged a line of code in their lives is precisely that tollbooth. It is, in its 105 sections and accompanying Schedule, one of the most breathtaking exercises in regulatory overreach this country has produced in recent memory. And given our regulatory track record, that is genuinely saying something. The ICT sector is the one industry where a boy from Ashaiman, or, like my friend from Pulima, Aliu Wahab, with a second-hand laptop and a YouTube tutorial, can compete with someone whose father went to Achimota. It is the one space where talent, not tribe; skill, not surname; output, not old-boy network, still carries meaningful weight. It is, bluntly, the only functioning meritocracy left in Ghana's economic life. And our government, with the NITA Bill 2025 has decided that this is precisely the sector that requires the most elaborate regulatory architecture since the tale of Moses coming down from Sinai with the Ten Commandments. The Absurdity of Section 46: Certifying Everyone, Everywhere, Always Let us begin with what is, without competition, the most extraordinary provision in this bill. Section 46(1) states, in plain and unambiguous terms: "A person shall not be appointed as an ICT professional in a public or private institution unless that person is certified by the Authority." Read that again. Public or private. This is not a provision that limits itself to government systems handling national security data. This is not a narrow carve-out for critical infrastructure. This is a provision that means the software developer at a startup in Osu, the data analyst at a logistics firm in Tema, the web designer freelancing from her bedroom in Kumasi, all of them, every single one must first obtain certification from a government authority before they can lawfully be employed. Who dreamed this up? Under what theory of governance does it make sense for the government of Ghana which cannot consistently process a DVLA licence within six months, which spent years and hundreds of millions on a national identification system that still cannot talk to the health insurance database to position itself as the certifying gatekeeper for an entire profession across the entire economy? And here is the delicious irony that the framers of this bill seem constitutionally incapable of perceiving: the government's own ICT record is the single most compelling argument against giving it certification authority over anyone. You do not hand the keys of the wine cellar to the person who has been drinking the wine. Politicians: The One Profession That Needs Certification Most, and Gets It Least Since we are on the subject of certification, let us pause to consider who in this country is not required to demonstrate any competence whatsoever before being handed consequential power over millions of lives. Continued below
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