P.S.A. YOLO is NOT a motto. It's a warning. Go gently. Go diligently. Curate your life. Live a life that appreciates 'ujana ni moshi' so that death leaves you alone for as long as your cells can vibrate to the rhythms of the universe. Be you. & Be the best you.. #KOT

Lol. Kenyan policymakers thought Kenya would be given special diet and hot showering water as a reward for all dat bending over 😂

Towards Eldoret, just after Nabkoi Junction on the climbing lane end is a partially visible 50 KPH sign. At the end of the climbing lane is a trading center. You will see a white Probox parked. That is where the 'speed gun' is. Naturally from that hill climb you will want to accelerate. They will Nab you for speeding just opposite Kondoo Police Station. Once the cops hit their target they remove their sign and dissappear.

This thread has got me to understand that Kenyans do not know what a properly designed road should be. Folks, a road should be consistently predictable. Lanes should not appear and disappear miraculously, like a magician pulling his next trick!

BREAKING NEWS: White House insiders leak that President Trump fully understands that he has lost the war. However, he is baffled as to why Iran won't give him the same deal that he would have gotten if he had won.

Wakulima wa North Rift, stay guided. Start looking for irrigation options

You could flip this. Our rail infrastructure isn’t fit for purpose and hasn’t been kept upto date with other transit infrastructure. Cars, Lorrie’s, roads all getting bigger. These bridges need to be updated and modernised to match that. Don’t blame the drivers, blame yourself.

as a Spaniard this is such a culture shock at events, we talk about food, rent, football, where someone's from... then you move to SF and people are like “what problem are you obsessed with?” brother I am obsessed with dinner

Isn't it sad that the issue of fires in schools is no longer in the headlines? Have we forgotten and moved on? Any way, here's a view shared in one of my WhatsApp groups by a seasoned school principal...

Eating in Mexico coming from England or Scotland has got to be a transcendent experience. Like seeing colors for the first time

I know it’s 2026 and nuance is illegal but you can simultaneously think SpaceX rocketry is an impressive engineering achievement while also thinking a $2T valuation is an affront to intellectual honesty

Violence is NOT the answer. The answer is *opens history book* uh oh *frantically starts flipping through pages* uh oh. oh no. no no no. uh oh

The same parents who travel long distances to help/ grieve/ celebrate their friends? The ones greeting almost everyone from church to the market? They model alot about community and friendship. Alot of us think we're too good for mundane things. Let's be serious please.

The World Cup begins tomorrow, and many will watch the matches. Soccer reminds us of something we must not forget: life is not a race to show off on our own, but a path we learn to walk together. Anyone who does not know how to pass the ball, even if they have talent, has not yet understood the game. Anyone who does not know how to live with and for others has not yet understood life. #ApostolicJourney

Public agencies, consultants, advocacy groups, teachers... they'd all benefit from having a digital library with explainer videos like this one. Any and every transportation topic.

A city cannot to be 'built up' in just five years, it better takes decades; with planning, dev of infrastructure, occasional changes in land uses etc. Unfortunately the concept of 'land not being utlized' is what led to the grabbing of public spaces from the 80s. @coachyawe

Malcolm Gladwell explaining why some people succeed and some don't.

Even a failed state has better taste than us. The furniture looks well thought out and the decor looks presidential. Wooden floors, soft lighting Huku kwetu, walitumia 4Billion kuweka wall to wall tiles with huge open spaces and studio lighting.

MPesigh (verb): Sound people in a supermarket till or other such line make when the person at the front pulls out their phone to pay

Former Governor of the Central Bank of Kenya, Micah Cheserem, reflects on the hyperinflation & FX crisis of 1992/93. He speaks about the bungled export compensation scheme & the Goldenberg scandal, the liquidity mop up that was put in place to rein in inflationary pressures & the liberalisation of the FX regime. Full recording - youtube.com/watch?v=3tlMKQAq… Credit: Central Bank of Kenya (@CBKKenya)

As someone who partially grew up among European elite kids like him, this reminds me just how incredibly hollow some of them are. For a quick background, I went to one of the poshest high schools in France (Janson de Sailly, for those who know) and, afterwards, to what was at the time - and probably still is - the most expensive undergraduate school in Europe (EHL in Lausanne, Switzerland). Needless to say, many of my classmates were from unbelievably privileged backgrounds. Just in my classroom in Lausanne I had the son of a (very famous) Russian oligarch, the son of Italy's largest real estate developer and the son of Spain's largest real estate developer (funnily, the latter two were flat mates). Another classmate of mine came from the richest family in Naples, Italy and - while we were at school - his father (known in Naples under the nickname "Il Sultano") got arrested for having bribed half of Naples's city council - which, if you know Naples, ought to tell you something. These were the kids I was doing group projects on business ethics with (literally) 😅 Anyhow, my story, and probably my luck, was that - before going to high school in Paris - I was raised in very normal public schools in the South of France where my friends were anything but wealthy. Their parents were farmers and everyday workers. Which means - and I'd come to realize this was very important in life - that it was easy for me to understand how big a mistake it is to see money as identity and meaning - and to confuse someone's net worth with their actual worth. What really struck me at the time was the contrast with my "poor" classmates of earlier in my life. They couldn't define themselves by what they had - by definition - and this forced them to reach deeper for their identity: their skills, knowledge, humor, etc. Rich kids can skip that entire process, and the tragedy is that most of them do: they reach for the readymade identity that money provides. I remember being incredibly frustrated by many of my classmates, like "ok, I get it, your dad is rich and you own a lot of nice things but who are YOU, what else is there?" The answer, more often than not, was nothing. To be fair, there were exceptions. One of my classmates I was most impressed by came from one of Zurich's wealthiest families (which, if you know Zurich, means insanely wealthy) yet he was almost OCD in not showing he had money: driving the shittiest car imaginable, living in a small studio, etc. He was very intellectual, very contrarian, and clearly at war with the idea that his family's wealth ought to define who he was. I only discovered who he actually was when I started my first company and he approached me to invest: to discuss the investment I went to one of his family homes, which it turned out was a literal palatial castle on the shores of Geneva lake. The guy had decided to live in a small rundown studio when he literally had a castle sitting empty a 5-min drive away. THAT I was impressed by: it's easy to see that money isn't meaning when you don't have any. To see it when you have more than almost anyone - when everyone around you is organized around the opposite assumption - is much harder. But to actually live it, to choose the studio when you have the castle keys in your pockets - with no audience to applaud you for that - that shows real depth. At the end of the day, I think, the real distinction isn't between rich and poor but between people who exist from the inside out and people who exist from the outside in. Wealth just happens to make it incredibly easy to be the latter, to skip the work of becoming someone and settle for a borrowed identity that glitters from the outside but is hollow all the way through. A Potemkin village identity. This is actually a real societal issue, and magnified by social media (with idiotic posts like this one 👇): the more "outside in" folks out there, the less people with genuine internal anchors, the more fragile everything becomes. When you think about it, everything that genuinely matters in a society is built by people who think for themselves: they take the world in, pass it through something genuinely their own, and give back something that didn't exist before: an idea, a conviction, a stand. Every reform, every invention, every act of moral courage in history came from someone with an internal anchor strong enough to resist the current. Remove those people and all you have left is the current. This isn't new, by the way. Most ancient traditions warn against exactly this, from the Bible (the golden calf story) to Confucius, who built his entire ethics around the distinction between the exemplary person (the Junzi, 君子) - oriented around internal cultivation and righteousness - and the petty person (Xiaoren, 小人), oriented around profit and gain. The junzi builds himself from the inside, the xiaoren chases what's outside. So please, do not make the mistake of being impressed by wealthy people flaunting their wealth. Don't focus on the glitter, focus on the hollowness it's trying to hide.