Financial modeling consultancy & trainer focused on the investment banking industry. 20Yrs -Trained 50K in 30 countries.
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20 Aug 2025
The @dbctraining Financial Modeling Academy Africa Scholarship is here again.
The new cohort starts soon so jump in and register to start your journey to earning a living building real world financial models for a global clientele.
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May 31
So I asked AI to reserach a portable screen for more effective remote work. Here is its first paragraph, should I be angry! 😂
For your kind of work; financial modeling, Power BI, Excel, presentations, client meetings, and ...
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May 31
... a ridiculous number of browser tabs pretending to be “research” — the decision is less about screen size and more about text clarity, brightness, power draw, portability, and cable simplicity.
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David Brown retweeted
May 23
Firstly, Lebanese have a more entrepreneurial culture.
In a Fiscal Policy Institute analysis of ACS data, 11% of Lebanese-born immigrants in the U.S. labor force were small-business owners, versus 3.5% for immigrants overall. Nigerians were nowhere near that high.
May 23
I keep on wondering why the Chinese and Lebanese are so willing to do business in this country that is supposedly a hellhole.
These guys are deep in every single sector in this nation. Once you see it, you cannot unsee it.
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May 22
Excellent analogy. Artificial intelligence is an artificial name it should be called artificial cleverness.
May 22
Roger Penrose, Nobel Prize-winning physicist and mathematician, explains why we should stop calling it AI and start calling it "artificial cleverness":
He believes the entire field is mislabelled, and the label itself is doing damage.
His objection is simple but cuts deep:
"The name is wrong. It's not artificial intelligence. It's not intelligence. Intelligence would involve consciousness. Well, if it's a machine, it's not conscious."
For Penrose, people have confused raw computing power with genuine understanding.
"People have lost the plot. They've lost it in the power of computing. The thing is that computers have got so powerful that they've lost the thread of what they're doing. But I think consciousness is something different. It's not computational."
He believes the term itself has hypnotized people into a category error:
"People are so hypnotized. The trouble is that AI is a bad term. It means artificial intelligence. Now intelligence in my view is conscious. That's what intelligence is about."
So he proposes a rename. Artificial Cleverness. AC instead of AI.
To illustrate the distinction, Penrose draws on his experience teaching mathematics:
"You have mathematics students. Some of them understand what they're doing. Some are just clever. They can repeat what they've learned. They know how to do it very cleverly. They can calculate very well, but they don't necessarily understand what they're doing."
That gap, between calculating well and actually understanding, is the gap Penrose sees between today's machines and genuine intelligence.
Cleverness can be manufactured. Consciousness, in his view, cannot.
So the question worth sitting with: when we call a system "intelligent," are we describing what it does, or quietly assuming something about what it is?
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May 16
AI should augment expertise, not replace accountability.
Delegation to AI without domain oversight is abdication and institutions that ignore this will continue to suffer costly errors, reputational damage, and financial loss.
May 15
The study, which was used by EY consultants in Canada to market their cyber security business, used made-up data, mis-attributed citations and referenced a McKinsey report that doesn't exist. ft.trib.al/Ab4x6JN
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May 14
Congrats to all Ekiti people in the house, you are further validating your Acada prowess.
@NaijaFlyingDr I see you
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David Brown retweeted
JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon's career advice in 3 words: talk to everybody.
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May 10
“You’re right actually, using Elon’s pic as proof is a smooth tool to get people in the room 😂
But you are right, I can’t think of any, so now I’m just staring at the moon for inspiration. Anyway, I’m hungry, need to cook something. Where’s my spoon before I lose my mood too?”
May 9
No English words have double 00 apart from Food and Door!!
Prove me wrong???
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With the Chinese work ethic and it's 996 weekly work culture can any country compete??
You are asking what 996 is right? They work 9am to 9pm 6 days a week!!
I think we need to wake up, literally!!
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Apr 30
... write that. Let me try it on one slide first, verify it actually plays, then roll out across the deck.
I'll start with slide 5 and add an "Appear on click" entrance to each shape in document order.
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Apr 30
This is why domain expertise is still improtant, as the Boss you need to know the stuff, not to do it yourself (you are way too slow), but to stop staff (AI in this case) from hidding from work with flimsy excuses!! 🤣😂
and yes it animated the 40 slide deck flawlessly!!
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Apr 28
The latest members of the NBCC taking the member Oath at today's members evening and induction ceremony.
Apr 28
At the NBCC Member Evening/Induction ceremony where we are inducting 20 new members. Shout out if you know one here.
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Apr 28
At the NBCC Member Evening/Induction ceremony where we are inducting 20 new members. Shout out if you know one here.
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Apr 23
This should be great. We will explore some unique frameworks, wins, fails and everything in-between over the last 20 years. Join us, it will be fun.
Apr 22
Twenty years of building a firm teaches you things that no course, no book, and no mentor can fully prepare you for.
On April 30, David Brown and Stanley Eluwa are speaking on the topic: 20 Years of Building: Lessons from the Journey.
Register Here: bit.ly/dbc-108
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Apr 17
Apparently today is International Bat Appreciation day!! @NaijaFlyingDr I thought you may have a group to shout out to!! 🤣 nationaldaycalendar.com/cele…
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