The Mexican team condemned South Africa's xenophobic attacks with their dominating display. They openly stated that there is no room for xenophobia, be it on the pitch or anywhere else; it stands condemned.

Mexico 🇲🇽 must beat South Africa 🇿🇦 as if they stole a goat in the market.

I like @Pontifex; his message is clear and simple: uniting the world against violence. He speaks with clarity on matters others would have remained silent on and has not been remiss in calling for peace in all troubled places around the world.

- Freedom Writers - Rose Island - The Theory of Everything - A Beautiful Mind - The Pursuit of Happyness - The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind - The Boy Who Sees Without Eyes - The Blind Side - Coach Carter - The Green Mile - Rudy These are movies I have seen a million times. I strongly recommend them.

Paying taxes is not enough contribution. It's simply what I have to do, whether I like it or not. My idea of contribution goes much further than that. It's about creating employment, deepening opportunities for others, building products and institutions that solve meaningful problems, and enabling people to improve their lives and livelihoods. It's about leaving systems better than I found them, creating value that outlives me, and opening doors for people who may never know my name. Am I there yet? Absolutely not. But the process is underway, and I firmly believe that staying the course, learning continuously, and doing the work consistently will undoubtedly lead me there. Taxes sustain society. Contribution helps move it forward. #TrustingTheProcess

A lot has been achieved in the UK tech and digital ecosystem. Several product-led companies have been built, and they are solving real problems for millions of users. Even with this thriving ecosystem and several innovative products being built, there are still so many things left undone; so many problems that require innovative solutions. Be it within existing thriving companies, where processes could be optimised for efficiency, better flows, and reengineering to deliver more value to end users, or outside of this, where I have seen challenges, especially within underserved communities, that require solutions. I am just excited by the prospect of what the future holds and the enormous possibilities of what I know I am capable of doing to make an indelible imprint within the ecosystem. For me, it's still "Morning," and many things will unfold in the next few weeks, months, and years. Many of you will read about it and ask, "How did he do it?" Exciting days ahead. #TrustingTheProcess

Patience is a virtue.

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A few days ago, my team and I hit a roadblock with Susubox. Some prospective partners raised concerns that parts of our model might require FCA consumer credit authorization. We understood the concern, but if true, it could significantly delay our planned summer launch. I jumped on a call with our product designer, a very smart guy. We went back and forth for hours, exploring different possibilities and challenging assumptions. Eventually, we both reached the same conclusion: "We are stuck. Let's sleep on it." At the same time, one of our backend engineers had been wrestling with the same problem for days. Today, he came back with a potential solution. What fascinated me was that our ideas converged. That moment reminded me of why I love building. The learning, growth, and refinement in thinking that come from moving something from zero (0) to one (1) are exhilarating, especially for someone who enjoys untangling and solving difficult problems. Building forces you to think differently. It stretches your mind. It compels you to sit with uncertainty, wrestle with complexity, and search for answers where none are obvious. The process is mentally demanding, emotionally consuming, and intellectually stimulating. It's difficult to describe, but I genuinely wish more people could experience it. Every roadblock sharpens your thinking. Every setback forces growth. Every challenge demands that you become a slightly different version of yourself. It made me realize that building isn't just about creating products, companies, or systems. It's also about creating yourself. And if there is one thing this journey has taught me, it is that in the process of building something beyond ourselves, we become something more than we were when we started, and that can't be bought or created by money. It's through living.

I have an audacious ambition: to build a £100 million company within the next few years. At first, the goal intimidated me. But when I look at where we started, the challenges we've overcome, and the roadblocks we've navigated, I see how far we've come. Today, we are building, growing, and attracting significant interest in our products. That journey has made me realize something important; perhaps we have been thinking too small. The vision is bold, but so is the opportunity. And if the progress we've made so far is any indication, the limits we once imagined may not be limits at all.

Recent updates on Samsung Galaxy UI is fucking crazy. They are actually out doing themselves. The ones i found very interesting is the new "talk assistant". On the latest update i can now easily screen calls before picking it. I can ask callers what their name is and exactly the reason for their calls before deciding whether or not to pick. I am not the type that compares phones, but i think @SamsungMobile is on the league of their own.

Recent updates on Samsung Galaxy UI is fucking crazy. They are actually out doing themselves. The ones i found very interesting is the new "talk assistant". On the latest update i can now easily screen calls before picking it. I can ask callers what their name is and exactly the reason for their calls before deciding whether or not to pick. I am not the type that compares phones, but i think @SamsungMobile is on the league of their own.

Last week marked an important milestone for us at @SusuboxHQ as we deepened engagements with infrastructure and compliance partners helping shape the future of our platform. We had productive conversations with teams including @YapilyLtd and @clear_bank as we continue building a compliance-aligned community savings infrastructure for underserved immigrant communities in the UK. A major highlight was our engagement with @clear_bank. Their team provided valuable guidance on regulatory pathways, responsible scaling, and operational structure for fintech platforms like ours. We also had encouraging discussions around safeguarded account structures that could support our future FCA application process. At Susubox, our infrastructure choices are intentional. We are building on trusted financial rails because community finance is built on trust, accountability, and shared prosperity. Open Banking has reached a level of maturity that now allows startups like ours to responsibly modernise traditional community savings systems using secure and regulated infrastructure. We’re also pleased to share that @YapilyLtd has already provided sandbox access, and our team is currently reviewing the environment as we continue preparing for launch. Still early days but we remain committed to building responsibly, securely, and with the right partners. The future of community finance deserves trusted infrastructure.

CLI all day, including on Sunday. I don’t even have Docker Desktop on my machine.

Yep. People can copy features in a weekend. They usually can't copy the actual work of shipping, iterating, and earning trust.

Financial systems across the world are built on trust. The same trust that made two or three people come together for the purpose of collective savings. We are building a very solid infrastructure for people to do even what they've been doing.

This conversation reminds me of the Samwer brothers. Copycat hall of famers. The Samwer brothers via Wimdu cloned Airbnb in 2011. They had done this several times, their strategy was to clone your product at scale that's threatening and thereby forcing you to buy them. Airbnb out executed them, after losing some sleep of course and really really coming close to buying them. Luckily they realised people that clone products can't go the distance. They lack the passion, the obsession, the grit, the narrative, the vision, the direction of a pioneer who has braved seven seas and seven mountains to move a product from 0 to 1.

execution is everything, ideas are cheap saw this play out so many times, someone copies your thing but has no clue how to actually run it

Building in public is one way to build trust and carry your intended market along while building solutions for them. Anyone can steal a project; even the many projects out there can be copied, but the only thing that can't be stolen is execution. And execution is as great as the idea itself.