Aro Joseph Kayode

If someone wants to build wealth intentionally over the next 10 years, what frameworks should guide their decisions?

Hi Hamid, I am Yusuf. I came across your mountains post from yesterday 25/4, and it stopped me completely. I decided to push myself to the limit and implement your formula from scratch, pixel by pixel, as a personal mathematical challenge. After careful study of the image, I have successfully identified and understood 12 of the 14 mathematical objects: ✓ F(x) — color compression to [0, 255] ✓ N_s(x,y) — fractal noise with 6^5 * 5^(-s) frequency scaling ✓ E(x,y) — fractal envelope as a 50-term weighted sum ✓ Z_s(x,y) — layer occlusion product ✓ S(x,y) — sky value ✓ R(x,y) — layer depth value ✓ T(x,y) — distance to mountain center ✓ B(x,y) — slope angle via arctan ✓ A(x,y) — layer brightness ✓ H_v(x,y) — final color channel for v = 0, 1, 2 ✓ Coordinate mapping: x = (m-1000)/600, y = (601-n)/600 ✓ The full N_s structure The two I cannot read precisely enough from the image are: ✗ J_s(x,y) — the mountain shape indicator ✗ K_v(x,y) — the lighting kernel I can see the general structure of both. J_s uses a double exponential with cosine products and E(x,y)/1000 in the exponent, and K_v sums 50 terms of (91/100)^s weighted by cosines involving T, B and v. But the exact coefficients inside the ridge shape term of J_s and the cosine arguments of K_v are too dense to read at the resolution I have. What I am currently seeing in my attempts: the layering and occlusion work correctly and the fractal texture E renders as expected, but without the exact J_s the mountain silhouettes are wrong. Peaks appear at incorrect positions and the snow and rock boundary does not match your image. This is purely a personal challenge. I am not doing this for any commercial purpose. Could you point me to where the full formula is published, or share a higher resolution crop of the equation panel from that post? Even just confirming those two functions would be enough to complete the implementation. Thank you. Yusuf

A parasite that has been eating people for 3,500 years is about to be wiped off the planet. It infected 3.5 million people in 1986. Last year, it infected 10. And I have not seen it make a single front page. It is called Guinea worm. You drink contaminated water from a pond in a poor village. A year later, a worm up to three feet long starts coming out of your leg through a burning blister. There is no pill that stops it and no surgery that works. You wrap the worm around a stick and pull it out slowly, over days or weeks, inch by inch. If you rush, the worm breaks inside you and causes a fresh infection. Guinea worm is ancient. Preserved worms have been pulled out of Egyptian mummies from around 1000 BCE. The Ebers Papyrus, an Egyptian medical scroll from 1550 BCE, describes pulling the worm out with a stick. For three and a half thousand years, that was the best humans could do. Then in 1986, public health workers decided to kill the parasite off. They had no vaccine and no drug. What they had was cheap cloth water filters and a small army of volunteers willing to walk from village to village for decades. The plan was simple. Give everyone who drinks from a pond a cloth filter to strain out the tiny water fleas that spread the parasite. Then send volunteers walking house to house, year after year, teaching people how to use the filters and keeping anyone with an emerging worm out of the water. It worked. From 3.5 million cases a year to 10. Four were in Chad, four in Ethiopia, two in South Sudan. The other four countries where the worm used to be common, Angola, Cameroon, the Central African Republic, and Mali, had zero human cases for the second year in a row. The World Health Organization has already certified 200 countries as Guinea worm free. Six are left. The last hurdle is dogs. Cameroon had 445 infected animals last year and Chad had 147, so a lot of the remaining work is on animals, not humans. Strays get leashed, and crews treat ponds to kill any remaining worms. The campaign keeps watching until the number hits zero. When Guinea worm hits zero, it becomes the second human disease ever erased from the planet. The first was smallpox. It will also be the first parasite humans have ever wiped out, and the first disease ever ended without a single dose of medicine. Volunteers walked village to village with cloth filters for 40 years. Now a plague from the age of the pharaohs is about to be gone.

I’ve always had the work ethic. But I get exposed to the lives of some successful people, and I see how much of a joke I am. Literally! For example, I saw an episode of ‘Behind the Diary’ with Steven Bartlett once, and I knew right away that the gap between the discipline I have and what is possible is wider than the perimeter of the world. Btw, I’ve seen all 45 episodes, and he hasn't loaded a new video in the last 2 months. I am heartbroken for real.