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Media platforms were warned not to take photos or videos during the fuel talk meeting with matatu associates. They were warned, but someone just pretended he was holding her phone, took a snap when they were issuing cheques. The photo is from a state official. It was taken secretly during the envelope distribution. Each envelope had a KSh 2 million cheque. The matatu associates froze and declared that the protest had been suspended countrywide. They turned the protest into millions...into wealth. Going home smiling with KSh 2 million plus job promises. Just same like Mprara Kebaso who became millionaire in just months.

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Intel reveals that Matatu Associate members were paid each 2 million and promised to be given jobs by the government. Yesterday afte the meeting, CS Davis Chirchir and Opiyo Wandayi received a call from Ruto, they were told that each member will be promoted to government jobs. Now, the association has decided to call off Maandamano across all the country. Matatus can now operate. They decided to choose wealth instead of fighting for fuel prices hike. They're now millionaires as we speak.

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As Murkomen holds a presser announcing that the matatu strike has been suspended for seven days to allow talks, UDA and Hassan Omar are on the other side threatening a crackdown on the same matatu sector. This is what happens when a regime loses direction. One side is pretending to negotiate, the other side is issuing threats, and nobody is addressing the real economic pain that caused the strike in the first place. When the President is busy stealing and surviving on confusion, the entire government starts speaking in contradictions.

This is a massive headache for the government. Fuel taxes are easy to collect and heavily anchor public spending. Forcing budget cuts when fiscal consolidation was built on increasing tax revenues means painful choices ahead. Tough times. 5/5

Yesterday, Maraga said the greatest tragedy that can befall Kenya, is if Ruto gets a second term. Listen to that man. Kindly. Maraga the 6th.

RESIST the urge to teach anything to anyone unless you’re asked.

Thinking about this.

An Econ PhD student at the 20th ranked program who is working on stuff they are passionate about will have a better job market than one at MIT who's been doing nothing but phd-app-maxxing since undergrad. People get confused by this because they don't observe *how* successful people came about their insane knowledge bases. It wasn't by relentlessly grinding away at stuff because they had to. They look at Scott Kominers and say "if i grind and learn as much math as he did, i will be successful." You can't! *You* can't learn as much math as Kominers because he gets energized by configuration results for type ii lattices. You will burn out if you try to do it this way. You cannot, through grind alone, learn more about the economics of cities than Glaeser, or about how to maximize a value function than Acemoglu. Research careers are long. Most people give up and stop working on research (graph is share of elite PhD graduates with at least one publication in year X after graduation). If you're starting a PhD, you're presumably doing it to have a successful 40-year research career. The number one factor in whether that happens is not which program you get into, it's whether you find a research angle that energizes you enough to push through the endless barriers an academic career throws in your path. This is why a lot of the received wisdom around PhD applications is wrong. If you're 100% consumed by the predoc rat race already, it's going to be a long, hard road ahead. Obv you still have to do admissions, you should study a lot for the GRE, sigh it seems like taking real analysis is probably worth it. But spending time on the things that energize you about economics is a no-brainer, whether it's policy, or blogging, or whatever, you gotta do the things that light your fire and make you want to be on this road.

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