Ignatius Doro

MIT Finance Lecture: Finance is harder than Physics.

EBITDA explained like you're a kid: -Thread-

I spent time in Shenzhen last year and when I saw Merz come back from China saying Germans need to work more I immediately knew what broke his brain because I lived the exact same cognitive shock my first week in Huaqiangbei I burned through 4 prototype iterations of a motor controller board for less than a thousand bucks total, back home a friend was working on something similar and spent over 12 thousand for a single revision that took almost two months to arrive when you live that contrast in your own hands with your own project something permanently shifts in how you see the world and it goes way deeper than speed & cost what Shenzhen actually built is a collective learning organism, imagine 20 PCB fabs 15 injection mold shops 30 component distributors and a hundred firmware freelancers all within a 2km radius, looks insanely redundant from the outside until you realize redundancy is actually information density in disguise I watched this firsthand with an injection mold supplier I was working with, this guy had seen a hundred founders iterate similar thermal designs over 6 months so he proactively modified his tooling before I even opened my mouth, he knew what I needed before I knew what I needed, the intelligence lives in the relationships between the nodes and it compounds daily the west thinks about manufacturing as a cost center you optimize by centralizing… China accidentally built a distributed neural network of manufacturing intelligence where knowledge diffuses horizontally across thousands of agents faster than any single western company can process internally so when Merz comes back and says we need to work a bit more I think he saw the problem but COMPLETELY misdiagnosed the solution, telling Germans to work harder is like telling a horse to gallop faster when the other side built a combustion engine the gap is ARCHITECTURAL it’s ecosystem density, you need a custom connector in Shenzhen you walk 200 meters, in Munich you send an email and wait 3 weeks it’s iteration speed, parallel search vs sequential optimization at the system level, it’s risk tolerance, Chinese founders ship something broken on Monday fix it Tuesday ship again Wednesday while European companies are still in the approval phase for the pilot program of the feasibility study… and Merz only saw the surface, what he missed is the tier 2 cities like Hefei Chengdu Wuhan replicating the Shenzhen model at scale right now BYD going from irrelevant to outselling every european automaker combined in roughly 5 years, Huawei building its own 7nm chip under maximum sanctions when every analyst said it was physically impossible & behind all of that a government that treats advanced manufacturing as an existential national priority while europe debates whether AI needs another ethics committee I think what we’re watching is the most asymmetric economic competition in modern history and most western leaders are still framing it as a productivity problem when it’s actually an ontological one Europe & America are optimizing variables that China stopped tracking years ago meanwhile China is compounding on dimensions the west has no framework to even measure Merz at least had the courage to name it out loud and I respect that genuinely but working a bit more inside a broken architecture just means you arrive at the wrong destination slightly faster

My dad still sends money to my mom randomly even though they broke up 28 years ago. He gave her $300 last Mother’s Day. And so one day I asked him “Why do you still do that after all these years? Because he has rebuilt his life long ago with someone new and I was just really curious about his motive quite honestly. This man answered “ My father always told me, if you ever have a kid with a woman, you owe her for life “.

Attraction and capacity are not the same thing. Attraction pulls you in. Capacity keeps you there. Attraction says, "I can't stop thinking about you." Capacity says, "I can handle loving you." Anybody can feel something. Not everybody can sustain it. Butterflies are easy. Late-night conversations are easy. Intensity is easy. Consistency isn't. Being patient when it's uncomfortable isn't. Choosing you when ego gets involved isn't. A lot of people are attracted to you. Very few are equipped for you. And that's the part no one talks about. Because being desired feels good. But being handled properly feels safe. In this season, I'm not impressed by excitement. I'm paying attention to capacity.

Carlos Tevez: "When I arrived at United, Ferguson started asking me a lot of questions, like if I was going to enrol my daughter in school, if we were going to live in a house or an apartment, what we liked to do, what my wife liked, and he literally began ordering me on which school to put my girl in, where to live, where to go for walks... Then he called me back to his office and asked, 'Is everything set for your daughter?' Yes, everything's ready. 'Do you have a house?' Yes, we have a house. 'Is there anything else you need?' No, everything is squared away. And he said, 'Very well, now you just have to worry about playing football and nothing else. Ferguson was something else.'"

Alisson Becker reading his Bible whilst drinking his coffee in training. Living the Dream

When your wife is mād but still loves you. This is when it matters the most!

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Going with her to Foschini, Zara, Poetry etc is a trap. I have been sitting for 3 hours 😅.

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Major career cheat code: Be the person who can figure it out. You’ll be handed tasks you have no idea how to complete. There's nothing more valuable than someone who can just figure it out. Do some work. Ask key questions. Get it done. If you do that, people will fight over you.

Norwegian Dads on paternity leave (I presume). In Norway, parents get up to 12 months paid parental leave. Dad gets 3.5 months. So does Mum. The rest (5 months) can be shared however they choose. Plus, each parent can take an extra 12 months unpaid.

Fact: Antoine DuPont cannot do what Cheslin Kolbe can 🏉 @ychiramba agrees.

I have been blessed with the most incredible women in my life. My grandmother was my date to the Shaka ILembe Season2 premiere. I hope I look this good when I’m turning 92.

@SmangaMad Mount Lakes, Nyanga. Beautiful work Simanga 👏🏾

Exposed truss✅ High ceiling ✅ Natural light ✅ Huge Windows ✅ Laminate floors ✅

This mini vlog😍😍😍 I love it.

Listen carefully and wake up!!!

The score card after Buffett announces he's stepping down this year: 5,502,284% for Berkshire vs 39,054% in the S&P 500. x.com/modestproposal…

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