Fu'ad ❤️‍🔥 🧠🥊

The first cohort was an experiment to see what would happen if you gave people resources and set them loose. We ended up with four projects: an animated short film, a podcast series, essays, and a documentary film. Now, we're taking all our learnings into the next cohort :🧵👇🏾

@lifeofdanel @mykeels It's incredible how much has gotten better over the last 3 years.

@mykeels Yeah that would be @FuadXIV.

Didn't someone here have to wait for 18 months to ship a printer that does this, to Nigeria?

A very special episode of Flow with Korty. I love you sm @asakemusik thank you for being so humble and believing in me 🥺 pls watch here youtu.be/5nH9HlCLEfI

When you abstract beyond what they do, Paystack and Chowdeck have the same name.

🚀 Today, I'm officially launching @ArushaWealth , a registered and regulated financial planning & wealth management firm for immigrants and children of immigrants building their American Dream. Over the past 18 months, I've directly helped 300+ people get their green cards & indirectly helped so many more. But there’s one reality we keep seeing: that's just the beginning of the journey, not the end. We arrive with ambition & do everything right: we get into top schools, earn valuable degrees in the right fields, build strong careers & earn well, only to realize over time that high income doesn’t always translate into high net worth or lasting wealth. You're earning well but you see how much goes to taxes You're not sure how much should go to paying off your past student loans and how much to investing for your future You have family obligations back home that you can't ignore & you're not sure how to manage this without sacrificing your own goals Without a clear long term plan, you wake up down the line & realise you are stuck - permanently dependent on your paycheck to maintain the lifestyle you have. This is not the American Dream we came here for. We have officially launched @ArushaWealth a financial planning & wealth management firm for immigrants and children of immigrants in the United States. Built on my experience as a wealth advisor at Goldman Sachs Family Office, along with my training as a Certified Financial Planner® and my MBA from Columbia University, Arusha helps individuals & families put structure around what comes next through comprehensive financial planning, tax planning, investment management, and legacy and estate planning. I've worked with some of the wealthiest American families and seen exactly how wealth is built, protected & passed down in the U.S. With Arusha, our focus is on bringing to immigrant families that same level of planning and the opportunity to build lasting prosperity. Our clients so far include startup founders who have raised over $10M, and professionals across tech, finance, and law, including Microsoft, Amazon, the World Bank, private equity, and Big Law. 👉 If this resonates, feel free to reach out here: arushawealth.com/contact And if you’d like to stay in touch & receive occasional updates and guidance, you can subscribe to our newsletter here: immigrantmillionaire.substack.com This is just the beginning. I’m excited to work with the next generation determined to build lasting wealth.

imma continue tellin niggas that imo this is a top 3 contender in the self sabotage hall of fame

This incredible tweet reminds me of this incredible video essay youtu.be/DqGyEQ44iZ4?si…

The ability to quickly reset and recover. From a bad interaction. From a bad day. From a missed workout. From a poor decision. You can start over whenever you want. You can't always control what happened, but you can control how long you carry it.

@TonamiPlayman 💪🏿

@FuadXIV You're right. Lots more to consider for proper digitization. Thanks for the additional details.

The Enugu National Archives is estimated to have 25 million pages. Digitizing services in Nigeria cost between N25 to N40 per page. To digitize 25 million pages, the estimated total cost would be between N625 million & N1 billion ($446k - $714k ).

Decent start, but this doesn't even begin to cover the scale of the archives in Enugu alone. Your source (EAP) says that the project's scope (as described in the article) covers colonial-era records (which is why it ends in 1960). 25 million pages from a period of relatively lower paper penetration. Now, compare that with the actual post-independence holdings. To give you a sense, the archives in Ibadan hold over 100 million pages; it's expanding every day. So, a better, albeit modest, estimate for the full Enugu archives would be 70 million. Another big consideration is that a digitisation service might give you an approximate figure (because you need a pricing model, of course), but the true cost is in the condition of the materials. You have to worry about the state (an 80-year-old paper is too fragile for wuruwuru), the dimensions (you need pretty large scanners for maps or even newspapers), the labour, etc. Then there's the entire process of digitisation (which happens after scanning), aftercare for the digitised materials, etc.

So, to digitize the entire Archive at National Archive, Enugu, it would cost between $500k to $1 million. Of course, there's also separate cost for storage and the infrastructure to manage access of the contents within.

The new prizes @winexviv is proposing for South East Mathematics Olympiad 2027 will cost around 45M give or take in total prizes. This is 10,000 from 4,500 people in 365 days, one full year. Or just 12 people daily. This is definitely doable. The platform to donate is isee.ng a transparent ledger for all donations and expenses. Please retweet and share with as many people as you can.

One thing about me is that I'll create my own opportunities. People catch on eventually.

@ancestorscry Not really, but yah 🙏

@FuadXIV Not really, they could scan all these things in high definition for like $15k tops. It's a lot easier to organise digital files. After that it's a matter of organising it

Bureaucracy and village people aside, and executing at the best standards, this is a <$5 million effort.

We compiled 99 letters about the intimate lives of Nigerian women in the 1970s to answer two questions: 1. What has changed in the past 50 years? 2. What has remained the same? The letters reveal a wide range of pressing issues. Read all of them here: archivi.ng/the-archivist/…

It takes a lot of humility to live your life according to your own rules but also genuinely respect other people's choices.

My strongest opinion about Nigerian politicians is that they all have doctrines/organising principles about how the world should work. And they rarely change their minds about them. Nothing reinforces this belief for me more than historical evidence. It is extremely important that we understand them.

Tbh, "was it a human or AI" is my favourite Computer Village Fufu experiment. E go do everybody like film.

Full report here: zikoko.com/the-state-of-l…

Two twins if you ask me.

@TheCharlesIsidi @eldivine At this point, just buy like 12 copies because me too I want 🤲🏿

@eldivine I will keep one for you. I promise.

It was one of the greatest honors of my life to listen to Philip Effiong Jr retell his experiences of the Biafran War. A long time pen pal, and son of Major General Philip Effiong who played the decisive role of bringing that sore episode to an end. Humbled to finally meet him.