Jeremy Johnson

Happy birthday @Andela! And thanks to @Nasdaq for kicking off our 10th anniversary celebration in NYC. Feeling particularly grateful to the Andelans, past and present, who have spent the past decade building bridges to connect brilliance with opportunity

Always ask, but never expect. Always ask for what you want. Many people are happy to help—if the request is direct and specific. In a surprising number of cases, something remarkable is possible if you have the courage to ask. Never expect people to say yes. Everyone is busy and balancing multiple priorities. Your request is not their responsibility. When you're told no, move on lightly and freely. The world is full of opportunity.

Most of the founder/CEOs I work with are allergic to 2nd hand information. They like to go to the source, irrespective of the org chart.

If you don’t get flooded with gratitude multiple times a week you’re dumb: -we live in a free country -gyms exist -Christopher Nolan movies exist -NFL Sundays happen 20+ times a year -you and your wife can drink 5 bottles of red wine then smash all night without a condom -you can build yourself into a superhero in a few months of hitting the gym -every food item in the world has been hunted and gathered for you (grocery stores) -you didn’t have to spend your entire life figuring out how to make a car… you were born into a world where they’re already invented -you could be working in a coal mine in a third world country 16 hours a day breaking your lower back for less than $1 -you’re spinning on a sphere in an infinite universe and the fact you’re alive is a 1 in 500 trillion miracle If anyone complains in front of you tell them they’re an idiot :)

Habits that have a high rate of return in life: - sleeping 8+ hours each day - lifting weights 3x week - going for a walk each day - saving at least 10 percent of your income - reading every day - drinking more water and less of everything else - leaving your phone in another room while you work

I was raised in abject rural poverty by a single mom, dropped out of high school at 16, joined the Navy at 18, and served for 26 years. I am now a member of Congress. Keep your bullshit to yourself, every American can rise to the level of their God given talents and drive.

Our CEO, Carrol Chang, recently connected with John Winsor, Founder of Open Assembly for the Transform Work podcast! Tune in as Carrol shares insights on scaling talent, building global communities, and shaping the future of work – including the importance of change management as it applies to AI adoption. This one is not to be missed! Listen on Spotify: thisisande.la/4o07KRf
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Paradoxically, the less you try to convince people to like you, the more likable you become.

Envy is a sign that you ought to be doing more with your life.

NYC about to do the hard left doom loop thing Ya’ll didn’t learn a thing from SF did you? The innocent will receive no justice, the public school children will receive a far worse education, and housing will become far more expensive

How to spot high agency people: They pet the elephant in the room.

You can beat most people at anything if you just don't quit when it gets boring. Not hard. Boring. That's where everyone else stops.

he ended his term with 60% approval and has the highest approval of any public figure in America x.com/repdarrellissa…

This is going to be a Rorschach test for a lot of people. What I see when I look at this is the harm of a quasi-mystical idea of “hate” as a spectral, even demonic, force. It’s a superstition that allows you to turn off your critical faculties, ignore anything that might contradict a sacred belief on a particular topic or about a particular individual — as in this case — and act with impunity. It has always been a profoundly anti-intellectual idea, developed by those who saw intellectuals as mere tools for often extremely simplistic partisan ends to allow them to win arguments by brute force rather than logic and proof. It has spread into the rest of society and across the globe in a way that allows taboo to defeat reason and skepticism almost every time. I hope it’s an idea — like “speech is violence” — that we can relegate to the dustbin of history. If you believe the world is divided into a simplistic binary of “good people” and those infected with hate, then maybe the post-Enlightenment world is not for you. And for those of us who believe that human morality and nature is more complex and less flattering than the sacred warriors in this battle, it's time to remember that Enlightenment values are not easy. But they are absolutely worth fighting for because the world without them is a place that lets you excuse the most monstrous behavior and never lose your sense of moral superiority. That's the trap of the binary.

There’s a new political divide forming: If you celebrate when an innocent person whose political views differ from you is assassinated you’re gone. Don’t care what that person’s political persuasion is or how strongly you disagree with them. Cant think of one counterexample.

We're thrilled to share that Andela and @GitHub have teamed up to train 3000 technologists in GitHub Copilot. This is the first learning program in the newly launched Andela AI Academy and an important step toward ensuring our network is both enterprise-ready and AI-fluent. Congratulations to the 200 developers who have already completed the Copilot training program in beta. We’ve been inspired by your hunger to learn and are looking forward to seeing the great things you will build. For our clients: this is your chance to work with AI-fluent developers now, or partner with us to train your own teams so you can deploy enterprise AI solutions with fewer missteps. The AI era is here, and we’re enabling the technologists who will power it. Full press release: thisisande.la/45MKuzR #FutureOfWork #TechTalent #GitHubCopilot

Blame yourself for everything, and preserve your agency.

The answers you seek are found in the actions you avoid.

Are you optimizing your life to be admired by those who know you best, or least? There's no third path and the choice changes everything.

Instead of fighting Elon or helping Elon or hating Elon or loving Elon, just be the next Elon.

Stanford paid 35,000 people to quit social media. This was the largest study on emotional health in history. The results were so shocking, scientists called it "comparable to therapy." Here's what happens when you break free from the algorithm: 🧵