Robert Mpisha

:If you really want something, & really work hard, & take advantage of opportunities, & never give up, you will find a way. -Jane Goodall

@chepteg Good research @chepteg . Open DM for further discussion.

Thread: Where Is Kericho Headed? (A data-driven look at our county’s future) 1/10 🚨 Where is Kericho headed? Population growing fast (2.4% annually), but infrastructure and jobs aren’t keeping up. Here’s a clear-eyed breakdown based on official county data. Disclaimer: All figures are from government sources and county reports (FY 2019/20–2024/25). This is independent analysis meant to spark honest conversation — not politics. #KerichoFuture

What does it take to move Africa from potential to prosperity? I sat down with @AlikoDangote, President of @DangoteGroup and one of the most consequential industrialists of our time, to find out. We talked about African-led investment, job creation at scale, and what it truly takes to build a prosperous Africa. Watch our full conversation here: youtu.be/mtW-T-RI7Es

Marc Andreessen says Elon Musk runs 120 design reviews a day in 5-minute slots. He does this while running six different companies at once. Andreessen says Elon maps each company as a production process. Each process has one bottleneck — the single thing slowing it down. Elon finds the engineer working on that bottleneck and sits with them until it's fixed. He does this at Tesla 52 times a year. Personally. "There's no CEO like this." Most CEOs run their companies through a wall of middle managers. Andreessen watched IBM collapse under that model. Inside IBM, they had a name for the failure mode: the "Big Gray Cloud." It was the traveling court of suited men who kept the CEO away from engineers. After 12 layers of compounding lies, the CEO had no idea what was happening. Elon's method is the polar opposite. Design review math: - 5 minutes per engineer - 12 reviews per hour - 10 hours per day - 120 reviews per day An engineer described working for him as entering "a zone of shocking competence." On sustaining it, Elon's rule is: "I don't take vacations." What's the one weekly bottleneck in your work that nobody's fixing? If you're new here, @GeniusGTX is a gallery for the greatest minds in economics, psychology, and history. Follow along for more similar content. P.S. I made a free toolkit breaking down 100+ mental models used by history's greatest thinkers. 5,000+ downloads. 113 five-star reviews. Grab your free copy here: besuperhuman.gumroad.com/l/mentalmodels — Marc Andreessen ( @pmarca ), co-founder of a16z, on David Senra's ( @FoundersPodcast ) podcast

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In 2025, Sabastian Sawe asked the AIU to test him as frequently as possible. He underwent 25 tests in the build-up to the Berlin Marathon, blood and urine, around 2–3 times per week, including days where he was tested twice. He maintained that same approach into 2026. Now, he has broken the Marathon World Record, clocking 1:59:30 in London. Officially the first man to go sub-2 in the marathon.

@jgault13 Same parameters and procedures for all athletes.

Reminder that Sabastian Sawe's sponsor adidas spent $50,000 for him to be drug-tested out of competition as much as possible in 2025 and are doing the same thing in 2026. Today in London, he became the first man to break 2:00 in an official marathon. letsrun.com/news/2026/04/h…

Apple just named its next CEO. He doesn’t have a LinkedIn profile picture. Because he’s never job searched. John Ternus joined Apple in July 2001 straight out of Penn mechanical engineering. He has been at one company for 25 years. His title the entire time: some flavor of hardware engineering. He has never run an OS team, an AI lab, or a services business. The board picked him over Craig Federighi (software), Eddy Cue (services), and Johny Srouji (the actual chip designer). At a $4 trillion company that just spent two years getting publicly criticized about Siri. Apple Silicon is the AI moat. Every iPhone shipping today runs a Neural Engine that does on-device inference no competitor can match at that power envelope. The reason ChatGPT and Gemini run in the cloud is they need a building full of GPUs to do what an A18 Pro does in your pocket at 3 watts. That gap is widening. Whoever controls the silicon controls the unit economics of AI. Nvidia controls training. Apple controls inference at the edge. Google is the only other company with both ends, and their consumer hardware ships under 40M Pixels a year vs Apple's 230M+ iPhones. Ternus has run hardware engineering since 2013. He shipped the iPhone Air, the M-series Macs, the iPhone 17. He worked side-by-side with the chip team on every major architecture transition: the A-series, the M1 break from Intel, the Neural Engine roadmap. He doesn't need to learn what's coming because he scoped it. The board's read: AI is a vertical integration problem. The only person who's been in every architecture review for the last decade is the one who just got the job. Tim's bet was supply chain. John's bet is the stack. The guy with no posts about it just inherited the most important hardware company in the world.

Uli Hoeneß speaking to @BILD after winning the title • What impressed you the most about this title? Hoeneß: "That the team has never been so united in the history of FC Bayern as it is now. There are absolutely no 'cliques' in this team. This includes not only the players, but also the entire coaching staff, the physios, and also Max Eberl and Christoph Freund. When we signed Vincent, everyone thought: How is someone who comes from a relegated team in England supposed to lead Bayern? Many didn't think he could do it. We met at Käfer's with Vincent, his father, Herbert Hainer, Max Eberl, and Christoph Freund for lunch. After half an hour, I grabbed Max by the knee under the table and gave him a thumbs-up. That's when I knew and felt that it would be good and that Vincent was the right man for us. Vincent placed the word 'work' at the heart of his analysis. I really liked that, and it could be a good example and role model for our country. Some people believe that everything can be done with less work – but that's completely wrong. Vincent is here every morning at 7:30 and is one of the last to leave in the evening. You can see that he simply enjoys himself, and he never started complaining when a player was injured. He's made every single player here better - even Harry Kane, and that's the real art"

The succession everyone called for years just happened, and it's the most revealing personnel decision in tech this year. Apple is the company most behind in AI: Siri delayed three times, Apple Intelligence launched with hallucinated news headlines, and the upgraded assistant is reportedly going to be powered by Google Gemini under the hood. The obvious move was to put a software or AI executive in the CEO seat. Instead the board picked the guy who runs hardware engineering. Ternus has been at Apple 25 years. He's a mechanical engineer. He's never run software, services, or AI. His resume is iPhone, iPad, Mac, AirPods, Apple Watch, Vision Pro, and the M-series silicon transition. He is the silicon-and-systems candidate. Cook leaves with the receipts. Market cap from $350B to $4T, a 10x in 14 years. Revenue from $108B to $416B, nearly quadrupled. Services from a footnote to a $100B business. He inherited a hardware company and built a recurring-revenue platform on top of it. The market said thanks by selling AAPL down 1% after hours. The Ternus pick tells you what Apple's board actually believes about the next decade. The AI race won't be won at the model layer where Apple is hopeless and renting from Google. It'll be won at the silicon layer (on-device inference, custom NPUs, thermal envelope, battery), the form factor layer (glasses, wearables, ambient computing), and the integration layer (the chip talking to the OS talking to the model). All hardware-adjacent problems. All Ternus problems. The bear case is straightforward. Apple just promoted the executive least connected to the technology that's eating the world, at the exact moment software-native companies (OpenAI with Jony Ive's device, Meta with Ray-Ban, Google with Gemini-everything) are coming for the iPhone's distribution. A mechanical engineer running the most valuable consumer software platform in history. That's a real bet. The bull case is the same fact framed differently. Every competitor is converging on the realization that AI hardware (the device the model lives on) is the next platform, and Apple has spent 25 years building exactly that. Ternus shipped Apple Silicon, the only credible non-Nvidia AI chip in a consumer device. He runs Vision Pro. He inherited the robotics team in the April reorg. The boring read is succession planned years in advance, no surprise. The interesting read is that Apple just told you it doesn't think the AI race ends with the best chatbot. It thinks it ends with the best device. And it picked the person who builds devices.

Did anyone in your family ever read Reader's Digest? That little magazine was always around - on the table, in the bathroom, tucked in a drawer. Short stories, jokes, and advice you somehow always read. Who remembers it?

DR Congo's World Cup song is going viral. This will be their first FIFA World Cup appearance in 52 years.

I'll take this over whatever "friendship" Pep and Klopp had

This is what it means. Congo DR dared to dream. 🇨🇩 #FIFAWorldCup

: Salut Bosnia and Herzegovina 🇧🇦 for #WorldCup 2026 qualification.

Nestle just lost 413,793 KitKat bars. Someone stole them off a truck heading from their factory in central Italy to Poland, about 1,300 km away. Roughly $1 million in chocolate. The truck, the bars, all of it, just gone. A European Parliament study puts cargo theft costs across Europe at €8.2 billion a year. That works out to about €2.5 million worth of goods disappearing from trucks and warehouses every 24 hours. The industry group TAPA tracked 157,421 cargo thefts across 129 countries between 2022 and 2024. Only 6% of those included how much was actually taken, and that 6% alone added up to €2.7 billion. The real number is way bigger. Germany gets hit the hardest. DHL's own data shows that a truckload is stolen every 20 minutes there, costing roughly €2.2 billion a year. The fastest-growing method is "phantom carriers," where criminal groups register fake trucking companies with forged documents, show up at warehouses with legit-looking paperwork, load the cargo, and drive off. No weapons, no break-ins. Just forged IDs and a clipboard. The German Insurance Association logged 88 phantom carrier cases in the first seven months of 2025, matching the total for the previous year. Food is the most-stolen category in Europe, accounting for 10-20% of all cargo thefts. Chocolate is a top target because it doesn't spoil, everyone wants it, and it sells fast on unofficial markets. 20 tonnes of Nutella and Kinder Eggs were stolen in Germany in 2017. A crime ring that moved 287 tonnes of Swiss chocolate worth $8 million over the course of 2014. 20 tonnes of Milka were taken from an Austrian factory in 2019 using forged pickup papers. Timing makes this one sting. Cocoa went from about $2,400 per ton three years ago to over $12,600 in late 2024. Prices have dropped to around $5,000-$6,000 in early 2026, but that's still double the historical average. In Poland, where these bars were headed, chocolate retail prices jumped 32.6% last year according to EU data. The product is worth stealing right now more than at almost any point in the past decade. Nestlé says each bar has a scannable code that routes back to the company. Decent tracking. But when €2.5 million in cargo disappears from European supply chains every single day, 413,793 KitKat bars are a rounding error.

Google just mass-distributed a voice AI upgrade to every Android and iOS user for free. Meanwhile OpenAI caps Advanced Voice Mode at 15 minutes per month for free users and 30 minutes per day for paid users. The asymmetry is the strategy. Google doesn't need voice AI to be a profit center. It needs voice AI to be the default search interface before OpenAI can get there. Every conversation that starts with "Hey Gemini" is a conversation that didn't start with ChatGPT. The 2x context window extension matters more than the latency improvements. Latency is table stakes at this point. But holding a brainstorming thread for twice as long means users start treating Gemini Live as a thinking partner, not a voice assistant. That's a different relationship entirely. Once someone uses voice AI for 20-minute problem-solving sessions instead of 30-second queries, they don't go back to typing. 90 languages across 200 countries in one push. OpenAI's Advanced Voice Mode launched in English first, then slowly expanded. Google's playbook is the same one they used with Android: go global immediately, make it free, let the install base compound. By the time competitors localize, the habit loop is already locked. The ComplexFuncBench score of 90.8% is the number buried in the blog post that matters most. That measures multi-step function calling during live audio. Meaning the voice model can listen to you, reason through a multi-step task, and call external tools while you're still talking. That's the bridge between voice assistant and voice agent. Google is building the on-ramp to agentic AI through the one interface 8 billion people already know how to use: talking.

Let me explain what just happened 👇 5 minutes before the President announced a halt to attacks on Iran… someone placed a $1.5 BILLION bet on stocks going up and dumped $192 million in oil. 5 minutes… These trades were 4 to 6 times larger than anything else in the entire market. Whoever did this wasn’t guessing. You don’t risk $1.5 billion on a hunch. There was zero public indication this announcement was coming. No leaks. No press. Nothing. The only people who knew were in the room when the decision was made. Someone in that room picked up a phone. And within minutes they made more money than most Americans will earn in a thousand lifetimes. In a single trade. On a war that cost you $4+ a gallon gas and $16 billion in tax dollars. American citizens funded this war. Politicians are profiting from it. This is not the first time. Every major announcement from this administration has had massive suspicious trades right before it dropped. Tariff reversals. Policy shifts. War decisions. This is the most blatant insider trading operation in the history of American politics. It’s not even close. And it’s happening over and over in broad daylight. You would go to federal prison for trading on a tip from your cousin. These people are front running war decisions with billion dollar bets and nobody will ever ask a single question. Nobody will be investigated. Nobody will be charged. By tomorrow this will be buried under the next satisfying headline. Just like last time. And the time before that. The game is rigged. And they’re not even trying to hide it anymore…

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