Shiyonga Dickson

@iamkathambi Some Kabambe have Type C charging.

This is a classic example of a clueless African country copying Western regulations that are not even grounded in the reality of their citizens. Since EU require USB-C, Kenyan policy makers think they should follow suit. How when majority of Kenyans use Kabambes? 🫠

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We’ve trained a multimodal AI model to turn routine pathology slides into spatial proteomics, with the potential to reduce time and cost while expanding access to cancer care.

@zionpearl Looking him up and bring contrary opinion, ask his students at Uon med school. I'll be waiting.

@ShiyongaD 😅 oh, Dickson. Utakuwa sawa

Let me tell you about CBC (again). CBC was introduced to Kenya by a man named Dr. George Magoha. George Magoha's son, Michael, did very poorly in school, struggling a chunk of the way through. I'm sorry to have to share this. Please don't ask how I know. George Magoha's wife, Barbara, is Nigerian. This is now common knowledge. CBC kills two birds with one stone for him. First, it ensures no child goes through what Michael went through (regardless of the means) -- or can be seen as punishing the nation for his son's failures, if you want to look at it that way. The E's Michael used to get now stand for Excellent. If there's an A in that grading system, I'm very sure it stands for Average. 😂 Second, it pays homage to his wife's heritage. Any Nigerian or anyone who knows about Nigeria will recognize abbreviations like "JSS" immediately as that's borrowed right from them. (2)-6-3-3-3 was inspired by Nigeria's 6-3-3-4. Nigerians can go to university as early as age 16 so that additional year is fine out there. Brilliant people, those ones. Anyway. You see why it's good to have Nigerian friends? Be intentional about making some. Your president is their relative; they will affect many things during his tenure. It's good to be aware.

@RealDonaldDoo She's the helper not the other way round.

You’re not helping your wife, you’re carrying your child. Ask another question.

@Imonaar Why disrupt your enemy when he's drowning?

China has the best strategy in all this. Why fight when you can just sit and wait for your enemy to annihilate itself?

@Vickyjr If you're crying duration a bull market, what will you do when bears will be out?

Soko ifunge tu sasa coz what are this now 😭

@VictorNyakund10 Start with financial literacy. This is a marathon, not a sprint, or get rich quick scheme.

I recently helped a friend open a CDS account. He bought shares, checked his portfolio the next day, saw a paper loss, and accused me of misleading him 😀. Akauza.That reaction alone signaled a misalignment between time horizon and asset class a mindset that makes long-term wealth accumulation nearly impossible to majority. Explains why the rich will forever remain the tiny minority while the masses will still be poor centuries to come Another one complained about about earning KSh 82 bob from a KSh 10K MMF investment over a month, clearly expecting outsized returns from a low-risk, capital-preservation instrument. That’s a classic case of return expectations divorced from risk reality.Mimi hata 200bob gain hunibamba. Equities require time and volatility tolerance Money market funds prioritize stability, not exponential growth Wealth isn’t built by reacting to short-term mark-to-market movements. It’s built by understanding risk–return trade-offs, aligning expectations with instruments, and letting compounding work over long horizons.

@JohnHiuhu The one who'll introduce international stocks seamlessly will reap.

A 4% chunk of the cake for a platform that's new is wild. Losing 4% of market share to a new entrant should wake every stock broker. Party is over.

Two-thirds of sustained cases of economic growth over the last 50 years can be *directly* attributed to manufacturing. The idea that developing countries can skip industrialization — and instead develop based on services — is fundamentally misguided.

I still have 3 courses up on @coursera should you want to learn Abstraction in Java, Sorting API in Java, and cleaning messy data using Excel. 😀

All investors like bull markets. Real investors like bear markets.

@MosesGwandaru Euphoria and market irrationality.

Okay. Someone tell these Ziidi newcomers to slow down before they hurt themselves. They are bidding up the prices out of FOMO instead of determining their own valuation and standing by it. Dividend yields zimeharibika sasa. For now.

Recommendations for solid food and liquids in the peri-operative period. #anaesthesia #MedTwitter doi.org/10.1111/anae.7…

Many economists are arguing that export-oriented industrialization is no longer possible. Perhaps the most prominent among them is Dani Rodrik. In his most recent book, he explicitly argues that export-oriented industrialization is no longer viable, primarily due to new automation technologies that undercut the advantage of low-cost labour. I respect Rodrik’s work, but on this point I disagree. Not only is export-oriented industrialization still necessary for development — it is also entirely viable in the contemporary world economy. China and Vietnam are perfect examples. Both economies are still undergoing rapid and highly successful export-oriented industrialization. They are also adopting new automation technologies (such as industrial robots) at an astonishing pace, integrating them into manufacturing ecosystems that continue to absorb huge numbers of workers. In a piece I published yesterday, I explain why export-oriented industrialization remains a necessary and viable path for developing countries.

The idea that developing countries can skip industrialization — and instead develop based on services — is fundamentally misguided. Except for very small countries, *every* country that has transformed its economy from low- to high-income has done so via manufacturing.

@Blessed_Doc001 @jeffvsdaworld Do it quarterly and intentionally, save your funds to a substantial amount, then do the transfer. This brings the cost down by having a few transactions.

@jeffvsdaworld The biggest huddle with IBKR is the charges one has to incur to deposit funds into an account for here. An appropriate of 1600-2000 Kes as bank charges to make every bank wire transfer is quite high. Is there another way to deposit money that’s more cost efficient?

As a Kenyan you have access to the greatest wealth generating machine i.e the US Stock market via IBKR Why are you throwing away your future with an immature market like the NSE?

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THE REALITIES OF INVESTING IN STOCKS...🧵🧵 It’s 2016. The market is hot. Conversations about shares spill from boardrooms into barbershops. Everyone has an opinion and most of them are bullish. You buy Kenya Airways at Ksh 18 a share, confident you’re thinking long term. After all, this is the national carrier. A strategic asset. A business that must survive. Eight years earlier, you had participated in the Safaricom IPO. You watched your Ksh 5 shares grow fivefold to Ksh 25. That experience taught you to buy good companies early, hold patiently, and wealth will follow. But the market has a way of humbling even the most confident investor. >>