goatwiid

@clairevo @muchilwa

Let me tell you a dirty secret about a lot of execs: They're extremely smart. And they haven't had to do their own work for years. Look inside any mid->large size company and you'll find VP+ executives that were promoted fast and furious in their early career because they're smart, hard working, make good decisions, have good taste, and can manage up down and sideways well. And as they become more senior, they start to earn the "you're too important to [X]" executive scaffold: - EAs for admin/scheduling/todos - Chief of Staff to keep their directs on track - Sr. leaders working under them eager for opportunity, so take on projects, presentations, meetings, etc. They're still smart, and they're still hard working, and they still make good decisions, so they tend to orchestrate and use these tools at their disposal quite well, choosing what gets done by whom. But - they show up to board meetings with decks made by their team - they show up to sales meetings with prep docs done by the sales person - they share insights generated by some data team - they +@[ea] to schedule every meeting - someone reads & responds to their emails And their job becomes - charm customers - charm candidates - charm the team - charm the board - charm the market - have good ideas (for someone else to do) And before someone shouts "this just optimizes for people who are highly political!" I must emphasize: these people are still usually wicked smart, they're usually extremely charming, and they work really hard (earliest on, latest off.) They hang in the forest, not a tree. Their experience saves your butt once or twice. They just don't have to put their hands on a keyboard and do the things. Sometimes they *can't* put their hands on a keyboard and do the things, because they're in endless meetings and on endless trips to do the charming/idea things. But after awhile of this, their "doing the things" muscle atrophies. Your CMO can't write compelling copy. Your CPO doesn't look at designs anymore. Your CRO can't login to demo. Your VPE doesn't have the latest local env setup. And over time, as an exec, your ability to be wicked smart degrades with your distance from the work, especially when things like AI come and smack your team in the face. This is all to say, I have two warnings for you if you've made it this far: EXECS: Do not stop doing the things. Take on projects, write your docs, do your own damn analysis, and don't stop touching the work. Fix your calendar so you're not just bopping meeting to meeting, and use that big brain of yours do actually build something. TEAMS: Consider yourself lucky if you have a leadership team that can still/wants to do the things. Trust: you'd rather have a micromanagey CEO who drops suggested edits in your doc than a manager-class exec team that doesn't even know your doc exists. Your company will be better for the work, the specificity, the care that comes with a doing-the-things leadership team, than a organizes-the-work leadership team. And for all of you: AI will generate a little microcosm of the dynamic above, but for IC work. I love AI, but still think it's important to exercise the muscle daily of writing, coding, reading, speaking, thinking. All unused skills will atrophy. Make sure you get stronger, not weaker, with these new tools. Ok back to doing things 😎

It's confirmed, we are locked in for June 7th, 2025. In collaboration with @shehacks_ke our Pre-Conference we'll be talking all things Vulnerability Disclosure and Bug Bounty. We have exciting partners we'll unveil in the coming days!

@muchilwa Proficiency in AI and ML is another skillset/job

The unfortunate thing....100s will apply. Enemy is poverty

In the new year 2025, ~Work hard on your fitness. ~Work hard on your career. ~Work hard on your side hustle. ~Work hard on your networking. ~Work hard on learning new skills. Some people will call you lucky. But you are just lucky to have the push to do all these things.

@savvykenya You did well. I hope to see you in the 21k in the near future.

1:20 approx for 10Km. So proud of my medal. #StanchartNairobiMarathon

@DearS_o_n Start saving and investing from your first salary. Get into entrepreneurship as early as you can.

@savvykenya I see you have increased the time and distance. Nice.

Pics from my only run this week

@savvykenya I still run 4 days a week. I haven't hit the ground the last 2 weeks. I will resume next week. I aim to run 21k in the Nairobi City and Standard Chartered marathons before transitioning to 42k in 2025.

@goatwiid Thanks! That's what I aim for: consistency. How have you been running? Still going every morning?

Today's run (I was tired so I walked a lot)

@muchilwa Tuingie lecturing

Interesting read and insights: I’m Not A Pentester (And You Might Not Want To Be One Either).

Great conversations at #Unthinkable2023

@Branicemercy You did well.

I still did well for my first marathon I just got a little emotional when I was done I couldn’t believe I had done it . First frame is women 2nd frame is overall . If Jonah followed me he would have found me dancing isukuti with my medal right after 😅 One day some of you will run a marathon Alafu tutaongea 😅🤝

Kiliniramba hapo finish line 🥴🥴 @StandardKenya Mimi ni recreational runner athlete tena ?🌚

@savvykenya That's the way to go. Keep showing up. It's all about consistency.

I was tired but I want to achieve my 50km goal this month! So I did a 5Km run this evening. There was a nice cool breeze.

@savvykenya @Garmin, @garminconnect and @Strava

@goatwiid What app do you use

Going to challenge myself this month cc @goatwii

@savvykenya Great!! I am going for 100K.

Cc @goatwiid

@samgecha @0xNdeto @AdiePrestone I remember some conversation we had about him.

@0xNdeto i thought that guy was legit. Check this tho, sijui kama ni the same person x.com/aicoding_/stat…

Pressure ya LinkedIn will finish us 😂😂🤥🤡 IYKYK

@OkinyoMark Are the sessions recorded?

Graduating my second cohort of learners from my "Cultivating Product and Marketing Sense" Masterclass this Friday. I've especially enjoyed the robust questions and discussions in the workshops with them. If you'd like to join the 3rd cohort that starts same day, link in comments.

@VusiThembekwayo @worship_harvest

@mwarv @AdiePrestone reminds me of your story.

Google Maps told me kuna njia. I should have been wiser and driven by sight, not by Maps. Kukwama, kukwamuliwa and other short stories.

@HouseDesignsKe @AdiePrestone something similar to what you showed me today

Building Dreams, One Home at a Time. 📍Gikambura, Kiambu County.