David James

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@mysticwillz For the experience and landing for another venture.

You missed your kid's first steps building this company. First words. First day of school. First everything. The company failed anyway. You can't get those moments back. What exactly did you sacrifice everything for?

@mysticwillz Hit the pause button.

You've been building alone for 14 months. No co-founder. No team. No users. Savings account hits zero in 6 weeks. First real user just churned after 2 days. Left no feedback. Just gone. Do you keep going?

@codngr0 @Andela Every version has its cost. 💯

I spent 16–22 working like an animal. At 18 I was locked in at @andela with deadlines, Jira tickets, constant pressure while my friends and schoolmates were out dating, partying, and actually enjoying their youth. Watching that wasn’t easy at all. I’m 25 now. Do I regret it? Not really. That phase was absolutely necessary. I wouldn’t be where I am today without it. What does show up sometimes isn’t regret for the work, but awareness of the social reps I skipped things you only really learn by being outside, messy, and young. You can catch up later, but it’s slower and more intentional. Different paths have different tradeoffs. The mistake is pretending there’s a version with 0 cost.

@_KingNath @terraindustries @JTLonsdale @Max_Sengu Congratulations 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽

Announcing @terraindustries $11.7M round led by 8VC, the VC by Palantir founder @JTLonsdale Alex Moore, Board Director at Palantir, also joins Terra’s board @Max_Sengu & I started Terra to give Africa the technological edge needed for resource protection & counterterrorism (1/3)

@izu_crypt 👏🏽🤟🏽

Take this from a former chronic procrastinator, who finally managed to do a little good in his life. You will probably relate to my story aswell, but I have been able to combat it and here’s my playbook: Problems & solutions (a 3-mins read) Problem : I was addicted to doomscrolling on X. In my defense , I kept telling myself I might stumble on random alphas, I would bookmark…scroll…bookmark…scroll. I developed an unhealthy obsession with endlessly collecting data. By the end of the day, the thought of having to go through all that information overwhelmed me and I would end up never revisiting it. Even worse because, I don’t like to be limited to a single niche in Web3. I have multiple interests, so I constantly felt the need to keep tabs on everything. So I repeat the same cycle: bookmark… scroll… bookmark. When I eventually went back to those bookmarks, I would realize many of the information are now stale. Ex: An airdrop I later saw on my TL that I “missed” had actually been sitting in my bookmarks all along (I could have been an early participants). Result? - Burnt out from collecting too much data. - Pissed, then punishing myself for not going to my bookmarks. Just recycled frustration. - - - - - - - - - - - - After multiple failed attempts at convincing myself I would change this habit… nothing really changed, until I set systems in place that actually forced me to stop procrastinating. Solutions: 1) X lists: I created X lists for different sectors I am interested in, each containing people whose work ethics I trust. Every day, I dedicate a few focused hours to their contents and interactions… rather than ‘For you’ page filled with noise and scattered attention. Template: x.com/izu_crypt/stat… 2) Simplicity: I make my daily routine as simple as possible. let’s say I have 3 broad subjects of interest to learn about (e.g; vibecoding, prediction markets, privacy) plus a few other minor topics. I spread the major ones across different days. Mix one major topic with a few minor tasks daily, I start with the major, block notifications and skim through intentionally and intelligently, using this template: x.com/izu_crypt/stat… 3) People: This is split into 2 groups, based on intimacy. There are certain people, I have aligned myself with, who are deeply focused on specific niches and are always willing to reply to my DMs. Instead of spending hours researching and collecting data, I now get the same information in mins. Then, there’s another group (close friends with aligned visions). Before each week starts, we delegate different subjects for deep research. By the end of the week, we hop on a call and discuss what we have gathered … that way we are able to keep up with things faster and with better depth. - - - - - - - - - So far, these are the 3 things , I have been able to implement that saves me time, and energy, keeps me informed, happy and paid. It all comes down to: - knowing the end goal, being self-aware about your actions (even your thought process counts) - developing a sense of urgency - and then being intentional about what you want.

"it is about security, comfort, and infrastructure in places where they still have the ability to start families and thrive."

9 out of 10 Nigerians in Diaspora who are building a product use Nigerian teams back home. Indians do exactly the same thing but they are much better organized. My visit to Jaipur in 2011 still lingers, but it was my co-founder paying for a team in Bhopal for years from his salary abroad that shocked me. This was a regular thing in the Indian Diaspora and the teams were almost always together and in places with good infrastructure to support remote work. Jaipur was built specifically for that, and I saw a campus of 30k+ people supporting various ventures and clients at the same time. I stayed a couple of days there and even went to church for Mass. It was a place where people could live cheaply, and there were training centers around the campus feeding it with talent. This is what we had in mind for Benin City with Edo Innovates but it didn't work out as planned as all those who were trained left. They didn't want to live in Benin City. There are very smart developers I know who work from places like Warri and Enugu, but they are quite few and solitary. Accra and Nairobi are the only places where I see people willing to live and work together. One of the startups I invested in has their entire engineering team in Accra at my former office. I see millions of dollars being spent by organizations like Mastercard Foundation to help create jobs and they are making the same mistake we made with the World Bank at Edo Innovates, it is not about training but providing a suitable place to work and live. Out of the 9 out of 10 guys in the Nigerian Diaspora who have teams back home, 99% of them fail because of lack of continuity as those who work for them inevitably leave. These are young people seeking a bright future and you can't hold them back. People have to see a bright future in the places where they live and work or they will move away. I once met a Lagos commissioner of Housing in the Ambode era, and he told me they they were quite worried about young people choosing not to live in Lagos as it eroded the tax base. Income tax is paid where you live and most young people lived in the outskirts technically in Ogun State, or moved abroad. This is why I laugh at the current approach to taxation in Nigeria. If you don't provide hope and only stress, people will leave and you will have less tax. All of those Free Zone smart city entities aren't the way forward with keeping young people in Africa, it is about security, comfort, and infrastructure in places where they still have the ability to start families and thrive. So many Indians I know go back home after they have made money abroad to retire. They can do that because people even go to India for health tourism. Some things are not difficult to do if people are serious enough to do it together.

Nestlé has recalled these baby products. So before you mix that next bottle for your baby, read this thread carefully as it concerns their well being. If you feed your baby NAN, SMA, or Alfamino, a toxic bacteria has been found in some batches. And you might have it in your house right now. You see, Nestlé has issued a massive global recall for several baby formulas (products in the image above) because they found a toxin called Cereulide (from Bacillus cereus bacteria) in some batches. This toxin causes severe nausea and vomiting in babies. And the scary part is that boiling water does NOT kill it. The toxin is heat-resistant. So even if you prepare the formula correctly, if the powder itself is contaminated, your baby is at risk. Now, NAFDAC has not released a specific alert for Nigeria yet. BUT our markets are porous. And people import ‘UK SMA’ and ‘Imported NAN’ every single day. So if you buy your formula from supermarkets that stock imported goods, or you bought it abroad, you need to check the last stock to see if your tin look like any of those products. If yes, go to Nestle’s UK Website (SMA & Alfamino) and Nestle’s MENA Website (NAN) to verify if your batch does not fall under the recalled ones. If your batch code matches the ones on that list, please DO NOT USE IT. And please, don't keep this information to yourself. If you have a friend, sister, or neighbor who uses SMA, NAN, or Alfamino, retweet this or send this to them NOW. You might be saving a baby from poisoning today.

The doors of heaven are open unto me... Amen! #Convenantservicewithkumuyi

@BeniboLawrence @hackSultan Yea, two hands would create more problems,except they are closed together(in a diving position), that'll be more aerodynamic. Is that text from RSU?

@hackSultan Understand this is rage bait 😂😂😂... But I'll call regardless . But Nooo that's not how supersonic and subsonic airflows work😂. Two hands would create more problems in a supersonic airflow ... I'd know cause it's 12 am and I'm reading a fluid texts just cause .

I’ve been thinking deeply about something for hours now and I think I just figured it out. The reason why superman sometimes flies without using his hands, using one hand and using both hands. Why? What’s the difference? Then it came to me, if he’s flying slowly, and doesn’t need to protect himself from the sound barrier, there’s no need to use his hands. When he uses one hands, he’s flying very fast and needs one hand to create an air shield so he can see clearly. 2 hands literally means supersonic speed and he needs a stronger arm shield to protect against the sound barrier when.

Constraints always force innovation and unlocks wealth. This is why I keep telling people that this is the best time to build. Many people are now professional excuse makers waiting for an “enabling environment, “ or waiting to Japa to find the environment. If the environment was the problem, why then are we not seeing more innovations and unicorns built by those who have left Nigeria? It means the problem wasn't just with the environment. It was a mentality problem. We have very low expectations. I don't talk to Sarah Lacy anymore but if there was anything I learned from her, it was to stop making excuses and seeing opportunities in the constraints. We started the first POS agent network @MATSNigeria after she came to Nigeria. I was challenged by all she kept gushing about Indonesia. All what we got after Paystack, Flutterwave and a few others around the same period, were a whole bunch of copycats all tryjng to repeat the same formula they had seen. What if “enabling environment” doesn't happen? If you build an enabler, you have the advantage of a naturally created moat by the dysfunction in the market. I can't wait to talk to @EfosaOjomo again. I am getting very impatient with people. I watched something today that made me realize that we haven't even started yet.

@zikohercules One Day 💪🏽💪🏽

Starting our aerospace program, building the jet engine from scratch, with crude tools, limited resources & basic knowledge has been the most demanding & challenging mission of my career so far. Many have advised us on what to do to expand the program, but these options do not appear 'safe' Yes, our progress looks slow, but understand that this is a marathon not a sprint. I will be making some very aggressive & decisive changes on the future of this program I just left briefly to pick myself up again after some personal disastrous events hit me, but the mission is not over⚠️ Soon, we will be unveiling alot of innovative things we have been working on discretely And when the time is right, you'll see us in our full form & potential #Zedora

@NexaScaleHQ 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽

proud moment for us and huge win for the community 🎉💛

@hackSultan 😀😂😂

So we’re going to start with C++

@mysticwillz Or finish an old one.

Start a new personal project today

@Sleek_GC 💯

Remote work is wild! All they have to do is stop responding to your messages or calls and you have lost your job.

@gdgcloudph Happy new month 🎉

May this month bring you peace, protection, and fulfillment.

Clarity indeed comes from doing work...I'm not there yet, but it's coming.🤞🏽