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@LionelSN_ @Natunde @titi_257 @pnininahazwe @grufyikiri @AmilcarRyumeko @iburundi @cnaredburundi @Mthukuzi @IInir26 @Judicaelle_ @ngendapatrick @Manirakiza @ndikumwenayo @AmahoroI @ZeLadyDee @ZB_Katniss @_Arielle_Sabu @ArielkeK @ThierryU @AntoineKaburahe 5/5 Our past can't be ignored and needs to be dealt with before mending our Nation. But we can't wait to start to work towards that end. It requires a higher perspective beyond our own pains and wounds, a glimpse of hope, a pinch of trust and couple of daring+inspired leaders

on était la dernière génération, c’est finis.

Pétition de MWAMBUTSA, le Mwami de l'Urundi datée du 25/07/1948 adressée au Secrétaire Général des Nations Unies via sa Mission en Afrique Centrale Document du Conseil de Tutelle (Ref T/PET. 3/5, T/PET 2/49) Accès libre Version originale – Reproduction intégrale 2/2

Pétition de MWAMBUTSA, le Mwami de l'Urundi datée du 25/07/1948 adressée au Secrétaire Général des Nations Unies via sa Mission en Afrique Centrale Document du Conseil de Tutelle (Ref T/PET. 3/5, T/PET 2/49) Accès libre Version originale – Reproduction intégrale 1/2

85 to 90 percent of women physicians are eldest daughters. That is not a coincidence. That is a pipeline. Eldest daughters are trained, before age five, to over-function. They take on a parent's worry. They organize the family. They clean up without being asked. They do not ask for help, because they were rewarded their whole childhood for not needing any. Then they walk into medicine. A career that demands hyper-responsibility, hypervigilance, perfectionism, and silent sacrifice does not have to ask these women to give those things. They were giving them before they could read. The system is not stumbling into a burnout problem. The system is recruiting from a pool of people whose entire childhood was a training program for it. This is what pediatrician and certified coach Jessie Mahoney has been finding when she asks the room. In every group, in every retreat. Maybe one or two women are not eldest daughters. The rest have been carrying something since before they could spell their own name. Most of those women blame themselves. "Why don't I have boundaries?" "Why do I over-function?" "Why can't I delegate?" Because at five years old, your family rewarded you for over-functioning. Because every teacher praised you for it. Because the medical training system selected for it. Because every job since has reinforced it. The pattern is older than your medical degree by twenty years. The other piece nobody names: by the time these women are in their fifties, they are carrying eldest-daughter responsibility for aging parents AND running a department as chief AND running a household. The role does not retire when the children do. It just compounds. Jessie's reframe is the part worth bookmarking. The "hero" framing is the trap. Eldest daughters were made the savior of the family before they could read. Then medicine made them the savior of the patient. Then the department made them the savior of the team. At every stage, they learned that if they did not do it, terrible things would happen and it would be their fault. Awareness is the first move. Non-judgment is the second. Excellence is not doing everything yourself. Excellence is letting other people do their jobs. You are allowed to gift some of it back. You can ask your siblings to carry the aging parent. You can let your medical assistant do the medical assistant's job. You can stop covering the gap that nobody actually asked you to cover. Most eldest daughters in medicine have never asked for help. When they finally do, they discover people are willing to help. The asking was the whole obstacle. Listen to the full conversation on The Podcast by KevinMD. Link in the replies. What is the one task you have been carrying for your family or your team that no one ever actually asked you to carry? #ThePodcastbyKevinMD

Bro married a drama queen and got a free copy 😭🤣

What if the biggest “win” for families in the last 50 years was actually a trap? Rory Sutherland dropped this on Alex O’Connor’s podcast: The two-income household started as a nice option. Both partners work, more money comes in. Feels great at first. Then reality shifted. Governments got double the tax. Existing homeowners watched their property values soar. House prices rose to match two salaries. Suddenly one income wasn’t enough anymore — even for high-earning singles like consultant surgeons. Families traded ~35 hours of free time per week for only modest gains in lifestyle. What began as freedom quietly became an obligation. And it left single people and parents who want to raise their own kids at a real disadvantage. This one stings because we sold it as pure progress. Personally, it makes me question how many modern “upgrades” we’ve normalized without counting the real cost — especially lost time with family. What’s something you once thought was clear progress that now feels like it came with a heavier price than we admitted?

Imagine a 19-year-old scrolling TikTok. She watches a creator list five "signs you have undiagnosed anxiety." She recognizes three in herself. By the end of the week, she's describing herself as anxious to her friends. A month later, she's avoiding situations she used to handle fine. What went wrong? In a new paper by my PhD student Dasha Sandra, titled "Why mental health awareness can harm: Converging explanations for a societal problem", we argue that well-meaning mental health awareness can backfire, and we identify how. Four separate literatures (concept creep, nocebo effects, prevalence inflation, and illness self-labeling) have been circling the same problem from different angles. We show they converge on three mechanisms: 1.Awareness lowers the threshold for what counts as a disorder. 2. It trains people to scan their inner lives for symptoms and reinterpret normal distress as pathology. 3. Once someone adopts an illness identity, they behave in ways that confirm and deepen it. The evidence is wide. Learning that loneliness is harmful makes solitude feel worse. Learning that stress is harmful worsens well-being and performance. Awareness videos about fake conditions like "wind turbine syndrome" produce real headaches. Trigger warnings raise anticipatory anxiety without reducing distress. This does not mean awareness should stop. It means awareness can have unintended consequences, including manufacturing the suffering it tries to prevent. Inoculating people against these mechanisms works, and we already have evidence it does. Link to paper: michael-inzlicht.squarespace.com/s/The-psycholo…

Other bottles just hold water [📹 getringo]

Columbus pitched this exact trip to Spain in 1492. He said it was a 3,500-mile journey. The real distance is more than 8,000 miles. He survived only because two entire continents nobody in Europe knew existed happened to be sitting in his path. The first mistake was a translation problem. Columbus was working off a calculation by a 9th-century Persian geographer named Al-Farghani, who said one degree around the Earth was about 57 miles. That was correct, but Al-Farghani measured in Arabic miles. Columbus assumed Roman miles. Same number, different ruler. Roman miles were shorter, so his version of Earth came out 25% smaller than the real one. Then he made it worse. He read Marco Polo and decided Asia ran way further east than anyone else thought. So he redrew his maps to match. Japan ended up sitting right next to the Azores, the Portuguese islands in the middle of the Atlantic. The actual Japan is on the other side of the entire Pacific Ocean. He moved a whole country 8,000 miles to make his pitch work. Spain’s royal experts ran his numbers in 1486 and rejected him. They were right. They told Ferdinand and Isabella that Columbus had badly underestimated the size of the planet. He got funded six years later anyway, but not because his math improved. Spain’s long war at home had just ended, and they wanted in on the Asia trade before Portugal locked it up. A Greek librarian had already figured out the actual size of Earth in 240 BC. That puts him 1,700 years ahead of Columbus. The librarian was named Eratosthenes. He used a stick, a deep well in southern Egypt, and the angle of the noon sun on the longest day of the year. His answer: about 25,000 miles around. The real number is 24,901. He was off by maybe 1 to 2%, depending on the Greek length unit he was using. He did this with hand tools, almost 2,000 years before anyone built the first telescope. Columbus knew about that calculation. He just didn’t like it. The bigger number meant the trip was impossible. No 15th-century ship could carry enough food and water to sail 8,000 miles nonstop, let alone the 15,000-plus to actual eastern China. So he picked a smaller number that fit the boat. He got lucky. The Americas were in the way. The map in this post does work in a literal sense, but it cheats. Flat maps stretch everything sideways. Any east-west line looks straight on them, even when it actually curves on a globe. If you’ve ever flown to Tokyo, you’ve seen the flight path arc up over Russia on the seatback screen. The arc is the actual shortest route. Columbus’s plan was wrong. The map that makes it look possible is wrong in a different way.

🤔 Diplôme comme garantie bancaire : il fallait y penser ! En Tanzanie, le gouvernement envisage une idée plus qu'audacieuse. Permettre aux #jeunes d’utiliser leurs diplômes comme garantie pour accéder à des prêts bancaires. L'idée est de transformer un simple certificat en véritable levier économique pour financer projets et entreprises 🤌🏾 Pourquoi on y avait pas pensé avant ? C'est une réponse concrète à un problème que Yaga aborde souvent. Des milliers de jeunes diplômés, sans emploi ni hypothèses bancaires, restent exclus du système financier. 📊 Au #Burundi, environ 150 000 jeunes arrivent chaque année sur le marché du travail, souvent sans opportunités ni chance d'être embauchés. C'est pour cela que beaucoup se tournent vers l’#entrepreneuriat. Mais malheureusement, ils se heurtent à un obstacle majeur concernant l’accès au financement ⚠️ Même avec des initiatives comme la Banque d’investissements des jeunes (BIJE), les exigences de garanties continuent de bloquer le financement des projets des jeunes 📉 👌🏾 Le modèle tanzanien change la donne. Il faut considérer le diplôme comme un capital. Non pas pour sa valeur papier, mais pour ce qu’il représente, c'est-à-dire des compétences, un potentiel, une capacité à créer de la richesse. Et si le Burundi s’en inspirait ? Faire du savoir une garantie, c’est reconnaître que la jeunesse n’est pas un problème, mais une solution 👍🏾 #emploi

Le plus grand milliardaire africain 🇳🇬 Aliko Dangote affirme : « Aujourd’hui, avec un passeport européen, on peut se déplacer plus facilement en Afrique qu’en tant qu’Africain, ce qui, selon moi, doit changer. Pourquoi ne pouvons-nous pas autoriser la libre circulation sans visa pour tous les Africains ? »

Even at finishing second… they’re second 😭

New UK screen time rules just dropped — and they’re stricter than most parents expected. From 27 March 2026, England says: zero solo screens for under-2s (except quick video calls with family), and max one hour a day for 2–5 year olds — no screens at meals or the hour before bed. Co-view everything, stick to slow-paced content, and ditch fast social-media clips and AI toys completely. The science is sobering: toddlers’ brains process info up to 10 times slower than adults. Fast-paced screens push them into fight-or-flight mode — racing heart, surging energy — while they’re sitting still. Researchers at the University of East London say this mismatch can wire kids for more tantrums and emotional struggles later. Using screens to calm meltdowns? It often backfires long-term. As a parent, it’s brutal — we all know that explosion the second you take the tablet away. But this feels like evidence finally catching up with what our gut has been telling us. How are you handling screens with little ones — strict limits, co-viewing, or mostly winging it?

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In 2016 Norway gave every 5-year-old child an iPad. Within a few years, Norway's reading scores plummeted and dropped below the OECD average. They ranked dead last out of 65 countries. Now Norway is spending millions of dollars to reverse this trend and get people reading.

Simon Sinek offers a counterintuitive take: The moment you step in and fix the problem, you stop being a leader: You got promoted because you were the best at the job. And that's precisely what makes leadership so difficult. The same instinct that made you great at the work, seeing the problem, knowing the answer, fixing it fast, becomes a liability the moment you move into a leadership role. Simon is direct about this: "Then you're not leading. You're just doing the work. You just have the leadership position." The people who now report to you may not be as good as you. They'll move slower. They'll miss things you would have caught immediately. And in those moments, every instinct will tell you to step in. But that instinct is exactly what you have to resist. "You can't just come in and tell them how you would do it. You have to push them to solve the problems the way that they would, just like someone did for you once before." Someone once gave you the space to figure it out. That patience is what shaped you. Now it's your turn to offer the same to others. Simon points to Chanel as a company that has built this principle into its culture. Newly hired senior leaders are not allowed to speak in meetings for their first three months. "You don't know anything about our company. And you'll learn by listening." Chanel trusts that their leaders will be around for the long term, so 90 days of silence is a small price to pay for someone who truly understands the business before they start shaping it. That's institutionalised patience. And it's almost unheard of. Most organisations reward speed, decisiveness, and output. So the pressure to swoop in and fix things feels justified, even virtuous. But Simon draws a hard line between having a leadership position and actually leading. One is a title. The other is a practice. And that practice demands something most high performers find deeply uncomfortable. Watching someone struggle toward an answer you already have, and choosing to let them find it themselves. That restraint is the real work of leadership.

Serge-Éric Menye: «Aucun pays au monde ne peut prétendre avoir été développé par les diasporas» rfi.my/CbzR.x

Huawei’s Pura 90 series comes with AI Posture Recommendations for better photos. THIS is how AI is supposed to be used. Yea, it’s way more useful than Google’s camera coach slop.