Nick Oloo

Is this the most worn wristband in the world???

I spent time in Shenzhen last year and when I saw Merz come back from China saying Germans need to work more I immediately knew what broke his brain because I lived the exact same cognitive shock my first week in Huaqiangbei I burned through 4 prototype iterations of a motor controller board for less than a thousand bucks total, back home a friend was working on something similar and spent over 12 thousand for a single revision that took almost two months to arrive when you live that contrast in your own hands with your own project something permanently shifts in how you see the world and it goes way deeper than speed & cost what Shenzhen actually built is a collective learning organism, imagine 20 PCB fabs 15 injection mold shops 30 component distributors and a hundred firmware freelancers all within a 2km radius, looks insanely redundant from the outside until you realize redundancy is actually information density in disguise I watched this firsthand with an injection mold supplier I was working with, this guy had seen a hundred founders iterate similar thermal designs over 6 months so he proactively modified his tooling before I even opened my mouth, he knew what I needed before I knew what I needed, the intelligence lives in the relationships between the nodes and it compounds daily the west thinks about manufacturing as a cost center you optimize by centralizing… China accidentally built a distributed neural network of manufacturing intelligence where knowledge diffuses horizontally across thousands of agents faster than any single western company can process internally so when Merz comes back and says we need to work a bit more I think he saw the problem but COMPLETELY misdiagnosed the solution, telling Germans to work harder is like telling a horse to gallop faster when the other side built a combustion engine the gap is ARCHITECTURAL it’s ecosystem density, you need a custom connector in Shenzhen you walk 200 meters, in Munich you send an email and wait 3 weeks it’s iteration speed, parallel search vs sequential optimization at the system level, it’s risk tolerance, Chinese founders ship something broken on Monday fix it Tuesday ship again Wednesday while European companies are still in the approval phase for the pilot program of the feasibility study… and Merz only saw the surface, what he missed is the tier 2 cities like Hefei Chengdu Wuhan replicating the Shenzhen model at scale right now BYD going from irrelevant to outselling every european automaker combined in roughly 5 years, Huawei building its own 7nm chip under maximum sanctions when every analyst said it was physically impossible & behind all of that a government that treats advanced manufacturing as an existential national priority while europe debates whether AI needs another ethics committee I think what we’re watching is the most asymmetric economic competition in modern history and most western leaders are still framing it as a productivity problem when it’s actually an ontological one Europe & America are optimizing variables that China stopped tracking years ago meanwhile China is compounding on dimensions the west has no framework to even measure Merz at least had the courage to name it out loud and I respect that genuinely but working a bit more inside a broken architecture just means you arrive at the wrong destination slightly faster

You know anywhere there’s an opportunity of telling our story our own way, I’m there… ⁦@maono_space⁩ congratulations 🥂 thank you for everything you’re doing for the community. Karibu Maono Space!

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“Who owns the outcomes of #LandRestoration? 🌱 To all local champions- we celebrate you! Your impact goes beyond borders. "Let’s make restoration a culture, not a project." - Hon. Jean Bosco Ntibitura- Governor @RwandaWest”

From fibre to packaging, building materials & even waterproof sinks - innovation in forestry has been on show in Rome 🌳✨
 Communicating how sustainable wood is a #ClimateSolution is key to its impact 👇 Help #GrowTheSolution! #WFF2025 #SeedstoFoods #CPForests

🪲 #DYK? Pests destroy up to 40% of the world’s crops every year! 😱 AI-powered glasses, pest radars & farming drones are helping farmers fight back. Through @FAO-China #SouthSouthCooperation these innovations are reaching 200K+ farmers in Kenya & Ghana. #Seeds2Foods #FAO80

Many families in Marsabit, Samburu, Turkana, Baringo, Mandera, Wajir and Garissa are facing the harsh reality of drought. Little food, scarce water and limited health services. With support from @IFRC_DREF, Kenya Red Cross has stepped in with food assistance, medical outreaches and rehabilitated water points, easing the burden and restoring hope.

Volvo Cars' CEO warns that China's up-and-coming automakers are going to squeeze out some European and American brands as the industry goes electric bloomberg.com/news/features/…

BREAKING: Valtteri Bottas and Sergio Perez will race for Cadillac Formula 1 Team in 2026! #F1

Ujenzi wa reli fupi kati ya kituo cha SGR kilichopo eneo la Miritini nje kidogo na mji wa Mombasa kuelekea katikati ya mji huo, umekamilika, taarifa hii ni kulingana na Shirika la Reli la Kenya. Mradi huo uliogharimu Ksh bilioni 4.2 unalenga kurahishisha usafiri kwa wanaotumia treni ya SGR, Madaraka Express. Mradi huo wa kuimarisha kilomita 16.6 ya reli iliyokuwepo awali pamoja na kujenga vituo viwili vya abiria na daraja la reli inayovuka eneo la Makupa Causeway. Kwa sasa abiria hutegemea usafiri binafsi, au wa umma kusafiri kati ya Mombasa na kituo cha SGR

Innovative smoking & drying methods are helping Tanzanian fish processors boost their food supply & income. #FISH4ACP supports this shift with smart technology & trainings. Learn more 👉openknowledge.fao.org/handle/20.500.… @BMZ_Bund @EU_Partnerships @PressACP

On #WorldRefugeeDay, find out how @FAO & @Refugees are working to help displaced people & host communities manage natural resources more effectively & improve energy access for cooking & livelihoods. 👉bit.ly/44quYso @FAODjibouti @FAOEmergencies @eu_echo @eudeleg_rome

On #DesertificationAndDroughtDay, we celebrate local heroes restoring land and livelihoods. 🎥 Meet a #RestoreLocal champion, @paranwomen2019 making a difference: 👉 bit.ly/3HWmZuo #GenerationRestoration #LandRestoration

@sc167846 @Arsenal Yes. I agree. And the fact that he keeps doing it over and over again.... That's gotta be pinned on the coaching as well for not nipping it in the bud.

@Arsenal That red card is all on Raya. Not the first time

We're reduced to 10 men - Merino is sent off after a second bookable offence. 🔴 2-2 ⚫️ (80)

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@BeaWangondu Looking great Bea! Blessed weekend.

This symposium, the first of its kind to focus on the the intersection of Open Source and Energy Access, presents a unique opportunity towards the advancement of #SDG7. It was fulfilling to see what great talent Nigeria has in #opensource.