Teddy Warria

- Steve Jobs

Jeff Bezos on the exact moment he realized he would never be a great physicist: "I wanted to be a theoretical physicist. I went to Princeton. I was a really good student, I got A-pluses on almost everything. I was in the honors physics track, which starts with 100 students and by quantum mechanics it's down to 30." Then came the homework problem: "I can't solve this partial differential equation. It's really, really hard. I've been studying with my roommate Joe, who was also really good at math. The two of us worked on this one problem for three hours and got nowhere." They decided to visit Yasantha, the smartest guy at Princeton: "He was Sri Lankan. In the Facebook, which was an actual paper book at that time, his name was three lines long. I guess in Sri Lanka when you do something good for the king, they give you an extra syllable on your name. The most humble, wonderful guy." Jeff continues: "We show him the problem. He stares at it for a while and says, 'Cosine.' I'm like, 'What do you mean?' He says, 'That's the answer.' I said, 'That's the answer?' He said, 'Yeah, let me show you.' He sits us down, writes out three pages of detailed algebra, everything crosses out, and the answer is cosine." Jeff asked if he solved it in his head: "He said, 'No, that would be impossible. Three years ago I solved a very similar problem and I was able to map this problem onto that one. Then it was immediately obvious the answer was cosine.'" Jeff reflects: "That was an important moment for me. Because that was the very moment I realized I was never going to be a great theoretical physicist."

Jeff Bezos fit an entire billion-dollar philosophy into a single page. This is his final letter as Amazon CEO:

That smile when he realizes someone captured the moment ☺️

Jeff Bezos is an exceptional writer: “The universe wants you to be typical- in a thousand ways it pulls at you. Don’t let it happen.” From letters to shareholders (1997).

Jeff Bezos just told every builder in AI they’re chasing the wrong question. Which model won this week. Which benchmark moved. Which company shipped the shiniest demo. Everyone is sprinting to predict what changes next. Bezos told you the answer is the exact opposite. Bezos: “Think about the things that are not going to change over 10 years and those are probably the big things.” One sentence that quietly dismantles the entire attention economy built around artificial intelligence. Stop trying to predict what shifts next. Find what never shifts. Then pour everything you have into it until there is nothing left to give. Bezos: “10 years from now customers are still gonna want low prices. I know they’re still gonna want fast delivery, and I just know they’re still gonna want big selection.” Cheaper. Faster. More. That is not a business insight. That is a biological constant hardwired into the human species since before we had written language. Bezos: “It’s impossible to imagine a scenario where 10 years from now a customer says, ‘I love Amazon, I just wish the prices were a little higher.’ Or, ‘I love Amazon, I just wish you delivered a little more slowly.’” Nobody has ever wished for that. In any century. In any market. In any civilization that has ever existed on this planet. And nobody ever will. Now run every major play in AI and robotics through that filter. Foundation models driving the cost of intelligence toward zero. Humanoid robots driving the cost of physical labor toward zero. Autonomous systems collapsing delivery windows toward zero. Every single breakthrough in this space is an instrument built to serve the oldest demands on earth. Bezos: “When you identify the big things, you can tell they’re worth putting energy into because they’re stable in time.” Stable in time. Three words that make 90% of the weekly AI discourse completely irrelevant. The winners of the next two decades will not be whoever chased the loudest cycle. They will be whoever locked onto the permanent demands of the human animal and built so deep into them that nothing on this planet could rip it out. The game was never about the technology. It was always about the hunger underneath it. And that hunger does not expire.

When you stop writing, you start to outsource your thinking.

Mark Manson on how to win at life: 1. Commit to doing a hard thing. 2. Do the hard thing. 3. Feel good about doing the hard thing. 4. Become someone who enjoys doing hard things.

Lumumba Ghost on Trial in Brussels, And Why Africa’s Founders Still Tower Over Today’s 'Janitors' On March 17, 2026, a court in Brussels, Belgium, ordered 93-year-old Étienne Davignon to stand trial for 65-year-old war crimes in the Democratic Republic of Congo. It feels like the past finally catching up with the present. The case centres on the 1961 kidnapping and murder of Pan-African and nationalist Patrice Lumumba, Congo’s first elected independence leader. Davignon, a 28-year-old junior diplomat in Congo at the time, is the last living figure accused of orchestrating the plan, specifically writing the secret messages that handed Lumumba to his executioners. This trial confirms a haunting truth: Africa’s founders still tower, because their heirs mostly refused or failed to stand up. Lumumba was the prophet of Congolese sovereignty, a firebrand who, on 1960 independence day, looked King Baudouin in the eye and called Belgian rule "humiliating slavery." His defiance signed his death warrant. On January 17, 1961, after a coup backed by his army chief Joseph-Désiré Mobutu, Lumumba was executed alongside Maurice Mpolo and Joseph Okito. The three were killed under Belgian supervision with CIA blessing. Their bodies were dug up, hacked, and dissolved in sulphuric acid. The erasure failed. In January 2026, at the AFCON tournament in Morocco, a lone Congolese fan stood motionless for 90 minutes, mimicking Lumumba’s Kinshasa statue, hand raised, pointing to a future yet to arrive. Amid stadium spectacle, the silent act reminded spectators that while the man was gone, his "philosophical gravity" remains the yardstick for judging those who followed them. The power of Lumumba, and other leaders like Tanzania’s Julius Nyerere, and Ghana’s Kwame Nkrumah lies in contrast with their successors. Flawed, yes, but they built. Nyerere’s Ujamaa was an economic failure, Nkrumah drifted authoritarian, yet both carried intellectual weight absent in today’s "managerial" leaders. After them came kleptocrats like Mobutu Sese Seko, looting Congo in leopard-skin trappings of "authenticity," and other modern African rulers seen as acting as janitors for foreign interests. Africa traded messy independence for neat neo-colonial stability. The founding fathers (they made little room for mothers those days), tower because their successors never grew up, leaving youth to look for inspiration in a sixty-year-old nationalist “ghost”, rather than the men now in State Houses.

How "by and large" sailed into everyday English

Prof. Peter Odhiambo is seen here with General China after conducting an operation on him to remove a bullet that had been lodged in his chest, just close to the neck for 36 years. When General China of Mau Mau was shot and captured by British forces in 1952, it never occurred to him that one of the bullets had penetrated his chest and embedded itself at the root of his neck. Although what China assumed to be a normal bullet wound later healed, it didn't take long before he began experiencing symptoms similar to those of Bronchial asthma. One day experiencing breathing problems, he decided to visit KNH for treatment in 1988. An X-ray was done and whoa!, a bullet shaped object was observed at the central part of the upper chest, behind the upper limit of the breastbone. Dr Odhiambo asked China whether he had ever been shot, and he replied in the affirmative. Without any more questions , China was referred to the thoracic and cardiovascular surgical unit where Prof Odhiambo assisted by a team of medics carried out the delicate operation to remove the bullet that appeared rusty. It was later handed to National Museums of Kenya.

🇰🇪 🇩🇪 A Kenyan in Germany has shared her experiences about life in the Diaspora in a book 👇🏾.

[Download 585-page PDF eBook] Game Theory: arxiv.org/abs/1512.06808 ————— #GameTheory #Gamification #Mathematics #Statistics #Probability

Kenya is facing a PhD deficit that is affecting the rollout of the human capital necessary to drive development through science, research and innovation. the-star.co.ke/news/2026-03-2…

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