David kimwei @DavidKimwei

Now that the Ikorodu frozen-food shop brouhaha has died down, how can someone who wasn't rich before and is starting from scratch aspire to make $1m in Nigeria and remain liquid without going broke? Two parts to this. Making money and maintaining a consistent level of wealth.

@Safaricom_Care check Dm please

I was invited to Kenya by @bharatthakrar (BT) to join his company @WPPScangroup in 2010. BT and I disagreed on several issues over the years, but he was clear: keep the clients and the business growing, and he would not interfere but help you grow. He kept his promise. My team saw growth, I grew, and I worked the longest stint of my career at WPP Scangroup—13 long years. I made Kenya my home, made several friends, and built a life in Kenya.

@MRallykam Happy birthday and to many more .

@Kalasinga_ @ushuru_co_ke It's at this moment I knew have eaten money meant for taxes &learnt the need to engage professionals. Paying 25 percent tax of a whole year at once is just a costly error.

Countries get the cabinets they pay for. Singapore pays its Foreign Minister about S$1.1m, around US$800,000. The salary is benchmarked to 60% of the median income of the top 1,000 Singaporean earners. That is why you can get Vivian Balakrishnan, former eye surgeon and hospital chief executive, implementing @karpathy's external brain idea (link below). The speech shows deep understanding of AI and fills one with confidence about Singapore's future. The UK Foreign Secretary earns roughly £165,000: the MP salary plus a ministerial salary of about £67,000. The ministerial part is frozen since the crisis and is down by roughly a third in real terms since 2010. This is what a junior Magic Circle lawyer earns. Spain pays its ministers around €85,000. So you do not get a surgeon who has run hospitals. You get a party loyalist who has never run anything.

Melissa Chen @MsMelChen

2 months ago

Singapore’s Foreign Minister, Dr Balakrishnan casually explaining how he built his own AI agent (a 2nd brain for diplomacy) using Claude & WhatsApp integration etc. on a Raspberry Pi “You cannot govern a technology you have only been briefed on.” 🇸🇬

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Niliquit 9-5 ilikuwa inanilipa 150k/month. Imenitake two years for my company kunilipa 67k/month na nafanya kazi from 7AM to 11PM every day, na sometimes unapata uko na employees wanakupea the hardest time ever, na kuwafuta kazi ni even more expensive. Every month uko na bills za kulipa in the millions, end month kila mtu ako happy isipokuwa wewe juu uko na another 30 days kuraise another million. Na imagine all this trouble ndiyo net salary yako ikuwe 50k Sometimes doh haitoshi unasema wacha ulipe the employees alafu KRA utawatumia yao by 9th, unajaribu kupata loan bank inakataa juu hauna shamba ya security, inafika 15th unapata weird calls, unashika unapata ni KRA, unawaambia utawalipa next Friday, wanakuambia Friday haiwezekani, labda Thursday. Inabidi uongee with one of your clients akulipe mapema, anakusomea akikuambia biz haifanywi hivo but anaitikia eventually. Next week inafika unalipa KRA, SHA,NSSF, Housing Levy. Unahave some peace kidogo only to realize that next week ni end month na this time uko na deficit kubwa kushinda last month, and the cycle continues. Kama uko 9-5 na uko sawa, I can’t advise you to quit. Heri ujaribu entrepreneurship in parallel but usiquit job yako. It feels good when you tell people that you quit your job to pursue your dream but you also need to understand that your dream will take time before it starts paying the bills, and it might also die before you eat a shilling from it.

Allano🍉 @Web3flux

2 months ago

Kuna Life 9-5 will never give you hata uchape kazi miaka ngapi. Utakua unaonea Social Media na kwa TV ukisema watu wanaosha pesa huku nje but in real sense watu wanajituma. Be ambitious enough to also live a life that hata ukifika 40 na udedi atleast you lived a life.

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The best insurance policy is the one you never have to claim on.

When Dr. Esther Muchemi quit a top-tier audit firm, people called her crazy. She survived five years running a solo firm with 1 client from a tiny office. She then took an even wilder risk: opening a modest phone shop in Nginyo Towers. That single shop birthed the Samchi Group conglomerate. A raw, unscripted masterclass on walking away from spaces that don't value you to build your own. Watch her full journey on the Engage Talks YouTube Channel.

@alexmwanzo A broker will say am pulling out my 3 billion premium clients and the whole claims department your are summoned by top management,we will sort the claims all of them even those that shouldn't be paid .An individual pulling cover of 100k even a junior claims officer won't shake .

@alexmwanzo Most insurers handle claims on priority which is sad .A broker will get 30 motor claims paid in day but as a direct individual you can't pull through even one in even a month . Insurers don't fear loosing individual clients at all after all they see as an expense .

The older you get, the more you realize luck is mostly exposure. If you sit in the same place, have the same routine, talking to the same people, nothing new really happens. You have to engage the world to win. Travel more. Talk to people.

How to Get Rich (without getting lucky):

“Someone” is too vague. 20-30 years old: Find a very good job in a place where you can get leverage to buy assets. Get married, save together. The other option is to start a business early but know that 99% of the time, it will die but the experience will be valuable. 30-40: Start thinking of starting a business from what you have learned. Find partners, mentors, funders. 40+ Enter politics. Seriously, after 40 wealth is more about connections than effort. This is the time you cash in on relationships built over time. Wealth is about relationships and compounding the benefits of those relationships. No matter how brilliant you are, nothing will bring you wealth if you don’t build relationships. Friends have always opened the doors for me and recommended me to rooms where I made money from.

Olúwatósìn Olaseinde @tosinolaseinde

2 months ago

If someone wants to build wealth intentionally over the next 10 years, what frameworks should guide their decisions?

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Swami Vivekananda on focus:

DirectLine leads general insurance losses in 2025 as sector profit drops 14% to KSh 13.4 Bn in 2025 🟢 Britam Gen: KSh 1.8 Bn (+69.4%) 🟢 APA Ins: KSh 1.5 Bn (+43.7%) 🟢 GA Ins: KSh 1.4 Bn (-61.0%) 🟢 Mayfair Ins: KSh 1.2 Bn (+36.6%) 🟢 Old Mutual Gen: KSh 1.1 Bn (-2.6%) 🟢 Kenya Re: KSh 1.1 Bn (-42.3%) 🟢 Heritage Ins: KSh 1.0 Bn (-26.2%) 🟢 CIC Gen: KSh 1.0 Bn (+20.7%) 🟢 ICEA Lion Gen: KSh 682.5 Mn (-4.3%) 🟢 WAICA Re Kenya: KSh 601.6 Mn (+81.7%) 🟢 AAR Ins Kenya: KSh 560.3 Mn (+4.6%) 🟢 Jubilee Health: KSh 556.5 Mn (-30.7%) 🟢 Tausi Assur: KSh 531.6 Mn (+47.2%) 🟢 EA Re: KSh 472.9 Mn (+31.4%) 🟢 Sanlam Allianz Gen: KSh 380.3 Mn (---) 🟢 Madison Ins: KSh 347.4 Mn (-17.1%) 🟢 Ghana Re: KSh 338.2 Mn (+242.0%) 🟢 Continental Re: KSh 234.8 Mn (+124.7%) 🟢 Fidelity Shield: KSh 231.0 Mn (+8.8%) 🟢 African Merchant: KSh 225.8 Mn (-12.5%) 🟢 NCBA Ins: KSh 217.4 Mn (+44.7%) 🟢 First Assur: KSh 166.9 Mn (+156.1%) 🟢 Equity Gen: KSh 140.1 Mn (---) 🟢 Pioneer Ins: KSh 124.8 Mn (+20.2%) 🟢 Intra-Africa Assur: KSh 123.1 Mn (-9.5%) 🟢 Kenindia Assur: KSh 113.5 Mn (+456.8%) 🟢 Pacis Ins: KSh 98.8 Mn (-12.6%) 🟢 Star Discover: KSh 55.5 Mn (-18.0%) 🟢 Occidental Ins: KSh 49.8 Mn (-78.7%) 🟢 Equity Health: KSh 28.1 Mn (---) 🟢 Corporate Ins: KSh 0.0 Mn (+100.0%) 🟢 Monarch Ins: KSh 0.0 Mn (-100.0%) 🟢 Trident Ins: KSh 0.0 Mn (---) 🔴 Cannon Gen: KSh -77.2 Mn (+44.7%) 🔴 Kenyan Alliance: KSh -124.2 Mn (-327.6%) 🔴 Kenya Orient: KSh -165.2 Mn (+68.6%) 🔴 Takaful Africa: KSh -186.1 Mn (-313.8%) 🔴 Bupa Global: KSh -191.0 Mn (---) 🔴 Definite Assur: KSh -346.5 Mn (---) 🔴 MUA Ins: KSh -369.0 Mn (-63.6%) 🔴 Geminia Ins: KSh -611.3 Mn (-210.4%) 🔴 Directline Assur: KSh -929.8 Mn (-37.0%)

“All addictions are a low level search for God.” - Carl Jung

Ty Ngachira @anto_ty

2 months ago

Addiction is proof that you are capable of intense devotion. You just have a false god

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Swedish architects designed more than just a building in Tanzania 🇹🇿 they created a home that sustains itself and the children who live in it. Built for 25 children, the children centre uses traditional burnt bricks for its walls, staying rooted in local materials and methods. The corrugated steel roof sits on a wooden frame, with a clever gap that allows airflow and is kept safe with sisal poles to stop birds from nesting inside. But what makes it truly special is how it works as a system:
Solar panels power the home, rainwater is harvested and stored and biogas plant turns waste into cooking gas And it doesn’t stop there ,the surrounding land is used to grow food and raise livestock, making the centre largely self-sufficient.

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