Scott Bellows @ScottProfessor

Dr. Scott serves on faculty at a leading 🇰🇪 university and columnist in leadership and entrepreneurship at the @BD_Africa newspaper. ScottProfessor.com Nairobi, Kenya Joined May 2013

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Richard Dawkins @RichardDawkins

a week ago

The University of Cambridge can boast 126 Nobel Prizes. That’s more than any other university in the world except Harvard, and it does it on an endowment that is one twentieth the endowment of Harvard. In the Nobel ranking, Cambridge beats MIT, Chicago, Columbia, Oxford, and Yale (in that order). Cambridge, the university of Newton, Hawking, Russell, Wittgenstein, Moore, Keynes, Crick, Sanger, Kendrew, Perutz, Rutherford, Chadwick, Turing, Maxwell, Brenner, the list goes on and on, Cambridge is beyond question one of the very greatest universities in the world. The list of immense distinction continues to the present day. It is tragic, and deeply unfair, that the reputation of this truly great university should suffer at the hands one unfortunate anomaly, the Department of Education.

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The Economist @TheEconomist

2 weeks ago

Even if they don’t, they might be treated as such—to humanity’s great cost

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Magatte Wade @magattew

2 weeks ago

I trust entrepreneurship because the market is rude in a useful way. If nobody wants what you made, you find out quickly and you have to improve or do something else. Government can keep a bad idea alive for decades, pay salaries around it, hold conferences about its failure (and usually think it failed because they didn’t spend more), and still ask for a larger budget the next year.

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Adam Grant @AdamMGrant

a month ago

Hybrid work doesn't just boost productivity. It leads us to reproduce more too. Economists find that when remote work opportunities rise, fertility rates do too. For every 3 couples that work from home at least a day a week, an extra child is born. Flexibility is pro-family.

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Adam Grant @AdamMGrant

2 months ago

Authenticity is not about saying whatever pops into your head. It's about sharing what reflects who you want to be. Healthy self-expression doesn't mean no filter. It involves weighing whether your current thoughts and emotions are aligned with your lasting values.

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Scott Bellows @ScottProfessor

2 months ago

Anyone else have an issue lately of chunks of money missing from your @NCBABankKenya current account? Be careful. Check your statements. Question transactions. @Nedbank @Nedbanksport

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Larry Madowo @LarryMadowo

4 months ago

BREAKING VIDEO: Kenya’s Sabastian Sawe becomes the first person ever to win a regular marathon in under two hours, setting a new world record at the London Marathon in 1:59:30! Kenyans invented running™

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Scott Bellows @ScottProfessor

4 months ago

Anyone else notice the surge in the number of container and other ships waiting at anchor in our waters all up and down Coast? The Israel-US war with Iran seems to be pushing ocean-going vessels to the safety of our waters.

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Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex

4 months ago

The care of the weakest is a very important sign of the quality of the social life of a nation. Let us remember that the elderly are in need of assistance, but first and foremost need to be listened to, because they preserve the wisdom of a people. We owe them gratitude, because they have faced great difficulties for the good of the community. #ApostolicJourney #Angola

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igiriwM@ 🇰🇪 @Mwirigi

6 months ago

The difference between a PhD and a Masters

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Adam Grant @AdamMGrant

6 months ago

Telling kids to sit still doesn’t build discipline. It stifles imagination. Evidence: When students are given freedom to fidget and wiggle in their seats, they pay just as much attention—and generate more creative ideas. Physical activity unlocks mental agility.

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Adam Grant @AdamMGrant

12 months ago

Another nail in the astrology coffin: 152 astrologers did no better than random chance at guessing people’s charts from detailed info about them. Astrologers helped design the test, and "experts" failed at the same rate as novices. Horoscopes may be fun, but they ain't real.

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Adam Grant @AdamMGrant

12 months ago

Forcing people back to the office backfires. Data on >3M tech & finance workers: After return-to-office mandates, firms lose stars and struggle to attract new talent. The most likely to quit are senior, skilled, & female employees. Flexibility is a feature of a great workplace.

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Adam Grant @AdamMGrant

a year ago

Most people recognize that AI companions aren't a replacement for meaningful connection. 9 new studies: When the same compassion comes from a human rather than a chatbot, people feel more supported. AI can mimic empathy, but it can't care. Long live human interaction.

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Dilip Pal @dilippal04

a year ago

Yesterday, we had the opportunity to host senior leaders from across Kenya’s banking sector for an evening of meaningful dialogue and shared vision at our Partners in Progress event.

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Business Daily @BD_Africa

a year ago

Divorce rate surges in Kenya amid economic pressure, culture shift More on: zurl.co/DUnc3

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Adam Grant @AdamMGrant

a year ago

Leadership isn't measured by how many followers you have. It's gauged by how may lives you improve. Selfish leaders divide people to advance personal agendas. Servant leaders unite people to achieve common goals. The best leaders are those who bring out the best in others.

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Business Daily @BD_Africa

a year ago

How good is your critical thinking as a manager? zurl.co/jyIkQ

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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran

a year ago

BREAKING: Scientists are staging a “science fair” in the lobby of a Congressional building to tell elected officials about the critical knowledge the US will lose because their research grants have been canceled.