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Heartly ❤️ retweeted
Time to push back on the "never work for free" gospel.
Everyone online preaches know your worth, charge upfront from day one. But when you're starting from zero with no track record, who actually knows you exist?
A free pilot project, or offering value for free to one high profile client, isn't weakness. It's a calculated move.
It gets your foot in a door that would have stayed locked. Gives you a real case study to show the next client. Builds instant credibility you couldn't buy with ads.
The trick is knowing when to stop. Do it for leverage, collect your proof, build the name, then flip straight to full priced work.
Free is a door opener. It was never meant to be the business model.
Heartly ❤️ retweeted
母： あなたにお願いがあるの。
娘： 何？ そんなに真剣な顔をして。
母： 弟のことよ。あなたも知っているでしょう。最近、仕事が続かなくて、家賃も払えなくなっている。
娘： 知っているよ。でも、私に何をしてほしいの？
母： 弟をあなたの家に住まわせてあげてほしいの。少し落ち着けば、また仕事を探せると思うから。
娘： どれくらいの期間？
母： それは、弟の仕事が安定するまでよ。
娘： それって、いつまでか分からないということだよね？
母： 家族なんだから、そんなに期限にこだわらなくてもいいでしょう。
娘： お母さん、私は夫と二人で暮らしているの。家のことは、私だけで決められないよ。
母： あなたの夫だって、家族を助けることくらい理解してくれるでしょう？
娘： そういう問題じゃない。私たちの家に誰かを住まわせるなら、
Heartly ❤️ retweeted
The smartest AI startup isn’t the one that never changes direction. It’s the one that can change direction without losing everything it has built.
Your first idea is a starting point, not a lifelong contract..
Imagine a founder who spends six weeks building an AI customer-support tool.
Every feature is tightly connected. The pricing depends on one model. The entire workflow assumes customers want fully automated replies.
Then the first paying customers ask for human approval before messages go out.
What should be a simple adjustment becomes weeks of rebuilding.
The mistake wasn’t building quickly.
It was treating the first version as if the market had already confirmed every assumption..
Heartly ❤️ retweeted
Just got my first subscriber, @Wordforthe_soul
Thank you for being the first to subscribe. I truly appreciate you ❤️
Heartly ❤️ retweeted
Not every productive day ends with a finished product.
Progress can mean discovering what won’t work, questioning an assumption, or finding a better approach.
Especially with AI, learning what people need matters more than building something impressive.
Measure today by what you learned. Tomorrow, build smarter..
Heartly ❤️ retweeted
向かいの部屋に住む女性は、毎週火曜日の午後7時になると、必ず私の玄関の前に小さな紙袋を置いていった。
中にはいつも、コンビニのおにぎりが二つ入っていた。
最初は部屋を間違えているのだと思った。けれど、袋には毎回、私の部屋番号が書かれていた。
気味が悪くなって管理会社に相談したが、女性は「そんなことはしていません」と否定したらしい。
それでも翌週の火曜日、また袋が置かれていた。
私はついに、玄関の前に小型カメラを設置した。
午後7時ちょうど。映像に映ったのは、向かいの女性ではなかった。
そこに立っていたのは、三年前に亡くなったはずの、私の父だった。
Heartly ❤️ retweeted
Me: My brother called me at 2:17 a.m., six days after his funeral.
I watched his name flash across my screen until the call ended.
Then a text arrived.
Unknown: Don't tell Dad I contacted you.
I immediately called my father.
Me: “Dad, who has Daniel’s phone?”
Dad: “What are you talking about?”
Me: “Someone is calling me from his number.”
There was a long silence.
Then he whispered:
Dad: “Lock your bedroom door. Don't come downstairs.”
Before I could ask why, I heard the front door open.
Someone had just entered our house.
Heartly ❤️ retweeted
The Dangote Refinery IPO just hit its full 1.6 billion dollar target from domestic and retail investors alone.
Before the international allocation is even counted.
Investors from 119 countries have applied for a stake.
International demand alone could exceed the 2.1 billion dollar target once the 30% greenshoe option kicks in, which now looks almost certain.
This values Africa's largest refinery at 47 billion dollars.
He's targeting 10 million retail investors, calling it "the IPO for the people," built specifically so ordinary workers and entrepreneurs, not just institutions, could own a piece of it.
The offer window was extended by two weeks and now closes today, October 27.
Where the money goes next.
A 14 billion dollar plan to nearly double processing capacity, from about 700,000 barrels a day now to 1.4 million by 2029.
Whatever side you're on about the valuation, the demand itself tells you something real.
This is the first time in Nigeria's history retail investors have shown up at this scale for a single listing.
Heartly ❤️ retweeted
My boss deducted ₦35,000 from my salary without asking me. When I discovered where the money went, I didn’t know whether to be angry or grateful.
I worked as an accounts assistant in a small company in Lagos. One payday, I checked my bank alert and noticed ₦35,000 was missing.
I went straight to my manager and said, “Sir, my salary is short. Was there a mistake?”
He looked uncomfortable and replied, “No mistake. The money was used to settle an urgent matter.”
“What matter? Nobody informed me,” I asked.
He told me to return to my desk, but I refused to leave until he explained…
Heartly ❤️ retweeted
Every morning, I would kiss my girlfriend goodbye before leaving for work, believing she was the woman who truly loved me.
I worked hard to provide for us, bought her gifts, and did everything I could to make her happy. I never imagined that while I was away, she was secretly betraying me with my new neighbors.
When the neighbors first moved in, I welcomed them warmly. We exchanged greetings, and I even helped them carry some of their belongings. I considered them good people, never knowing they would become part of the biggest heartbreak of my life.
Every day, whenever I left for work, my girlfriend would call them over to our apartment. She would spend hours with them and pretend nothing had happened whenever I returned home.
One afternoon, my boss allowed me to leave work early. I decided to surprise my girlfriend by buying her favorite food on my way home.
As I approached my apartment, I noticed one of my neighbors rushing out.
He looked uncomfortable when he saw me, but I didn't think much of it until I entered the house and found my girlfriend acting strangely.
I asked her what had happened, but she became angry and accused me of questioning her unnecessarily.
A few days later, I discovered messages on her phone that revealed the truth. She had been secretly sleeping with my new neighbors whenever I left for work.
My heart broke. I confronted her, hoping she would deny everything, but she looked at me and said, "I don't have feelings for you anymore. I've been staying with you because I don't know how to tell you that I want someone else."
I stood there speechless, remembering all the sacrifices I had made for her. The woman I planned to marry had been turning my home into a place of betrayal.
That evening, I told her to pack her belongings and leave.
I realized that love means nothing when respect and loyalty are gone.
The most painful betrayal is when the person you trust turns your own home into a place of heartbreak.
Heartly ❤️ retweeted
They came looking for treasure… but what they discovered was INSANE 😳🔥💰
Would you dare to uncover what’s hidden beneath? 👀👇
Heartly ❤️ retweeted
Last night at the Ballon d’Or in London, Bukayo Saka won the Sócrates Award for the best humanitarian work by a footballer.
It suited him. For years, he and his family have worked with the BigShoe charity, funding medical operations for children who would otherwise go without them—more than a hundred life-changing surgeries in Kano, Nigeria, where his parents are from, plus ongoing health support for kids across Rwanda, Kenya and Tanzania.
He also helped cover emergency housing and shelters for families left homeless after the earthquakes in Turkey and Morocco.
Burna Boy presented the trophy. Saka accepted it without much fuss, then did something more useful than a standard speech.
He took a letter from his pocket and read it aloud. It was from a 14-year-old boy in Rwanda called Biringiro.
The boy had started losing his sight at twelve; with no electricity in his village, even moving around his own home became difficult.
BigShoe arranged the eye care he needed. Now he can see the blackboard from the back of the classroom and, for the first time in a long while, feels excited about his future. He wants to become an English teacher.
Saka is the first English player to receive the award. Earlier winners include Sadio Mané, Vinícius Júnior and Jenni Hermoso.
On a night built around individual glory, this one stood out as a reminder of what the platform can actually be used for when someone chooses to use it that way.
The letter stayed with people longer than most of the other speeches.
Heartly ❤️ retweeted
You learn a great deal about friendship when a person disappears and everyone agrees not to ask why.
For eleven years, you have told people that Orla Fenwick moved away because she wanted a fresh start.
You have repeated this explanation at weddings, funerals, birthdays, and the occasional pub gathering where someone remembers the three of you as inseparable.
You, Orla, and Cassian Voss grew up on the same street. You shared school uniforms when money was tight, stole apples from the same neighbour's garden, and promised that no matter where life took you, none of you would ever become strangers.
Then, at twenty-four, Orla vanished.
Heartly ❤️ retweeted
Every morning for nineteen years, Damaris Quill opened her shop at 6:30 and placed a cup of tea beside the empty chair near the window.
Customers assumed the chair belonged to her late husband.
They were half right.
The chair had belonged to a man named Soren, who had disappeared from the town before Damaris married anyone. He had been her business partner, her closest friend, and the person who taught her how to repair old clocks.
When he vanished, he left behind a shop full of unpaid invoices and a message on her answering machine.
“I'll explain everything when I can.”
Damaris had never deleted it.
Heartly ❤️ retweeted
My neighbour borrowed ₦50,000 from me when his mother was rushed to the hospital.
He cried that I was his last hope.
I gave him the money without collecting a single receipt.
Three months later, I saw him buying a new iPhone.
I politely asked him about my money.
He looked me in the eyes and said, “Oga, if you needed the money that badly, you shouldn't have borrowed it to me.”
I was speechless.
But what happened two days later shocked me even more.
His younger sister came to my house, crying.
She said, “Please, don't fight my brother. The money you gave him was never used for our mother's treatment. He used it to pay for his girlfriend's birthday and hotel.”
I just sat down.
Not because of the ₦50,000.
But because somebody looked me in the face, used my kindness, and felt entitled to disrespect me.
Since that day, I've learned one painful lesson: helping someone doesn't mean they will respect you.
Let me ask you something:
If someone owes you money but you see them spending lavishly, would you confront them publicly or handle it privately?