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A good life is one in which things do not go perfectly, but you find a way to have a good day regardless.
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Robert Rubin, a former US Treasury Secretary, was paid around 120 million dollars at the top of Citibank. When the bank nearly collapsed in 2008, he blamed an event nobody could have predicted, apologized, and kept every cent.
Nassim Taleb has a name for that. He calls it the Bob Rubin trade: you keep the upside when you are right, and someone else pays when you are wrong. His whole philosophy, and this talk at Google, exists to kill it.
His fix is almost four thousand years old. The first written law we have, Hammurabi's code, said that if a builder's house collapsed and killed the owner, the builder was put to death. Strip away the cruelty and one rule is left standing: you cannot walk away from a risk you created for someone else.
Everything in the talk is that rule in disguise. A plumber is judged by the client whose pipe he fixed, so plumbing works. An economist is judged by other economists, which is how you can hand a Nobel to two men who say opposite things. Any job graded by your peers instead of by reality eventually rots. A pilot is the opposite, because he cannot fool the sky. Taleb asked the room what happens to pilots who only pretend to be experts.
"They died and their passengers died."
That is exactly why flying is safe.
Here is the part worth keeping. Listen from about 22:50. The oldest law humans ever wrote down was not about gods or gold. It was one sentence forcing the people who build things to stand underneath them. "You should own your risks."
Before you take anyone's advice, find out what happens to them if they are wrong. If the answer is nothing, it was never advice. It was a sales pitch.
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If you want to avoid criticism, create less.
If you want to avoid irrelevance, create more.
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The loser has more in common with the winner than with the person sitting on the sidelines.
The winner and the loser each had the courage to try. Both risked embarrassment. Both were willing to face uncertainty. Both were stubborn enough to continue.
Success is endurance in disguise. It belongs to the person who can absorb the losses without absorbing the identity of "loser." It's the courage to start — and to stick with it — that is the real separator. Results tend to find the person who stays in the game.
The sidelines are safe, but sterile. Nothing grows there.
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#Rwandan actor, playwright, and theatre director Regis Igihozo Nsengiyumva, popularly known as Bingo Regis, has died.
• Bingo Regis died on Wednesday, September 9, in what has been described as a sudden death. His cause of death has not been disclosed.
• He developed a passion for theatre in high school and turned professional in 2014, later gaining wider recognition as a contestant in the first edition of ArtRwanda–Ubuhanzi.
• From 2016, he built a career spanning contemporary Rwandan productions and international classical works, while also working with groups including Mashirika Performing Arts Company and Umutana Studio.
• He began writing plays around 2020, exploring themes of Rwandan cultural identity and family relationships.
• His notable works include Petit Kesho (Little Kesho), co-written in 2022, and Indemarugamba, which premiered in 2023 and was named a 2024 laureate of Institut français’ “Des Mots à la Scène” programme.
• His work also took him to international stages, including the Berliner Festspiele’s Theatertreffen in Germany and Théâtre de la Ville in Paris.
• His family described him as warm and cheerful, saying he “spread love and kindness wherever he was,” adding that his light and artistry will continue to live on in those he touched.
Read more: newtimes.co.rw/article/38878…
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Well done, Seun Ogunsakin, on another strong showing at the US Open Junior Tennis Championships.
Although your run ended in a hard-fought three-set contest against South Africa’s Connor Doig, reaching the main draw and competing at this level is another important step in your development.
It is also encouraging to see three African junior boys reach the Singles Main Draw of the US Open Juniors in the same year for the first time. That speaks to the growing strength and promise of tennis on our continent.
Keep going, Seun. Ekiti and Nigeria remain proud of you.
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The reset has began. ASG President, @Francis_Gatare, opened the Africa Mindset Reset Forum this morning, and he came with a challenge.
His argument: Africa has never been short on resources or talent. What holds us back is a scarcity mindset, the belief that the pie is fixed and that one person's gain is another's loss.
Reset that, he said, and everything changes.
Then he pushed further. Pan Africanism gave us solidarity, liberation and dignity. But he says our moment demands something more, what he calls Meta Africanism: a mindset that calls for collective success.
"None of us is independent if even one of us is not." He said.
The reset starts now.
#AfricaResets
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Focus on the things you are for, not the things you are against.
Many people spend large chunks of their day thinking about what they hate. They are always telling you about something they dislike: this food, that subject, this political party, that coworker.
You are more than your frustrations. Build your identity around what you love.
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When I go into a situation, I try to keep a mindset of baseline optimism.
- When starting the day: It's going to be a good day.
- When meeting someone new: I'm going to like them.
- When trying something challenging: It's going to work out.
Problems will inevitably arise and I'll deal with them as the situation demands, but my preference is to assume I'm on a winning path until proven otherwise.
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One of the most valuable skills in life is being able to see another person's perspective.
If you're going to someone's house, think about how it might feel to be the host. If you're creating a product, spend as much time as possible thinking like the customer. If you're calling customer service, think about how it might feel to be on the other end of the conversation.
The more clearly you understand the viewpoint of your spouse or customer or coworker, the better positioned you are to find a solution.
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Don't worry about being the most interesting person in the room, just try to be the most interested person in the room.
The interested person asks about others and leaves a good impression because people like talking about themselves. The interested person is genuinely curious about someone's craft and learns a lot about how things work. The interested person engages with more people and—because opportunities come through people—is more likely to catch a lucky break.
In general, the interested person learns more and tends to be well-liked. And in the long run, it's hard to keep down someone who is well-learned and well-liked.
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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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Finish something. Anything. Stop researching, planning, and preparing to do the work and just do the work. It doesn’t matter how good or how bad it is. You don’t need to set the world on fire with your first try. You just need to prove to yourself that you have what it takes to produce something.
There are no artists, athletes, entrepreneurs, or scientists who became great by half-finishing their work. Stop debating what you should make and just make something.
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To those who did not turn from sacrifice,
But chose the harder path,
So that many could inherit life,
Freedom,
And a place to call home.
#Kwibohora32
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Why is improvement hard?
Part of the issue is everyone wants to improve, but nobody wants to destroy. Change often requires destruction. Or, at least, unlearning.
Let's call it gentle elimination. You may have to leave little habits, update current beliefs, eliminate comfortable patterns. When you want better outcomes, your daily norms may need to change. The process of improvement is not just about adding things you like.
Sometimes habits and patterns belong to who you were, not who you are trying to be. If you'd like something better, then a routine you are comfortable with may have to die.
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Your first attempt might not be very good, but nobody's early work is good. There will always be a gap between where you are and where you want to be. And the bridge between that gap is courage. The courage to look foolish in the beginning. The courage to show up again when your early work is criticized. The courage to look yourself in the mirror and say, "I realize I'm not good enough yet, but the only way to get better is to keep working on it."
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#Kigali is growing at 4% a year. Behind every development breaking ground in this city is a layer of engineers doing quiet, exacting, consequential work that rarely makes headlines. #LydieUwantege is one of them.
As a licensed Civil Engineer and Operations Manager at Delta Developers, Lydie manages multi-level residential developments in one of Africa's fastest-growing cities. But her work extends well beyond any single project. She mentors student engineers, reviews technical papers, sits on the board of a STEM-focused girls' school in #Rwanda, and contributes to the professional ecosystem that African cities will need as they continue to grow.
She is also a published poet. #Engineers and #poets are asking the same question: what endures? Both are working out how to make something that will outlast the moment of its making.
A #YELP Fellow of the LéO Africa Institute from the Class of 2023, Lydie describes the fellowship as having reoriented her leadership, anchoring her in intention and in the conviction that the greatest change is never made alone.
The structures she raises will stand long after the scaffolding comes down.
Read more➡️ leoafricainstitute.org/news/…
#AfricaChampionsNetwork #DistinguishedFellow
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Ten years. Four countries. 447,051 reasons the work is worth it.
A decade of building resilient systems, reaching communities, and changing lives at scale. The LifeBank Impact Report 2016–2025 is out now.
Read it → lifebank.ng/tenyears
#LifeBankAt10
