Last year I got to do one of the coolest things ever! In 2016 I signed up at the South African Bone Marrow Registry and after 9 years, I got the call. Someone needed me. But it complicated. I live in Kenya. The South African Bone Marrow Registry who called me are based in South Africa. The stem cells were required in Pennsylvania, USA. After lots of testing to confirm my fitness to donate and that I would be an ideal donor to the recipient, my family and I flew down to Cape Town, South Africa and we did it. The picture is me after the procedure, before the stem cells were transported halfway across the world. I have never met the recipient. All I know is their gender (male), year of birth (1992), and that the stem cells were travelling to Penn. I was an anonymous donor. Whoever you are, I hope that you made it and that you are thriving. If you ever get the chance, please pass it forward.

I created my own pdf editor - doesn't leave your browser - works perfectly on web and mobile - rotate, split, merge pdfs - sign pdfs - convert pdf to jpeg All without your data leaving your device Haven't bought a nice URL yet but try it! https://mypdf-41482580194.us-west1.run.app/

612 million Africans are about to go viral! 612 million literate African youth clustered in 11 countries are about to 3x their data consumption. What does this mean? It means that the next area of explosive telecoms growth is Africa. Young population. Literate. Mobile. Data hungry. 🚀 Position accordingly.

My Africa Digital Growth Thesis

Data consumption in Africa is about to 🚀

Here is a chart illustrating M2 supply in Kenya (Kenyan Shilling) and BTC prices over the last 24 months

Been in hospital since 3am EAT, send sats ⚡🙏🏾

How is it that folks engage enough on nostr enough to have nostr beef?

Derek Sivers on tech independence

Derek Sivers

Tech Independence

Derek Sivers official site. Thoughts on philosophy, culture, self-improvement. Author of Useful Not True, How to Live, Hell Yeah or No, Anything Yo...

A refined AI agent (a custom GPT or Gemini Gem) is an incredibly powerful brainstorm companion

shukran to whoever sent me 4 sats ⚡🙏🏾 every sat counts

finally reading this gem - BUILD by Tony Fadell

becoming great

success turns a builder into an investor

hello world

Three Body Problem on Netflix is an elite show

If the product is free, you are not the customer - you are part of the product. Though free, you do pay. You pay attention.

I get frustrated when people assume technical ideas aren't technical. Just because something isn't technical (to me), does not mean that it is not technical to (many) people. When a person assumes that their audience is at their level of technical understanding and so communicates in jargon and technicalese, it immediately sets me off. The more "mass market" and generally understood a technical idea is communicated, the better!

today I learnt a new word: “dumbsmarten" - the state of being smart and dumb at the same time, a condition of all sentient beings

so much (good) information is out there. problem is most people treat it like entertainment rather than education, and so it yields nothing - information masturbation

I am excited again ⚡🙌🏾

it's both awesome and awful that apps like safepal exist where you can peek into a crypto wallet - great for transparency, awful for privacy