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The OrtegaVerse: My personal collection of ideas, models, concepts, beautiful theorems, links, amazing talks, videos. The thread is an attempt to integrate those things in one place. Or perhaps also monitor what I am consuming. Feel free to indulge, it will keep growing:
The best combos: Satre and Beauvoir Will and Ariel Durant Kafka and Milena Oloka-Onyango and Sylvia Tamale Byanyima and Besigye
A little after this, Beauvoir's 'violent' and opinionated side got all the satisfaction it craved when she met Jean-Paul Sartre.
Every business needs the Arthur Shelby kind aka the Operator. Just come in, get the work done, and sign out. But these days, everyone wants to be Thomas Shelby.
I interviewed a gen z girlie 6 months ago and in the interview she told me that she does not like a challenge, has no interest in career progression, prefers to just do repetitive tasks and will never complain about being bored. I hired her.
A brown envelope by any other name would smell as sweet ~Ssemalungu
The NRM members, especially the Bazzukulu and all the other Ugandans. Greetings. I congratulate the Ugandans who are members of the NRM on account of, apparently, a much more peaceful and fraud-free Primaries for the LC-Vs, Mayors, Councillors, etc., that were conducted on…
More than ever, Brandolini's law must never be forgotten: "The amount of energy needed to refute bullshit is an order of magnitude bigger than to produce it."
If you can go through life/contact with reality without becoming a cynic or a nihilist, you've done well. To live a hope despite knowing better, as Baldwin said.
"Omukulu Tasobya" is Luganda sarcasm. It's not used to imply that the old/superior never commits a mistake. It's used in scenarios when they commit mistakes. To mock the mistake. The usage of this phrase is never direct. Similar to a mum telling you to place the pan on her head.
A time will come when you shall look for the gold of the past in the dust of the future.
The oppressor and the oppressed come to believe the same things aka Doxa. The oppressor believes in the oppression, as a natural order of things. And the oppressed too believes it so. The King believes he's born to be King, the subjects believe they're born to be subjects.
Change is hard, not that we lack insight, but because our bodies are already fluent in the language of our fears. ~Adeyinka Doja
What is resilience? What is grit? The ability to go from "I Forgot to be Your Lover" by William Bell to "Kaba" by Kapeke. Only Kampala teaches this...
Flattery with sprinkles of black pepper (money) and salt (access) softens hearts, the hammer marvels.
today's powermaxxing tip is flattery -- the attached passage describes Kissinger's attitude toward journalists, which is very similar to how he treated women. it's how he managed to have all of DC media on a leash... and all of hollywood "starlets" on a leash I've had no…
Long live alma mater.
This is the day that the Lord has made, today we celebrate 58 years of existence and academic excellence. #Namugongo@58
Bien's new song should not fall into the ears of the Uganda Hate-watchers Association. It is an instant anthem. 'All my enemies are suffering...'