Brian Gachichio

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

Do you derive conviction from your ideas? Or do you have conviction which inspires ideas?

I resigned from my job last Friday (strategy manager in a telecoms company) and now looking to be and do more - me Wish me luck!

I elaborated on my political ideas: https://gachichio.substack.com/p/my-political-ideas

do more or want less

I'm the only one in this meeting without an open laptop in front of me; pen and notebook, phone obviously. Am I missing something?

Hey nostr:nprofile1qqsztyptzz555j2t50ldfy7jzj8z2zzegma30erw7zcq9p9wfacrf4qpz4mhxue69uhk2er9dchxummnw3ezumrpdejqzrthwden5te0dehhxtnvdakqgjp3hh nostr:nprofile1qqs97ekh6cxykm34l0m5ddrlymhj9rxrys3jemtf90psy3nysum0lkcpzpmhxue69uhkztnwdaejumr0dshszrnhwden5te0v9j8yefwwd6j7t8enz0 is fantastic. As a happy user who thinks there's more happiness possible, I put together some thoughts: https://gachichio.notion.site/tando

1 Kenyan shilling converts to ~7.19 sats. The Central Bank of Kenya can print more shillings but there is and shall only ever be a fixed amount of sats (2.1 x 10^15 sats to be exact). Buy the one that is inherently deflationary: stack sats.

East Africa is in political upheaval. Individual freedoms are under attack across the Horn of Africa. Censorship resistant tech and sound money is no longer "edgy" but necessary. #nostr #bitcoin

Incurring a debt is making a bet that future 'you' will be more productive than current or past 'you'. Shifting resources from the future to the present or past via debt inherently means that you believe today that you can create a better future than you currently forecast you will have if you don't incur the debt today. It is, in a sense, an oxymoron. Why is current or past 'you' more capable than future 'you' on your current or past trajectory?

My dad is 62 years old. When he was my current age, mobile phones cost 1000x and were available to the top 0.1% in Kenyan society. You could buy a 1/2 acre plot of land in Runda for KES 1M. When I'm his age, what will be those things that I will wish I had invested more in at my current age?

In the last 12 months I have become orange pilled and my politics more libertarian 🤔

It is nigh impossible for Kenyan startups to raise money, see example: https://x.com/SemudaraAbayomi/status/1982045174965682177 Context: Kenya/Africa/third world countries are not high trust economies - makes it harder to raise capital Idea: a decentralized fundraising platform; build + raise + govern + grow onchain/DAO Will build a prototype and see where this goes. Happy to work with other builders ⚡