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You aren’t a generalist. You’re a General.

Growing up, we were told not to have sex before marriage. Today, we’re telling people not to have children before marriage. I wonder what we’ll be telling them tomorrow.

Blaming the Ugandan shilling’s troubles entirely on the global oil crisis is like a student coming last in class and blaming the teacher. Granted, the teacher may be bad. But he’s teaching the whole class. Why are you the one coming last? Then again, as the Baganda say, when chasing a man, leave him an escape route. So perhaps we should let them have the oil crisis.

One of the most important things I’ve come to understand about making money is that, in many markets, the price is already set before you arrive. If you trade commodities like coffee, maize or sugar, you cannot simply decide to sell your goods at ten times the prevailing market price. Your customers know what those goods cost elsewhere. And if your margins become unusually attractive, competitors will enter the market. The same applies to the job market. If thousands of people can do what you do, there’s already an established market price for your labour. You cannot simply demand ten times the going rate when an employer can easily find someone else. Now, you can become extremely wealthy in these markets. But to make substantially more money, you’ll often need scale. More goods, more capital, more employees, more transactions, more operations and more risk. The money grows, but so does the machinery required to make it. But there are other opportunities with different economics. Consider a young Ugandan who moves abroad and discovers that the same labour commands a much higher wage. If he manages his expenses carefully, he might accumulate in a few years what would have taken him much longer back home. Or a Ugandan software developer serving American clients while living and spending in Uganda. In both cases, the advantage isn’t necessarily greater intelligence or harder work. It’s access to a market where the same labour commands a higher price. Another advantage is scarcity. If you possess a skill that very few people have, but which many people need, you can command a premium that someone with an ordinary skill cannot. And then there’s scalability. Consider an author who writes a book once and sells thousands of copies, or a software developer who builds a product that can serve thousands of customers without requiring a proportional increase in production costs. These opportunities work differently, but they have something important in common: they can improve the rate at which you accumulate wealth relative to the resources you deploy. And this brings me to something I think many Ugandans overlook when pursuing business opportunities. We spend a great deal of time asking whether a business is profitable, but very little time considering the economics of accumulating wealth through that business. A business can be profitable and still require enormous amounts of capital, energy and time to build significant wealth. One person might need hundreds of employees, substantial capital and years of operations to accumulate wealth that another builds with a laptop and a handful of clients. The difference isn’t necessarily intelligence, discipline or hard work. Sometimes it’s simply the economics of the opportunities they chose. And that’s why I believe choosing the right opportunity can be just as important as working hard at it. Don’t just ask whether an opportunity can make you wealthy. Ask how much of your life and resources it will take to get you there.

You can pursue spiritual power and completely miss God.

It’s becoming increasingly difficult to tell what’s real and what’s AI-generated. Your parents’ WhatsApp forwards are about to get a whole lot crazier. 😂😂

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A man spends his life working. He builds houses, buys land, and continues acquiring more wealth. Though he can afford the comforts of life, he denies himself many of them, unwilling to part with what he has worked so hard to acquire. Then one day, death visits him. Before his body even begins to rot, the properties he spent his life protecting are sold. Those who inherit his wealth, having paid nothing to acquire it, freely spend the proceeds on luxuries he had spent his life denying himself. He sacrificed his comfort to preserve his wealth, only for others to consume his wealth for their comfort. All is vanity.

Young men are dumb. They haven’t gone through enough cycles of life. They haven’t won and failed enough times for their convictions to be properly tested. Yet they’re so confident in what they know. One of my greatest regrets is not labouring enough to understand my father when we disagreed. Life has since taught me many of the things he was trying to tell me, only through unnecessary pain. To the young man with sense, don’t be so eager to be right that you miss the opportunity to learn. Have opinions. Hold convictions. But never let either blind you from considering what another person has to say. They may be wrong. You may be right. But please, consider them. As my friend and I always say: “Consider Volvo.”

If you own a website or web application, there’s a high chance you’re about to get hacked. Find out if your developer used PHP, if so, he should upgrade it ASAP.

I worry that the Church today has become too deep. So deep that we may be losing the simplicity of the Gospel. Material prosperity, spiritual experiences, revelations, and displays of power have increasingly become our measures of spiritual excellence. I sometimes wonder whether the world’s culture of self-interest has quietly found its way into Christianity. So much of our faith now seems to revolve around what we can receive, acquire, and become. But love is outward. It turns our attention away from ourselves and towards others. What happened to being the salt of the earth and the light of the world? What happened to loving your neighbour as yourself? What happened to the Good Samaritan, who saw a suffering stranger and made his troubles his own concern? Our Lord taught us to let our light shine before men, that they may see our good works and glorify our Father in heaven. Imagine if Christians were vessels of God’s love in the communities around them. If the hungry were fed, the broken comforted, and the needy cared for. Wouldn’t those communities have a testimony of Christ for themselves? Wouldn’t their experience of Christian love speak louder than the accusations made against the Church? Yet today, we can become so occupied with defending a man of God that we forget the very souls we have been called to win. Did our Lord not commission us to make disciples of all nations? Did “all” exclude those who criticize our pastors? Those who insult us? Those who oppose the Church? Have we forgotten that these, too, are souls Christ died to save? Paul reminds us in 1 Corinthians 13 that even if we possess prophecy, understand all mysteries, and have faith that can move mountains, without love we are nothing. What a sobering measure of spiritual excellence! I fear that we have become so fascinated by what Christianity can do for us that we are forgetting what Christ intended to do through us. What happened to the excellence of winning souls?

Wow… I wonder if this replaces VLLM and SGLang. Will find time and play with it.

My brother, consider David when Shimei cursed him and threw stones at him as he fled from Absalom. Abishai wanted to cut off Shimei’s head, but David stopped him (2 Samuel 16:5–13). Was David concerned about worldly standards of politeness, or did he understand something about God that Abishai had yet to understand? My appeal is not to worldly politeness, but to the character Scripture calls us to demonstrate. Gentleness, patience, and self-control are not worldly standards. They are the fruit of the Spirit.

My daughter, a man who genuinely sees you is worth more than a man who is merely rich. Wealth may give a man many women to choose from. But having many options doesn’t mean he has the wisdom to recognize the worth of the woman he chooses. A man who truly sees you will know what he has found, and it will show in how he treats you. Never confuse a man’s ability to have you with his ability to value you.

I sometimes wonder whether Christianity is becoming performative. When churches organize evangelism outreaches, believers take to the streets to preach Christ. They take photographs, record videos, and celebrate the activity on social media. Yet every day, they encounter opportunities to demonstrate that same Christ and squander them by insulting the very people they ought to be winning. What a tragedy to go looking for souls to win while driving away those already before us.

I read comments from young men like this, and while their words are inconsequential to me, something deep within me desires to reason with them, that perhaps the gaps in their understanding might be filled, and they might find peace. I sometimes wonder who their teachers are, and whether they have been taught the riches of God’s grace, the height, breadth, and depth of Christ’s love towards us. They seem so angry on behalf of Christ, yet display so little of the character of the One they profess to defend. One young man recently turned my words into an accusation that I was an enemy of the Church, and publicly rallied others against me. I wondered whether he understood that our Lord Himself was publicly accused and condemned by men who believed they were defending God. I wish these young men would meditate on the fruit of the Spirit. That they might understand patience, meekness, longsuffering, gentleness, and self-control. These are not virtues for the weak. They are evidence of the Spirit’s work within us. And they will serve these young men well beyond their battles on X, especially when they marry and raise families. My father once shared something he had heard: “It is the man who knows where he is going who gets lost.” I’ve thought deeply about those words. I do not expect a nonbeliever to exhibit the character of Christ, for he does not profess to follow Him. But the Christian has declared his destination. He professes to know the way, and his conduct can therefore be measured against the One he claims to follow. That is why I am particularly concerned for these young warriors of Christ. What a tragedy for a man to fight so passionately for Christ, yet depart from His character, mistaking his zeal for spiritual progress. And what a greater tragedy if those who recognize his error simply condemn him as a lost cause, rather than seek his restoration. My prayer is that these young men might discover the fullness of God’s grace and find peace.