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08/2020

08/2020#

Patrick has been an outstanding moderator :-)

DUNCAN (our eye balls and clicks

  1. Networks (The Boyz)

  2. Scalable (Budonians)

  3. Differentiable (Rankings, Pollution, Quality)

  4. Platform (For All the Above)

  5. Translatable (Earnings, Income)

ABEL

  1. Proof of Principle

  2. Can be adapted

  3. Not necessarily for Profit (Adds value in terms of brotherhood)

  4. Link to K’la for Diaspora

  5. Excellent Platform (Can be leveraged in future)

MARK

  1. Just wanted to make money (has so many bills, diaper needs, etc)

  2. Delinquent loans beyond time T.. Distressed debt (will need extra details.. about financing endeavor)

  3. Financial value

  4. Vuture funds

  5. CFO friends in Uganda

TIM

  1. We already have networks

  2. Formalizing it makes us millennials

  3. Generating revenue: later focus

  4. Specific targets (short gun vs. ROI approach)

  5. No luxury for legacy

PATRICK (issue.. taking deposits vs. giving loans vs bridge financing.. ABE clarification, with serious regulatory implications… fixed annuity from TIM).. our strongest skills

  1. We’ve made progress (i.e., having these discussions); how come women start this earlier than us (i.e., Namagunga started this at 30 we at 40)

  2. Budonian individualism (i.e., strength of the individuals but held back networks)

  3. Generationally how we can make something to be proud of (i.e., for generations beyond us)

  4. Is this BIG? Clear? If not, we just abandon! No bother

  5. The impatience of the younger generation (including self); real online bank with no brick and mortar? Guarantee young customers a rate of return (telecom rivals)

MYSELF

  1. This is going forward regardless of y’all

  2. So if you want to join later that’s fine

  3. In the interim we will lose your contribution

  4. Idea with focus on revenue and needs an exit strategy

  5. Is in a startup and is familiar with that language (Big.. become or be?)

To me its a question of being vs. becoming!

— this would not have been possible if everyone made it
— Experience from both diaspora and Ugandan group

BECOMING

  1. Legal

  2. Online

  3. Traffic (Eyeballs and clicks)

  4. Content

  5. Money (Most popular topic by Patrick)

Here is what we are going to do (Patrick)

  1. Put idea on paper (whoever you are.. strategy and we refine it as a group)

  2. Lets move away from talking (registering a domain name is not making progress)

  3. Our starting point the next time is what we put on paper (thats how a business idea comes to mind.. revenue streams options)

  4. More people on the phone and participation (

  5. Review from the larger (seasonabl point to end meeting… )

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But a communal effort
Call to action beyond talk
Alternate vision and ideas (what to deal with first)So we need to find a balance and make this work

If you want to move quickly, move alone; if you want to move far, move collectively

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When you are living for the approval of strangers… Taylor Swift

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If this is what it takes for commercial success then… Abimereki Muzaale

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For someone who has built her belief system on getting people to clap for you… Taylor after Crazy Kanye boos

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— If you want to move quickly, move alone; if you want to move far, move collectively — 

Distinguished gentlemen, on August 1st we had meeting #3 defacto moderated by Patrick;
He invited each person in attendance to summarize their thoughts on a particular matter; and,
The matter at hand was: “To what end are these zoom meetings aimed?”

No one has attended all three meetings, with the possible exceptions of Patrick, Duncan, and Kadi;
Some have attended two, others one, and still some none;
Whether or not 9PM Saturday is an ideal time for these two weekly meetings is an issue to discuss;
One proposal to improve attendance is to move these meetings to 9PM Sunday;
But that is an issue that we can discuss before August 15 (Saturday) or August 16 (Sunday).

I attempted to link the ideas across all three meetings;
But Patrick thought it would be better for each idea to be expressed by its author;
Yet being perhaps the only person who attended each minute of each meeting,
Perhaps it would be a great loss if I neglected items already shared, methinks.
And therefore I’ll merely paraphrase in an abstract manner what that “thread” of thoughts adds up to…

BECOMING..
1.Legal (Creating a registered entity, say an LLC)
2.Online (That entity getting an online presence in form of webApp, App, Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook)
3.Traffic (Eyeballs and clicks; i.e., becoming something that can drive traffic to our webApp/online avatar)
4.Content (What we are offering that might drive traffic to us on a sustainable basis)
5.Money (Generating BIG revenues and earnings within 5-10 years of initiating operations)

— What follows are summaries of what was on the minds of others in the meeting — 

DUNCAN  
1.Networks (The 17 Boyz in this forum)
2.Scalable (To include other Budonians of our year, other years, and of course, non-Budonians)
3.Differentiable (Creating products and services that can be differentiated from what is available on the market)
4.Platform (Creating a platform that brings all the above to life)
5.Translatable (Earnings, Income)

ABEL
1.Proof of Principle (We can start something simple.. are already in the process of doing so)
2.Can be adapted (What we start can grow in directions we didn’t envisage at the start; i.e., adaptive to new opportunities and threats)
3.Not necessarily for Profit (Adds value in terms of brotherhood; i.e., we move beyond MERELY talking about Nyaru chics!!)
4.Link to K’la for Diaspora (For those who live outside the motherland, there is a CRAVING to connect with home in as many intimate ways as possible)
5.Excellent Platform (Can be leveraged in future; the platform we develop can be put to great use as we get new ideas in the future)

MARK
1.Just wanted to make money (Many folks are married with kids and they have bills to pay; so there’s little time and resources to be wasted)
2.Delinquent loans, Distressed debt in the +256 (A potential asset class that might be the basis of a high-yield business endeavor) 
3.We have Budonian & non-Budonian friends who are Bank CFOs & CEOs
4.Those CFOs and CEOs have approached us, broached the subject of potential investment vehicles that can work with their banks
5.So far we’ve been caught flat-footed… perhaps because we have been pre-occupied with Nyaru chics

TIM
1.We already have networks (So we must clarify what value we might add with our networks)
2.Formalizing them makes us millennials (Therefore we must do something other than just post stuff on Instagram)
3.Generating revenue (Of course this comes to mind as our area of focus.. although millennials are also doing this quite successfully)
4.Specific targets (Short gun vs. ROI approach… i.e., we should have a razor-focus on return on investment)
5.No luxury for legacy (Many of us are not yet at the Bill Gates stage of trying to leave a legacy for humanity; therefore, lets be focused for now on making money)

PATRICK (issue.. taking deposits vs. giving loans vs bridge financing.. ABE clarification, with serious regulatory implications… fixed annuity from TIM).. our strongest skills 
1.Generationally how can we make something we might be proud of in the future (i.e., for generations beyond us)?
2.Looks like we are making progress (i.e., having these discussions); but how come women start earlier than us (Namagunga girls started at 30 what we are attempting at 40)?
3.Whatever we make, we only have time for BIG things!! This thing has to be CLEAR!! If it is not clear in terms of goals and processes, we must abandon it!!!
4.How about us doing an online bank? Not a brick & mortar kind of thing? To serve the impatient younger generation that can’t stand queuing?
5.This bank would guarantee young customers a rate of return (Telecoms would potentially be our rivals since they are in this arena)

— Here is what the moderator says we are going to next — 
1.Put our individual ideas on paper (whoever you are.. strategy and we refine it as a group)
2.Lets move away from talking (registering a domain name can’t be considered as making progress)
3.Our starting point the next time is what we put on paper (thats how a business idea comes to mind.. revenue streams options)
4.More people on the phone and participation in next meeting will be nice
5.Reviews from a larger audience will move us forward

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Adams was a dedicated diarist and regularly corresponded with many important figures in early American history, including his wife and adviser Abigail Adams, and Thomas Jefferson.

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Adams never owned a slave and declined on principle to use slave labor, saying, “I have, through my whole life, held the practice of slavery in such abhorrence, that I have never owned a negro or any other slave, though I have lived for many years in times, when the practice was not disgraceful, when the best men in my vicinity thought it not inconsistent with their character, and when it has cost me thousands of dollars for the labor and subsistence of free men, which I might have saved by the purchase of negroes at times when they were very cheap.” Before the war, he occasionally represented slaves in suits for their freedom. Adams generally tried to keep the issue out of national politics, because of the anticipated Southern response during a time when unity was needed to achieve independence.

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TITLE: Continuous environmental scanning for PM2.5

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METHODS: We will deploy one hundred real-time sensors of 24-Hour PM2.5 Levels (μg/m3) from across select Ugandan districts and along high-traffic routes in select cities (unit cost starting at $25) to document how exposed unwitting Ugandan citizens are to hazardous levels of environmental pollution. From the convenience of a webApp, any Ugandan citizen or foreigner visiting Uganda or planning to visit Uganda will have free access to this information. Regulatory authorities in Uganda will be notified of this service, as will the public — via subtle but powerful media compaigns about this “silent killer.”

RESULTS: Eyeballs, clicks, online traffic, governmental & corporate attention to the quality of one of our services. Access to grants (e.g. NIH) and collaboration with ongoing research to fund this endeavor and make it cost neutral. 

INFERENCES: Proof of concept for our online platform where one service can drive traffic towards other unrelated service, thereby potentially achieving network effects.

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Cicada
Sound
Noise
Hot summer days
Loudest sound ever
Rattling sound

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9O1zROETPqk

Wazungu girls!!
Gotta love ‘em :-)

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Condoleezza Rice, former Secretary of State

I have a long history with this concerto (K.466), having played a movement — and won with it — in competition at the age of 15. And when I was secretary of state, I had a chance to play a few lines from it on Mozart’s own piano at the festival in Vienna celebrating the 250th anniversary of his birth. Needless to say, the piece means a lot to me. The restlessness of the first movement, the simplicity of the second and the playfulness of the third are for me quintessential Mozart: genius. And Martha Argerich’s rendering is incomparable

  1. Jupiter (Highest in Classical Pantheon)

  2. Mozart

  3. Difficile, Restlessness — Dances as Freest of Spirits

  4. Facile, Simplicity — Princely (In Fetters), Born to Etiquette

  5. Playfulness (Rescue from Dysphoria), Without

  6. Encompasses the full Range of Human Emotions

  7. Gifted at Birth, Yet he Still Became More Sophisticated

  8. Only Great Composer to Dominate both Symphony & Opera

Year I moved to US was Mozarts 250th anniversary

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How many philosophers can talk rather confidently about music?

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Soga, Zulu

Dhadha, Ubaba/Umama Mkhulu.. Umzali omkhulu
Kufana, Ngokufanayo

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Good morning, Kadi; l always celebrate hearing from you .As you know, ours is not a literate. I learned from your late grandfather, with whom you shared the clan name, “ Dhatemwa kulala aye dhayawukana emibala (I.e.they diverge when it comes to the sound they make and the philosophy of life they articulate.This was especially noteworthy in the case of twins who frequently in their behaviour preferences!

Literally, the name conveys the need to manage your expectations of people accordingly.

Although drums my have been made from stem of a tree they don’t sound the same.

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How do Hamlet vs. Achilles compare?
An interesting question. My short answer is, “With difficulty.” To expand on that, they are such different men in such different cultures and circumstances that it is tough to make useful comparisons. Both are major figures in their realms. Both are skilled warriors. Both are intelligent. Both are proud, and both are close to their fathers. Both delay crucial violence. Beyond that, however…it’s hard to say. Hamlet is forever divided and in his head. Achilles, by contrast, is driven by emotion. Hamlet wants to be absolutely right before he acts. Achilles acts, and trusts his actions to be right. Hamlet seems fond of Ophelia, but his ego is not bound to hers. By contrast, Achilles doesn’t seem fond of any woman, but his ego is bound to them as his prize. In other words, as ascetic priest vs warrior

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Shakespeare was born into an emerging United Kingdom, with peaceful succession to the throne within the house of Tudor. So the only warriors he venerates — Harry Hotspur & Henry V — are from a bygone error. His is an age of wicked men angling for power through intrigue in the court. In Macbeth and Hamlet the battlefield is only referred to as a recent memory. Intrigue rules

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I’ve spent my entire life trying to connect dots
And so naturally the Coen Brothers are my fave film auteurs:
Their protagonists are just about to connect the final dots of the puzzle
When things start to fall apart
So I revel in that details of their stories.. and am left wanting more

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  1. Connect does for audience

  2. But not all of them

  3. Some connections would insult IQ

  4. Others would do the impossible

  5. Let then just be enough: eight dots

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Toppling Goliath Brewing
Kentucky Brunch Brand Stout #1

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Case-Shiller Annual Growth Rate

Might also explain older donor surge

1995-2004, 2005-2012, 2013-2019

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Who is Hannah C. Sung? She was not amused by the race/ethnicity variable

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Nietzsche as #1 in the Pantheon of Great Philosophers

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Jacob Golomb observed, “Nietzsche’s ideas were widely disseminated among and appropriated by the first Hebrew Zionist writers and leaders.”[31] According to Steven Aschheim, “Classical Zionism, that essentially secular and modernizing movement, was acutely aware of the crisis of Jewish tradition and its supporting institutions. Nietzsche was enlisted as an authority for articulating the movement’s ruptured relationship with the past and a force in its drive to normalization and its activist ideal of self-creating Hebraic New Man.”

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The absence of quotation marks—or “perverted commas” as Joyce styled them—and discursive markers, such as the phrase “he said,” are signs of Joyce’s confidence in his being able to differentiate characters purely on the basis of their own individuating and identificative patois, as well as of his faith in his readers’ interpretive prowess.

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It is obvious that in his day-dreams he is a warrior, not a professor; all of the men he admires were military. His opinion of women, like every man’s, is an objectification of his own emotion towards them, which is obviously one of fear. “Forget not thy whip”– but nine women out of ten would get the whip away from him, and he knew it, so he kept away from women, and soothed his wounded vanity with unkind remarks. […] [H]e is so full of fear and hatred that spontaneous love of mankind seems to him impossible. He has never conceived of the man who, with all the fearlessness and stubborn pride of the superman, nevertheless does not inflict pain because he has no wish to do so. Does any one suppose that Lincoln acted as he did from fear of hell? Yet to Nietzsche, Lincoln is abject, Napoleon magnificent. […] I dislike Nietzsche because he likes the contemplation of pain, because he erects conceit into duty, because the men whom he most admires are conquerors, whose glory is cleverness in causing men to die. But I think the ultimate argument against his philosophy, as against any unpleasant but internally self-conscious ethic, lies not in an appeal to facts, but in an appeal to the emotions. Nietzsche despises universal love; I feel it the motive power to all that I desire as regards the world. His followers have had their innings, but we may hope that it is coming rapidly to an end. — Russell, History of Western Philosophy

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Will to Power
Masai Warriors
Lionesses in Savannah

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I like a good drama. And this documentary is about two warring factions in American christianity: one that views faith in Jesus as a guarantee of rewards here on earth vs. another that only sees Jesus as a means to heaven.

The ones who look to earthly and material things — health, wealth, miracles — as the expected rewards fancy themselves sort of masters of the universe, victorious warriors and heroes, channeling the Holy Spirit so that their example here on earth might attract the weary to the faith (and, of course, to tithe under their stewardship).

Meanwhile, the ones who look to heaven insist that only christ alone is the hero. And that by his stripes we might find a way to heaven, but that the earthly portion of the journey goes according to Gods will and not ours — we are not masters of this universe. Thus health, wealth, and miracles are not necessarily promised. Instead, our faith should clarify the path we should take, a path that will involve acts of love to other more needy folks.. as Jesus taught.