—Was he talking about his coming death? The inheritance in the views at the time with Jesus among the people: the priests were envy that he is getting the spotlight as the “cool” religious figure than the OG ones. We should make sure he is not on top again. Without realizing the envy guiding them led to the processes of accusations, accusations and then boom a chance appears they want him dead and he was killed.

If you are curious and have courage to go after your interests, what great in you, it’ll be a matter of time before we see it.

Now when you are in an environment which doesn’t give you access to great knows and tools on default, as a consequence we will see you shine after many years if you do not put extra effort get them on your own.

I see this been expressed on the range of ages talents starts to show in more developed countries like US compared to African countries:

In US young kids with years less than 20 on average starts to show off their talents and even come to revolutionize the world with great companies.

While in African countries on average we are talking about 20 and 30 something to see similar situations.

I got access to my own personal computer in my 20s. If I had this one early plus more useful exposures I guess I would have been different by the time I was 20.

That’s the fact and you can’t force things to be different as we have no control over it. But one of the right move to go with this: however limited you are try your level best to get access to great knows and tools early as much as possible.

“Jamaa anaboa sana, utadhani kampuni ni yake.”

Stori haziishi mpaka tukushitue muda wa kwenda nyumbani; umenogewa kumsema mwenzako.

Kila siku unaongelea kwa nini fulani anajikuta, Juma anachepuka, mwingine ana tabia gani. Ni mengi mabaya waliyonayo hawa watu, eti?

Kwa ulivyo, ni wazi hawa watu leo wakibadilika unaweza hata kukasirika kimoyomoyo. Nahisi utaanza kuchimba ya wengine, ilimradi tupate season 2 ya wewe kuongelea.

Leo ukubali tu, kwamba huwa unajisikia vizuri ukisema wenzako. Hii sio siri tena.

Usiposema ni kama umepatwa na alosto; tukupe kidogo uchangamshe damu, bila hivyo siku haiendi.

Kutokukuonea sana ngoja nikupe ukweli mwingine:

Hata mimi najisikia vizuri kusema watu. Diwani anajisikia vizuri. Jasmini vilevile. Labda ni sehemu ya nature yetu. Tunachotofautiana ni viwango tu.

Kwa nini tumefikia huku sasa?

Kwa sababu wakati mwingine tunajisikia vibaya na hali zetu wenyewe.

Huna kazi unayoipenda. Familia hampendani. Pesa shida. Huna furaha.
Nani anapenda hali kama hiyo, hasa inapokuwa haionekani kuisha kesho?

Hapo ndipo inakuja ile:

Tukifeli wote ni afadhali kuliko nifeli peke yangu.

“Ona yule naye shida tupu. Hahaha”. Ghafla najisikia vizuri na mimi kidogo.

Huko kujisikia vizuri kunatokana na kujifariji kwamba kuna watu wenye hali mbaya kama yako. Kwamba haupo peke yako.

Wasipokuwepo wengine wa kuwaangalia, uhalisia wako unaweza kukutisha. Unaogopa kujitazama usoni na kukubali hali uliyonayo.

Ukisonta vidole kwa wengine, kidogo unasahau yako.

Na tukikosa kuona mabaya kwa watu, wakati mwingine tunayaunda kichwani. Hata kama ni kitu kidogo sana, tutakilazimisha mpaka mtu aonekane ana ubaya fulani. Kwa sababu tunahitaji hiyo dose.

Tunataka kitu kitakachotufanya tujisikie vizuri kuhusu sisi wenyewe bila kubadilisha chochote kuhusu sisi wenyewe.

Rudi ndani.

Ukiwa na amani na hali yako, hutahangaika sana na ya watu.

Shida yako ni nini sasa hivi?

Ikubali. Usikimbie kwa kubugia unga wa kusema wengine kwa shida zao. Hata ukifanya hivyo, hakuna kitakachobadilika kwenye maisha yako.

Kubali shida yako, halafu ibane kuirekebisha kila siku. Njia zipo.

Kadri utakavyoikubali hali yako na kupunguza shida zako, ndivyo utakavyopunguza haja ya kutumia maisha ya wengine kujifariji.

Ya nini ninywe pombe kutuliza mawazo wakati sina mawazo ya kukimbia?

NZ Writes.

Kwenye kikundi chenu bado mnatumia madaftari?

PAMOJARISE inarahisisha uendeshaji wa VIKOBA: michango, mikopo, marejesho, mahesabu na report.

Nani hajalipa? Nani akumbushwe? Nani apigwe faini? Mkopo wa nani umefikia wapi? Huhitaji tena kufuatilia. Mfumo unajua na unawakumbusha wanachama wenyewe.

Miamala ikiwekwa, taarifa zinatumwa. Report ikihitajika, ipo tayari. Mahesabu yote yanafanywa na mfumo.

Mfumo unaofanya kikundi chenu kijiendeshe chenyewe.

👉 Hamishia kikundi chenu PAMOJARISE — tembelea pamojarise.com

I have my own taste in music.

Most people don’t get it.

But I like it. I like the sounds of beats, melodies, lyrics. It’s like there is something being touched in my heart every time they get into my ears.

When I’m working, when I’m mad, when I’m in love, when I daydream my future, music puts it in its place.

I’m in motion with good music. My own kind of music.

An antidote in my life.

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-It seems like unconsciously always I’m running away from hard and boring things and towards easy, pleasurable ones.

-We are so week, I’m week. Impulses get us—we are driven to pleasures with force.

-You don’t put more work—as you need to relax. Your body tells you it’s time to relax all the time. It’s time to enjoy life.

-The solution recommended is to always resist bad things; you fight the temptations with all your power. I bet everyone knows how it feels while doing this. The painful friction we experience as if our body and soul is being dragged away from its own home.

-What is this? was it our nature to begin with? why it feels painful to move away from these things?

-Was it our nature to love comfortably these things which brings pleasure, which are easy. You know it’s so good and it scares you, but you keep pushing away from it at the same time constantly being pulled towards it.

-I think it’s like on default we have been made for easy pleasurable life. It’s our nature that’s why it has always been hard to go away from them even if you manage to do that it still requires enormous amount of energy to maintain your state otherwise you turn back to the old ways as if nothing happened all these years.

-I think it’s in our nature to want to feel good all the time. And by nature, doing and being righteous requires more energy to achieve and maintain.

-But our mind doesn’t want that life, we know it deep inside it’s not what we want, not who we want to be. But these “feels good” are always opposing and resting us whenever we try to change. It has been like this, always fighting and fighting against them.

-Our will power is not strong enough over these things. You can’t fight your own nature.

-The solution I’m thinking about:

I think we might use this nature against us. Yes, we like “feels good” we can use it to trick ourselves into doing what real matters: make what you do playful and enjoy full. You can’t go head-to-head with it will be painful.

The good thing also is once you start doing good things the momentum in doing it, the accomplishments start to feel good; that you start to see the resistance you have been facing before as nothing (as now you feel good). But this is momentary; each time you stop or take a break the frictions come again. It becomes hard to start again.

But one thing is guaranteed: when you are in motion the resistance is not there anymore. You only need one thing each time: when you think it’s about time to do good things you have to trick yourself that you are going to the good mood, you are not going to do something hard.

You only have to trick yourself to start. Don’t depend on will power only, don’t wait for inspiration. Find trick ways to bring you to momentum.

-The tricks I commonly do to work on the projects and things I like:

I go to sit on my workspace and watch all the things I have done, look at my work, look around on every corner—there is no effort I’m putting here but eventually I’ll start to work on it.

I do the easy part or something else which is simple.

The momentum comes and I keep doing it. The will power is not there all the time. It’s not your fault or you are weak, it’s just that is your nature and you have to fight against it every time. but the best way is to trick yourself into doing work and be a good person, acting in the best way.

-I don’t know well how to keep being a righteous man. I’m trying to do experiment too in various ways. Mostly I try to redefine the purpose of acting in a certain way to have a different meaning than that defined in merely doing it.

Ni asubuhi karibu na msitu wa Matongo pale ambapo mto Mwesa unatokea wanasikika wanawake wanne wanakatiza wakiwa wamebeba majembe wakiongea Kisukuma.

Bebe nang’o oleyomba John akishihaga
(we nawe unasema John anamsaliti mke wake)

Ghafla mwanamke wa kwanza anapiga kelele

Mayoo

Wenzake wanamuuliza

Ke nang’o?

(Vipi na wewe?)

Anawajibu akiwa na mshituko mkubwa huku akiwasonteshea sehemu kwa mbele

Lolaga he naho

(Tazama pale)

Anaoneka Ally akiwa amelala akiwa amejawa na majeraha makubwa.

Wanawake hao wanapiga kelele wote kwa pamoja

Wooooh

…

(Tunarudi wakati wa sasa mwaka mmoja ukiwa umeshapita)

Tunamwona Ally akiwa Shambani na mzee John.

Inaonekana wapo wakiwa wana assess shamba lao. Ni muda wa mavuno umekaribia.

Katika harakati hizo John anaonekana akipotea kwa kushangaa upande wa pili. kwa mbali kuna mwana mdada mrembo sana ambaye anakatiza

Mara mzee John anampiga begani

Wewe Baraka, nakuona unachungulia tu watoto watu

Mzee John anamwambia kwa rafudhi yake nzito ya kisukuma.

Hahaha, sio hivyo mzee

Ally anajikataliza. Ally hivi sasa huku anaitwa Baraka jina alilopewa na mzee John.

Hahhaha kwahyo unataka kusema ulikuwa unafanya nini

Mzee bwana mimi nilikuwa naangalia mpunga wetu. Mimi kijana mstaarabu si unajua hilo?

Baraka anajitetea.

Wapole wapole hawa ndio huwa misumali. Sipati picha ulikuwaje huko nyuma kabla haujapoteza kumbukumbu.

Ally ambaye sasa ni Baraka inaonekana hana kumbukumbu za nyuma. Mzee John ndio aliyeamua kuishi naye kama mwenyekiti wa kijiji pale alipookolewa.

Sasa hapa twende mashineni kwanza tujue kama tutapata sehemu ya kuhifadhi

Mzee John anabadilisha mada.

John na Ally wanaanza kuondoka.

Wakiwa wanatoka Ally bado anaendelea kumuuliza maswali mbali mbali

Kwahyo hapa tunaweza pata kama magumia mangapi?

…

Sasa wapo mitaa ya mashineni ghafla wanakutana na Mama Zabroni akiwa na mwanamke mwingine.

Mzee John anamsalimia kwa kisukuma.

Ga makanza nzengano
(za mida tena jirani)

Mama Zabroni anamjibu

Mola gete. Nalekobona ulena nzungu wako
(nakuona uko na mzungu wako)

Baraka huwa wanamtania kwamba ni mzungu kulingana na jinsi alivyomweupe pekee kijiji kizima.

Mzee John naye anajibu

No bebe nakubona watwenelwa mwenga wonge. Wahale mwenoyo?

(na wewe naona umetuletea mwinga wa wapi huyu)

Muda huo Baraka anaonekana kuduwaa akimshangaa mwanamke yule ambaye hajawahi kumuona.

Mama Zabroni anamshitua kwa kumwita

Muzungu, unashangaa nini?

Watu wa huku wengi wana rafudhi nzito za kisukuma

Hahahah, mama namshangaa mgeni wetu huyu sijawahi kumwona.

Ally anajiongeresha. Inaonekana wazi amevutiwa naye.

Hahaha na yeye wa mzungu wa mujini kama wewe

Ally ni kama hamsikii Mama Zabroni vile macho yote yamemtoka kwa mdada huyu

Dada karibu sana kisalabi. Naitwa Baraka, mimi ndio mwenyeji wa huku

Anajiuma umauma akiwa anaongea. Ni wazi amevutiwa naye ghafla.

John anampa mkono ili kumsalimia vizuri.

Asante

Kwa majibu ya mkato kama vile anashali naye yule mdada anamjibu.

Mzee John na Mama Zabroni wanaangaliana kwa vibe hii tofauti inayoonekana kati yao.

Huyu ni mtoto wa mtoto wa mamkubwa wa mjini. Amekuja kutusalimia huku.

Mama Zabroni kama namna ya kubadilisha upepo anajazilizia.

Anaitwa Jane au mama wawili.

Mama wawili?! Kwamba ameolewa?

Baraka akiuliza kama amepatamshangao wa ghafla

Hahaha siku nyingine njoo utusamilie kwanza huwa unatupita tu kila siku.

Baraka anaachwa njiani bila kujibiwa shahuku yake.

Mama Zabroni na yule mwanamke wanaondoke wakiwaacha Mzee John na Ally.

Asichokijua Baraka huyu ndiye mke wake Jane ambaye sasa hana kumbukumbu zake tena.

Now the stressful and troubled life comes when you have negative emotions, and you default to wanting them to go away or wanting to analyse them. The more you do this the stronger the emotions become, and you even become more troubled and mood less.

This is the number one source of unhappy life: clinging to negative emotions.

Now if you want to have a happy life when experiencing negative emotions, you have to ask yourself what is the cause of these negative emotions?

It's always from things which even if we cry or tell our mom, nothing is going to change, things which we have no influence over how they should be.

If you can't do anything about it, the answer is simple: forget it and focus on those you have authority over.

So, what about the negative emotions?

Well, they will always be there and will fade when they feel like it. For now, the only favour you can do to yourself is to just ignore them, and of course as you can't do anything about the thing causing them.

Sasa ukitoka nje ya box unaenda wapi ukachukue hivyo vitu?
>Humu ndani ya box Kuna nyoka.
Ok, kuna sehemu ukitoka nje ya hili box nakumbuka kulikuwa na fimbo, ngoja niikimbilie tuje tutumie kumuulia huyu nyoka.

Anhaa, kwahiyo ukitoka nje ya box unatakiwa uwe na sehemu ya kwenda?
>Ujanja ni uwe na sehemu ambayo umeshawahi kwenda na unazani kuna kitu unaweza chukua pale kikusaidie kutatua changamoto ulionayo ndani ya box

Sawa sawa, kwahiyo nawezaje fikiria nje ya box?
>Ili uweze kufikiria nje ya box inabidi ujue vitu vingi ambavyo utaweza chagua baadhi utumie kutatua changamoto yako, utakapoishia kujua ndipo uwezo wako wa kuja na vitu vipya utaishia pia.

Kadri unavyojifunza vitu vipya kwa kusoma, kuongea na watu “smart” au kwa namna yoyote inayokujuza vitu ambavyo ulkuwa haujui ndivyo ambavyo unaongeza uwezo wako wa kufikiria nje ya box

- I trust and admire the greatness of the mind of the leader.
-I'll be working on great ideas or vision
-I can get a chance to contribute to this vision or idea, so as it can continue to be great
-Be on an impactful part in working to make that vision a reality
-Given a chance to start other great things in the organization
-I'm trusted that I can do a good job

Something to note from these ambitious people if they decide not to work “for” you:

-Most of the time they are clouded with ego, as in some ways they try to push forward their "name" in everything instead of the cause.

-They are always dissatisfied with their life—you are smart how comes you can’t do cool stuff?

There is something else cool than a mere title.

—But I can't just pay for anything, it should be something which I real need, something which if I can't get it a part of my life will be miserable (pay or be miserable).

To refine this answer then, one pays you so as you can feed a need, solve a problem, full stop and nothing else.
Your business idea then should be rooted from here.

Your business is going to be the solution to this problem one face, so to come up with a business idea literally means to come up with a solution for a problem.
There are two major ways to come up with a solution (business idea) which is more likely to be successful:

1. If there is no existing solution come up with your own new solution (innovation)

2. If there is an existing solution use it but on places where it is not easy to get it.

By this we mean if a solution is not easily available because of high cost (make it cheap), it is far away (make it closer), it's annoying but people want it (make is easy), and more other forms of unavailability (make them available)

Something to note: You can't think up business ideas, you have to know well and prove there is a problem otherwise it'll be for nothing; that's why it's called a solution, you can't have it for nothing.

Njia kwa kutembea.
Jua linavyong’a wakati wa jioni,
Raha iliyoje.
Nipo peke yangu, kampani inaleta kelele.

Ivi na wengine maisha yao yapo hivi pia?
Kipi kimejaa kichwani mwao muda kama huu?
Mimi nawaza nikaangalie episode nyingine,
Jana nililala saa saba.

Muruha, muruha, pole pole narudi nyumbani kila siku.

Deep down it’s simply because we are forced to accept what we don’t “really” want;

We are forced to accept whatever the outputs of AI by AI and its supporters. This stems from the “don’t read code” and overwhelming sheer amount of LOC you can’t review.

It’s not like we are suckers of control, there is always the final version you always see in your head and you want it to come out alive. As a hacker you are always obsessed with even tiny details to see it come true. You can’t turn this off in your brain.

AI and what everyone else encourages others to do doesn’t give you this chance; they tell you to accept whatever is cooked up just because it’s “statistically” the best option from datasets, they don’t want you to even look at what AI has made (who read code now days). As a result you hate it as you can’t get what you “really” want.

But here is the thing:

Most of innovation comes out when you force out what’s in your head; get out every inch of curiosity, everything you think you should try out. You cross check the specs of what you made, if it something doesn’t add up you scratch everything and start all over again. That is how great things are baked. You can’t get that solely with lottery tickets.

So how can you make these devs happy while still using the benefits of AI?

It’s might not be possible 100% but at least:

-AI and harnesses used should be designed in the most efficient way to make hackers happy that they get to build with AI what they truly really want.

Day one, full of spirit. Yeah, a good guy working hard, now in the ideal self.

Day two, still the same.

Day three: “Hmm, let me skip this little thing today.”

Day 10, two things have been skipped already. You are pretending like you didn’t make a promise to yourself.

What happened?

The cycle repeats.

Still, you always return to your default mode:

Tired of putting garbage into the dustbin.

Filling up forms until the last minute.

The sloppy, the lazy mode.

Not bad, not good, but your body and mind somehow feel comfortable there. Yet your subconscious feels guilty, telling you: “You can do better than this.”

That’s you as a leader—the one we look up to. What do you think happens to us, your subordinates?

Worse than you might think.

We have adapted and put systems in our workplace to meet the minimum expectations. The work gets done.

But we can do much better. I bet on that.

In fact, you have tried to push us before, and we did better. But a few days later, you became quiet, and so did we. We returned to our default modes, just like you do.

If you are not in your ideals, we are not either.

If you want to get the best output from your organization, you have to fight yourself first. Come out of that rut.

Then push us—not once, but every day—to rise above it too.

We are not dumb. We are also culprits of this disease. So, we need constant reminders, and those reminders have to come from you when you are sober.

We need you to remain sharp every day, for both of us.

This is a never-ending battle.

Sina hiyo nguvu ya kuhimili.

Watu wanisifu, ila najiona mnafiki.
Sipo kwenye kiwango cha juu,

Bado najaribu.
Ila uhakika nataka niwe mwema machoni mwako.

Baba nakutegemea wewe,
Wewe ndio wajua udhaifu wangu.

Naomba niimarishe.
Sitaki nipotee zaidi,

Niongoze.

The rocks, microorganisms, planets they were always here but we couldn’t see them until then when we reached a point we could finally see them.

They were always here.

This makes me wonder there is still more we don’t know.

But what about the ones we made with our hands? The ones we had invented?

—We make them by combining things already existed. And there are still many combinations out there we haven’t tried to see what they give.
We don’t create combinations; they were always here waiting to be found.

Nothing is new.

Can I see the not-yet-seen whenever I want?

—Why you couldn’t see others before and how did you managed to see them?

The only explanation I find should definitely be you were blind.
If not, then tell me why something new comes you start to see it now when it was around you all this time?

This brings us to the antidote: you have to see again

The only thing I have in mind right now is maybe we should give you a fresh new pair of eyes:
You have to start going to places you have never been before, somewhere you are interested with, somewhere you are curious to see how it is. This is the only cure for you to be able to notice quickly new things you haven’t seen before.

—Your eyes are dead when you stay on the same place for so long.

Does this guarantee you’ll discover something new in that new place?

No, you can’t set out to make discoveries,
Discoveries are made “accidentally”.

What you can set out to do is explore:

What are you interested with?
What are you curious about?
Explore it in every corner, and while you are on it enjoy this new view.

Ilibidi muda wote niwe na wewe,
Sema tu inabidi ulale na tufanye kazi.

Mtikisa hisia,
Mpenzi wangu.
Kitu kidogo tu sielewi unanifikisha wapi.

Kwa namna hii nahisi nimeshakuwa addicted.

Wewe kuwa moodless siishi vizuri hiyo siku.
Itanibidi nifanye chochote kurudisha tabasamu lako.

Tabasamu lako ukamilifu wangu.
Please smile for me.

The flow:

Annual goals:

-The general direction I want to go.

-Based on my interests

Monthly evaluations:

-Where are we?

-I’m just looking back for evaluations if this is still the right track

Daily goals:

-Forget about everything else—my dreams or even grand goals

-Focus on finishing what I planned today no matter what.

Weekly planning:

-This is where I set things to do on Monday to Sunday

-Designed more for things in a day to be a little bit over my edge. I can go in high speed without realizing by having plans like these.

Core truths applied:

-I can get the most in whatever I’m doing if I stick with it for a very long time.
If I look back in time, it’s obvious If I did that one thing until today, I would have been far ahead
Consistency as my armor.

-Forget your big dreams and grand goals. These are distractions what’s needed are actions.
Your big dreams bring stress to you as you always daydream about them, with rush you want to get everything tomorrow. You lose focus on what’s important: today

The score will take care of itself well if you focus on what to do today.

-Weekly, monthly and annual plans are vague.

If you finish that today you know you have contributed something which can be touched.

These are the rules I live by as a writer.

I didn’t know these before; in fact, I started to call myself a writer confidently mainly after starting to write online—It has been about two years now I write for others to read—before I was the guy with my diary and notebooks never wanted anyone to see my little secrets.

The first time I started it was on a WhatsApp group; I wrote a long chat message, can you imagine! But I did it anyway because I felt compelled to share what I had learned as a recent college graduate—there were circumstances which made me be in a group with a bunch of college students.

In all these years with my experience of writing I have come to realize a few things:

-You will know you didn’t know it well until you start to write about it. Writing has this strange way of showing how dumb I’m in things I usually consider myself smart while thinking or talking about it.

-Most of my ideas came while I was writing. You can’t believe this a tonne of how the general idea of risefromCollege is it’s from all the essays I wrote.

-I get to understand it more if I write it. Writing put my worries, new insights and knowledge I got into clarity; it’s like I’m rewatching from a different angle close up.

-Writing is the way of thinking. Whenever I’m stuck, whenever I need to make a decision writing gives me power than merely just thinking it up in my head.

These experiences are so profound to me that it made me to take into heart writing as a MOAT I have against others.

But there is other two things which were happening in the background alongside writing in all this time:

The first one is I started programming. This goes back in my second year in college when I needed a website for the startup idea I was working on. The solution was to use website builders; at the time I was trying Wix and Squarespace. But these services were expensive to me and I got limited features, so I decided to learn coding to make my own websites.

The second thing was I was so into making a startup of my own. This led me to dive in into the life of startups early on, trying out many things, failed a bunch of time and finally got this one clear understanding: make something people want—thanks YC, though I got rejected once :)

The lessons I learned in these other experiences which applies to my writing:

-In programming you can’t understand well the codes you haven’t written. You have to have the context of what the coder was thinking, you have to be aware what is the codebase for.

-In startups it's best to live the problem you are solving. You have to feel the pain as your users so as to make the best solution for them—that’s the only way I can pay you

I was into writing my diaries heavily which made me to believe that I was also a writer. But these beliefs faded whenever I sat down to try to write something for others to read; I couldn’t bring myself to write anything useful and sounding. Ultimately, I ended up doubting myself if I really had the potential.

There was a time I tried to write with AI, but it didn’t work out and I was not proud of my work.

But one day as I was writing to a WhatsApp group full of college students—as a big bro bored and decided to dump a long chat message—surprisingly I wrote it seamlessly. More shockingly I got good feedback even though I wrote it in a mixture of English and Swahili :)

It was advice to the students based on what I have seen in my first days as an employee.

Then it hit me: I knew this stuff so deep, I was thinking about this thing most of the time while at work, it was something I had a mixture of regrets as I didn’t know it well when I was in college and I wished I knew it too. I was able to write it not because I was just lucky; it was because I was experiencing it myself, I knew the right words to describe my pain as I have been feeling it every day.

I got good feedback regardless because someone could feel me, as it was like I was a runaway student who came back to class to share what I have found; but now as a student and not some professors—there was a sync between my readers and me as I used myself as a scapegoat.

That long chat message turned into one of the first essays in risefromCollege and it marked the birth of it. From there I realized the trick I can use to be a “real” writer:

Write what you are living.

You are writing for someone else to read. Just like how one can’t read well the codes he hasn’t written, one can’t read well the things not written to sync with his ways of thinking and viewing the world. The best way to get this link is to be that person, have the same life to have the same patterns of thinking.

You can’t sell well the product people don’t want. There is no better test for that than trying to buy it yourself first. Live the problem you are writing. If you need it probably there is a section in this world like you will need it too.

All my writing has been this way so far, there is a good chance you can see my thoughts pattern from everything I write online.

I believe the right customers will read what I write if it fits their needs.

Are you still worrying and fearing what you’ll do after college? Will you be dumped too into the pool of graduates who have no job? Will what you are struggling with now in college be worthless after graduation? If you are thinking like that, let me add something more hurtful: there is a high likelihood this will happen to you, just like other graduates in the street.

Why? Because the approaches commonly used don’t guarantee success immediately after graduation.

But why not so effective?

You’ll learn more about this below but first let’s start with the way you can escape this trap which most graduates have fallen into.

If you want to escape this trap, just do this one thing: Start the hustle in college. If you can even start to do it from the first moment you stepped into college, do it, but don’t wait until you graduate. Whether you want to be employed or to do your own projects after graduation, start to work on this now, while you are in college.

For all those three years (or even more) in college, if you use them for this, it is more likely you’ll be ahead and different from those who started this hustle immediately after college. Even if what you tried failed, what you’ll gain will be much more valuable than just mere certificates.

If you’re in with this, welcome to risefromCollege. The platform and mission aimed to help college students fight this unemployment issue while in college and not after graduation.

Our core philosophy is simple: start during college, don’t wait until you graduate to start.

The key is to start trying things which might lead to increasing your “employability” or developing your own project as a business while you’re in college.

You #TryOutThings because we believe it’s not a one-shot success thing. You make lots of attempts, and maybe one of your attempts might succeed and launch your career.

Even if they don’t, you’ll gain valuable experience and skills along the way—a far better investment than graduating without practical knowledge.

The key is to look for things which can lead to your breakthrough opportunity and try them.

For this to go well, there are other key ingredients you also need.

The first ingredient is skills together with knowledge. We call them #risingTools because these are the essential tools you should have in your backpack—tools you can use to grab any opportunity coming your way or fight any obstacle on your way. Without them, opportunities will just slip between your fingers easily. If you are not fully packed with these tools now, it’s your task to go and learn all these.

The other ingredient is #Exposure: What you don’t know so that you can know now. This can be eye-opening insights and perspectives—the aim is to equip your brain with a mindset that enables you to see opportunities where others haven’t seen them or move away from the conventional mindset of most college students, anything which removes you from the dark.

Okay, to try to answer the question why the common approach of graduates doesn’t work, first consider this general life model:

— For every success or anything we aspire to accomplish, there is a zero line where we begin the grind to reach there. To reach that level where we are satisfied, it often takes years with a lot of trials and full of uncertainties—luck won’t be on your side all the time.

— Still, you’ll need to work hard and creatively no matter what the circumstances—it’s rare to have food come to your table where you have been relaxing.

Now, the reason most graduates have fallen into this trap and sometimes failed to embrace reality is that: as a recent graduate, the same life model principle still applies to you: it’ll take years to feel happy that you went to college and got something from it. That’s the fact and it’s totally normal: “you are just beginning; things can’t work out for you in a flash”.

But we are still lamenting that we have graduated but without jobs. No, you’ll get jobs but not that soon after graduation (if you are not that lucky)—but still this is with a precondition to keep the fight on every day.

— But what if we moved that zero line of starting back to your early days in college? What if, alongside your studies, you explored different opportunities—trying out new things to boost your employability or even start a project that could become your business?

— Even if you failed, you would still gain something—something that could prove useful instead of entering the world empty-handed. It would make your transition to life after college much smoother because you started sooner and not soon after graduation.

This is what we call risefromCollege, the mission you can embody specifically for starting your success while in college and not waiting until you graduate.

That’s it.

So, risefromCollege.

Before we close, you must know something else: the way we’re contributing to the risefromCollege mission is by publishing weekly content in these categories:

#Exposure: Eye-opening insights (the essential stuff you’re never taught).

#risingTools: Must-have tools to transform opportunities into achievements.

#things2Try: Actionable ideas you can start today that might become the beginning of your college success story.

Additionally, we offer #uni-bus: A community space for students who dare to think differently—where you can share ideas and connect with like-minded peers without judgment.

For weekly insights to launch your success journey while still in college, visit risefromcollege.com regularly.

#moreExposure #buildUpSkills #TryOutThings

This is what I hear everyday.

As someone who became somehow good in programming business around the corner of 2022 hearing these words constantly honestly it brought traces of disappointment in me (what was I excited about!!).

The hype is so strong making you feel like it’s the end of the world. And of course you can feel this looking at how AI keep getting better everyday.

I tried to write my take on AI before, but I have found something else which needs to be addressed:

The stories around AI are telling you to pack your things and find something else to do as everything will be replaced by AI.

It’s like we are told you don’t have to think about coming up with things anymore, AI will come up with them and create everything. We see countless showoffs on the internet of what people have made in a day. It’s sooo over.

We are forced to see there is no need to create software anymore.

I accept AI is so good in its own ways, but I had questions which stopped me to think again about the “give up” direction we are told to take:

Will AI replace WhatsApp, Google search, Substack so easily?

Our lives in 21st century is running on software; don’t we need software anymore?

If we pack our bags and go who will prompt the AI to generate software?

These questions made me to question the narration we receive everyday about AI.

There is something missing in this story:

AI won’t use itself. People use it, we need human brains to steer it.

“Everything is so over” is a misguiding narration. People should stop these marketing hyped stories otherwise all of us will be over:

-You can’t make AI make what you “really” want. If there is no one to force it, we will all be eating slops we don’t want.

-AI can’t replace WhatsApp, Substack or other major platforms. Think about that again, brain power is needed.

-AI is smart after using data from the past. We need new data from the future to keep it smart and who supplies that?

If you push fear to young talents who are into software, we won’t get the data needed to train AI on for it to continue creating great stuff. We won’t get people who are strong to come up with new revolutionary ways which AI can’t even touch the surface.

AI is a new tool. It’s not great in everything, but as a tool we should find out how we can use it to our advantage.

This is the story which should be emphasized more.