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@mziemichaelm
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Joined February 2021
I started this free mini library @MinireadsZW in Cowdray Park with 5 of my friends because there's no library there. Help to grow it would be greatly appreciated. Books & financial assistance to get more bookshelves. @PhakamaMthwaka1 @RaisedonB @EfieZethu @samkebusiness @zenzele
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In my latest piece, I explore why genetic & material legacy are so important to us, and why birth rates are crashing globally & beginning to slow down in Africa as well. This is an essay about how culture, not evolution, is rewriting the rules of survival https://t.co/4BGghHSgKn
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"Prayer makes poor people happier than it does rich people...Which makes sense because poor people don't have a lot of stuff. Rich people have the stuff that poor people are praying for." https://t.co/euHNmLlY2W
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"The most common cause of murder in hunter-gatherer communities involves matters of sex, adultery, or jealousy...Competition for females is the leading cause of hunter-gatherer homicide.” https://t.co/QPj5HHcTV2
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This is a story about how a Dragon energy drink almost killed me exactly a week ago. I genuinely thought I was dying. I'm very grateful to be alive. https://t.co/cM5qOpag74
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Yes. Generally speaking, people who tweet the most are less smart or not smart at all. Intelligent people tend to think about & carefully consider what they want to post. On average, most tweets you see sound dumb, because they're from dumb people. Smart people tweet less.
There was a time Twitter was for educated people 😓
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"If I’m a subject and you’re the king, then I may in fact be less jealous of you than I am of my peer and neighbour...Jealousy and resentment isn’t a function of any particular object that’s desired but rather is a function of the distance between us." https://t.co/duDh4Kc93d
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The more we understand about the world around us, the less it seems we understand about people and the way they are. This post is an introduction to one man, named René Girard, who bucked this tren…
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"Groups tend to be more violent than individuals. One reason is group polarization. That is, when people are around others who hold similar views to themselves, their own confidence in those views becomes stronger." https://t.co/i6JcnXOWXH
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"Acts of violence are often the result of mutual provocation...The majority of homicides involved escalating insults from both parties until one person killed the other...In half of domestic violence cases, both parties were violent." https://t.co/i6JcnXOWXH
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"On a girls' team, the best player on the team is not necessarily the most popular player...In boys' and men's teams, the best player is almost invariably always the most popular...Being the best might actually get you bullied on a girls' or women's team" https://t.co/afuUw5rFyx
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In my new article, I discuss why boys are struggling in school—and why society ignores it. If girls were struggling at the same rate, we'd call it a crisis. https://t.co/foYMteKIPt
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If you run an orphanage funded by donations and start visibly improving the children's lives, donors stop contributing, assuming you're doing fine. Lesson: Orphanages and similar institutions are incentivized to maintain or worsen conditions to ensure continued funding.
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Bonding is talking about nothing at all It's not always the words that matter or the topics that stick. The value isn’t in the conversation itself—it’s in the feeling it leaves behind. Even if the words fade in 48 hours, the connection remains.
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People play different status games, & what’s valued as high status in one may not be in another. Being a reader is high status in some circles but irrelevant in others. Focus on behaviors that matter within your own status game, as status doesn't always transfer across games.
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"Africa is a big net-importer of food...foreign aid is a big source of income...poor Sub-Saharan African countries get as much as ten percent of their GDP from foreign aid" https://t.co/6suhQZLVd3
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My next article explores why girls consistently out-perform boys in school, not just in Zimbabwe but globally. Every year, headlines like "Girls out-perform Boys" appear in The Herald and Chronicle, but they never get to the why. That’s the focus of my article. 31 January.
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"When we look at historical & sociological evidence, the reality, is that the poor can’t lead revolutions. It’s the middle class—economically stable yet fearful of status loss—that most often instigates & drives these movements." https://t.co/0UMH1XoYbf
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Check out my new article where I unpack why poor people don't lead revolutions, and why it's always the middle-class.
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Revolutions Start in Comfort, Not Crisis In movies and fictional novels, revolutions are always depicted as the triumph of the downtrodden against oppressive regimes, fueled by their desperation and …
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When a prestigious person talks about how poor they were, it's sexy because they overcame it When a poor person talks about how poor they are, it makes them look disgusting It's especially true for men. I call this the Prestige Poverty Paradox
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