From Where I Stand

🤍 Dagmawi Babi's Meetup This year I'm starting with a new and independently organized Dagmawi Babi event! 🎉 Dagmawi Babi's Meetup is the first of it's kind event organized by Dagmawi Babi and his team as a thank you to all the incredible individuals, creators, event organizers, companies and communities improving and accelerating the tech and design ecosystem. It's a thank you for taking risks, for pioneering new ventures, for taking the blame, for investing so much of yourself into the benefits of everyone else, for spending months building epic things, for spending countless nights preparing events, for imagining a community that can be much better than what it is and working towards your vision. We're going to spend an incredible full day where we listen to insightful keynotes, explore project showcases, attend a live podcast (Devtopia), hold an in-person Creator Awards (by Codenight) and so much more. The date is Jan 24, 2026 and the event will take place at DxValley 2.0. So if all of this sounds like your type of event, register at dagmawi.dev/meetup and claim your ticket. Make sure to select "Attending" from the options. Thank you again and I can't wait to see you there! Yours truly @Dagmawi_Babi

🧘‍♀️ Consider a simple test for the year ahead. Can you watch a movie without checking your phone? Can you read for an hour without interrupting yourself? Can you be fully present with another person, your partner, your child, your friend? The world seems likely to grow more chaotic and fragmented, not less, and the war for your attention will almost certainly intensify this year. Maybe in the coming year we can all learn to recognize distraction the moment it arises and return, again and again, to the only place life is ever real: here, in the present. Sam Harris, The One Resolution That Matters Most

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First time I went to Sherathon Please don't take stupid photos

🏃‍♂️ Rundown | Week VII - X 12.12 KM 1h 7m 0s [ Run ] 1.00 KM 4m 54s [ Run ] 1.00 KM 4m 36s [ Run ] 1.00 KM 4m 39s [ Run ] 3.76 KM 21m 27s [ Run ] 8.69 KM 42m 39s [ Run ] 3.00 KM 10m 0s [ Ride ] 3.00 KM 10m 0s [ Ride ] 5.05 KM 23m 9s [ Run ] [ 9s off my PR 😭 ] [ Today ] Total Distance: 38.62 km Total Time: 3h 8m 24s A friend of mine also walked 28KM, ofcourse with no music / videos turned on, which was really inspiring to see. Quotes: "The chains of habit are too weak to be felt until they are too strong to be broken" -Samuel Johnson "To define is to limit." -Oscar Wilde

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Just finished The Fury by Alex Michaelides. Coming from The Silent Patient, I was curious about how his other books would hold up, and once again, this was a ride. I really thought he couldn’t get me this time ,that I was immune to his tricks, that I wouldn’t trust him but he lured me in again and shook me. interesting read. 3.6 *

I often think life is just a performance. None of this is real. It’s a pretense at reality, that’s all. Only when someone, or something, we love dies, do we wake up from the play—and see how artificial it all is—this constructed reality we inhabit. We suddenly realize that life is in no way lasting, or permanent; no future exists—and nothing we do matters. And in desolation, we howl and scream and rail at the heavens, until, at some point, we do the inevitable: we eat, dress, and brush our teeth. We continue with the marionette-like motions of life, however unhinged it feels to do so. Then, ever so slowly, the illusion takes over again—until we forget that we are actors in a play. Until the next tragedy strikes—to wake us up. The Fury - Alex Michaelides

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One thing he repeatedly returns to is the resilience of foreigners, something he learned firsthand while living in China. Even in the hiring process, he says he looks for a strong hustle mentality.

This about to be my favorite episode

Get ready for another Devtopia episode. We interviewed Izzy the CTO of Chapa. We talked about his thoughts on AI, his research work before starting Chapa and the journey of starting Chapa. It is an interesting episode check it out. [Devtopia - E06 - Israel]

context If Anthony Joshua loses I'll shave my hair tomorrow Match just ended: he couldn't hide for more than 5 rounds, Knock out on 6th 🥊

I can't go the rest of my life asking if it's AI or not

I couldn't put this down honestly Won't say much about it, only that the author decided that he had free will and took us on a ride. 5* for me.

Introducing Totals. All your transactions in one place Totals is a mobile app that automatically tracks your bank transactions by parsing SMS messages from Ethiopian banks. It gives you real-time balance updates, detailed transaction history, smart analytics, and clear financial insights, all stored securely on your device. We built it to stop ourselves from going broke 💸 Multi-Bank Support Commercial Bank of Ethiopia (CBE) Awash Bank Bank of Abyssinia (BOA) Dashen Bank Telebirr more coming soon.... download here And its open source, please drop a star or contribute Github shoutout to @abelwondafrash for coming up with the initial concept and design By detached @interested_imbecile @ye_we

TLDR: here Just discovered that John Green wrote The Fault in Our Stars, which was later adapted into a movie. I’d already seen the movie, but after this episode, hearing him talk about it, it really made me want to watch it again. Also learned that the title is actually a Shakespeare reference from the line: “The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves.” But he’s kind of reversing that and showing us the fault in our stars (fate/chance). ⚠️Spoiler Alert The movie is centered around cancer, and I wondered why cancer isn’t transmissible or even why some other diseases aren’t. Well, it turns out: In almost all cases, cells from another person can’t enter your body and survive long term. Cancer is a group of diseases characterized by the uncontrolled growth and division of abnormal cells. Our cells divide for different reasons, millions of times, and each time a cell divides, DNA can get damaged or copied incorrectly. Most mistakes are harmless or fixed by repair systems (which we have). And there are other things that affect mutations too, like your environment UV, chemicals, viruses. These cells are dangerous because they have certain characteristics like this, And your immune system can’t just attack your own cells with these characteristics (it does sometimes, but that’s another story). So mutations with errors: - because a lot of them occur (millions every day), - environmental factors like UV, chemicals, and viruses that affect DNA, and genetics can lead to cancer, which is why we tend to see it more in older people Why do kids have cancer then? Well… And chemo? How does that work? I also remember hearing Demis Hassabis [ who won Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his AI work on protein structure prediction] saying that his dream was a virtual cell maybe in the next 10 years. There’s obviously a lot more to this topic, and when you try to understand even our current knowledge, you can see how solving it is incredibly challenging. ☀️ We'll hopefully see how technology will help us correct the fault in our stars.

Met @frectonz @SoloDevChronicles @gugutlogs @abdebuilds And bunch of other cool people #GDG #GDGAddis

#GDG #ALXHub My back is killing me