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#27: Enough is enough
Shem Opolot
July 07, 2023
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Happy Friday 🎉 Today’s the four-year anniversary of the morning after my wedding.
Today, we celebrate love and generosity.
Today, we celebrate the rich auntie who waylaid us right before we left for the airport to slip us $1,000 for our honeymoon. That cash injection was ultimately the difference between having another glass of wine or water. Between asking for the check or cheesecake. In life, be that rich auntie.
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Estimated read time: 4 minutes
💡 1 thing I've learned
Enough is enough
I want to be filthy rich.
I know it’s damn near impossible to be a billionaire without exploiting millions of people, but I still hope I’ll be the exception.
“Let me first become a billionaire, feel bad, and (maybe) give it all away,” I tell myself.
In college, whenever people asked me about my future plans, their eyes shined with happy tears as I sang a song about achieving universal healthcare coverage.
And listen, though I was burdened with glorious purpose, I wasn’t above occasionally using my “Africanness” to get discounts and dates. Maybe even a situationship or two.
But when I told them I also wanted to be filthy rich, the gushy glints were gone.
I suspect my ambitions reminded them of corporate America, where greed goes to lift weights and become avarice.
But they weren’t familiar with Uganda.
In Uganda, extreme wealth is the breastplate against poverty. A cosy corporate job isn’t enough, because one round of kidney dialysis for a loved one will send you to GoFundMe.
So, several years later, I still want to be filthy rich. But I have a plan this time.
And because I have a plan, I know what’s enough for me:
—I want to be able to buy a plane ticket within a week’s notice without worrying about being fired or my business failing
—I want to ensure my loved ones have everything they need to be content
—I want to realise that I don’t need to buy frivolous things like a $1 million watch, but if I do, I won’t dive into debt
—I want to be that uncle who takes a relative’s CV and returns with an actual opportunity.
That’s enough for me.
What’s enough for you?
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An article
A quote
One day many years from now, you will wake up and your spouse will be a different person, make sure you fall in love with that person too.
A TV show
Season 2 of The Lincoln Lawyer is out on Netflix, and if Season 1 is anything to go by, Season 2 should be lit.
🚀 Pro-tip
Working smarter in spreadsheets in 3,2,1…
You have the list of names below, and you want to extract the first names.
In Excel, we use Flash Fill via the shortcut Ctrl + E:
Type the first first name (John) as an example to show Excel what you want, select the whole range where the first names go, and click Ctrl + E
Flash fill for Excel = Smart fill for Google Sheets:
Type the first first name (John) as an example to show Google Sheets what you want, then begin typing the next name (Jane). Smart fill will suggest the solution for the rest of the names; you just have to click the tick (✅) if you like what you see
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This word below is scrambled. What is the word?
MEACRDSLB
Answer below
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Answer: The word is SCRAMBLED.
Have a great weekend,
— Shem
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