u/boulhouech

first of all, let me make it clear that this is not a pessimistic post or a complaint... it is simply based on personal observation and experience

1/ what i have noticed is that tunisian clients often do not have the budget and when they do they sometimes act as if they are doing you a favor by paying you. recently, the changes in cheque laws have made things even harder.. many business owners no longer have enough cash flow so payments get delayed and you end up having to adjust your work and life around their timelines

2/ tunisia is a very small economy and many individuals & businesses are quite conservative when it comes to trying new things... this makes it harder for new ideas and services to gain traction, and often reduces the overall return on effort

3/ the financial and payment infrastructure also adds another layer of difficulty.. it is not really designed to support scaling smoothly, and the amount of bureaucracy involved can make basic operations feel slow and draining

4/ you probably already know how heavy the bureaucracy is here, so there is not much more to add about it

5/ there is also a noticeable anti capital and anti entrepreneur mindzet.. this mindset you sometimes run into where entrepreneurship or making money in general is not really seen in a positive way... some parts of the system, and even some people in official roles, can feel a bit anti business in general and that makes things feel even harder.. especially in KS regime, it sometimes feels like making money is treated as something suspicious or even negative, almost like it’s an accusation

6/ la facturation électronique is a fucking joke.. its honestly a mess,, it often feels like it was designed in a way that just makes things harder for businesses, almost like it’s there to punish people rather than help them or at least it ends up feeling that way in practice

عندي اصحاب كي الناس الكل،

صحاب قعدة و اصحاب خدمة،

اصحاب حومة و اصحاب مصيد،

اصحاب عشرة و اصحاب اللي ياخذو بقعة الخو،

اللي يفكو من الغلبة واللي عندكش عندي،

اللي من غادي لغادي واللي من العام للعام،

واللي من العيد للعيد و اللي من دفن لفرق،

واللي من خلاعة لخلاعة واللي من البوف سور لو توا للبلاتزا،

واللي من افتتاح قرطاج للختتام الج س س،

واللي من فرنيساج لفرنيساج و اللي من رموڨة لرموڨة،

عندي اصحاب كي الناس الكل

اصحاب فايسبوك

اللي يحبوك من غير مايعرفوك

وفيهم اللي بالخير يودُّوك

وفيهم اللي من النقب عليك يطلو

وعلى مع اشكون ترقد عليك الباب يحاـُّو

وفيهم اللي من حيطك يهزُّو الباهي والخايب لا يعياو ولا يكلـُّو

وفيهم النسناس والوسواس واللي ما يحشمش من كلام الناس

وفيهم اللي ينورلك نهارك

و يرد بالو على باب دارك

ويوصي عليك جارك

ويمسح الدمعة من على خدِّك

وكي يشوفك طايح يشيلك من يدك

وفيهم اللي الكتاب يهديلك

واللي يعرف ذوقك وببرشة فيانة يتفكرك وينويلك

وفيهم اللي لا طاح لادزوه يسمع الناس على حيطك الكلام

عندي اصحاب كي الناس الكل.

اللي ما نبيع فيهم وما نشري

واللي في قضيته يجيني بكري

واللي بعضمته يقاقي يجري

واللي كي يتفكرني من نص الليل يبات يسري

واللي ما نخطر على باله كان كي يسمع بي ماشي للعكري،

واللي يقولي مانسيتكش يما البورطابل تسرق،

والنومرو متاعي من ذهنه زلق،

والكمبيوتر بالمايلمتاعي تبلنتا حتى لين تفلق.

عندي اصحاب كي الناس الكل،

نملى بيهم يدي،

ووقت ما ينشدوني تعرف، نقول هذاكة ندي،

واللي بيهم نوللي جدي،

وكيف واحد يقوللي تعرفش حد في الـ.......

قبل ما يكمل نقلو عندي

idk if anyone else feels this but naval used to hit different

like back then naval sounded like someone who actually sat with ideas and figured things out for himself. especially on twitter, he felt like the kind of person who would disappear for a while come back, and drop something that made you pause mid-scroll and think..

his thoughts on wealth, leverage and happiness didn’t feel polished or packaged... it was more likesomeone talking out loud after figuring things out for himself .. not trying to impress anyone, just saying what still made sense after sitting with it for a long time.

now when i hear him talk it just feels… off

it’s a lot of AI talk, big statements, future this future that. and yeah AI is huge, obviously, but the way he talks about it now kinda feels like he’s just leaning into the hype.. like he is playing the same game as everyone else who’s deep in that space

before it felt like he was sharing what he actually believed after thinking it through. now it feels more like he’s pushing a narrative

maybe i’m just nostalgic or maybe people just change over time. but yeah… i don’t find myself going back to his stuff the same way anymore

curious if anyone else noticed this shift or if it’s just me

the industrial revolution made human muscles useless.. and nnot long after, people realized the body still needs to move, to work, to be trained... so exercise came back but first it became a luxury. only the wealthy could afford the time and resources to stay physically fit

now, with AI, its no different. AI will do to our brains what industry did to our muscles.. we won’t need to think, to struggle, to figure things out and just like before the need to work out our minds will slowly disappear

what feels different now is the speed and scale.. AI is being pushed into nearly every part of life, and in many industries people may eventually be forced to use it simply to keep up and to get the job done.. and in the proces, we’ll lose our mental muscles.. i would go further and say it willl make us half human.. soulless. everything will start to look the same.. because generative AI doesn't create from nothing itt recycles what it's trained on, spitting things out with cold, probabilistic accuracy.

no real diversity
no real surprise

so here is what i think is coming: the people who still create without AI.. who write code from scratch, paint without a prompt, draw with their own hand.. create music the old fashioned way.. they’ll be the new wealthy.. the ones who can afford to take their time.. the ones lucky enough not to rush... because creation need time, it needs the ups and donws.. and taking your time is what being human is really about.. and If AI takes that away from us, we will be poor even if we have all the money in the world