The other day, I attended a training forum where the speaker said something that stuck with me. He said that a good majority of us (more than 90%) will die having taken more out of this earth than we will have added. This is  something that requires deeper thought in the context of our relationships, our ecosystems and the way we work, but today I…
Read MoreA special tribute to the lady I call “Mom”. She has the misfortune of being both my mother and my best friend 🙂 My mom is so wise. Whenever I call her, she will tell me the truth that I NEED, and not want I WANT to hear. She’s the calm, steady presence in my life. She is my daughter’s super fun grandma. She’s a…
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This article by Kachwanya got me thinking. The pressure to report high revenue / profit figures makes most start ups exaggerate the figures to appear successful, raising credibility issues on the entrepreneur and the publication that runs the story. My comment on that post was to the affect that instead of asking journalists to start measuring success differently, maybe start ups need to redefine their success, and…
Read MoreIt is that time of the year when our education system releases thousands of young graduates, and the “other system”( employers) starts the search for brilliant young minds to join their teams. Find below a couple of job opportunities to consider, and scholarship programs if you are interested in further study. 1. Standard Chartered Bank’s Fast Track Program:Â Standard Chartered Bank is looking for young graduates…
Read MoreReading this blew my mind and inspired me in equal measure. It is a pity Anna Quindlen never got to read this commencement address because of conservative students who protested her liberal views and writings. She nevertheless mailed the address to a few students and it became wildly popular, giving rise to her first book, “A Short Guide To A Happy Life” Anna Quindlen’s Commencement…
Read MoreI love simple solutions to environmental problems because I believe ideas are only sustainable if they respect existing ecosystems. While surfing the web, I came across the idea of composting toilets, which are basically toilets that allow you to make manure out of human waste. The beauty of these toilets is that they are easy to set up and anyone can operate them. This is…
Read MoreTransCentury Limited announced that its profit this year is expected to be more than 25% lower than last year’s profit. See the notice here. This post analyses the notice paragraph by paragraph in ordinary English. 🙂 As required by the Capital Markets Authority and the Nairobi Securities Exchange regulations, TransCentury Limited (“TransCentury” or “Group”) would like to announce that the projected profit for the Group…
Read MoreA couple years into the business, the 46-year-old realised that aside from quality and pricing, the main challenges posed by imports was the discrepancy between the size of women in different parts of the world. “I am a large in Asia and in Kenya I am a small. So (by importing from Asia) we couldn’t cater to anything beyond a size 14 which is average…
Read MoreThis video was shared at a session I was in last week, I found it interesting and thought to share.
Read MoreThis morning, Ciiku tweeted about thin privilege (fat discrimination), and it got me smiling. See we have been talking about privilege A LOT on the Kenyan social media scene. The other day I was in a discussion that was about the value of “work hard platitudes” that most of us dispense when talking to young “under-privileged” people. I got the sense that since the system…
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