Email Etiquette, Poverty, Rwanda, Reading & Writing: This Week’s Interesting Reads
The following articles have stood out for me in the last couple of weeks and I thought to share. Enjoy, and share your reads in the comments section.
Reply to All: This Wall Street Journal article discusses this and gives options that could save you, should you accidentally reply to all to a work email. I especially loved the graphic below. Have you found yourself in an email chain that is totally irrelevant to you? How did you handle it? Have you ever called out people for misusing the button, or are you like the rest of us who bear the pain silently, and “shout” about it on social media? Many thanks to Juuchini for this article.
“Reply To All” Avalanche
Why I fell in love with books. I hadn’t read a book by an African author for years, until a couple of months back when I read Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. The writer of this article expresses how I felt when I read it.
Are the poor to blame for their poverty, or does government policy sometimes condemn the poor to poverty at no fault of their own? This was an interesting read for me, because I worry about our policies as a country, and the long term effect in poverty reduction. We seem to be following the us model which over-taxes the middle class and the poor, while protecting the very rich from taxation. Food for thought.
The global elite’s favourite strongman: We all love to praise Rwanda and their economic progress and order is something to marvel at. However, whenever I read such an article or discuss basic democratic freedoms in Rwanda, I am left to wonder if they’re paying too high a price for the economic progress. Is Kagame’s benevolent dictatorship sustainable, in a country where he not only has minority support, but he has deeply involved himself in atrocities in the Congo, meaning international support is waning too?
Finally, my desire is to write every day, but somehow I go for even months without writing (this blog is testament to that). I am attempting a 30-day daily writing challenge on this blog, and will need you to hold me accountable. I am using this guide by Leo of Zen Habits.
Enjoy the reads, and share your interesting reads of the week in the comments section.
