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Imagine the future

Imagine this: you wake up in the morning and go brush your teeth. As you do, you are scrolling through the latest news in social media and news. You sit to take your morning pee and your loo analyses it to note that you have ...

The bespoke business: why they should succeed

bespoke/bɪˈspəʊk/ . adjectiveBRITISH adjective: bespokemade for a particular customer or user. "a bespoke suit" Let me tell you something about me. I am a decidedly big bespoke customer. I like all of my services to be tailor-made to me. I will not for example go to ...

2019 – What’s new – Part II

I started this conversation last week and as I mentioned to you, too many thoughts are banging about my mind for me to be sensible. Perhaps as they become clearer, I will write about them. Two things are clear to me today. First, in 2019, ...

2019. What’s new?

The year is 2019 and I have taken a long vacation - the longest in a while. I am just getting back to work and life today and I have many thoughts that are banging about my head - with no specific thread. I was ...

Champions for Change: Orienting me to my mission

The past couple weeks have been important weeks for me. It just so happens that November 2018 is one of my busiest months and I have felt more than a little overwhelmed in the past few days than most days - so much so that ...

I make my interns and mentees wash cars – here’s why.

(Featured image, courtesy Kwalimwar) As a leader in my organisation - well, as a leader in general, I am passionate about mentorship and passing on what I know to others in generations that follow mine. I think it is tragic that so many people, older than ...

Why I want to be a better writer.

I was born to be a writer. To see the world in pure silence, to feel its rhythms and its impulses and to figure out how to express that on paper. On most days, when I am being successful as a writer, I stand in ...

SMART TOILET? GOD, NO.

Hello. I am all for gadgets - everyone knows I am crazy about getting the latest of everything. I never thought I might draw the line somewhere but HERE I draw the line. Smart Toilets? No, sir. Suddenly google knows when I take a dump and ...

Poetry: I live in Silence. 

I live in Silence. A space so vast that even winds tire to tred, a consciousness so deep that light fears to explore, where my scream is swallowed in the buzz of a crowd of the ever present, ever absent, jostling, hustling, pushing for elusive bread with the pain of exertion ...