Mine - Al Kags — Strategist, Social Entrepreneur, Writer

October 25, 2022

Nostalgia, technology and other thoughts

Today, I listened to my friend David Sasaki talk on his substack about technology and nostalgia. He sent me down a nostalgic path of memories of how I engaged with media and technology from my youth and the impact that had on me. For the ...

September 28, 2022

Quiet Quitting is the worst move for a growing professional

Quiet Quitting is not a new phenomenon. For generations, there have been professionals who have chosen to do no more than is required of them at their jobs and to only work the hours stipulated in their contract. They leave promptly at 5 pm and ...

June 24, 2021

These are ways to make people count

A couple of weeks ago, I wrote here about Mama Furaha, a woman that I met that does not officially exist and how many people don't count. I have so many more stories of real people and I will be telling you about them. One ...

June 14, 2020

Living Memories: I married a paramount chief when I was a teenager.

I am passionate about learning from the past and I have spent years talking to people who were alive in the 1930s, 1940s and 1950s. I just wanted to know how ordinary people lived in those extraordinary times. I wrote a book called Living Memories ...

May 29, 2020

Daddy, I’m bleeding!

Short story by Al Kags The music was playing on the radio and Musevo was happy when the presenter wasn't talking. These young fellows and their tiktok kid of language, "it's just noise." The reggae was smooth and the road was straight. He had just passed ...

May 27, 2020

No more COVID-19 news, please. I need to stay sane.

I am tired of hearing about COVID-19. The thing is, while I readily accept that this pandemic is here and that it is likely to be here for a while, I find that reading about it demobilises me to helpless paralysis. I find that after ...

March 28, 2020

A new normal is in the offing: are we ready?

Originally published in The Standard, March 27, 2020 As the world continues to combat the novel Coronavirus, Covid-19, it is becoming clear that a new way of life is in the making. As whole populations are stuck at home, having to discover new ways of working ...

October 21, 2019

I came this close to dying… now I must live.

About a month ago, I came this close to dying. I had been away in Italy on some family business, when I found that I was getting weaker by the day, my mouth was getting extra dry despite the copious amounts of water I was ...

June 30, 2019

My experience searching for a Personal Assistant and other stories

Over the past few months, I have been on an employment spree of sorts. At the Open Institute, we had a number of positions that opened up and at a personal level I have also been hoping to find a Personal Assistant (or Executive Assistant ...

June 25, 2019

Writing and the constraints of time

Lately, I have been reading the legendary philanthropist, Bill Gate's personal blog, which is called Gates Notes. How is he writing so often? He is so prolific in talking about his work and experiences and I wonder where he finds the time - considering the ...

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