Work People As entrepreneurs start and grow businesses, they are dependent on talented and skilful people and teams.
Work Featured Cloud, Connecting, Coffee and Collaboration, Ecosystems Connecting, ‘getting your brain picked’, collaborating and ecosystem building have a common thread: they require building trust. This is necessarily hard and takes time. Hard because it’s all about people.
Work Featured Focus: Cloud, Data and Complex Problems I needed to focus. Decided on Cloud, Data + Complex Problems
Work Featured Learning by doing, Curiosity did not kill the cat (+ a Career update) A brief career update as well as areas I'm exploring next.
Work Normalizing the entrepreneurial story Normalizing the entrepreneurship: worth it but very very very hard, and not the youth employment panacea that African governments (and some DFIs make it out to be)
Work Reflections from my last ~20 years in tech: part 3 This is the final part of a collection of memories, thoughts and lessons from my last two (!) decades in technology, in mostly chronological order. I thought I'd get this done in the course of 2018 but it wasn't to be.
Work Reflections from my last ~20 years in tech: part 2 This is the second part of a collection of memories, thoughts and lessons from my last two (!) decades in technology, in mostly chronological order. I thought I'd get this done in the course of 2018 but it wasn't to be.
Work Reflections from my last ~20 years in tech: part 1 This is the first part of a collection of memories, thoughts and lessons from my last two (!) decades in technology, in mostly chronological order. I thought I'd get this done in the course of 2018 but it wasn't to be.
Work Now that it's marathon season... (it's always marathon season) Lessons I continue to learn from regular running and keeping fit in general, and how these relate to my entrepreneurship journey.
Work Collaboration (Hard vs Soft) Collaboration is HARD WORK. Building trusted relationships both within and outside of an organization is sheer effort. It doesn’t always work out, and takes lots of patience, time and investment.
