Re-thinking Twitter, or better put, Signal vs Noise

by oneafrikan on September 18, 2013

5 min time allocation for this post…. Twitter has become too noisy for me. Because I live in startup and tech land, the insane number of meaningless tweets I was thumbing through whenever I used twitter was becoming more and (…)

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You get 5 types of people

by oneafrikan on September 17, 2013

I was listening to a talk recently where the speaker talked about the 5 types of people. I’ve understood this intuitively, but for the first time I’d heard it explained in a bite sized, easy to understand way. Basically, the (…)

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How to build a career

by oneafrikan on August 30, 2013

I’ve given myself 20 mins to write this, so here goes… Last week I had another person ask me how they could earn more money. My answer was that you generally have to earn it. A week or two before (…)

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I want to share an addiction with you

by oneafrikan on August 6, 2013

Pascal has encouraged me to write more about what’s going on. So today I’m going to talk about an addiction I have. When things were really tough a few years ago, and to manage my personal cashflow to as low (…)

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What I learnt about Kenya

by oneafrikan on July 11, 2013

I was fortunate enough to travel to Kenya last week, for the first Tech4Africa in East Africa, and then a trip to the Masai Mara afterwards for some much needed downtime. My trip was by no means extensive, and my (…)

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Opening a store in Colchester

by oneafrikan on June 24, 2013

This an email sent to the team t say thanks for all the hard work in opening our new store in Colchester: Team, Last week everyone put in a lot of effort to get the store live, and then on (…)

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This is what a day from hell looks like, and this is what a good team does…

by oneafrikan on June 6, 2013

Lookin’ for the day Hard as it seems This ain’t no damn dream Gotta know what I mean It’s team against team Catch the light beam So I pray I pray everyday – Public Enemy So the week has been (…)

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