Category: Learning
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Finding flow in Accra
A few weeks of new routines, work, and noticing how life and focus shape each other
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Turning thirty
I’m editing this paragraph now from a flight from Accra to Addis Ababa, a week before my 30th birthday, heading home for yet another wedding. There is something unintentionally poetic about writing this essay in transit, suspended between time zones, between decades, between who I’ve been and whoever I’m becoming next.
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Time for some structured learning
Even though I say I don’t use anything I learned in university directly, it’s a false statement. I learned a lot of things that can’t be quantified – making friends, working in groups, managing deadlines, exposure to new industries, and a lot of unique courses that I’m not using in my work but have added…
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Getting Projects Creatively Under Way
Getting Things Done. Every day of our lives, we’re trying to get shit done and keep a tab on the countless projects we start and dream of starting. Personal and professional to-do lists, catching up on world news, creating content for LinkedIn, Twitter, IG, Clubhouse, Tiktok, etc., etc., dreaming new projects; the list is endless.…
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Why Is Self-Education So Hard?
When we talk about self-education, we can’t miss the impressive genius, Leonardo Da Vinci. A master artist, anatomist, engineer, scientist, biologist, and experimenter. He never received formal education beyond basic reading, writing, and arithmetic, but continued to learn much more himself. Imagine self-education in the late 1400s. No on-demand courses. No Google. No access to…