Self learning, versus learning in school; an introduction

I’m an economist, a physicist, among other things. I write so, because i did those subjects in my o levels. Before economics was removed from the syllabus of high schools. Am good at understanding fiscal and monetary policy, especially of Kenya. Apart from these taught subjects, there are numerous once that i’ve taught myself. I find it easy to learn by experimenting on my oWn given the resources i.e. Time among other things. Am good at graphic design with corel and adobe suits and work well with dreamweaver, am excellent, given my level at playing around with linux boxes especially debian based ones. Not long ago i did a wvdial hack for a s40 phone, In the process i got a superb understanding of deamons. I wanted this space to be on gnu/linux only but i soon discovered i’ve alot of interests. For example agribusiness. I’ll soon write about mY experiences and thoughts on the kenyan horticultural industry. Having a deep interest in computers led me to my first hack, in 1999 at the local agricultural society of kenya show, held at eldoret the division head of uasin gishu district. The district has now been split into 3. I was at a Telkom Kenya stand where a number of PCs were displayed, connected and functioning. While this was my first encounter physicaly, i was no beginner. I had read alot about the gui of windows 98 and 95, so working around the machine wasn’t hard. However an attendant thought i was taking it too far navigating around the thing, he therefore acted wisely in his own measure and took away all the mice on the PCs available in order to curtail my freedom. What happened next was magical and left the guy mouth agape.No sooner had he turned, than i furiously started punching at the keyboard, remembering all the shortcuts i’d read about. In a few minutes i had found my way, in a way that i now knew how but my now puplexed enemy couldn’t figure out. The only way to victory for him was throwing me out, which he promptly did. To be cont.

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New Ventures; Starting out on the contribution of content in the Kenyan Web Space

Over the past week I’ve been thinking about my after campus life. I end my semester in a week or so with my final presentation of my project work, which is a paper touching on the sustainability of irrigation on Lake Naivasha.

As a result of the above fact, am nervous and keep going through ideas and thoughts on my head as to what will happen. What I’ll do among other simple things. I know for certain that I’ll enjoy the technology field especially computer software and internet, so it comes naturally, a need for a career like that. I have looked at the Kenyan scene and have been impressed by the amount of ingeniousness that’s showing all over like iHub Nairobi, Skunkworks, 1% Nairobi, TEDex Kibera to mention a few of the fancinating stuff in my mind. Personalities admired are Hash of Whiteafrican whom I’d love to greet by a hand shake and Terryanne of CNBC & grain of masala who kinda gives the slightest hint of her understanding of tech matters in her reports, and I take that as a common yuppie’s understanding. That reps the segment of people who want things workings to replace manual stuff etc like the love of my geek life PALM PRE, yes I saw the intro and demos on CES Las Vegas and it was the esh! The WebOS genged the tech, style and looks into me. I like specialization and knowing that a company out there is thinking mobile and getting results shows how there’s wisdom in the magic of doing what you do best. I learnt of the subject in my high school economics class, however I still don’t understand why countries and companies would want and do go into making everything for everyone. Samsung and Sony are you there? Ipod was good, and Iphone is not African. Let me tell you African i.e. Kenyan; there exists no stores but Bata and Safaricon so app stores should change the way they work around here. Am the local guide and I want you to get the store reading kinda like ‘kwa Jimmie’ so that social coordinates are discoverable easy, onces the location is done, look at the currency, try using ‘bobs’ and ‘finjes’ them ‘msee wa kawa’ can get the jargon and feel the ‘shoppo’ finally ensure that product testing is done with the barber, bicycle taxi man, butcherman and ‘mboch’ like Safaricon’s credit advance service. This lower segment offers huge profit margins like 10% for the above mentioned example. Remember if it works in Africa it will work in the world as Whiteafrican said and am adding that if the ‘Kawa person gets it and thinks it is worthy the you got a gold mine’

Am noting trends from the radio and tv that are massively going local as a result can only afford to by second hand soaps from second hand retailers abroad, quite good as it shows that more investment are staying here in Kenya. So logically as the blah blah of the street gets local eg soccer, lottery, news, jokes, then advertising should follow because its one of the items that pays for free stuff on the net. And that where online entrepreneurship gets its juice. Product offering whether it’s done by you or you are just a middle man. Getting textbooks online should be good business since Amazon isn’t here, wait, PayPal also isn’t here so let’s just get the above niche a means of purchasing online and maybe G4S will provide courier services for the ‘kidogo’ economy. They’ll be looking at the volume. Going back to the intro of this post; I’m looking into how Tawee! Is contributing to the Kenyan content on the web so that it’s not judged.

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