The Professor who Cried

How’s this: the stats say that almost half of the people who see this piece of writing will be engaged for about 15 seconds, and then leave. Furthermore, only about 10-20% of people will read to the end. If you prefer videos, the stats aren’t any better! What’s the moral of the story? If I...

Busy Only Fits with Meaningful

The state of busyness is not necessarily an accomplishment. Why are we sometimes caught up with the idea that we should be (or seem to be) so busy? Are we afraid that people might perceive us as being lazy? Or is it that we want people to know that what we are busy with, is...

Volatility requires generosity

I won a car once. We still drive the car (we call her Ina) today. We knew a bunch of cool guys who were nominated for a music award (the good old days of MK, can you remember?) and we voted for them to win the award. At the end of the evening, they won...

Mapitsi

After my years in res at university, I spent a year staying with a bunch of crazy friends in, what we called, Intentional Living. We were a group of people who stayed in a few houses in Pretoria, and our mission was to be intentional about the way we were living together. Every person staying...