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As a person, I am sure there are times you sit down and evaluate your life, or not. It reaches a point in our lives where we make a deliberate decision to make a difference in the way that we live. For example, there are days I decide I will code and get better at it because I like knowing things and doing them well. There are this other times, especially after attending an event or just meetup I fell so pressured. I even make a schedule on what I will learn and when. Sometimes you feel so motivated to learn what the speaker was talking about. Truth is most of the time we are determined to do things or even change our lives because of what we heard or saw someone do.   Other peoples’ success or failures do influence us. According to Rob Henderson from Psychology Today , “Research shows we do not have as much control over our thoughts and behaviour as we think. We take cues from our environment, especially other people, on how to act.” Most of us deny this and tel...

I wish I could always wake up to the view of the sunrise from my window every morning. I recall when was in high school, I would do my duties in a hurry; not to catch some sleep, like most people would do. I used to rush not to miss the beautiful, breathtaking view of the sun as it rose. I think it is one of the very few things I miss from high school.  I dare say it made my life in high school interesting. I used to enjoy those moments very much. That was part of self-care routine in high school. I remember a time during the national examinations period, we could see the sunrise from where I did my duty. The beautiful colors blended together.  The shades of orange and red, stretched across the sky. God is truly an artist! I believe this was the beginning of my love for nature.it also gave me the desire to do photography. Every time saw it I wished I had a camera to capture the moment and save it for one of the difficult times in high school. Joining a school in Nyeri,...

Life in tech has been a rollercoaster of ups and downs. As a kid, all I wanted was to be a police officer. Then along came the 2007/08 post-election violence. I wouldn't become an officer. An interest in cardiology promptly followed but was nipped by our beloved stringent Matiangi.  Then it hit me, if the million Hollywood movies I'd watched had taught me anything, is tech and hackers are cool. Enrolling for a bachelor's degree in computer science definitely was the epitome of my life this far. I had these ginormous expectations based on concrete evidence from the movies where they'd go all typy typy and yell I'm in. I even get goosebumps thinking about it. Nothing could get me off my perch…enter discrete mathematics. As the proud Kenyan I am, I kept moaning and ranting 'saa hii itanisadia aje'. Fast forward to a semester later and all they'd taught us wasn't even a modicum of what I wanted to learn. So I turned to the G.O.A.T of substitute tea...

#1:Tech chronicles Have you ever attended a tech event and felt wasted? The food and the freebies aside.   Well, I have. Multiple times. I remember in first year, when I was still not sure what I wanted to do In tech, I attended an event in Nairobi. I was learning android at the time and so the event seemed like a good idea. It would also be a road trip; from Nyeri all the way   to the big city of lights as my friend would say. We were paying for the event mind you, so it was totally a big deal. I didn’t feel the pinch, hoodies were part of the freebies. I mean, which tech event do you attend and get hoodies? I thought the hardest part was to convince my dad to pay for me. Turns out it wasn’t. He willingly sent me the money . I was very excited. It was an opportunity to learn more about android. An opportunity   to start my successful   career in tech, I thought. We arrived at ihub. The rooms were well appointed and very comfortable. I remember the floors...