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The Grand irony of American Politics and its apparent fight for Freedom. The winner I see out of all of this is China- America can finally take a break from taking shots at them for doing the “same” thing so blatantly. Admittedly my ini…

Collection
Field Notes
Date
June 10, 2013
Reading time
2 min read

In today’s world, web developers have it all: money, perks, freedom, respect. But is there value in what we do?

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Commonplace
Date
June 10, 2013
Reading time
1 min read

Whether ecommerce in Nigera, price comparison in South Africa or mobile advertising in Tanzania, African startups are changing the continent.

Collection
Commonplace
Date
June 9, 2013
Reading time
1 min read

Insightful article about the dynamics of modern day media and corporate marketing - although that’s not what the article talks about directly (that would have been awfully boring to read, but nonetheless the article ends on /alludes to…

Collection
Field Notes
Date
May 24, 2013
Reading time
1 min read

Originally created by CERN in 1992, the world’s first website invokes a time long past when pages were just plain text on a white background. There are no advertisements, no pictures, and certainly no video. It’s an entirely utilitarian…

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Field Notes
Date
May 3, 2013
Reading time
1 min read

Link preserved from Fiifi’s public Tumblr archive.

Collection
Commonplace
Date
March 30, 2013
Reading time
1 min read

Earlier this year, I wrote about the prospect of Michael’s Dell’s plans to buyback Dell shares and turn it around ( here ). Am sure the words swirling in Michael Dell’s mind nowadays is: “Now ain’t that a b*tch”. Until a few weeks ago,…

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Journal
Date
March 26, 2013
Reading time
2 min read

Would have dozed off and skipped English classes a lot in High School had it not being for the gripping stories of Chinua Achebe (1930-2013). Even though his books were often read in the monotonous voice of my English teacher, the plots…

Collection
Journal
Date
March 23, 2013
Reading time
1 min read

Its great to see some republicans have a change of heart towards gay rights, but in light of the political philosophy of democracy its fucked up to know why there are changing. The question I’ve since pondered about since this(and previ…

Collection
Commonplace
Date
March 18, 2013
Reading time
2 min read

Link preserved from Fiifi’s public Tumblr archive.

Collection
Commonplace
Date
February 27, 2013
Reading time
1 min read

I admire their efforts but for some, I question the economics of their frugality. If they are not doing much philanthropy work with their money, isn’t it a waste of capital resources to have excess money hoarded away? If you are not don…

Collection
Commonplace
Date
January 17, 2013
Reading time
1 min read

This is an old article I came across via fb. What took me aback reading this article was the fact that the Author- Jimmy Carter rescinded his position in his church to stand for equality, criticizing religion as an outmoded accessory re…

Collection
Commonplace
Date
January 17, 2013
Reading time
1 min read

This is an old article I came across via fb. What took me aback reading this article was the fact that the Author- Jimmy Carter rescinded his position in his church to stand for equality, criticizing religion as an outmoded accessory re…

Collection
Commonplace
Date
January 17, 2013
Reading time
1 min read

When I first heard about the impeding deal, I thought to myself- there is no way any Private Equity firm can pull this LBO off smoothly (And I’m not talking liquidity or credit). This isn’t another manufacturing company that just makes…

Collection
Field Notes
Date
January 17, 2013
Reading time
1 min read

Great ideas are sometimes born out of not so great moments: snapchatme : My co-founder Bobby and I met at Stanford in 2009. I was a freshman studying Product Design and Bobby was a junior working on his B.S. in Mathematical and Computat…

Collection
Commonplace
Date
December 17, 2012
Reading time
1 min read