Pilgrim on this Terrestrial Ball
Pilgrim on this Terrestrial Ball
So, you’ve taken the leap. You’re a small business owner! That’s HUGE. You’re building something from the ground up, pouring your heart and soul (and probably a lot of savings/debt) into it. Running a small business is like juggling three watermelons while riding a unicycle—challenging,…
Have you ever stumbled upon a passage in the Bible that just made you scratch your head? I recently found myself pondering a curious detail in the book of Judges. Specifically, Judges 3 tells us that after leading the Israelites into the Promised Land, God…
I recently heard an incredible story that stuck with me. There’s a public primary school near my home in Nairobi, and for years, it was considered one of the worst. It served the poorest families, and anyone who could afford it sent their kids elsewhere….
Have you been noticing WhatsApp status updates popping up from people you don’t recognize? You’re not alone. WhatsApp recently introduced a new feature called ‘status mentions,’ designed to let users tag contacts in their status updates. The idea is to alert specific people to your…
Imagine someone buys a brand-new car battery, and six months later, it’s dead as a doornail. Naturally, they might jump to the conclusion that they got ripped off, that the battery was a counterfeit. But here’s the thing: blaming it on a “fake” battery right…
One of the projects I did in 2020 involved transitioning a small institution’s kitchen from biomass (like firewood) to Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG). The initial calculations seemed promising. Switching to LPG would only increase energy costs by a modest 5%, while offering significant benefits: reduced…
If you’re planning to install a solar PV system, you’ll need several components, including batteries, a charge controller, an inverter, and solar PV modules. Determining the quantities and sizes of these components can be challenging, but it can be done using our solar PV sizing…
One of the most humbling moments in life is to have a business that is dying, and there is nothing you can do about it. You try all possible interventions but nothing happens. You restructure the business, but nada. Everything goes south. No one ever…
One of the challenges I face with farming is that after creating a lot of value (such as starting with barren land and ending up with coffee beans), I cannot capture the full value involved when someone buys the ground coffee at the retail shop….
If you have a website in Kenya, you probably use a .ke domain name such as .co.ke, .or.ke, .sc.ke, and others. These are the most popular domain name extensions used by Kenyans, although .com and .org are two other popular domain extensions. There are tens…