Pilgrim on this Terrestrial Ball
Pilgrim on this Terrestrial Ball
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…
By jacob
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….
By jacob
After almost ten years in operation, one of the most funded startups in Kenya – Sendy – recently closed shop. This comes after Sendy ran out of funds. Sounds weird? Yes, the company that was valued at over KShs 10 billion late last year ran…
By jacob
One of the most frustrating things that people come across online is someone selling goods or services online and working hard to market them but does not openly display the prices of their goods or service. Instead, one is supposed to write them a message…
By jacob
Tech product engineers consider themselves to be the geniuses of the 21st century. They have disrupted the world with both hardware and cutting-edge software, and are still working on some cool stuff that you probably have not heard about. Programmers claim that they rule the…
By jacob
One of the most astounding findings I recently came across is the study of the effects of mobile phones on the Kerala fishing market in India. The research by Robert Jensen is best summarized by the figure below which shows how mobile phones led to…
By jacob