Most people now probably won’t remember but there was a time when airline tickets were real things. They were solid tangible pieces of paper that were printed on a shiny green paper watermarked with the IATA logo. When you had a plane ticket it actually felt like you had something valuable. I clutched such a …
PS names have been changed. It wasn’t a great landing. It was so hard that water started leaking out of the bathroom in the rear of the ancient Fokker 100 that LAM (Lineas Areas De Mozambique) operated on it’s route between Jo’burg and Maputo. I was a twenty year old still sporting long hair (in …
The most awesome thing about working in a tech space? It’s being able to understand TV shows that have awesome tech in them. I kid you not, it makes you feel like a guru (maybe even scares you a bit) when you can understand how someone “hacked” into a mainframe (or like Joe in the …
It’s a common belief that great accomplishments require great ambition. What we frequently forget however is that often ambition is a fragile element sometimes needing motivation, guidance, advice, mature support and a moral compass (perhaps just to stop the hackers amongst us from becoming the next Gary McKinnon!). In my experience, these 5 factors all …