Thinking Aloud
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On Being a Specialist in a World of Generalists…
Photo by Oliver Roos on Unsplash — One of the enduring memories of the past twenty years and some of work is getting hauled into my Supervisor’s office for a career chat. At the time I was twenty three, fresh off a year of national service , quite literally in the middle of nowhere, and two weeks into my first proper job.… Continue reading
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On the Tyranny of Measures
Image Source: Photo by Austin Distel on Unsplash | Previously published on Substack One of the (admittedly dubious) benefits of having worked for the better part of twenty years in one industry is that my work has now taken in arguably the two largest companies in my industry. At the first one, I was a green-around-the-ears graduate engineer, fresh out… Continue reading
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Thinking About Thinking
Photo by jaikishan patel on Unsplash | Previously published on Substack An excess of 6,000 thoughts wend their way each day through the average individual’s mind, just under one every 10 seconds by my approximation if we assume the average– if he/she exists – is otherwise asleep for eight hours. By comparison, we breathe about 20,000 times a day and our hearts beat over… Continue reading
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Becoming Prodigal – An Origin Story of Sorts
Image Source: Jon Tyson on Unsplash — I trace the beginnings of my faith journey to Easter of 1992, the enduring image of the day being standing alongside forty or so other people at the front of the bare, minimally decorated Assembly Hall of the College of Education Ekiadolor. I was there because I had been dragged there by my… Continue reading
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Beginning Again… Again…
For the umpteenth time, I am beginning again here, here being the internet and writing. It seems to be a bug that bites every few years, loosely triggered I suspect by major life changes. The very first time, it was a move from full time work in Nigeria to full time study in Newcastle. On… Continue reading