zakum1

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by zakum1 1y ago
Corruption in the USA is pretty bad. People here just excuse it away easily.
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by zakum1 1y ago
There is no role for the USA in multi-lateral organizations - the USA has made this clear for decades now - it should withdraw from all of them and let the rest of the world get on with creating a world that is based on the dignity of all p
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Leadership lessons that shone bright in lockdown(james-nicolson-za.medium.com)
1 points by zakum1 5y ago|0 comments
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Open Source Model Makes Big Corporations Innovative(james-nicolson-za.medium.com)
2 points by zakum1 5y ago|0 comments
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by zakum1 6y ago
Sub-Saharan Africa is deeply humanistic, in a way that is close to unfathomable to Westeners. Scaling or "going viral" requires painstaking building of human connection. Models that have worked elsewhere don't necessarily wor
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by zakum1 6y ago
The honesty and bravery of the speech is remarkable - that a leader can tell those he leads painful and difficult truths - rather than tell them merely what will appease them. Everyday we see evidence of how easy it is to appeal to base and
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by zakum1 7y ago
I don’t think that the “nerd porn” is as negative as the writer believes. If we compare FOSS to proprietary enterprise software we see how little regard proprietary vendors often pay to what engineers need at the expense of adding check-lis
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by zakum1 7y ago
South Africa has a proportional representation system for similar reasons - to recognise plurality. It has some significant downsides. It weakens the ties between a representative and a specific district / constituency. In exchange it
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Applying a Decentralised Model to Banking(blog.iouze.com)
2 points by zakum1 7y ago|0 comments
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by zakum1 7y ago
Read (and converse) voraciously and follow the directions it may lead you... Into art, philosophy, psychology, business, politics, literature. This will help you to find things you love, it will also give you insight into adjacent topics t
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by zakum1 7y ago
They are called a “smallish lender” - their balance sheet is $90 billion. We are truly in an age of mega systemic banking risk.
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The truth about Chernobyl. I saw it with my own eyes(theguardian.com)
3 points by zakum1 7y ago|0 comments
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by zakum1 7y ago
It is staggering to hear arguments justifying occupied land that has absolutely no connection to the uk. It shows how poorly the west still understands the evil of colonialism. Regardless of the ancestry of the people living in any territor
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The Next Wave of Internet IPOs Has Arrived and It’s in Emerging Markets(linkedin.com)
1 points by zakum1 7y ago|0 comments
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A blockchain network to support the growth of small businesses in South Africa(medium.com)
2 points by zakum1 7y ago|0 comments
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by zakum1 7y ago
What Africa needs are institutions and infrastructure that can buy and refine gold and thereby ensure that the benefits of our resources accrue to the countries (and their people) from where they originate. The pirate miners are not necessa
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The World Happiness Report – Finland Again Is the Happiest Country in the World(worldhappiness.report)
2 points by zakum1 8y ago|0 comments
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Don’t look now: why you should be worried about machines reading your emotions(theguardian.com)
1 points by zakum1 8y ago|0 comments
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by zakum1 8y ago
Think about commercial goals, not just technical goals. What will make us successful as a business? What do our clients need? Have answers rather than questions. Many posters pointed out that it is good to provide options as potential solut
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Analysis of economic mobility around the world [pdf](openknowledge.worldbank.org)
2 points by zakum1 8y ago|0 comments
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Small Is the Human Scale(medium.com)
1 points by zakum1 8y ago|0 comments
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Truth? What Is That?(medium.com)
1 points by zakum1 8y ago|0 comments
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Bill Gates tweeted out a chart and sparked a huge debate about global poverty(vox.com)
9 points by zakum1 8y ago|0 comments
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Startup is helping farmers run their business(youtube.com)
1 points by zakum1 8y ago|0 comments
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Blockchain for real business(medium.com)
1 points by zakum1 8y ago|0 comments
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Startup Ideas: Eliminate Human Trafficking [pdf](uschamber.com)
2 points by zakum1 8y ago|0 comments
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Biggest tech startup deals in Africa in 2018(ventureburn.com)
1 points by zakum1 8y ago|0 comments
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The Murky Ethics of the Ugly-Produce Business(theatlantic.com)
1 points by zakum1 8y ago|0 comments
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Time for Happiness(hbr.org)
1 points by zakum1 8y ago|0 comments
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Don’t Throw Your Day Job to Follow Your Dreams(aeon.co)
5 points by zakum1 8y ago|1 comments

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