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Chapter 30: IT varsity
When I was in my final year of university, I decided to start applying for jobs in the software development space. I prepared my CV and began sending it out to companies. In those days, there was no s...
Chapter 29: AirBnB Almost Never
Did you know that Airbnb almost failed as a company? Yes, at one point, they were making just $200 a week – just about enough to cover a week’s expenses. They had a great idea, but it seem...
Chapter 28: Poverty To Hollywood Without Saying A Word
Let’s revisit the story of Kaby Lame, mentioned earlier in this book, but this time analyzing his success through the lens of the 6 Power Skills. Starting on TikTok, as in any content creation p...
Chapter 27: Happy In A Pile Of Dung
Once upon a time, there was a bird that needed to fly south for the winter, but it procrastinated until it was very late into the cold season. Eventually it decided to start its migration, and after s...
Chapter 26: I Want More!
At this point, you’re probably saying to yourself, “I wish I had more information on each of these six skills. I wish that the author would have gone into more details about them.” If you are, t...
Chapter 25: The Three Rings
You might be wondering: there’s something missing here: the author not mention technology skills at all. Are tech skills not important? Tech skills are extremely important, but do not form a part of t...
Chapter 24: Communication
There was once a king who dreamt that all his teeth fell off. He was perturbed by this dream, and the next day, he called his senior advisor and related the dream to him, asking him to provide an inte...
Chapter 23: Collaboration
Investors say that the ideal number of people to found a new business is two: one founder should be the technical one, the one with product knowledge, while the other should be the business brain, the...
Chapter 22: Creativity
“We are educating children out of their creative capacities.” ~ Ken Robinson. My team loves Post-it notes. Come to our office, and you’ll see Post-it notes on pretty much every wall. That is how...
Chapter 21: Complex Problem Solving
I can be cruel to my team sometimes. Once I hired an intern, and on her first day at work, I sent her a text message with a link to two videos, with a simple instruction: edit these for TikTok, add su...