I never liked that Upwork platform. So I became my own Upwork. A freelancer platform of one. How? I kept making 'noise' online. So loud that fine people with money started paying attention.

If a village boy can pull this off; someone who attended chronically underfunded schools…

Hebu fikiria upo kwenye hii stage:

- Huna wasiwasi juu ya wapi na namna gani utapata mteja, (au kazi).

- Unapata meseji (qualified leads) 4-9 kwa wiki za watu ambao wako interested kufanya kazi nawewe.

- Uko vizuri kwenye kushawishi mkikutana au on calls na prospect.

- Watu…

True. Haijalishi wewe ni nani, when it comes to winning the digital economy, MUDA na ule mjumuiko wa maudhui uliyopost over the the time is what matters. Mtu mwenye 400 pieces of quality content in a year si sawa na aliyejaribu two months akapotea.

Unatafuta kazi, au kazi zinakutafuta? Tengeneza jina lenye hadhi mtandaoni (siyo just followers) ili usahau kuhusu mambo ya CV, Interview na kujitolea. Kazi zinakuja straight into your Inbox.

Wabongo tunaongea Kiswahili, Wakenya wanapiga hela kupitia Kiswahili. Kwenye hii list ya Upwork kuna Watanzania wanne tu, Wakenya 12. Shida iko wapi?

upwork.com/hire/english-t…

Writing is the ultimate skill. Master it and you can bend perceptions.

Last I checked,

Controlling perceptions = winning.

Overnight success takes a decade of hard work.

If you are in your 9th year of being pathologically dedicated to the mission, one night in the coming year you'll wake up successful.

Overnight success!

It is in every Tanzanian founder's dream to remain a startup.

A baby. Forever adored.

The narrative is just too sweet to let it go and become a grown-up business.

Much better from The Economist from Nicholas Bloom, who gets bonus marks for mentioning J Schumpeter. (The Austrians actually understood innovation). But everyone misses one thing. WFH may be principally good because it reduces the time people spend in the productivity sink which…

Two years of expecting nothing. I mean NOTHING. Only 'smuggling' content in the online streets as much as you can.

Then it all clicks. You get everything. Money, freedom and career insurance.

Climbing the corporate ladder has been nothing but trying to flying too close to the sun.

You get burned out.

Vijana wenzangu, uchumi wa digitali una kasumba ya kupendelea damu changa. Muda wa kujenga jina and cement your stay kwenye uchumi huu ni SASA! Hili gemu haliingiliki ukija kujaribu una 40+ years.

The most shared advice is the least understood.

'Be yourself'

Then everybody is a nice, narrative-driven coward wanting to be likable.

'What is new today is the growing awareness that companies are too often saying one thing, be it on values or purpose, such as stricter green standards, and lobbying for another, against those very standards'

ALBERTO ALEMANNO, Professor of law, HEC Paris