A reminder of how grim Biglaw life can be.

Though I’m not so sure I’m under less pressure nowadays as a social entrepreneur in the tech space…the pressure to keep up and stay informed is intense.

Al Jazeera TV is my first stop for wider and deeper coverage of international news on TV, especially when it comes to Africa. I think I can safely argue that no mainstream international news channel is covering Africa the way Al Jazeera is today (an aside: I think CNN’s Inside Africa is vastly improved).

So it’s fitting that I recommend Al-Jazeera blogs, for those of you interested in international news as seen from a different lens.

Interesting article in the NYTimes.

In my experience parenting has made me better at work…how so?

• a lot more focused…no time to dilly-dally if you are managing a household with two kids under three;
• much better at seeing the bigger picture…kids give you perspective;
• better at multi-tasking (I’m mum, nurse, story-teller, cook, psychologist, arbitrator, negotiater, fixer of bubus, Teletubbies watcher, decider, etc.);
• better at decision making (is this worth going to the ER to or not?),
• and much much better at trusting my intuition (there is no playbook for parenting, 99% is trusting… ( Read on! )

The South Consulting report on the implementation of the Kenya National Dialogue and Reconciliation (KNDR) agreements, covering the period July-September 2009, can now be found on: http://www.dialoguekenya.org

Wow, what an eye-opener.   We rarely think of Kenyan public universities as centers of innovation anymore (at least I don’t).   So discovering the JKUAT blog has been a revelation.  Plus so much of the news around Kenya is negative nowadays, hard to remember why we love our country so much some times.

Highlights for me -  insights into mobile development classes taking place there and seeing just how impactful the partnership with MIT-AITI is (different model for aid perhaps…teach skills rather than support corrupt govts?).

It’s relatively new, a little over a month old so I hope… ( Read on! )