Writing for the sake of writing
On Thursday, 15 September, 2005, at 09:20am, I posted my first blog post on my Infinite Pursuit blog on Blogger. It was titled in the beginning. Since then, I have written countless words and shared on the internet, in one form or another. The 'why' has been less of an evolution and more of an...
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Embracing Non-Linear Paths: Building a Life, Not Just a Career
While the world has changed a great deal, we seem to be struggling to find new ways of living. The typical path from birth feels linear - kindergarten, primary school, high school, university, job, career, live life when we retire. Over the last 30 or so years of my working life, I have bounced...
The Endless Cycle of Signing Up and Forgetting: My Experience with Digital Platforms
I like the Internet. I like wandering down random rabbit holes in service of curiousity. I like how it exposes me to ideas and experiences that are far removed from me. I also like exploring the multitude of platforms, and their respective apps (or vica versa). While social media has become less...
Tech Writing in the Age of Speed: How to Catch Up and Stay Relevant
In another lifetime, I was a tech writer. I obsessively followed what was happening, attended countless launches in South Africa and around the world, and wrote about technology and innovation on my blog (for example, this very old review of the Samsung i8910) and in magazines. When I joined...
Navigating the Social Media Limbo: Where Do We Go From Here?
Recently, I realised that Twitter has been my go-to social network for over a decade, but I rarely go on it now. When I do, I remember why I started to pull back from it when Elon Musk bought it, although the signs were already there - I wrote about it during lockdown in The Twitter Abyss. Social...
Working on the OPPO Find N2 Flip launch
There was a time when I used to write on technology for my site and various publications. One of the early blog posts I ever did on my site when I got my domain was on Nokia's music store, a very long time ago. When I was submerged in that world, I had the opportunity to attend many a tech launch,...
Some of the books I read in 2022
Every year, I promise myself that I will get this right and then the year comes and goes. Having been on Goodreads since 2012, I always set myself Reading Challenge for the year. In my first three years, I didn’t meet that challenge, for example, only reading 10 of the 50 I had set in 2012 and 24...