Thus Spaketh Idd Salim

Leisure, it was...

Where do I start. Kwanza gimme a few minutes to calm down this brobdingnanian erection. [frantically looking for ice-cubes or the 'sijiskii-leo-sweetie' herbal cream. Ama should I just watch an Arsenal game again. Ile ya spurs. Yes. There mzee ametulia. So, where was I]. Yes.

Herbo of VirtualCity, Mbugua, Denno of Google and Faith were my crews. And yes, tena, we rocked the place.

The ICT meetup at coast was huge. I was life from a different light. I am glad I came here. I am glad I am still here and thanks to flight delays, I am still stuck here till Wednesday. I met CEOs and CMOs and CTOs and ChiefDs. All Chiefs. Now the food is about to be served. I will use the entire easter to make sure my plates are clean. My forks are sparkling. My table is setup. No more excuses. #lessonLearnt

Equity is the Bank all developers should be looking at. That is what their presentation said. I will take up the challenge and see if they are for real. They said: ‘We have capacity and the willingness.’. This is huge. Unless the others style up, SAFARICOM and EQUITY BANK seem to be the way to go for any developer focused on Mkwanjalization. No one over the age of 4 (in terms of real-world coding experience) should be driving anything less than a Kompressor or struggling with simple bills. The time is here. The time is now. Quit ALL your jobs. Switch off your phones. No Emails. Clear your table. But only if you have the balls.

It is by eating out that one realizes that their mum DOES NOT cook the best food. Not even close. I saw this concept stretched. To both ends. Once the corporate type get drunk, their deeply hidden kijanaa gets out. #madameWakoPiwa. Once a married woman with a ring gets drunk in the Mombasa heat, their deeply hidden campo chic takes over. Married but can mingle.  #chumaRasimaIrareDani. If you know worramseng. But sitasema mengi. We are just humans. #lessonLearnt.

So. Code. Yes. I did an analysis of the winners of the awards and realized one thing. I am developing 2018 Apps. So complex for the judges to award. So advanced to be understood. So I need to step down in code and logic and thinking to win something here. I put this to test last week. And, Yes. I won the 2nd and third prize in the SevenSeas impromptu Ideas Challenge. With my simplest ideas. So, Focus on the simple. Since we are all simple beings. #lessonLearnt.

In conclusion, this is the situation. Achana na everything you are doing. Start afresh tomorrow. Delete all the 13 systems you are working on. Do ONE very simple but usable system. And this is my problem right here. I don’t like doing easy or simple projects. I am too sleek for that. But these are the ones that win grants. I won’t name names, but I have seen alot of no-brainer and kindergarten systems win big grants (millions) and awards for so long, I am having to reconsider my stand on unoma. Pia mimi nitaanza kuunda systems za ushete.

Mwache excuses. Sijui government, hatuna doo, hatuna psyche. Nini, nini. Skumeni code. But simple systems.

Back to simple code…

Wazi