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29 Apr, 9 tweets, 3 min read
1. I do get a lot of DMs from parents & students alike for career guidance. Am not good at that. A lot of things come down to opportunity, luck & prep. But I will share my thoughts & hopefully help someone. I spent 4 yrs at UZ studying MedLabSciences. Wanted to be an immunologist
2. When I got to UZ, I had never touched a computer taidzionera kwana bursar kwedu kumachonyonyo. So, I had no idea what Computer Sciences meant. Fortunately there was a guy Chitiyo who had Win95 where we played Bow n Arrow. He taught me to use a mouse😊
3. Fast Forward 2007, my galfriend had studied ComSciences & our pillow talk was "How does Google make money?" I married her. At the time, we cldn't afford a computer. I borrowed @JamaliDaniel's wife's. Eventually I had a CPU built by an Indian guy in Gabs, it was a grindingmill
4. We had no internet, so I wld carry the CPU to a cafe to install programs 🙈. Started by learning Delphi & Java. Tried to make my routine in the lab easier by automating things & socket programming. But nobody paid for that.
5. When the govt of Botswana paid an American company to build a Patient Management System which they did in VBasic & Microsoft Access that triggered me! Anyway, I still remember our first client, a black American Matthew Tamin who made us sweat for $10 but yaikwana 4kg dzenyama.
6. We started a company called Virtual Data with my wife & @MamboTaf's wife, we built platforms for car sales & loadboards. Eventually we left for US. On the day I was going to work at an Appalachian hospital, I also got an offer to work for a gaming company called Zoo Games.
7. Now, I have written all this background for a few reasons
- I thought I wld be an immunologist
- I didn't know I liked software development & that I was good at it until I was exposed to it
- What started as an exploration became my profession
- A lot depended on location
8. So, did I waste 4 yrs at UZ? No! A lot of things I do today use stuff that I learnt from primary school. Maps, Speed, Logic, Sets , Accounting etc. Even all the debating skills that we sharpened at the students union have great use in boardrooms & planning.
9. So, as you go to college, remember to open your eyes to new opportunities. Find a vocation, try everything but don't forget to enjoy your youth! Isu taimwa nekufara zvekuti dept rakasvika pakuti mapracticals akuitwa before lunch vanhu vasati vamwa. Goodluck!

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3 Apr
1. Long weekend like this is when I miss some folks esp my late Kule Muza. Those who went to PE might remember him. Whenever available we wld take him drinking. After 2 or 3 he wld announce that it was time for intellectual discourse. We used to call it "Nguva yema isms."
2. "Vazukuru, the world has social & economic stratifications that are intermingled. We are in a constant struggle to get to the center, but the center has finite capacity. We can't all fit. The center is what determines the ism. Socialism says, lets all shrink and fit..."
3. One time we took him to watch Gidiza. He always refused to go with us to the stadium. His excuse; he had watched Shambo ndopakapera bhora. Gidiza made his trademark 360 turn then dropped the pass straight onto Kawondera's chest, Kule declared "Ndoinonzi natural talent iyo!"
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2 Apr
1. Dear youths, don't even think there is something wrong with you because you don't own a business or you are not an "entrepreneur". Businesses are usually started by employees that have been able to save a little. Most of you have never been employed, banks don't capital
2. It is not always that pple graduate from University and think of starting a business, not in a country like Zimbabwe where venture capital is non-existent. Most ideas for businesses come from work. You see what your company is doing wrong, you go on your own and improve...
3. Check how Silicon Valley grew. Most of the companies were started by folks that left Bell Labs. Now you have a huge ecosystem there. Same in Zimbabwe, Masiyiwa had to leave PTC. You usually need the work experience to understand how business functions.
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1. I think the first steps in race,tribe,war,genocide issues must include learning about guilt vs responsibility. Then we move to justice - punitive justice & restorative justice. White pple have a responsibility to right the wrongs of slavery & racism. So do Shona on Gukurahundi
2. The people who enslave or actively engage in racists acts must be punished. So do those who enact racist laws. Those who inherit systems built on racism have the responsibility to dismantle them even if it benefits them. Failure to do so is complicity.
3. The same applies to Gukurahundi. Pretty much the majority of Shona pple are not guilty of the massacres. But we also know that ZANU used the military to massacre non-Shona-speaking pple of Matabeleland under the pretext hunting for dissidents. Who did ZANU prefer? Shona pple
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1. I really got offended when I can across somebody who characterized Soul Jah Love as a junkie. Without knowing somebody's struggles it is easy to judge. Let me tell you how I nearly became a drug addict some 6 yrs ago. I broke my knee playing soccer. Had to have 2 surgeries
2. The first was a tibia fixation. The surgery was a bit complex & had to have 36 stitches afterwards. Before the surgery I was given a 1 week supply of hydrocodone. After the surgery I was given oxycodone. This drug made me feel like Jackie Chan especially when I asleep.
3. 2 months after surgery I began to realise that I was craving for this drug. I still had pain but I needed this for depression more than the pain. My supply got finished during the weekend & I called the Surgeon's office. I was given Tramadol which they said was not addictive.
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16 Feb
1. I haven't commented on the Chinese vaccine. I have read some of the literature around it. My issue is that, there is little evidence that any of the trials that happened had black participants. This is important especially that this is an inactive virus vaccine.
2. Unlike recombinant & mRNA vaccines that usually have specific protein targets, the antibodies induced by this vaccine target many different proteins on the virus. What chance is there that some of the antibodies cld induce autoimmune reactions? Solution: Test in Black populatn
3. Given the low titre of antibodies produced in the first 2 weeks, it may be important that the government inform recipients that they may not have protection for up to 3 weeks. This will help folks to protect themselves more.
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15 Feb
1. You see, debt is not always bad. The problem with Zimbabwe is that the money is expensive. I checked mortgage rates, they are in the ranges 10-15%. Thats damn expensive. In USA they are as low as 2.7%. This is really cheap. I have to ask myself, shld I buy cash or debt
2. Here is the Math. If I buy a $200 000 home in cash, that is money that I have put into a roof & wall. It does n't multiply unless I sell the home at a profit. Now, imagine I take a mortgage at 3% APR and 20% down payment, I pay $674 a month.
3. Now imagine I have a way to get 5% annually from investing the $160K remainder for just 10yrs. That wld be $260 000. In 30yrs it wld be $690K. You can pay off the remainder if you want. As you can see, assuming the house appreciated at 0.5% annually you wld be better off. ImageImage
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