Founder @BoundlessMinds_ | Author of #Unbound–The Career Guidance Bible | Wannabe long-distance runner and @MtSlayersUG |
#Education #Mentorship #Leadership
Nov 30, 2022 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
5 years!
I resigned from my last job on 30/11/17 to focus on building @BoundlessMinds_ full-time. It has been a rollercoaster & carousel of emotions, successes, failures and gratitude.
To mark the day, let me just share 5 things I would do differently I was starting out today 🧵 @BoundlessMinds_ 1. Find a Co-founder:
Entrepreneurship is a lonely, tiresome, and sucking journey. There will be very many highs, but probably even more lows and times when you just won't have the will to go on. Co-founders are great for spreading the risk, pain & anxiety around. Obwomu buluma!
Jul 2, 2021 • 11 tweets • 3 min read
So, this👇🏾 was a great social experiment on Critical think, Problem solving & Creativity.
Soft skills billed as important for the future of work.
We often talk about the need to enhance their development but never really about how we can.
In this thread 👇🏾I will share how...
We've education systems that only require us to remember things (Asks: "WHAT") without necessarily understanding (Ask: WHY or HOW).
In fact, it's hard to notice at that level, coZ we very rarely have any intellectual requirement of young pple
Mar 4, 2021 • 14 tweets • 3 min read
@solomonking has shared before, about finding a funding partner who’s a perfect fit. This week last yr, @Boundless_UG underwent an Organizational Assessment with a partner. Our 'internal affairs' were a shambles.
**Let me share bits of the journey since, for entrepreneurs' sake
There was so much we didn’t know, or knew but didn't give priority to – partly because we had money for.
For the assessment, we used a matrix to score our status – where A = Perfect, B* C* and D = Things are bad.
We basically scored D* on almost 90% of the indicators...
Nov 4, 2018 • 9 tweets • 2 min read
Last Thursday, I bumped into an Indian gentleman called Sanjiv.
After I explained my work, he wondered why 'we' never invite the Indian Association to speak to young people about business/entrepreneurship.
He then gave me a 5 minutes' life lesson that I'll never forget.
*Thread
Sanjiv told me that he shares the same bank account with his wife, his dad and mum and two children.
Yap! 6 people, one bank account.
I was shook!!!
After he explained why, it made so much sense and made me realize why Indians are such successful business people.
May 23, 2018 • 11 tweets • 3 min read
The idea that's now known as Boundless Minds first occurred to me in 2013.
Here is a short thread of our story; why what we're doing is important – and why we hope you'll get everyone in your circles to recommend us to win this grant. missionbox.com/organization/8…
A Muzungu friend casually mentioned that by the age of 21, she had volunteered on community projects in 3 different countries.
I'd just been telling her how I had grown from volunteering with 40-40 in just one year; and wondering where I'd have been had I started 5 years earlier.