Comments on: Why Live 8 Sucked and What You Can Do About It

By: Mwangi

Mwangi — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 06:29:43 +0000

@Daudi: What exactly are you talking about? If you are speaking about treating blogging as a hobby….I won’t go into that one as I have in the past, but I think even you know that there are a number of people making a great living of it so no need to discuss that.
If you are talking about no exceptional talent in Africa, I don’t know if you’re a fan of the book “Outliers” by Malcolm Gladwell or any folks who study succesfull folk in this capitalist culture, but of late I am coming to the conclusion that talent isn’t neccesarily measurable in terms of intellectual capacity but raw drive, ambition and willingness to work hard, if you don’t think our continent of 900 million has at least a couple of folks like that, well………..
Hmmm, if dreaming, dreamlining and thinking of possible alternatives is what kids do for laughs, that’s an awesome pass time: my hope is they combine it with taking action and we have potentially big things coming our way.
Now the final one, you know I do that ( apparently the label is “project management” ) for a living, right.
You came here belligirent, arrogant and rude and at present I really don’t feel the need to be nice, so later dude.
I look forward to reading comments from you that are constructive and forward thinking, otherwise, please don’t bother, particularly when you can’t combine the attitude with facts, experience etc etc.

Have a great day

By: Daudi

Daudi — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 00:03:14 +0000

I’ll be brutally honest to be kind. This is going nowhere! Treat it as a hobby. Sorry bro, you surrounded yourself with ‘positive energy’ (sycophants). I am telling you plainly: there is no exceptional talent here to warrant a second look. This is stuff high school kids do in their bedrooms for a laugh. As for consulting and rate card, pliz!!!

By: Mwangi - the Displaced African

Mwangi - the Displaced African — Sun, 14 Sep 2008 01:14:08 +0000

@akiey: No problem man. I am just glad it connected with you too. Hey, maybe I should go on rants like that more often

By: akiey

akiey — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 22:08:09 +0000

Standing ovation, applause and all for you Mwangi! In this one article you have shone light and shown the way on the ‘how’ and not just ‘why’ we all need to work together to save ourselves & our communities regardless of our standing in life.

I admire you courage as you make it clear that “…we don’t need any more Pursuit of Happyness movies, what we need are Chris Gardiners.” and yes indeed, “We need more people so dedicated to results that they take action each and every single day.”

Collective responsibility didn’t die with our great grandfathers. It’s as much a part of us as it is our duty. Thanks for uplifting us.

By: Mwangi - the Displaced African

Mwangi - the Displaced African — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 17:40:55 +0000

@Benin: Thank you, you made my day I am glad to see my monologue connected with one of the pillars of our online community. In short…….Cheers

By: Benin

Benin — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 16:02:57 +0000

Mwangi, that is very powerfully written. I can easily see your stature in the immigrant communities matching or surpassing Tony Robbins.

That was the best merger of positive self-realization theory and practical business application that I have read. How do you come up with this stuff, Man? It’s awesome!

By: Mwangi

Mwangi — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 13:04:50 +0000

@Jacob: Thanks for validating my first attempt at writing something copy-esque

By: Jacob from JobMob

Jacob from JobMob — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 12:59:10 +0000

Good intellectual exercise, especially for blogtrepreneurs. Nice writeup, Mwangi