House of Mind

We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors; we borrow it from our children.

My child, am borrowing the resource of the world for my grandchild, your future child, its a risky transaction, but I hope I will be able to pay you back in abundance. Right now am looking into two places, that cause so much pain for me, but am hopeful you wont have to do, I will cover you by the sigh of my eyes as the eyes of my heart have done. The past I dwell too much on it, good memories and regrets of not knowing better in decisions made, it brings so much pain, but not as the future, as its unknown and scary when the past didn’t take shape to feed the future prosperously.

During the course of my youth and adulthood, I lack, what I try to find, I fear what I don’t know, all my hope lies with the world of the Lord that A good man leaves an inheritance to his children’s children, but the wealth of the sinner is stored up for the righteous, hence I borrow the raw resource of Earth to build what must stand the test of time.

The present, I have not known, its a place that has no pain, nor sorrow, for the rest of my repayment to you, you will be in the presence with me and I hope you will look only in my past to learn for your future and we will tackle your future together for a brighter one

Written as an interpretation of the profound African proverb and a life time hope of parents to their children’s future prospects.

I’m no good at goodbyes #Post-Malome, I find it very weird that humans have to say goodbye every day to each other if they are going to see each other again or communicate with each other later on. I recently joined a new company and had to say goodbye to my then colleagues, it’s hard saying goodbye to good people and a great company, reading through google you might find motivation and understanding stating that it’s all business and business is just business, don’t take it personally, hard pill to swallow, we all relational beings after all.

It’s easier to say goodbye to a bad experience in a company, than to a good one, someone asked a question at Quora, that how do you reject a counteroffer after resigning, even if you loved the company, the response was interesting, someone wrote that you ought to have thought of it before resigning, so technically you already dealt with the hard part deciding quite. Back to my story, I left for growth, which I felt I so much needed cause I was growing only horizontally I felt, but not vertically, it’s hard explaining that to team members who supported you and contributed to what you are today. So I sat down and wrote a piece of poem, but it’s technically a very short story, it felt better after that, hoping it will stick with them and let guilt trip not eat me up.

I recommend all people resigning to write a short story or email with a unique touch to the people they contributed to their journey and send them, cause everyone can say goodbye, but not everyone means it.

Hope you enjoy, caution, brutal grammar and inside references ahead.

AB Ship

A maverick, 5 core engines and multiple threads
Navigating through Fintech like a hot butter knife, cutting through unsalted butter
All rainbow teams coordinating to break through tides and leaving no area unexplored
The Green team letting in cooling effect through part of the ship via credit department
Oh hoy Purple team with captain Deepti spearing through tides fiercely with swift coding skills
While Vice Anji, taking 1 storm encounter at a time with the speed of thunder, Usain bolt fast
While Team purple members soldering on from behind with no cover at the back to get the job done
One man Team Dharma, “I am the only one who gets the job done, I don’t know anyone who can
cover for me”, Ebankit needed a bridge to come in on board, Dharma offered an escalator, nobody
knows how he does it.
Row forward the AB ship goes, meeting mist in uncharted territories, what’s that ahead?
An unknown request coming from North, May Day! Call captain Ebe from the Security department
“This is captain Ebe speaking unknown request source identified, my right-hand man, will take care”
Mr. Moosa, cooking bullets to neutralize the threat one commit at a time, gun loaded, fire!!!
We live to see another day, “Nothing from my side, Dynatrace all green 200 OK “.
Forward we go into the green pastures we seek, one Sonarqube story at a time
Message from Commander Khan, “Crew we are heading to an ice-berg, breaks can’t save us now”
Can someone call captain Madi of the mechanic’s team, we need to lose some weight to make a
sharp turn, it’s better than crushing the Iceberg.
“What’s up guys”, crunching API standards and ethics for the bank, “Hold on guys, this maneuver
Would set us 3 moons back”, as the open API standard is broken to loosen some weight for the sharp
turn, day saved another release is cooking in Jenkins and Gitlab pots, enough to feed Nock and
Midrand while adding to our technical dept.
Oh, it’s been rocky sail mates, please drop me at the next port, need to gain more stamina for the
next voyage.

“You guys will never see me leaving until something I coded breaks”
gammer4live

I once read an article about compounding, it fascinated me so much that it became a theme for me in life and new years resolution. In the article there was a talk on how something just shot off the roof in just a few years or months, don’t remember the details but I just recall the answer was, the whole time, the item at question was compounding. That widen my mind, compounding can be heard used in the financial world, where they talk about compound interest. Some while back I was reading up on retirement annuity and the term was splashed everywhere, that it would be the magic that makes your RA grow and compound interest will be a catalyst in enjoying your money in retirement. Putting the financial perspective aside, I was more interested in the human application of this compounding phenomena.

A unit of human nature compounding example that I have long stretched came from a movie called “Back to the future”, in the movie, one thing that stood out the most , was the fact that, at all cost we must not change anything in the future when teleport to the future, cause this will change the course of the future in the present and the future you saw will change drastically, exponentially or even at a compounded rate. Sitting on this fact I encountered a motivational video where the speaker stated that people are so concerned with not changing the future, but they don’t realize that small habit change in the present, can produce fruitfulness in the future. This has led me to formulate that individual compounding is the little things we can change now in the present, which can yield significant outcomes in the future, more like compounding interest.

            Compounding and Ephratah

I firmly believe in Eric Thomas when he resonated that All men are created equal, some work harder in the preseason. ( my version just says, all man are created equal and some work hard in four seasons), from there on I draw out that just like ants we must have some season we work hard, compounding in a way, that we work on our self, which is the most important work, even you don’t get paid for it(Big Sean). Throughout all the seasons we worked, our ant nature of letting harsh season pass while we feed on other seasons gathering of food will be substituted by us been Fruitful.

                        Ephratah

Ephratah is such a profound word that I also adapted to be a theme for me this year. Adopted from the bible, I would amend our small works in the present also to give off radiant of some fruitfulness, in every effort of compounding that an individual generates, there needs to be some fruitfulness to the labor. It doesn’t have to be a big sparkle, but must be a sense of measure or direction to some positive effects of compounding, this will ensure we pointing to the right direction in compounding to be more successful in the future.

This year I challenged myself to be compounding and Ephratah at the same time and will be releasing my all in all master plan, watch the space. … I Am a software developer, wear me softly individual, wear me softly.

Inspired by Drake’s lyrics, my title says it all on what I am about to unravel. Life was good at the start of this blog site, had so much to share that I dimmed to be relevant to my online audience, its been years since I wrote anything for my blog, but that all has to do with time, oh yes time the enemy of men.

Time is no man’s fool, on my case its when the distance formula subject is distance of over speed, on my initial thoughts on this blog, my thoughts weighed in with the speed of light for all the content to package on this blog, looking at the distance of knowledge to cover here , it’s far big to be put on numerics, which leads me to time, subject of constant revolution of the Earth around the galaxy. I am walking at a speed of tortoises divided by my age. Due to being human and youthful, the drive of start is energetic, but maintenance is class to finishing the task at hand, which is what I have experienced, thus we this said, off to work without saying more.

Expectations set for this blog this year are minimum at distance, I promise to self as a resolution to write at least 5 blog posts this year… that’s all folks.