What I’ve also learned

BY FLORENCE BETT-KINYATTI People who tell you they’re introverts most times aren’t. Idris Elba didn’t go to ‘People’ magazine and tell them, ‘Yo, I’m the sexiest man alive in 2018. Splash that on your cover.’ It humbly went the other way around. This also applies to the brave, the humorous,

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What I’ve learned

BY FLORENCE BETT-KINYATTI Dress up and show up. You’ll find reason when you shut your door behind you, sit at your desk and fire up your laptop. A person who works from bed doesn’t yet understand what a pair of brown leather shoes can do to your work morale. It

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They told me I was a broken tool

BY FLORENCE BETT-KINYATTI It’s the morning of my birthday. I’m standing under the shower scrubbing my soapy back. I’m taking a cold shower because mornings are for cold showers. Cold showers are great for all these sexy scientific appeals – makes you more alert, doesn’t dry out your skin and

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Shoe Dog

Hunt like a hungry lioness: A miniseries on Craft It about Nairobi’s creatives #2. IAN ARUNGA: CREATOR OF DAPPER MONKEY (AND PLENTY MORE) Sitting across from Ian Arunga at Lava Latte, listening, I picture him as a juggler manipulating several balls in the air. The first ball he threw into

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Mixed signals

Hunt like a hungry lioness: A miniseries on Craft It about Nairobi’s creatives #1. WANJIRU NDUNG’U. WRITER AT HOOTING OWL I’m not one to binge on a series. I can count on one hand the number of TV serieses I’ve caught to the finale: ‘Breaking Bad’, ‘How I Met Your

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Hunt like a hungry lioness

BY FLORENCE BETT-KINYATTI One Friday in late January, my mentor and I had a meeting. We usually have meetings. Sometimes they’re loose meetings with no agenda, like a catch up over breakfast, other times they’re not loose meetings, they’re meetings with a heavy agenda, like to discuss growth and strategy

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