Snags To Riches
Chapter 18: I Love a Good Story
I love this example of Doug Dietz because for me this is one of the best examples I have ever come across of the interplay between humans and technology. It also demonstrates how we as human beings ca...
Chapter 17: Fixing a Complex Problem
Let’s analyse what happened in the story in the previous chapter, step by step. Step 1 – Critical Thinking: When Doug saw the child reaction to his MRI scanner, he was justifiably shocked. He st...
Chapter 16: The Terrifying MRI Scanner
Now we get to the juicy part, the core of the book, where we discuss the 6 power skills. I think the best way to describe them is via a real-life case study where the skills are actually put into acti...
Chapter 15: Let me Reiterate
Let me reiterate what I’ve already said in this chapter, and I’m doing this for emphasis because it is critically important to me that you understand what I am trying to say. That you stop...
Chapter 14: From Abuse to Success
In the early days of IT varsity, there was a young lady who enrolled for one of our courses. She was a single mum whose name was Thembi, and she lived in abject poverty in a township in Johannesburg. ...
Chapter 13: How MJ Launched the VCR
In the early 1980s, the world witnessed an unusual phenomenon that would forever change the music and technology industries. It all began with the release of Michael Jackson’s song “Thrill...
Chapter 12: Revolt of the Luddites
Let’s take a trip back in time. In the early 1800’s, the Jacquard loom was invented, which was a machine that made fabrics manufacturing much faster and cheaper, and enabled factories to produce fabri...
Chapter 11: It’s Go time
“Go” is an ancient Chinese game that is kind of like Draughts, where you play on a board with black and white beads. But the similarity ends there. Go is very different from Draughts in the sense that...
Chapter 10: It’s Your Turn
I’ve given you enough stories about people who I take inspiration from because they’ve made it and they are living the lives that I believe make them really truly happy. People who started...