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agm in Kenya - Jun-Aug '09: August 2009
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Agm in Kenya - Jun-Aug '09. Saturday, August 15, 2009. I’ve spent the past two weekends safari-ing through two different national parks. And two national parks more different from each other you could hardly get. The Masai Mara (at least this time of year) is a lush green reserve, teeming with life. Water is abundant, flowing through natural pipes under the surface where not visible to the human eye. At 1,510 km. I’d like to say that they dot the Mara landscape like trees, except that that would be...
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agm in Kenya - Jun-Aug '09: The Great Rift Valley I: Climbing Mt. Longonot
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Agm in Kenya - Jun-Aug '09. Saturday, August 1, 2009. The Great Rift Valley I: Climbing Mt. Longonot. The Great Rift Valley is a continuous geographic trough, some 6,000km long running from northern Syria all the way down to central Mozambique. Cutting a swathe through Kenya it is a visually stunning naturescape. There are numerous vantage points from which one can appreciate the majesty of the valley, and I’ve checked-out a few. Today, I introduce you to the first: Mt. Longonot. Of course, where there a...
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stefanotti's mileage: July 2009
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A collection of experiences abroad for family and friends. Thursday, July 23, 2009. Lessons in Aid Inefficiency: Tech in Liberia. Part of what drew me to Liberia was my interest in understanding best practices in international aid. It's no secret that aid is often inefficient at best and ultimately counterproductive at worst. Unlike others, I do not believe that this unfortunate fact is a justification to throw the baby out with the bath water. It wasn't the sexy answer, but I feel strongly that it's t...
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Urban duality: Contracts or how to avoid a divorce - part deux
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Wednesday, April 14, 2010. Contracts or how to avoid a divorce - part deux. After a very insightful feedback on the my post from an unexpected source of relationship wisdom and one illuminating comment by a life guru on an actual situation I was going through, I have a few observations to make on marriage and contracts:. 2 - If you focus too much on the details of the contract, you may loose the big picture. Why are you willing to spend the rest of your life with that person? Roughly translated as you do...
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Urban duality: December 2009
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Saturday, December 26, 2009. 8220;Such mechanisms are analogous to the involuntary grace by which an oyster, coping with an irritating grain of sand, creates a pearl,” he writes. “Humans, too, when confronted with irritants, engage in unconscious but often creative behavior.”. From this very good article on what makes us happy. 2009 surely gave me enough pearls to make a necklace. Links to this post. Tuesday, December 1, 2009. Cats in my life. In (kind of) chronological order:. 2 - Os Saltimbancos:.
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Urban duality: November 2009
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Saturday, November 21, 2009. It was a good Thursday. Thanks for dragging me to the concert. It turned a dull day into a Wagnerian experience. Links to this post. Tuesday, November 17, 2009. The strange obsession of faith in life. Last Sunday I went to Milton Nascimento. I have always liked Milton Nascimento but I would hardly consider myself a die-hard fan (as I am a Caetano or Chico Buarque fan). Links to this post. Friday, November 13, 2009. A tender moment in a chilly day. He gives her her skin. He is...
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Laila in Jordan: October 2007
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Thoughts and learnings from my two and a half months in Amman, Jordan, interning with the newest Endeavor office there. Tuesday, October 16, 2007. AaahI have finally entered the blogosphere. Very excited. More to come on finance, venture capital and economic development. Links to this post. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). View my complete profile. Is the U.S. behind Fethullah Gulen? Aid Watch blog ends; New work on development begins. A passage through India. Obama Posters in Ghana. Agm in Kenya - Jun-Aug '09.
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agm in Kenya - Jun-Aug '09: The enigma that is Nairobi
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Agm in Kenya - Jun-Aug '09. Friday, July 17, 2009. The enigma that is Nairobi. A schoolmate from the year above, who had spent the previous summer in Nairobi, also didn’t do much to assuage my anxiety levels. He recounted (with what seemed, strangely enough, to be a glint of excitement in his voice) about being beaten and mugged by a group of boys on the streets. From time to time another work colleague picks me up from home in the mornings en route to the client site. He usually picks me up around 8...
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stefanotti's mileage: Liberian Summer Soundtrack
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A collection of experiences abroad for family and friends. Saturday, August 08, 2009. My brief posting on that one Nigerian hip hop song I've heard a zillion times this summer didn't do the musical redundancy of the last nine weeks one iota of justice. It's not just that I hear the same handful of songs EVERYWHERE I go. Oh no. It's not even just that I often hear the same song three, four, five songs in one night at a restaurant or bar. I even sometimes here some of these gems played ON REPEAT. I have a ...
