“The quality of a person’s life is determined by the quality of the questions they ask.” – Anthony Robbins Have you read William Kamkwamba’s The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind? It's a fantastic story about perseverance, and how he used ingenuity to build an electricity-generating windmill for his family’s home despite being surrounded by poverty and doubt in Africa. There are a many reasons why the book engaged me, but one of them is because I’ve also been thinking about how to build windmills. One of the topics I daydream about is how to make every house in the U.S. a zero-sum electricity user by using solar and wind power right at the … [Read more...]
Windmills, Africa, & Why Your Network Boosts Your Paycheck
Updated October 2019 If you have a chance, I highly recommend reading The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind about William Kamkwamba (there is also a movie on Netflix). It's a fascinating and inspiring read. I found out about the book while watching an interview with William years ago on the Daily Show with John Stewart. At one point, the conversation turns to the fact that William taught himself how to build a windmill and electrical generator without a computer. In fact, at one point, he says about Google, "...I said what kind of animal is this Google?" Then his response when he first encountered the internet, " Where was this Google … [Read more...]