Johann Thorgeirsson
Mr. Thorgeirsson, a Columnist with The scholar Media Africa is based in Puerto Rico, USA. He is a coach in Personal Finance, with an MBA in Finance and Marketing from Inter Americana University, Puerto Rico. His contact: fflpr2019@gmail.com
Recently, I read an article in this website (www.scholarmedia.africa) titled “Does the History We Learn in School add up?” by Mwalimu Gichaba Nyantino.
He brought up some interesting points, and it made me think about history in a broader sense.
It also reminded me of Karl Popper.
Popper, an Austrian Philosopher wrote “The Open Society & Its Enemies” while teaching in New...
About 20 years ago, an international company I worked for changed its operating software.
A team came over from England to do the adaptations, installation, and training.
The project took over 18 months with two of the group members, ending up staying here for almost all of the project’s duration.
The right-hand man of the project coordinator was only 21 years of...
When Winston Churchill met his cabinet on May 13, 1940, he said, “I have nothing more to offer than blood, toil, tears and sweat.”
At that moment, England was waging a war against Nazi Germany, and Churchill had become Prime Minister three days earlier.
What Churchill did with these words was to set the expectations for the next years. He did not...
