Ejovi Nuwere

I visited MIT last week with Martin V. and met Nicholas Negroponte who’s developing a $100 laptop for use by poor and developing countries. I think it’s an amazing project and surely he and his team will earn many awards for helping children around the world. The project is extremely complex and many things have to be taken into consideration for example durability and making the device virtually useless if it were stolen.

I should have been a little more excited to see the laptops being that this is the first time pictures of the prototypes have been published. Or even excited to meet Negroponte but my mind was preoccupied with work. Some of the routers were late coming in from the manufacturer and customers have been waiting for awhile. We finally received the routers but I was on the phone all week shouting at people, most of the issues were resolved minutes before meeting Negroponte, but not all of them.

I really try to live in the moment now, to compartmentalize things. When I’m with a friend, I enjoy that time. When I’m reading a magazine in a cafe I focus on my coffee and the words on the page. I try to enjoy every moment as an individual experience and not compare it to the past or imagine the future. A serious problem I had (have), so far it works. I appreciate people more on an individual basis. It’s a little easier to connect. But then my blackberry device beeps or buzzes or otherwise breaks the fourth wall of enjoyment and “things fall apart.” Maybe one day I will be able to turn off and totally disconnect, but maybe then I’ll be preoccupied with what I’m missing?

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