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Embrace the Energy of Judgement
We think of judgement as something that is done to others to determine if they are guilty or innocent, but it is essential to distinguish between justice and…
Purpose, Context, and Patterns of Choice
Context, Purpose, and the Choices We Make By Dr Riaan Steenberg A choice is important, but it is rarely the whole story.
Why Choices Need Context
Choices Do Not Define You By Dr Riaan Steenberg The phrase sounds attractive: your choices define you.
What Will Academia Look Like in 100 Years
By Riaan Steenberg May 2019 As we are discussing the characteristics of the emerging fourth industrial revolution, it seems that the future role of education…
Unique Challenges of Family Owned and Operated Businesses
Unique challenges of family-owned and operated businesses By Riaan Steenberg Dec 2014 The main objective of this paper is to briefly highlight the challenges…
Online Learning as a South African Access Model
Online Education and the South African Opportunity By Dr Riaan Steenberg South Africa cannot solve its higher education challenge by expanding old models…
Opportunities for Online Education to Transform the South African Education Landscape
South Africa needs a larger, more flexible and more affordable higher education system. This is not a small administrative problem. It is one of the defining…
Entrepreneurship as a Profit Discipline
The Sale Is Not The Profit A business can sell more and become poorer. That sentence should disturb every entrepreneur. Revenue is visible, exciting, and…
Fundamental Rules for Reliable Research
A Research Question Is A Constraint The first rule of reliable research is simple: the question must constrain the work.
Academic Work as Standards, Evidence, and Care
The Quiet Contract A student submits a paragraph that sounds confident but cannot show where the claim came from.
Fast Growing Startups in Africa: What Matters Now
Financial M-Pesa Paystack (Nigeria) TopCheck (South Africa) Snapscan Paga Zoona Interswitch Wealth Migrate Riovic BitPesa Flutterwave Lendable Lidya Pula…
Understanding Hinton
Part of Understanding Hinton’s Capsule Networks Series: Part I: Intuition (you are reading it now) Part II: How Capsules Work Part III: Dynamic Routing…