What really matters? What is success? How do you know you’ve achieved it?

A few decades ago, after I finally learnt how to boot a computer—following a botched attempt at self-training that I wrote about recently—I deeply desired to own a laptop. As I mentioned in that article, personal computers were for the privileged few, and I wasn’t among them. I completed my university education without owning a PC. However, I did manage to buy the Motorola L6, one of the early smartphone entries into the Kenyan market.