It’s been more than a month since my father passed. I no longer grieve his absence, for his memory lives on within my mother, my brother and myself. We are all proof of his existence of sixty-seven years on this planet. Although he only lived half of his potential lifespan, the chronic health conditions and system of white inferiorization that robbed him of his remaining time; as the system does. In reading and reflecting on…
It has been quite some time since my last posting. The cohort is going extremely well. As of writing, I have completed the Core 1 exam for Comptia’s A+ certification. This is the first real step I’ve taken to having my skill verified. The only difficulty at this time is the global pandemic that is the corona virus. Due to it’s spread across the globe, my country has insitigated a nation wide quarantine. While this…
A question for the audience, what do you think of when you here the word innovative? You’ve probably thought things like forward thinking, new, evolving, growth etc. These are things that I was expecting from my first week at computer eningeering course. I am excited that I get to learn about the hardware and software that makes a computer run. I set up my text editors and configuration files to get a bunch of tools…
Hello all and welcome to afropolymath.com, I’ m Jonathan Thomas and today I’m feeling inspired. Part of my journey in lifelong learning involves reading books that pique interest and help shape the person I hope to become. Reading is paramount to that transformation. Over the holidays I finished a wonderful book titled “Think Like an Engineer” by Guru Madhavan. Engineers are people that tend to look at the bigger picture of the world we in…