[u-u] mentoring

[Jim Mercer]

hi,

so, while i was in kenya, i met a young man who was interested in 
'working with computers like you'.

i spent 2.5 months there, on a working holiday, as is my wont.

he seemed keen, so i decided to take a gamble and spend $150 on an old 
Dell laptop and installed Ubuntu desktop on it.

i handed him a list of tutorials that looked good to me, and topped him 
up with 40GB of data on his phone.
i advised that he needed to be cautious of videos, and not to burn it on 
netflix.
(its been 2 weeks and he still has 20GB left, so, i'm guessing he heeded 
my advice)

when i left, i gave him a pair of 24" monitors i had acquired for my 
stay, and the associated cables and dongles.

he is working through the tutorials, and seems to be making some progress.

he recently met another lad, who runs Kali linux, so, at least he has 
the start of some local community.

he lives on a rural farm, so he has enough power (most days), but 
internet is via his phone, which is not terribly cheap.

$35 (3,000 KES) buys a 40GB bundle, which expires in 30 days.

for a guy with a daily income of $2-3, that certainly isn't cheap.

i'd really like to help him, but, i fear i'm not the guy to do it.

while i like the high of mentoring, and the attention and being able to 
spout off eloquently (in my opinion) about things, i lack the patience 
to teach, or to teach effectively.

i'm entirely self taught (like zero formal education), which causes me 
to expect others to be able to do the same kinda self-learning.

i wonder if anyone has more patience than me, or can direct me at some 
resources to help him out.

let me know.

--jim


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Jim Mercer     Reptilian Research      jim at reptiles.org    +1 416 410-5633

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