It’s very craży that 70-80 year olds are generally seen as unemployable due to physical and mental decline BUT we're allowing them to run our ENTIRE country.
Safaricom was ordered to pay Kshs 6 million to a blind man after inviting him for a job interview, taking him through all stages, and even offering him the job,only to later withdraw the offer, claiming they lacked the software to support him.
The court ruled that Safaricom violated his dignity and fair administrative rights.
I find it endlessly amusing when men expect a level of domestic labour from me that I don't even do for myself. If I haven't built my own life around cooking every single day, what exactly makes you think you'll be the exception?
I once had a student at Oxford who could beautifully explain everything about the assigned readings. She almost failed the course.
When reading her essays I’d think, wow she clearly understands what this debate is really about. And then the essay would just… end.
She spent 90% of it telling me what other people think. And then she wrote a few sentences at the end saying she preferred one view over the other.
This was a problem because the rules at Oxford are very clear: you have to choose a position upfront, and defend it with your own arguments. So unless we fixed this, she wouldn’t pass.
We worked on it week after week until I realised, she’s scared. She was hiding behind the ideas of others because she was afraid to put her own ideas out there where they could be criticised.
So I changed my approach: gentler comments, more Socratic questions and so on. Eventually we built up her confidence to the point where she passed.
It’s not enough to perfectly recall the ideas of others. You also need the courage to put yourself on the page.
Why is there CCTV INSIDE the dorm? Where does the footage go? Who watches it? Isn’t this a severe child safeguarding breach? Isn’t the physical privacy + dignity of minors violated by installing those there?
Great the cameras caught it, but the adults need to explain. Slooowly.
A lawyer’s bookshelf is never just decoration.
It’s a graveyard of sleepless nights, underlined pages, lost arguments, small victories, and the quiet belief that somewhere in 2,000 pages of law, there is still a sentence worth fighting for.
Lawyers do come home to precedent…
I’ve signed a petition calling for accountability over the humiliation of a Grade 10 student in the Kenyan Senate. No child should ever be degraded in public institutions. Join me in demanding action and stronger protections for children’s dignity: https://t.co/K7a8q1BgOf
Always go to the funeral. Always go to the hospital. You don't need to know what to say.
In times of profound crisis, people don't remember your words, they only remember whether you showed up for them at their lowest moment.
A law degree is, without exaggeration, one of the most structurally versatile qualifications a person can hold.
But let's take it one level deeper.
Law is not merely about careers. Law is about legitimacy.
Every system corporate, governmental, financial, international ultimately turns on one question: what is valid, what is enforceable, what holds?
That is the lawyer's domain.
So when a lawyer steps into any industry, what are they actually doing? They are structuring authority. They are organizing power. They are translating intention into enforceable reality.
That is why lawyers can move across sectors so fluidly because legitimacy is the underlying architecture of all of them.
The courtroom is simply the most visible arena. It is not the only one.
And once you understand that, "pivoting" stops looking like departure and starts looking like deployment.
Craig F butler.