Welcome back to the eighth episode of our podcast series where we interview interesting Information Technology type people in South Africa. This week’s guest is Prof. Kevin Johnson.

During his career Kevin has been a bartender, CIO, academic and start-up founder. His most endearing feature is that he looks like Tintin. What I really like about him is that he is combining deep learning with real work. He brings theory and practice together as a whole.

Kevin epitomizes personal mastery for me. To quote Senge:

"People with a high level of personal mastery live in a continual learning mode. They never ‘arrive’. Sometimes, language, such as the term ‘personal mastery’, creates a misleading sense of definiteness, of black and white. But personal mastery is not something you possess. It is a lifelong discipline. People with a high level of personal mastery are acutely aware of their ignorance, their incompetence, their growth areas and they are deeply self-confident. Paradoxical? Only for those who do not see the ‘journey is the reward’.”

I hope you enjoy this latest installment of our podcast series.

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