My regular morning view from the hotel gym, looking out across the Rosebank suburb of Johannesburg. When last week’s Sun City-based conference was announced, I decided to extend my stay in South Africa so that I could spend some time with our team members who are based there. It wasn’t perfect timing; Tuesday was a public holiday for Youth Day, so many people chose to take Monday as leave in order to get a four-day weekend. But the time I did get to spend with the team and other colleagues from across the company made it worthwhile. I was based at a hotel in Rosebank, close to the malls and shops and a five-minute walk to the office. When I wasn’t working, I spent most of my time watching World Cup games in my hotel room. South African coverage featured John Terry as a pundit. It also had in-match advertising that appeared with annoying regularity, where the match video would shrink, using the newly revealed space at the left and bottom of the screen to display an ad. I recently got…
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