There are two ways to make money. One is by actually making it. Two, well, is by not spending any. Arthur Mugo prefers the former, which is why he wants to retire in the next 10 years, which is also why, as the founder of Precise Architects, they have just moved to a hovel—if that’s what you can call an imposing Nairobi’s Karen building.
This is his blueprint for success: family life, social time, sweat and strain. While his feet are firmly planted in the present, his head is resting in the clouds of the future, where he will be making music: his daughter on keys, the other on drums, and he strumming that guitar. That has always been his true romance, composing notes that add a background tune to life’s drudgery.
