Nairobi, April 5 -- Don't sweat the small stuff, Newton Siele, the CEO of Phillips Therapeutics, will tell you. "And it's all small stuff." That's his prescription for life. He is turning 50, and while it's a fallacy to denote age with wisdom, in Siele's case, he's been there. Done that. "What have I not seen?" he says.

He's seen a lot, that's for sure, all recorded under leadership and fatherhood roles, as his own life was recorded on the greying stubble on his face. He's read 100 books, written one, and you can hear it because after he speaks, you are a year older and a touch tougher. He is a poet that way.

He wants to be proud of his eulogy, he says, out from behind the tombstone of his thoughts. He is enjoying where he is now, what ...