I first came across Roger Martin last year (2022) when his video, A Plan Is Not a Strategy, came up in a web search. The video was spot on, but I was left with a much more important question. Why had I not come across the work of this influential thinker before? So I went… Continue reading Book Review: A New Way to Think, by Roger L. Martin
Like many other New Zealanders I saw the pictures of people at the Wellington anti-mandate protest in February 2022 wearing tin foil hats. Apparently this didn’t last very long as announcements were made to let people know that they don’t work, but just for fun I thought I’d create a Trade Me auction for ‘Military… Continue reading My Auction to Sell ‘Military Grade Tin Foil’
A few weeks ago (June 2022) Radio New Zealand, or RNZ as they prefer to be known, replaced the themes on three news programmes – Morning Report, Midday Report, and Checkpoint. The aim of the change was to create a “cohesive sonic brand” for what are considered their three flagship news programmes. Here is my review,… Continue reading Review: The new RNZ news theme
In the last few years I’ve noticed a reduction in service quality in mid-priced restaurants, and I lay the blame on takeaways. I’m sure that takeaways aren’t the only cause, but from a seated diner’s perspective I’ve noticed a few problems. The first is tables reserved for, or taken up by Uber Eats (and other)… Continue reading Takeaways are ruining restaurants
The problem with most self-help books is that they are often long-winded and hard to put into practice. You are left with the feeling that the only self-help going on is the author helping themselves to your time and money. This is not one of those books. I bought the Kindle edition of Dr Sarb… Continue reading Book Review: The Little Sleep Book
The term Minimum Viable Product (MVP) has been hijacked. It is often used by managers to refer to a product that contains the minimum acceptable feature set for first release to the customer. “It’s no use until it has all these features” is the usual argument. Eric Ries defines MVP in his book The Lean… Continue reading Understanding MVP
My mother made a gelatine Christmas pudding every year, starting in 1959 until 2017. Glen (below) featured it on his YouTube channel, but some commenters think it’s a hoax. Here is a picture of the original recipe.
The reason I rely on experts in their respective fields, and collaborations between those experts, is because of the the inability of the (general) population to: read, understand and integrate large amounts of information across multiple disciplines understand statistics, and the difference between an outlier and a trend, and how modelling works. make inferences based… Continue reading You’ve got to know who to listen to; and who not listen to
The bears are taking over. Each time I go out for a walk I see more houses with bears in the front window. Sometimes there are two or three. Some are big, some tiny. Sometimes it is not a bear, but Bugs Bunny, Pikachu, or Pink Panther. Occasionally they are in trees, in the windows… Continue reading Cave Dwelling – Day Two
I went out for a walk this morning before starting work. I saw two people out for a walk, a man and his dog, a couple of service vehicles, and a woman posting a letter. OK, old school, but I’m good with that. A solitary tui was sitting on a power line, listening intently to… Continue reading Cave Dwelling – Day One
Richard Hulse 