Books

Book Review: A New Way to Think, by Roger L. Martin

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

Satire

My Auction to Sell ‘Military Grade Tin Foil’

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’

General

You’ve got to know who to listen to; and who not listen to

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