Buses, Dating, and Coming Full Circle in Christchurch
Leaving is always hard, but it’s what you got out of the experience that counts, not whether or not it’s forever.
Being Trendy Makes You Replaceable
Avoid trendiness to be valuable instead of replaceable.
What Richard Saul Wurman and René Magritte Don’t Know
Sometimes the best way to approach a problem is blindly.
What You Can Do To Improve Your Life Right Now
Is there a mystery in your life that needs solving? Can you do it RIGHT NOW?
Don’t Build Your Own Boxes
Why I didn’t go bungee jumping and sat at a coffeehouse ruminating instead, and why you might consider doing the same.
Politicians, Here’s How To Win
A modest proposal for a new way to run political campaigns against the backdrop of a backwoods New Zealand farmer’s market.
Tall Poppy Syndrome and the Jealousies
There is one big hurdle other than Internet infrastructure that could hamstring New Zealand’s effort to become a dominant player in international business, and this hurdle has a cute name: Tall Poppy Syndrome.
Number 8 Wire & Why Kiwis Will Conquer the Internet
New Zealand natives (‘Kiwis’) are pioneers. This makes them the perfect online entrepreneurs, so long as they can get the right infrastructure in place.
My Quarter-Century Crisis (of Awesomeness)
I’ve come to understand that for my 25th birthday I’m supposed to go a little crazy, completely rearrange my life, change careers, take up new hobbies, end relationships, dramatically change my priorities and generally turn into a whirlwind of drastic activity, shocking friends and family with my sheer audacity and lack of respect for the rules.
Dogmatic Capitalism
Capitalism has a really bad reputation.