Archive for April, 2016
Saturday, April 30th, 2016
It's bloody hard to build something new into the world. Don't let anyone tell you it's easy: there's a lot of unfunded and unrecognised work that you have to do before you can get to the point where fame and/or fortune arrive. And once you've finished the painful birth of ...
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Tuesday, April 12th, 2016
tl;dr: Today's NZ Herald drove me to this analysis/rant. I'm giving the damn thing up and will get my news from other sites, Radio New Zealand and NewsHub. You should too.
I can't imagine how disheartening it is to work as a journalist in New Zealand. Almost as disheartening as it is to ...
Posted in New Zealand, Rant | 1 Comment »
Sunday, April 10th, 2016
[I posted this on a Slack recently, and would like to give it a longer life than Slack's 10,000 line scrollback. --Nat]
Socially constructed roles like “douche-bro” and “rock star teacher” are generally strongly viewpoint dependent. The rhetoric of continuous improvement is part of self-help, get rich quick, professional development, factory ...
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