"Work" continued
I moderated a panel today at Gather on the topic of “Work”. We had representatives from different types of work: self-employed, salaried employee, startup, and investor. As moderator, my …
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Citizenship
“Digital citizenship” is a phrase I encounter often in my educational travels. Rather than merely teach how to use software and hardware, we should realize that students are citizens in an …
Lighting a Spark Under Telecom
Telecom New Zealand is changing its name to Spark. Most commentators regard it as a backward move, most recently Lance Wiggs who diagnoses marketing capture, distraction from executive and board, and …
I'm Going on an Adventure
I caught up with Jesse Robbins at Foo Camp, and he gave me a great line that I remember as being something like: “I’m going on an adventure. The outcome is uncertain, there will be …
Andreas Schleicher to NZ Members of Parliament
Andreas Schleicher runs the PISA programme for the UN. PISA is the OECD Programme for International Student Assessment, a test given to 15-year-old students from most of the world. Data about the …
What is PaCT and Why Did It Cost $6M?
(this post is about the New Zealand education system. I wanted to say more than Twitter made easy) NZ has an amazing education system. We went through the “Tomorrow’s Schools” …
Dear Boosted: Surprise Me and Succeed
The NZ Arts Foundation has launched Boosted, a way to crowdfund arts projects. Now, if you’re like me, you’re probably wondering “don’t we already have several ways of doing …
Easily Creating Twitter Lists From Lists of Twitter Users
Kiwi Foo Camp just ended. This year, I collected Twitter handles as part of registration and I wanted to create a Twitter list. Twitter doesn’t provide an easy way to do this: you’re …
Copywrongs and Katherine Mansfield
Katherine Mansfield is New Zealand’s literary icon: feminist, bisexual, incredibly gifted, part of the Bloomsbury circle of clever people pushing literary form before she died of tuberculosis. …
Things You Learn
Things I learned while I was too busy to write week notes: if you don’t do it, it won’t get done (“delegate” qualifies as “doing”); learning to delegate is as hard …