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A collection of Kingi's perspectives on business, art, culture and other stuff.

Water Crisis & Water Tanks
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Water Crisis & Water Tanks

As part of our shift to avert the Auckland water crisis, have taken two affirmative steps. 1. Installed water tanks. 2. Purchased the domain watercrisis.nz and started ideation on connection points/planning document.

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COVID19 Plan: Grow a Garden
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COVID19 Plan: Grow a Garden

Really enjoyed building our garden end of March. Have a couple of time-lapse videos to share. We now eat carrots, spinach, bok-choy and save $300 to $600 per month.

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September & October Travels
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September & October Travels

Here are some photos I took during September and October. Had a quick visit to Mauna Kea, Hawai'i and shooting in Kaiteriteri, New Zealand.

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5 Key Investment Criteria
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5 Key Investment Criteria

Silicon Valley's finest firm give their advice on key criteria they consider a venture investment opportunity.

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State of A.I and Machine Learning 2019
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State of A.I and Machine Learning 2019

In January a friend asked me how long I expect to have a job (because machines are taking over) 😳. I didn't have a response but now I have more insight...

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Venture Spotlight: 28 June 19
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Venture Spotlight: 28 June 19

I like supporting indie hackers. Here's a couple of awesome projects that independent coders/designers are making. If you like them, show your support by sharing on your social media, subscribing to the author and trying out their free plans.

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Ignite Your Innovation & Creativity
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Ignite Your Innovation & Creativity

Without creativity, innovation might just suck - since creativity plays such a major role in the process of innovation we can learn from other industries about innovation. Here are three things to foster innovation in your projects.

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    Kingi Gilbert
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Sentiment Analysis: Auckland Brand
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Sentiment Analysis: Auckland Brand

Very impressed with the 'Destination Think! 'report on the Auckland brand. You can read my quick personal summary here.

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Zoom's Next Direction
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Zoom's Next Direction

What is the value of international politics to a husband, father of two young girls, self-employed professional?

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How to Be an Effective Learner
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How to Be an Effective Learner

What to integrate and what not to integrate? I view technology from a growth & marketing perspective (as well as nuts and bolts). Here's some learning's.

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Amplify or Firebase?
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Amplify or Firebase?

Started researching Amazon Web Services Amplify, I got the feeling Google Firebase was reaching its limits.

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    Kingi Gilbert
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Spotify's Business Model & Two Fresh Ideas ⚡️
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Spotify's Business Model & Two Fresh Ideas ⚡️

This analysis was completed for an assignment as part of a Wharton Executive Education paper I am completing. It shares two ideas for Spotify to convert free users into premium users.

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Future Thought: A.I Marketplace
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Future Thought: A.I Marketplace

In the future, we'll pay for what we get when it comes to artificial intelligence. Reading this interesting article from a group of leading artificial intelligence researchers.

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    Kingi Gilbert
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Home is now Jekyll + Firebase + Airtable
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Home is now Jekyll + Firebase + Airtable

Have started re-writing the Ignite Studios website front-end into Bootstrap + Jekyll. ⚡️Deploys to Firebase. To learn more about static website click here. Here is a preview of the home page. Thanks to Chris

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Crowdsourcing with TripAdvisor
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Crowdsourcing with TripAdvisor

This analysis was completed for an assignment as part of a Wharton Executive Education paper I am completing. It discusses the pros and cons of a crowdsourcing business model.

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Perception of Māori - Past, Present, Future
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Perception of Māori - Past, Present, Future

This article discusses the use of information to manipulate public perception of Maori. It briefly talks about Maori response and finally presents five things that can be done to fight a 150 year

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Information Disruption: Ahead of the Machine
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Information Disruption: Ahead of the Machine

Curation of articles on information warfare, computational propaganda, psychological operations, disinformation, fake news, hate, right versus left, technology overload, attention, hyper-partisanship, humane technology and dignity. Aviv Ovadya @metaviv "The Terrifying Future of

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    Kingi Gilbert
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Outside the Bubble
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Outside the Bubble

A brilliant way to conglomerate the threads into particular topic areas. Great idea, see it here! BuzzFeed News is launching an experiment this week called "Outside Your Bubble," an attempt to

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    Kingi Gilbert
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Facebook News Feed: Redirecting the stream
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Facebook News Feed: Redirecting the stream

A simple question: "If censorship is not practiced at Facebook then how come porn doesn't make it into the newsfeed?" Facebook isn't 4chan, it censors content for the public good (values

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    Kingi Gilbert
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Local: More Than A Label: Sir Bob Jones versus Renae Maihi ... the media headlines
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Local: More Than A Label: Sir Bob Jones versus Renae Maihi ... the media headlines

Dear TVNZ Editors & Headline Writers, Thank you for changing the headline on one of your articles written by Emily Cooper. It used to be headlined: "Sir Bob Jones to sue Maori

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    Kingi Gilbert
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Evil? Your website is competing against Google's search results
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Evil? Your website is competing against Google's search results

Journalists have raised questions about the actual definition of what Google considered "evil". What is the motivation to keep a website going if less people visit because they find everything they

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    Kingi Gilbert
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Distortion: the Media's Role in the Political Process
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Distortion: the Media's Role in the Political Process

David versus Goliath. How can we help to amplify the voice of the underdog in a media empire? The news media today does not just report the news but also represents the views

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    Kingi Gilbert
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The future of news is filtering trash
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The future of news is filtering trash

Pretty stunned by the gall of young people in Veles Macedonia making thousands each month from pro-Donald Trump anti-Obama news, see news articles here. I am also disappointed that corporate news media are

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    Kingi Gilbert
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Social media, the confusion of truth and social progress
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Social media, the confusion of truth and social progress

To put this in everyday language, Karl Marx believed that capitalism would eventually destroy itself and lead to a better form of social organisation with greater vitality for the people in the society.

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    Kingi Gilbert
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The problem with oil
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The problem with oil

Everyday we fill-up that gasoline tank, we support the oppression of financial freedom, we support the oppression of the middle-east, the degradation of the environment and worse, we keep in place a political

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    Kingi Gilbert
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