Insights

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.

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.

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

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...

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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