by JAK | Jul 12, 2025 | culture
Doublespeak is alive and well in Aotearoa NZ in 2025 and so are double standards. It is deeply ironic and dishonest to claim that your project is an attempt to setup principles that would result in better design of laws while at the same time trashing the actual...
by JAK | Jun 13, 2025 | big ideas, industry futures
A couple of weeks ago I was over in Queenstown for the Electrify Queenstown conference. Here are some of my notes. “Electrify Queenstown is a three-day event that brings together community, business, government, and industry to accelerate the transition to a...
by JAK | Jun 17, 2024 | culture, music
Back in the 80’s one of my flatmates worked for a high end audio store. He would sell Linn turntables and similar for what seemed like an absolute fortune. The payoff for our house was that we got to try out some great speaker / amplifier combinations of all...
by JAK | May 15, 2024 | big ideas, industry futures
It seems like the mainstream media stories are missing most of the good news about solar, wind and batteries ( renewables) dramatically improving the electricity generation future for NZ and many other countries. Because I am working on some futures type projects I...
by JAK | May 14, 2024 | big ideas, industry futures
Back in the 90’s early 2000’s I found myself at the BHP training centre in Victoria. I was there as part of an in house training thing for some consulting group that I worked at for a while. The point is – there was a swimming pool and the NZ team...
