by JAK | Oct 1, 2014 | big ideas, culture, TEDx, video
Back on August 16th, we in Auckland celebrated TEDxAuckland # 5 with another series of inspiring talks from locals with big ideas and great stories. Now a number of those 2014 talks are online and you can check them out. One of the talks I was most looking forward to...
by JAK | Aug 17, 2014 | culture, TEDx
Today is the day after TEDxAuckland 2014. It is almost too soon to tell how good it really was. That may not make much sense but every TEDx talk has at least 3 lives. These are: 1/ On the day – impressions & impacts from the live audience and secondary...
by JAK | Aug 11, 2014 | big ideas, culture
One of the ironies of culture is that it is often invisible to those swimming along in it (in a manner of speaking.) By that I mean when we want to see change in a culture the first step is often quite confronting to those who see their “norms” and in many...
by JAK | Jul 25, 2014 | big ideas
Popular location based mobile app FourSquare has made itself a case study on how not to communicate or manage its users. A few days ago they stopped their legacy app from working and insisted that all users download a new app called swarm. That new app has all kinds...
by JAK | Jun 19, 2014 | big ideas, general business, industry futures, WordPress
Last night Matt Mullenweg told the story of WordPress and how it had all happened. It was a kind of a one man solo theatre performance with a stream of anecdotes counterpointing each step along the journey. I have been lucky enough to hear Matt speak a few times over...
