by JAK | Dec 5, 2014 | culture, video
Someone wiser than me once said that “life is wasted on the living” (Douglas Adams) and I know what he meant. I’ve also been lucky enough to meet people who have had near death experiences and one side effect is to make sure that every day counts and...
by JAK | Oct 22, 2014 | big ideas, culture
Today I heard 3 economists discussing the Piketty book with regards to the NZ economy. The Piketty book “Capital in the Twenty-First Century” is I suspect a mostly unread best seller that many of us think we should read but where to start… And more...
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...
by JAK | Jun 16, 2014 | big ideas, industry futures
On Wednesday this week we have Matt Mullenweg in Auckland for a flying visit. Matt is CEO of Automattic which is the company behind WordPress. As the co founder of WordPress Matt has also learned a huge amount about how to grow a distributed business which is global...
by JAK | Jun 15, 2014 | big ideas, TEDx
TEDxAuckland 2014 event will be held on August 16th this year. The theme is Ascending – “a celebration of resilience, courage amidst adversity and the achievements of individuals who are making a better world.” This will be the 5th TEDxAuckland event...
by JAK | Jun 6, 2014 | big ideas, industry futures, video
New Zealand is a small snow covered rock south of Fiji that depends on its clean, green “100% pure” marketing slogan to pretend that we value our part of the planet. It is very clear that our politicians are too busy with the sophistry of their own...
