Link Dump was too negative and boring, so i’m calling these posts my Net Mezza Plate (in honor of my fellow trader Kerem Kozan of Deutsche Bank days). The issue of IT business estate planning. Does your business have a Godfather? This one I’m a big believer in. The difference between success and failure – [...]
Interesting call by Bernard Hickey of Interest.co.nz (thanks Diversity for the pointer). He suggests we won’t see the highs in NZ house prices seen last year until 2018 at the earliest. I have quite a different view on this. A big chunk of the NZ price rally in recent years was correcting a real estate [...]
Must see video about awareness from Seth Goddin Extremely scary hi-tech robot from Boston Dynamics funded by the Us Department of Defense unit DARPA iJump have a fantastic podcast/blog in typical NZ content fashion. I love real people talking about real business topics.
I recently watched a TED talk by Ross Lovegrove who is an organic essentialist industrial designer. I really like his work and that of his mentor Henry Moore. Lovegrove looks up to James D.Watson and Leonardo daVinci. I recommend this TED talk if you believe that the human race would be wise to take lessons [...]
Jill Bolte Taylor at TED. The most important viewing you could possibly do this year. Attribution: Leah from Working Solo Dosh Dosh and in particular his latest article on creating a good news blog. If that’s your angle you better read this. The brand gap is a must read slideshow if you are developing a [...]
Inflation is bullish for stock markets longer term. Yep, those of you who remember inflation spikes of decades past might recall doubling of prices across decade periods. Stock markets doubled also, they had to, the math required it. Stock markets aren’t alone. Your home is the biggest asset you’ll probably ever buy but for some [...]
For a while there our kids were fighting a lot and sometimes it would crescendo with a fight over something stupid like toothpaste sharing just before bed. Yep, fluoride, a really stupid thing to fight over. So I hit the net, the books, and even a few Super Nanny episodes to work out this fighting [...]
I’m intrigued by the whole area of applying natural world systems to the business world. This area has fascinated me since I went on my first Nature excursion at nine years of age to the bushland at City Beach (Perth, Australia). We learnt about termite nest construction. Despite being young I understood that the ants [...]
We have heard from our contacts that flooding in Mackay (Australia) recently caused accounting practices and businesses a major data recovery problem due to software based accounting files being lost in the floods. Obviously anyone using SaaS accounting (Software-as-a-Service online accounting) would have escaped the pain that data loss can cause a business. Our Saasu.com [...]