Secret life of Gerald: the New Zealand MP who spent a lifetime crafting a vast imaginary world

Not even Gerald O’Brien’s wife of 60 years knew of the countless hours he spent drawing and writing stories of his parallel world.

These are the kinds of secrets I would like more people to have. Such a welcome change to the usual. What an extraordinary man.

“I talked to him for a year … about all sorts of things, but the imaginary world never came up and it pisses me off that I didn’t know,”

💬 Lucien Rizos - his nephew

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“I could have put the lists into a spreadsheet, but that would mean the client would have to open the email and then open the attachment. If you knew the level of computer literacy my clients have, you would understand why I wanted to avoid that and just have the lists in the body of the email.”

💬 Robin Rendle

“Innovation is about shifting from a culture of management to a culture of leadership.

💬 Brian Solis

“The debate is done: the SPAC fad is over.”

“676 trading SPACs haven’t yet found a mate according to SPAC Research. Of that group, 80% are likely to liquidate, predicts Jay Ritter, a finance professor at University of Florida.

💬 Akash Pasricha - The Information

As I look around the world, he seems to have nailed a truth.

Again, look at that blank sheet of paper. What’s the overriding question that continues to haunt you?

• Who am I?
• Why am I here?
• How do I find meaning in meaning?

💬 Julian Summerhayes

On iCloud Shared Photo Library

“I look forward to taking a sabbatical to combine my photo library with my wife’s.”

💬 Stephen Hacket

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I do so know what he means!

“One way to make that less confusing is to embrace the metaphor from Finder’s Column view (Steve Jobs’s favorite view!) and let the app get wider, displaying multiple levels of hierarchy.”

💬 Jason Snell

Who knew that ‘Steve’ and I shared a favorite finder view!