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Just letting this one sit. I mean it’s obvious what it should be … isn’t it? What is your favorite quote?
🎈041/366 Too Hard
I think 41 marks the point where I have to accept that the 366 format is too hard and intensive to manage. So this is where we are headed … wherever ‘this’ is. As I type this into the 41st entry it is actually day 80! I have had too much going on - so have been just dropping markers. I needed to make it easier. I have made it easier.
Gone - the little emojis in the title - I mean sometimes they didn’t work anyway!
Gone - that fancy last / next navigation.
Gone - always having a big picture.
Don’t get me wrong - they will appear - just not going to force it.
🎈040/366 | 🇫🇷 The 9th Arrondissement
… it’s also February 9th .
Stretching?
All Change? More Of The Same?
Life can move slowly.
But then it doesn’t.
Case in point …. or is it?
🔗 Me on LinkedIN 12th December 2023
Resignation 14 December 2023
🔗 Business Desk Reporting 19th December 2023
Good result?
It’s a start.
Then we learn that the new chair is Jenifer Kerr - wait, she’s the chair of NZTE.
Indeed she is.
We now have one person chairing NZTE and Callaghan - thought the profiles are slightly different. (I wonder why?)
NZTE
Jennifer has extensive governance experience, both in New Zealand and overseas. Her current positions include chair of Worksfe, deputy chair of Callaghan Innovation, a director of Eke Panuku Development Auckland and Waipa Networks, and member of New Zealand Police’s Audit and Risk Committee. Former governance roles include director of New Zealand Rugby and Counties Manukau Rugby Union. Previously, Jennifer has been general manager of customers, people and environment at Transpower, former group director of human resources and health and safety at Fonterra, and group manager of human resources for Mobil Oil for all of Europe. She has run her own consultancy and has strong experience in organisational strategy, chief executive recruitment and succession, executive remuneration and stakeholder relationships. Jennifer is a member of Global Women and has degrees in arts and social sciences from the University of Waikato. She is of Ngāti Mutunga and Ngāti Tama descent.
Callaghan
Jennifer Kerr has extensive international experience in the HR and health, safety and wellbeing sectors in North America, Europe, the United Kingdom and New Zealand. She was formerly General Manager of Customers, People and Environment at Transpower and Group Director Human Resources and Health & Safety at Fonterra. She has also operated her own consultancy business, and prior to that was the Group Manager of Human Resources for Mobil Oil for all of Europe. Jennifer has governance experience in the United Kingdom and New Zealand, including pension plan trustee roles in both countries. Jennifer is a member of New Zealand Global Women and has taken an active role during her career in mentoring and coaching other women to achieve their potential. She is of Ngāti Mutunga and Ngāti Tama descent.
One observation - nowhere in either of those bios is there a mention of anything to do with ‘RandD’, ‘Innovation’ ‘Tech’ and all the various off shoots and things that those two orgizations are there for. I guess it is clear what the focus is.
And maybe something else ..
Ever since I arrived in NZ I have been amazed by the sheer number of governmental organizations that float around the country ‘doing’ ‘things’. It’s a country of 5 million people. These are the organizations I have identified so far that brave entrepreneurs navigate for help.
- Callaghan Innovation
- NZTE
- NZGCP
- MBIE
- NZGIF
- KiwiNet
- AUT
… not to mention the ‘chambers’ and ‘ema’ and ‘business nz’ and ‘eda’s’ and ‘incubators’ and ‘accelerators’ and … (thankyou Andy)
Here’s the question - as the new administration start implementing their plan - how many closures and/or mergers should we expect?
What do you think?
And is Callaghan and NZTE first?
📸 Side Hustle?
💬 You might guess that the I hate the name of the book, but there’s more. Read the sentence. The whole thing is just wrong.
Thinking it’s not wrong.
I thought it was only me that 💬 said that.
🎈039/366 | ⏪ The Reverse Network Effect
Back in the day a technological marvel such as this would cost you hundred and hundreds of dollars. (No joking kids). Of course the number of people you could communicate using such a device - back in the day - could be counted in the millions. So $10 does sound like a bargain, except.
Back in the Day - the cost to connection ratio was very, very small.
For example and being conservative and for the sake of round numbers …
Cost : $1000
Number of People You Can Connect To : 10,000,000
Cost to Connection Ratio : $0.0001
Today’s numbers … with the same simplicity assumptions;
Cost : $10
Number of People You Can Connect To : 10
Cost to Connection Ratio : $1
Now THAT is inflation … not to mention that back in the day the Network effect meant that you cut per connection was falling daily., whilst today, growing exponentially.
💬 I knew there was a good reason to procrastinate.
I wonder if ‘my beautiful wife’ is an employee, vendor or coworker.
🎈038/366 | 🚇 A Stack Of Subs ❓
.. no, not exactly. Not a submarine - a sub .. like a subway?
A Train Station?
🤦♂️
Oh no. Not a ‘Subway’ … A ‘Subway sandwich’.
In fact make it a stack.
That’s right …A ‘stack of subs’.
💬 Proactive TL;DR
💬 via Stowe Boyd
Friend of mine mentioned ‘Cyclades’, a French project from ‘back in the day’.
You know, they were solving for problems that TCP/IP was trying to solve before there was TCP/IP.
🤯
I did just find this ‘billy-doo’.
We get so used to the narrative we are told. Don’t we?
Anyone explored 🔗 beeper.com ?
Is it in use anywhere - or is it just a giant wait list?
Watched first episode of 📽️ The Brothers Sun last night. I am worried - surely it can only get worse at this point?
Heard on a conference call
My son attends xxx University .. what a great school. Great school. It’s so clean you can eat off the floor.
… just struck me as an unexplored metric of quality in education.