🎈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.
🎈037/366 | 🔁 Serendipity
Is it catching❓Or is it just plain old serendipity❓
It was January 1st when I had the idea for the 366 series. It wasn’t fully formed, but I had to start. And, as the posts started to happen over the next few days, there were different ideas and formats running around in my head and being tried out. With the layouts, every time I locked down on a new one - I went back to the older 366 posts and adjusted. (Not the post itself - the layout.) I have never been diagnosed with OCD, but I have my suspicions.
It has now all settled down, a flow has been building, so much so that I have topics in my head that are maybe a week out.
The trouble is that some of the topics are big, and I know I don’t have time on that day and some get really big so have to flag with 🚧 - my signal that I will be coming back.
🖇️ Like this one for example, which I flagged with the emoji - but I know there is so much more to say that I even added words for more context.
Let Me Explain
I happen to share 366 posts into specific, yet different communities to solicit feedback. 🖇️ This one for example, has spawned comments applying the thinking to a game, which then moved on to applying that game to corporate workshops. Which is just brilliant really. No idea if any of that will take off - we will have to see .. I just like the idea that
- a post on LinkedIN by someone I do not know resulted in
- a comment from someone I do know that caused me to
- write a post about how that triggered a connection to something that I bang on and on about which meant I had to
- find that original post so I could share that, so it made sense
- which then made the 2nd person in the chain seek to clarify the idea I was spouting
- which I confirmed that it was indeed
- so he then took that and suggested that a game could be developed around the process, to which I said
- or maybe turn it into a framework for Corporate Workshops and ….
… and that’s where we have got to so far. In amongst all of that I have some actions I need to do to close some loops - but it’s all because of the serendipity of the different people coming together in this chain of thinking. #Awesome
But - and here’s the weird part … this wasn’t the serendipitous event that I was referencing when I first ideated the theme of this post. Not at all.
The thread started as a simple idea that as I came up with this project - so too did Om, who I follow and read anyway - but within his ‘river’, he has a sub-theme called 🔗 Project 36
I don’t really follow his photos (though they are really rather good), and I became aware of it because of 🔗this post on his blog, which ends with these words …
They really resonated with me. ()Om often does) and on the 3rd🖇️ January I linked to his New Years message because those words there in my mind right at that point because just three days in I was already feeling the enormity of what I had challenged myself to deliver, daily.
I also have a couple of posts in the 366 series that are very short - to maintain the flow - but they don’t take much time. Like🖇️ this one from the 28th January - it’s a quick photo!
But there’s more. fellow MicroBlogger 🔗 TeeJay seems to have also latched on to the one a day post. In his case - every single day he is putting a lovely image that he takes on that day.
Turns out - for him it is not a new idea. 🔗As his new year post points out. and now his daily photo comes into my RSS feed each and every day - reminding me to stay the course.
And to tie it all back. This whole post was one of those quick throwaways. I had the idea for a ‘serendipity’ post when I had seen Om and Teejay - it was up my sleeve to write it when I was short of time. Like today.
Short of time? What the hell happened?
The observant amongst you will have spotted that an ‘eye candy’ image accompanies every post. In this case, I wrote my two lines and hopped over to Leonardo to generate my image.
This was the first image to come out …
Seriously? Cubes? After just writing a a long post that featured a cube. Is Leonardo watching me? Of course I had to connect those dots and unpack that serendipity.
And with that … done. Time to post. A quick check reveals the word count to be roughly 100 times my original target. I know I am hitting the send button with the post not fully proofed, which is why 🚧 is at the top.
I will come back later to make whatever inevitable fixes I will need to do. For now though … I feel I have rambled to the end of this garden path and I can sense it has come around full circle back to where it all started.
If you are still with me. Thankyou for seeing it through.
💬
I really don’t like ‘PM’ - so I take great delight from reading pieces like this. Robert Hutton is seriously funny and yet its true.
If you want to read the whole thing - 🖇️ I Put it up on Readwise - and you can speed read my highlights - some real zingers.
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”One afternoon, when I was four years old, my father came home, and he found me in the living room in front of a roaring fire, which made him very angry. Because we didn’t have a fireplace.”
💬 Victor Borge
Via John Naughton