Advice from AI: Stop using AI
I called out Claude the AI on its hallucination, and asked it how humans should deal with hallucinating AI’s. Claude’s ultimate advice was: stop using me.
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You can throw away your TV and set-top box
Did you know that you can access all of NZ’s free-to-air TV channels through your computer or mobile phone? It’s super easy, even for non-technical people. It’s true that most of NZ’s TV providers have streaming apps, as well as content buried in their websites. But if you just want to have the equivalent of…
Continue reading →EdTech startups, and the key to startup success
Last week was Techweek2020, and I ran a series of EdTech showcases, interviewing NZ Education Technology companies. The highlight of the week for me was Tim Vaughan, the Chief Revenue Officer at Education Perfect talking about what’s made them so successful: There’s no secret, it boils down to: A pathological obession with customer experience, which…
Continue reading →Beyond Tolerance
A friend recently reminded me that I’d given this talk at the National Interfaith Forum over 11 years ago. Oddly, the subject has come up a number of times for me over the last few weeks, in the context of how we should develop and celebrate tolerance. But is tolerance enough? Read on… “Beyond Tolerance”…
Continue reading →2018 – The year of Linux on the desktop
Just kidding, this post is a review of Kubuntu / Ubuntu 18.04 (Bionic Beaver) I’ve been running Linux on my desktop – either directly, or in a virtual machine (VM) – since Mandrake 8.1 in 2002, and I’ve had a love-hate relationship with it. Love: Free (as in both beer and speech) Open Source, configurability,…
Continue reading →Greylisting is looking a bit long in the tooth
Back in 2006, when I set up thinktank.co.nz’s mail server defenses, SPAM was increasing at an astronomical rate. There were a number of tools to use on mail servers to help stem the tide, including greylisting, SpamAssassin, Realtime Blackhole Lists (RBL’s), signature systems including Vipul’s Razor and Pyzor; other technologies such as Sender Policy Framework…
Continue reading →A new approach to government procurement
Government procurement for innovative solutions sucks. Here’s one way to fix it. I was privileged to participate in the Startup Nations Summit Policy Hack earlier this year in Tallinn, Estonia. This one day policy hackathon brought together representatives from all over the world, working on different problems. On the day before the Policy Hack, the…
Continue reading →Introducing the Government Innovation Manifesto
As I work more and more with government innovators, I’ve learned that despite the fact that we come at it from many different angles, there is a common ethos and camaraderie. We’re all after the same thing: to improve government to better serve the governed. They say we get the government we deserve. We say…
Continue reading →The perfect alarm ringtone
One of the true delights of having kids is their help in music discovery. One of mine is a diehard death metal fan, and recently introduced me to Zeal and Ardor. I had a little listen to their YouTube collection, and came to Children’s Summon. It starts off with a pleasantly jingly xylophone solo that…
Continue reading →Building the entrepreneurial community we want to live in
What are the foundations of a great national entrepreneurial community? After the Startup Weekend NZ National Hui in 2015, I drafted a plan based on feedback from the hui’s unconference. It included: Vision: Every New Zealander has the ability, tools, and networks to become an entrepreneur Mission: To provide access to the community, experiences, and…
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