November 2011
5 posts
drone used to film riot police →
This is only going to get more common
historic polling data for nz election →
Global village construction set →
this is absolutely revolutionary
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October 2011
6 posts
I'm getting arrested app →
There really is an app for everything these days
Turning coffee grounds into mushrooms →
Anyone in NZ want to give this a shot?
Food Matters documentary →
Free screenings for the next week
September 2011
10 posts
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Some fascinating facts about dabbawalas
Have been reading up about the dabbawalas (lunch delivery men in mumbai) on wikipedia - here are some highlights.
In 1890 Mahadeo Havaji Bachche started a service with 100 men
They formed an informal union in 1930
Formed a charitable trust in 1956
Currently around 200,000 boxes of lunch are delivered every day by ~4500 dabbawalas
Each dabbawala earns $40-$80 USD / month
In 2002, Forbes...
WatchBest ted talk I have seen in a while - Tim Harford on the God complex and trial and error
Resilient communities wiki →
Love the direction @mymiiu is growing in
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Watchmy best take on an introduction to @enspiral
“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you...”
– Mark Twain
August 2011
30 posts
Leadership lessons from burning man →
thanks to @kellective for the link
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Visual tool for recruiting →
I like the idea of this, keen to give it a try one day
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Interesting paper on financing social enterprise →
Precious moments
I really don’t like those viral little messages you see come up on facebook where they ask you to repost something if you agree but this one got me hook line and sinker and I couldn’t resist.
There are 5 things in life you cannot recover: A stone…after it’s thrown. A word…after it is said. An occasion…after it’s missed. The time…after it’s...
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Enspiral: The #LiveBelow Buzz →
ok, I admit it - the quote about copying a food plan this weekend was mine. But hey, I’ve been busy…
enspiral:
There’s a buzz in the Enspiral office this week, and it’s not due to the snow outside.
We’re very excited by the forthcoming ‘Live Below The Line’ challenge that 12 or so of us are taking part in next week.
Check out our main blog and ‘challenge to a duel’ to Wellington...
I Urgently need to find $219.76
This is really important - Sam Rye is currently leading the Enspiral team in our Live below the line fundraising efforts (http://fundraise.livebelowtheline.co.nz/enspiral) and to be honest I don’t think it’s good for him.
He keeps walking around the office with his chest puffed out acting like he owns the place, dropping comments like “So, how much have you raised today...
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On Rats, Sleep, and Startups →
Biz Stone (Twitter Co-founder) on why sleep is important
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“We humans have the brains and the means to reach real planetary sustainability....”
– Jeremy Grantham
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NZ Declaration on Open and Transparent government →
such a good step in the right direction
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WatchSome of the best advice I’ve come across for someone wanting to start a business - you should really get the book - http://sivers.org/a
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Universities as you know them are dead
Two big trends are about to intersect and the result will give the higher education space a shake reminiscent of what has happened in the music industry.
Trend 1: Around the world governments are reducing the amount they subsidize university education and the amount students have to pay is going through the roof. Whether this is good or bad is irrelevant, it is happening and I think it is...
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Stop Coddling the Super-Rich →
Sometimes Warren Buffett is pure class - awesome opinion piece, bang on the money.
dwellman:
The more I read from and about Warren Buffett the more I respect him as a business leader. I wish more business leaders had ethics, principles and integrity. (and that is all i have to say on that)
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Farewell to a recovering plunderer →
The eulogy by Paul Hawken is beautiful.
“Our economy by and large operates by stealing from the future, selling it in the...”
– http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/alex_steffen_sees_a_sustainable_future.html
WatchAbsolutely fascinating talk about the similarities between cities, companies and living systems. What struck me most is the theory seems to indicate that substantial collapse of cities as we know them is inevitable - an ever increasing treadmill which requires innovation at faster and faster rates.
I'm getting whipped here →
Any help would be appreciated, doing the live below the line challenge was my idea and now I’m starting to lag behind on the fundraising front.
http://jonathanstark.com/card/ →
Cool social experiment where a guy loaded up his coffee card and gave access to everyone to use to test social sharing of physical goods with a digital currency.
http://www.stuff.co.nz/oddstuff/5386534/Man-caught-... →
“Only later did he realise it might not be legal and sent a question to Sweden’s Radiation Authority, which answered by sending the police.”
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Bringing the farm to the restaurant →
Still Loving Asana →
I’m slowly converting everyone in Enspiral over through one on one demos and it is making it much easier to collaborate on things - get’s all those todo requests out of emails and into a structured system that is actually designed for task management.
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WatchTalking about Enspiral up in Auckland, quality is pretty rough