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It’s the start of a new year, which is traditionally a good time to reflect upon what we do by looking backwards, cogitating on what we’d like to achieve in the year ahead and drawing some kind of pathway…

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The other day I was scrolling through LinkedIn and came across a post that caught my attention. Someone was making the familiar point that they were incredibly busy. That is hardly unusual in itself, but what struck me was…

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I found myself bleary-eyed, wandering through the enormous halls of yet another Las Vegas conference centre, the kind of place where jet lag and over-enthusiastic air conditioning make you question your life choices. It was AWS re:Invent, which always…

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I’ve always had a slightly odd relationship with sharp things. Years ago, when I was a kitchen hand in a Middle Eastern restaurant, I spent far too much time obsessively honing the tiny blade on my Swiss Army knife.…

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No matter how far I roam, no matter where I am in the world, something always draws me back to Aotearoa. There’s something about landing at Auckland Airport after crossing oceans, and just as the plane descends, Loyal by…

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So many traumatic things seem to have happened to me in the early morning. As a thirteen-year-old, I remember being woken up in the early hours to the news that my father had passed away. Two years ago, a…

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I like to think of myself as a fairly egalitarian guy and am far more comfortable in a pair of shorts and a T-shirt than I am in a suit. Indeed, since my historical travel has seen me staying…

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The other morning I rolled out of bed at 5am, laced up my running shoes, and headed out in the dark. It wasn’t some heroic act of discipline so much as simple maths: I needed a few extra kilometres…

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A few years back I found myself in a trendy Auckland café, the sort of place where the menus were printed on recycled paper and the barista could talk at length about the provenance of the oat milk. I’d…

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The other day I was talking to someone about their kids, and they remarked upon the fact that their teenage sons were lacking direction and motivation. They seemingly spend much of their time locked away in their bedrooms, playing…

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