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I’ve got a slightly secret, horrendously unhealthy and largely inexplicable addiction to Coke. Not the stuff you inhale through your nose, mind, but rather the sugary water stuff. I manage to limit my consumption to times when I’ve had…

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A couple of weeks ago I attended a private media briefing at the Israeli Embassy in Wellington where select New Zealand journalists were allowed to watch footage captured from the October 7th terrorist attacks in Israel. The footage came…

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While in Las Vegas recently, I spent a little bit of time at Caesars Palace. Like everything in Vegas, Caesars is an oversized and tacky remake of something far more grand – in this case ancient Rome. Perhaps it…

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I spent last week in Las Vegas attending a technology event that I go to every year. Now Las Vegas is absolutely the city of my nightmares and it certainly hasn’t improved in the 12 months since I was…

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The other day we celebrated my youngest son’s 21st birthday. As is customary for me, the speech was written in my head while out for a run. My family jokes about both the fact that I write speeches years…

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Recently our 20-year-old dishwasher gave up the ghost. To be honest, I quite like hand-washing dishes and we spent the first decade or so of married life without a dishwasher. As I started travelling internationally for work, however, and…

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I’m a big fan of archeology. In particular, I have been fortunate to visit Roman ruins on a few occasions and find myself imagining what it must have been like for those individuals actually in the Roman arena, striving…

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One thing about the passage of time is that it affords us the ability to look back and see how much has changed. There’s an old Bill Gates quote that says that: We overestimate how much we can achieve…

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I’m fortunate to serve on the board of an iwi organisation. Having the opportunity to get to know the intricacies of Te Ao Maori, even at a slightly superficial level, is fascinating. One concept that I’ve started to get…

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I’m an incredibly proud New Zealander. I relish the fact that I was born and grew up in the most beautiful place in the world. I love the fact that, while we have a long way to go when…

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