Peak Performance - Elevate Your Game
If you read one book this summer, I would recommend: Peak Performance: Elevate Your Game, Avoid Burnout, and Thrive with the New Science of Success
“Brad Stulberg and Steve Magness have written an essential playbook for success, happiness, and getting the most out of ourselves and our lives.” ― Arianna Huffington, author of Thrive and The Sleep Revolution
Co-Parenting With Alexa
Today, we’re no longer trusting machines just to do something, but to decide what to do and when to do it. The next generation will grow up in an age where it’s normal to be surrounded by autonomous agents, with or without cute names. The Alexas of the world will make a raft of decisions for my kids and others like them as they proceed through life — everything from whether to have mac and cheese or a green bowl for dinner to the perfect gift for a friend’s birthday to what to do to improve their mood or energy and even advice on whom they should date. In time, the question for them won’t be, “Should we trust robots?” but “Do we trust them too much?”
Why Are We Still Classifying Companies by Industry?
For more than 60 years, investors, analysts, business leaders, and even governments, have classified companies based on industries. First there were Standard Industry Classification codes, which were introduced in 1937, then the North American Industry Classification System, and now we have Standard and Poor’s Global Industry Classification Standard (GICS). Even though these systems are updated regularly, we can no longer rely on standards and measures that were developed in a different age to reflect today’s realities — especially when we’re evaluating tech firms.
Productivity our silent killer of the NZ dream
Why is it so hard to, as they say, "work smarter, not harder"? One area where New Zealanders are not "working smarter" at scale yet is in the use of ICT.
New Zealanders are enthusiastic consumers of technology. Kiwis love global technology brands like Apple, Facebook, Netflix, Amazon and Google, and are generally quick to take up attractive new technologies. However, it's businesses that drive productivity, not consumers - and here the story is less rosy.
5 minute read - we all need to do better on this score, I wrote a little about it in Death by a Thousand Cuts