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Video Editing
Perhaps you’ve made a video before, perhaps you haven’t. Either way, I can guarantee you that it takes longer than you imagine. Perhaps that is true for all creative endeavors. As I reflect on it, I think there might be something to that. Videos, like paintings or gardens, are never really “finished”. There is always…
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Helpful ears
We all have friends that we can lean on when we need advice, but we often don’t reach out as much as we should. You’d be surprised by their advice and insights, and how much people really are willing to help.
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Broken Hill, Broken Clock
I found out yesterday a strange geographic fact. Working and traveling abroad requires me to be up to date with time zones; which always gets me to thinking about the curious case of South Australia, which has a 30 minute difference to the Eastern Seaboard. I don’t know anywhere else in the world that has…
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Same time, but different
After a wonderful three weeks up in Northland, we are back in Auckland for the week. Ultimately, we decided to fly. It’s a short one, only 40 minutes, and amazingly, required no ID check or security. Clearly the number of radicalised terrorists in the semi-tropical regions of the South Pacific are either low in number…
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Do or die
ChatGPT is launching their latest model, 4.5, next month. It’s an important milestone for two reasons. One, despite what the bots on X say, OpenAI and ChatGPT are the flagship of the industry. There are plenty of ride-share companies, but only one Uber. Being in that position means there will always be a LOT of…
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Keep it fun
I have been spending the afternoon coding on Cursor, an AI-powered code editor. It’s had a few updates, which are really, really awesome. The one that grabbed my attention, and that I just had to share, came from the Composer. Here, you can write commands for what you want coded, and the AI will write…
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Happy Families
Tolstoy famously wrote that “all happy families are alike, each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.” Known as the Anna Karenina Principle, this observation has been applied to everything from equities to microbiomes. How? The basic idea is that there are countless ways to fail, but to succeed, you need a common set…
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Chart of the week
I don’t know if this will be a regular feature, but I saw this chart recently, and just had to share it. This is number of Software Jobs posted on Indeed in the past four years. It’s a bleak picture if this is the game you’re in, and an even worse one if you’re trying…
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Three years
This is how long the war in Ukraine has raged. I remember the day it happened. I was at my old job at Kiwibank, and our entire team had a live stream of Kiev in the corner of our screen, waiting for the tanks to roll in. Everyone and their dog expected it to happen…
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The White Lotus
Season three is back, baby! I’m not much of a tv guy. While I don’t shy away from YouTube, it’s rare that I will indulge in a series. That might change with the White Lotus, one of my favourite shows of the past few years. Despite missing the first half, I was quickly thrilled that…