Continuing our consideration of what are the new ideas. Where are the new opportunities? This week we have an American, who has brought his skills to New Zealand to utilise the great engineering mecca this City really takes for granted. Gary Freedman wrote this to me recently: This country has … [Read more...]
A theme of ’Bringing New Zealand to you’.
I just loved this idea by Geoff Ross, a South Island farmer and Executive chair of the Moa group. Geoff is advocating how we all can connect to the world. Each one of us. We can become the promoters of our lifestyle and our products. We, each of us, can become NZ’s salespeople to the world. … [Read more...]
Our Media
Gavin Ellis is a wise public commentator on the media. Recently he wrote this column in Newsroom As I have noted many times, why doesn’t the Government to tax the hell out of Facebook and Google who are garrotting our media by removing their advertising revenue? Why isn’t there a tax on … [Read more...]
Comments from a valuer who read last week’s notes about Central City bars:
I agree about your comments on bars on the strip. Like many business post-Covid the economics of the model just don’t work. Retail/office and to a lesser extent industrial premise rent/values are in for a huge shake up. We had a friend who won the prestigious retail shop of the year around 7 – 8 … [Read more...]
Pubs:
We were delighted when we found that on Thursday this week, we will be able to open Smash Palace. It has been a challenging time for us all and, we hope an outdoor bar, even in winter, will attract customers and we can start paying our expenses again. We have been saved by the Government’s … [Read more...]
A message to those who rubbish cycle lanes:
This is an interesting article from Australia. There a cycle retailer said that cycles are the “new toilet paper”. https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2020/apr/22/bicycles-are-the-new-toilet-paper-bike-sales-boom-as-coronavirus-lockdown-residents-crave-exercise. This sentiment has been … [Read more...]
The death of the space called “the office”
We have had a chance to see what it really is like to not be bound to working in an office for 8 hours per day. Now is the time to re-set our thinking on this way of working. Each week we will try to have articles on challenging what was seen as normal in the past and which we now should be … [Read more...]
David Hall on Consumer Decision Making, Nudge Theory
This week’s article from Steven Moe: Steven has continued his wonderful commitment to promoting ideas in our society. It is an admirable task and he really has some impressive people who talk with him. Here is the latest: David Hall on Consumer Decision Making, Nudge Theory, Political … [Read more...]
Never discard something, it could become useful:
I have been lamenting the “stuff” which I had to dispose of when my garage was pulled down, and a new one built to replace it. I’m back working on my old cars and those useful “things” which I had squirreled away for years just aren’t around to assist the task at hand. I haven’t been able to go out … [Read more...]
Challenges about how our language is too often written in a confusing manner:
What does this statement mean? "A mammalian creature with a covering of dense keratin strands and a carnivorous diet dentition positioned itself on its hind limbs in a posture suggesting a resting phase on a surface of woven fabric specifically designed to cover residential base surfaces", The … [Read more...]
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