People in aggregate, mostly the parts I find hard to look at directly. A fair amount of it is about Aotearoa New Zealand.

What Makes a Good Politician? August 1, 2026
The one standard we can all agree on, and how our MPs score against it

Why care about institutional design May 14, 2026
How institutions amplify human nature, for good and ill

The Napkin Solution October 20, 2025
Solved, but not implemented

Our Attention is a Multi-Billion Dollar Asset September 21, 2025
Who's Cashing In?

The Offline Economy June 19, 2025
Why financial tools for the unconnected are a genuinely hard problem

Relics of their Departure June 4, 2025
A Chronicle of the Cargo Cults

Money laundering and illicit financial flows May 20, 2025
The industry that facilitates the world's worst crimes

Affirmative Action's Simplistic Approach May 20, 2025
Using a 1-Dimensional Solution for a Multi-Dimensional Problem

Politics in NZ April 25, 2025
What Is, What Should Be, and How To Get There

Brand new world March 10, 2025
A advertisement dystopia

The Treaty of Wai-terra December 1, 2024
A Story of First Contact, Good Intentions, Discrimination and Lost Heritage

White Mars (story prompt) August 10, 2024
A colony of White Supremacists on Mars.

A tripping point May 21, 2022
I tripped over and have something to say about it.

Life as a minority April 7, 2021

Outsourcing Ourselves: When Human Abilities Are Rented, Not Owned July 3, 2020
The hidden dangers of delegating life's 'trivial' tasks to technology

Hosting on AirBnB February 17, 2020
The lives of others

Palm oil in NZ's dairy November 6, 2018
tldr; cows are fed palm kernel.

Wish list of psychological metrics November 5, 2018
What if we could accurately measure {INSERT}?

Nelson lakes, Abel Tasman and Golden bay May 21, 2018
Photos from a holiday.

People are shit August 29, 2017
I am a person.

The House of Hope October 9, 2015
Volunteering at an orphanage.

Karma and merit October 9, 2015
They deserve it

Divest? Milk and the NZ economy July 7, 2015
A letter to Fonterra.