I have been decidedly absent from the world as i knew it for the past years and i really needed that break. It did help that this break even enforced some pretty drastic isolation and made me hide in …
I hit the end of another one of my 10 year cycles and my iterative approach to live meant that I needed to start some new experiments. Interesting enough my live always had those decade iterations, at…
This post was originally published on the iwantmyname blog: https://iwantmyname.com/blog/10-years-of-changing-the-industry When we started iwantmyname 10 years ago we sat down and defined an impact st…
Working on some new projects and found myself again trying to find the best way to integrate a JS frontend with a Phoenix app that renders the login page and some static public pages and then redirect…
I wrote about beeing hooked on our phones and how habit forming apps took our our live over at the iwantmyname blog. Check it out here: Hooked on phones…
I triggered quite a few comments on a blog post I recently wrote on the iwantmyname blog about the term “startup” and my current thoughts on the startup industry. I forgot to link it here, so please h…
I have helped build and contribute to the NZ startup community since around 2008 and during that time have been granted access to many groups, back channels, side channels, communication channels that…
UPDATES BELOW For most of my adult life I was to some degree involved in internet infrastructure and the open source community. These two communities are special in one very fundamental trait, they on…
Intentions for people to engage in any community are as diverse as the people that engage. Many intentions means many desired outcomes and that means that tensions may arise from simply trying to “do …
I did a lot of thinking about ways how we could build a more humane and inclusive startup scene in New Zealand but the recent events in the US made me think a little bigger. These ideas are very much …
I wrote a post about perception and my “don’t complain but fix” policy for this year over at the iwantmyname blog. Head over to the iwantmyname blog and tweet your comments.…
Last weekend I co-facilitated Startup Weekend Taranaki with Pascale , a team that in my view works very well: two funny accents, two funny last names, two very different backgrounds so we cover a larg…
Back in July I wrote about going back to FreeBSD and I wanted to give a quick update on that. To sum it up, it was so painless it nearly does not warrant a blog post. I tinkered around a bit with 10.3…
My first FreeBSD version was 2.2.8, for context, that was in the late 90s. I started running FreeBSD on my desktops back then, and even managed to get it onto a few laptops. I also build servers and f…
TL;DR: Thursday, 14th January 2016, 5:30 at Bridge Street I am passionate about community and passionate about empowering people to realise their ideas, as opposed to just talking about them. I am als…
I care about entrepreneurship because I believe in the power of collaboration and the power of people working together for fun and profit, quite literally. I see entrepreneurship as a way to create re…
I gave an interview about Startup Weekends and what draws me to them. Read it on the Venture Centre blog and tweet your comments.…
When I think about building software I try to see where we need to end up in order to help the customer right now and then work backwards from there. Because I am really bad at knowing what customers …
Writing software is an interesting process. It transforms abstract concepts, feature requests, vague ideas into something people can interact with. It is a modern way of making ideas real, tangible, v…
Last week I attended an interesting conference called open source//open society that brought together an interesting cross section of geekdom that I have not seen at a conference before. I had discuss…
Linking to a post I wrote for the iwantmyname blog a few days ago in the leadup for OS//OS - a conference about open source and open society. Read the post on the iwantmyname blog…
We are starting a new experiment in our life, it is called “project mountain retreat”. The back story to this experiment is that Manu, ever since we first were in St Arnaud and looked at Lake Rotoiti,…
Two years ago I was part of a bunch of people who put in a submission on the Telecommunications (Interception Capability and Security) Bill. Dave wrote about it here: http://dave.moskovitz.co.nz/2013/…
I read Derek Sivers post Getting out of a bad place today and it made me clean up my blog, re-launch it, collect a few old posts I had scattered around and release a post that I, myself, had only shar…
A post I wrote for the iwantmyname blog about sub domains and how not cleaning them up every now and then can lead to unexpected behaviour. read the post on the iwantmyname blog…
I attended a 4 hour work week meetup in Berlin yesterday and noticed one big difference between me and many that were there. Tim Ferris, the author or 4 hour work week, starts from the point of view t…
A post I wrote for the iwantmyname blog about culture and how we hire people read the post on the iwantmyname blog…
Since a while we live in Berlin for a change. It is really interesting to see how much New Zealand changed me and to see how different things look to me now, that I have distance to them. The most obv…
A post I wrote for the iwantmyname blog about culture and our work place policy. read the post on the iwantmyname blog…
A post I wrote for the iwantmyname blog about culture and how we decide on who gets how much. read the post on the iwantmyname blog…
A post I wrote for the iwantmyname blog about ALIAS DNS records and why they break the internet. read the post on the iwantmyname blog…
There are two Startup Weekends coming up in Hawkes Bay and Taurange. Startup Weekends are a perfect opportunity to learn how to transform an idea to a MVP, a minimal viable product. Startup Weekends a…
When starting a company there is a lot of stuff that needs to be looked at. There are lots of things that need your attention and many things will not be talked about because there is simply no time f…
A key task for any co-founder is getting advice. Especially if you are new to something it is key to ask. It is important to understand that others have more experience in things that you will bang yo…
Leadership is a tricky thing and over the years I have tried different styles and was exposed to different styles. I have observed many every successful people and people in high positions that lead b…
I have mentored at Startup Weekend Auckland last weekend and noticed an interesting pattern. Participants that were at the weekend with the goal to win the competition were less motivated in the teams…
I get quite a few people that ask me for advice on technical co-founders or how to find a technical person for their startup. The one sentence that ends a conversation with me needing to urgently atte…
Habits structure your life. Knowing your habits and training new habits can be real challenging and a lot of books have been written about how to get into habits that help you achieve your goals. Thin…
I often get asked what non-technical co-founders should start with till they have found a technical co-founder. Mostly followed by, “where can I find a technical co-founder”. This is an interesting to…
A post I wrote for the iwantmyname blog about dynamic DNS updates at iwantmyname. Read the post on the iwantmyname blog…