Retail
“Retail is dying.” — WTF? This is generally where the conversation goes when people in the online and technology spaces talk about it. The media too, because it’s a good story. And we are all going to eat Soylent, and wear white turtlenecks and have self driving Teslas. But it
Self Driving Cars
I want a self driving car as much as the next person. But are we just being sucked into the hype of Tesla and Uber and Google? What I mean by that is, I see how an autonomous car is cool and all that but is that the best we
In order for AI to really be effective it will need to learn things like context and sentiment. What do we really mean when we ask that question? Given our current line of questioning how can it better interpret what was want. At some point it’s conceivable that AI
Product Management
If you are a product company you need to have a product roadmap. Your business probably has a lot of passionate people who all have a view on things. Platform will want to retire poor performing code. Sales want the features competitors have. Security will want to lock things down.
Intuition
I love gut feelings because it’s someone synthesising a lot of inputs and getting to the point where they feel “hang on, something’s going on here”. I love this because the human brain is an awesome information crunching, pattern spotting machine! We may not understand how it works,
Entrepreneurship
It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong woman stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the one who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and
Technology
I grew up with a copy of this magazine I found in a box. A busy man looks like he has just come home and is backing his flying car into the garage. This was 1951, well the date on the magazine was 1951, I was 15 and it was
Travel
After almost a decade running full tilt I recently took a break from Vend, OMGTech! and all my other commitments and disappeared off into the wilderness. For two months I grew a beard… while riding a bicycle… around the world. It was an awesome beard. I needed to get out
About Me
* Founder of Vend * Co-founder of the Pam Fergusson Trust * Rode the length of NZ on a bike solo, because * Founded a $500m venture in the middle of the GFC, because * Rode around the world, because * Learnt to sing and then sang a live gig in front of 100 people,
Adventure
I was recently incredibly fortunate to be part of a group of riders cycling from Christchurch to Queenstown, on mountain bikes, over the Southern Alps, off road. The race is called The Pioneer, and you can cycle it as part of two groups, the 7 day Epic which goes all
Cycling
In 2009 I needed to prove to myself I could ride the length of New Zealand, on a bike. Why? Because! I thought it was impossible. Whenever I think things are impossible I am usually WRONG. Most people are. When I got off my bike at Cape Reinga after 6
Diversity
Diversity in many industries is a problem. In tech, my industry, it’s an issue but it’s not limited to just our industry. It’s a bigger problem at the leadership levels of most. To see this just attend an industry “black tie” dinner or awards dinner and notice