In these blogs, I tend to focus on the problems because challenges and mistakes occupy most of my time. If you’ve read my earlier blogs, you maybe sensed that the road so far has been hard and stressful. Which is…
Recently, I bumped into a few people from my past who surprised me by knowing everything going on in my life by reading this blog. I started the blog to keep a record of my ups and downs on this…
‘God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change; courage to change the things I can; and wisdom to know the difference.’ – The Serenity Prayer by Reinhold Niebuhr A few weeks ago I wrote about my pain and…
‘We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard, because that goal will serve to organise and measure the best of our energies and skills,…
I moved to Australia from New Zealand during 2000 in my early twenties. Until then I’d never had a job that paid a wage. I had met Grant Thomas, manager of Neil Finn and some big Australian bands, when I…
I just wanted to highlight a few things this week, so this is not an official blog. 1. A few weeks ago, I posted about my fear in the lead up to speaking at TED. It truly was a terrifying…
If you’ve produced anything, you know that creative decision making is challenging. If a project is big, (like for example a website or a record release) then the number of people involved increases and stakes of making good decisions increase. …
‘If you’re not embarrassed by your first product release, you’ve released too late.‘ - LinkedIn founder & start-up guru, Reid Hoffman Today, I’m writing from my tiny hotel room in downtown Palo Alto. We launched Posse two…
When I came back from holiday at the start of this year, we were set to launch Posse in retail. We’d planned out the site: similar to music Posse except with stores instead of bands. They could list offers on…
‘Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.’ Robert F. Kennedy Last weekend I did the scariest thing I’ve done in my life. I spoke at TED. And I spoke about capitalism rather than saving the world…
