Business
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Gardening Taught Me How to Be a Better Programmer
The front of my house faces west, sunset, which means we get a lot of bright hot light from midday towards the early evening, irrespective of the weather. We’re just…
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Top 10 Worst Incentives in Modern Australia
Australia is full of systems that reward the worst possible behaviour. Instead of ideas that fix problems, we’ve built incentives that make them worse, often deliberately, because someone powerful benefits.…
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A bold strategy for Australia’s digital future
This letter has been sent to leaders around the country in an effort to stoke interest in an Australian Linux project, and sparking interest in FOSS support nationally. Dear data…
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My 2020 Retrospective: A lesson in happiness
2020 was a really good year, for me personally. My consulting business had a slow but promising start to the year, which included my first paid trip as a freelancer…
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Facebook Ad Targetting is Broken
For a few years now, I’ve observed a really curious thing happen when I take on a new website. My Facebook ads start to echo the project I’m working on…
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SEO, eCommerce and Presence — Oh My!
Since returning to self employment at the start of October, I’ve focused all my attention on finding new passive sources of income that I could scale up. I’ve spent almost…
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Future Jobs: The Rise of Interdisciplinary Thinking
From our humble beginnings as hunter gatherers, it took us thousands of years to create words with enough meaning to define the discrete schools of thought that make up primary…
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Open Source: The peaceful revolution
Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) has gone from being a futurist movement to a fundamental part of business and technology. Unix-like operating systems such as Linux are installed on…
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A matter of privacy and security
Google provides free services in exchange for access to our data, which it uses for ads that fund the service. Over the years since that model was implemented we’ve seen…
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Balancing compliance, ethics and value in digital
Complex ideas are a bit like the ABOVE island resort — a series of smaller nodes branching off the main node. Since 1999 we’ve experienced a tech revolution in business, government and wider…