17 September 2022Uncategorized Goodbye traffic lights The traffic light system was ignominiously dismissed at the beginning of this week, ending on September 12the. It’s apparently done its time […]
10 September 2022Uncategorized Inappropriate Incentives We all want to do the right thing, right? For example, pretty much all my life I can remember, I have preferred […]
3 September 2022Uncategorized Excess Profits What is an excess profit? Too much, of course. But how much is too much? Times are getting tougher in New Zealand, […]
27 August 2022Uncategorized Excessive Complexity I hypothesise that the rise of AI will be driven by humans having created systems upon which we are dependent, and that […]
20 August 2022Uncategorized Bloody Masks When I was in Europe I was thrilled to find lots of people not wearing masks and have the relief of not […]
13 August 2022Uncategorized Media disservice Anyone else out there disturbed by the media treatment of Sam Uffindell? This week’s news in New Zealand has been dominated by […]
6 August 2022Uncategorized Limits to Growth …have we hit them? Fifty years ago the report ‘Limits to Growth’ was produced discussing the possibility of exponential economic and population […]
30 July 2022Uncategorized COVID-19 Origins & Motivations When in Rome, do as the Romans do…modified for Gibbston. One must make the most of the snow and when the weather […]
18 July 2022Uncategorized Dear Mike Hosking… For the offshore reader, Mike Hosking is a voluble and high profile radio talk show host who is very vocal in his […]
14 July 2022Uncategorized Returning to the not-so-smug hermit kingdom We have been out of New Zealand for two months, hard to believe it is that long, and it is time to […]