"Nancy Cantor & Walter Mischel, of Stanford demonstrated that we all use stereotypes (“person prototypes”) to categorize strangers in the first moments of interaction. Pattern matching is so firmly hardwired into human psychology that only conscious discipline can counteract it."

Kevin Goldsmith (Spotify ex-Director of Eng): "If you came from a traditional hierarchical command and control company and you reorganised yourselves the way we have, it would fail totally - that's not what's important about how we work, it's our core values underneath it'.

Time for change.

The thing with markets is they are not driven by logic, so using logic to understand them will lead nowhere- psychology is a better guide.

Beware the rogue penguins on the lookout for unattended sushi in wellington CBD. x.com/i/events/11508…

The future of tech at gigs is to remove it. More recognition that phones get in the way of having a good time for the younger generation. 'No tech' rules encourage people to get their fun from actually interacting with each other .. Simon_R bbc.com/news/entertain…

The well-established NZ response protocol has been invoked. We are now at SBRTPLF level 2. Level 1 is 'She'll be right', Level 2 is marginally above 'She'll be right' and can be summarised as 'Let's respond slowly and tentatively'. Levels 3-5 are 'Panic Like Fuck'.

#COVID19nz .. We are shocked by the lack of taking this seriously. Kiwis need a wakeup call right now. No community spead? Don't make me laugh, what makes you think NZ will be magically different?!! ACT NOW WHILE YOU CAN Jacinda Ardern -- Level 4 alert IMMEDIATELY please.

Please sign this to get the #Covid19nz #CoronavirusNZ alert level raised to level 4. In practical reality we've been at level 3 for days and all evidence from every other country says we are at level 4. Why wait for test results? Its bloody obvious! chng.it/KKwZLYKv

Let's see how my C19 predictions from 18 March stack up now. Six have now happened, 3 became accepted wisdom, and 5 are increasingly likely. How many people thought they were unrealistic two weeks ago? Crazy times. To watch for next: 3b/ 4c/ 6a (inevitable) and 5a/8b (scary) S

If you have a 3D printer, please join the C19 effort. You can print these facemasks.. This is the model that the community across the world, especially Europe, have tried and tested. prusaprinters.org/prints/25857-p…

Manadatory border quarantine, finally. Thank you Jacinda Ardern

This is an invisible killer with a time delay. Let's not get complacent, NZ. A longer, effective lockdown now = a LOT less pain later.

Level 1 .. and _hopefully_ Covid is extinct in NZ. Thank you Jacinda Ardern and #TeamNZ. So proud to be Kiwi right now!

Holiday's over then, I guess. Thanks #JacindaArdern for decisive action, great leadership.

To solve the NZ housing crisis, we need to ban auctions (and all the psychological trickery around them). These are what is primiariliy driving this crazy 'against all reason' price inflation. Heres some academic stuff to explain.. bbc.com/future/article… #jacindaardern

Covid-19: Critics in Britain are wrong. NZ has one of the lowest Covid-19 death rates in the world - 5 per m vs UK's 1,961 (equivalent of 10k deaths in NZ). OECD ranks NZ 1st for Covid-19 response including economic performance. stuff.co.nz/national/healt… stuff.co.nz/national/healt…

North shore has only 3 current locations of interest - Same as Tauranga ... except N.Shore's are due to go inactive in 4-5d. Please can we move the Level 4 border further south so North Shore can move to L3? Only 4 crossing points would be needed. Jacinda Ardern Chris Hipkins

"Tell me about Twitter, Dad." "Well son, we would piece together the news of the day by reading strangers' decontextified jokes about it."