As Easter weekend arrives, I’m acutely aware of how close we are to our big day at Techweek 2025 — just a few short weeks away now, on 20 May at The Backhouse in Whanganui. There’s still plenty to do, but getting our draft Needs Analysis out for review has been a turning point. It’s […]
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When I first came across The E-Myth Revisited by Michael E. Gerber, I thought I was just reading another business book—one of many lining my shelf, full of good advice but often missing the human heart of what I do. But this one was different. This book didn’t just challenge how I work; it reshaped
I’m so happy and pleased DORA is coming to visit Whanganui for two weeks from 18 November 2024. DORA (Digital On-Road Access) is Digital Inclusion Alliance Aotearoa’s mobile learning centre. https://steppingup.nz/programmes/dora/ This year we have been focusing on helping people to learn popular online health apps such as Manage My Health, myindici 2.0, or The Doctors
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This isn’t going to be easy! According to Jim Collins, the path to upping my game to the next level is by confronting the most brutal facts of my current reality. Crikey, achieving this will test my commitment to honesty, respect, self-discipline, and mindfulness to the limits. This construct is part of creating inputs of
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In my digital inclusion mahi, fragility is a constant state which motivates me to strive to stay strong to succeed. Fragility may be regarded as a weakness and debilitating condition for some, but I love fragility’s connection with exquisiteness, fineness, and brittleness.* Equally interesting to me is that their antonyms include roughness and rudeness, solidity
Nicholas Roerich, 1874-1947 Himalayas “Lamas speak about the Abode of the Great Rishis. Each one describes Shambhala according to his own understanding. The mention of treasures is correct, but they are described in different ways. Legends about Our Warriors exist all over the world and are not without foundation. There are also described many gates
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In the virtual realm, Paths unfold with quiet grace, Dreams chase, futures form. Image and haiku created by Alistair Fraser in 2023 by prompting DALL-E 3 and OPENAI ChatGPT4 Not sure about anyone else but I feel 2024 is going to be a huge and likely a seminal one for us all. Of course, on
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THE HUMAN AND THE MACHINE: ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AND THE CHANGING WORLD Congratulations to Auckland University of Technology (AUT) for hosting this excellent event. What a fantastic opportunity it was to hear such impressive and thought-provoking presentations by outstanding academic experts about how artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming our lives. The Symposium investigated AI’s impact across
Welcome/Haere Mai to this very special first blog post for the Crystal Adventures website Today’s post might not mark a grand opening, things will likely have changed by the time everyone reads this, and more blogs will have been entered. Nonetheless, this is an essential beginning, offering a chance to articulate my intentions with
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