Lance Wiggs

It’s like climate change. The Brexit cost was so obviously off-the-scale insane that any forecast was going to be wrong. Steer away especially from ones that seem to be ‘not much to see here’

Not just overload protection but individual switches is a minimum these days, as a nearby apartment had a fire from an overloaded plug board.
Do all of the plugs have cables that go down/sideways and not up out the top? Is that what is missing?

I know of a project where over 100,000 people were hired.

Sad to see your drawing had sold out..

Strikers' demands 'a mystery', government's top negotiator says The Public Service Commissioner says it's regrettable major strike action is going ahead, because he's always been available to negotiate.

Maybe get someone who understands the other side as your chief negotiator. Or at least don’t admit it.
www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

Yes it's regressive (for those watching people with lower incomes spend more %income, thus pay more GST as %income)
I see it as a solid part of an _almost_ well balanced tax system.
Company tax is a bit low (but has to be to compete internationally) and we need a proper capital gains tax.

The complexity costs more money than it saves. Deadweight loss. NZ gets rightly kudos for the efficiency of the GST system. Every time a party proposes a GST break on something or other they lose at the polls.

Gotta hand it to you

Emerging evidence of abrupt changes in the Antarctic environment - Nature Abrupt changes are developing across Antarctica’s ice, ocean and biological systems; some of these changes are intensifying faster than equivalent Arctic changes, potentially irreversibly, and their i...

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

The best is arguably like Rio, London or Paris - where you get both lifestyle and amazing work. NZ would be more lifestyle, but as a relatively small outpost I'd imagine also getting decent experience at a country level for relatively junior roles. Being the only person here would be pretty amazing.

NZ's a great posting for US foreign service.

The one who wrote a book about conspiracy theories rather than the one who promotes them.

Epic. Triggering though .

I suspect he will rank #1….

This is an incredibly unprofessional show.

InternetNZ AGM is terrible. Starting 25m late, motions not opening for voting until the agenda item, we can't see the motions, we can't talk, we are mostly on hold and.......
.... it's a fantastic way to make us vote against the status quo.
(It's my second AGM today. This should not be hard)

Formula 1 is the same. Rugby too.
Good companies don't need to sponsor, as we already like them, but I wish they would, and for them to crowd out the bad.

Yup. BMW could have (and could still) dominated the larger EV motorbike space. They are great at building heavy bikes that are easy to handle. (Meanwhile my CE04 is a giggle to ride.)

Nice answer - including if you only donate some, not all.

Yes there are not nearly enough of them, and yes, leasehold, but it does prove we can do it.

www.trademe.co.nz/a/property/r...
NZ can do it. This is the Parc, in Auckland city. It’s better as it’s completely enclosed so no concrete in the middle. The price is better too - but it’s leasehold.

'Pain' for property investors as renting listing levels hit decade high The amount of rental listings in March reached levels not seen since 2014.

If only there were a simple trick to increase demand. While you’re at it sign long term leases, match to long term mortgages and stop making people move. www.rnz.co.nz/news/busines...

The eye-watering amount a section of Auckland's CBD racked up in fines in just 2½ years Auckland Transport has issued nearly $20 million in fines after banning private vehicles from a small section of Queen St in 2022.

This is great. Of course a total ban of cars from all of Queen St. is the right answer, but play silly games...
www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/3606...

Not good board meetings though..

As someone of a certain age, lack of hair, business masters degree from the 90s, and US, Canadian and NZ business experience I feel unduly qualified to provide an interpretation of the messaging in this oft-quoted text.
(And yes, I’ve been guilty of using “full court press” before)

screenshot of NBR homepage with red stop signs on all the lousy news. One green star.

In a world of bad business news, one bit of good news, which is the announcement of the sale of Quantifi Photonics, with founders, staff and seven NZ funds benefiting.

Yes it's brutal.
At one end are the recruiters for entry level jobs, where they might get thousands of applicants, most of whom are at school and very hard to differentiate. It's impossible to interview them all.
At the other end headhunters are doing the same filtering, but nicer with it.

1: When you get hundreds of applications it's easy to filter out ones that are not in the top 20% of fit, and then it gets hard.
2: But the data lies too - I'm currently filtering Seek applications by reviewing PDFs downloaded from Seek, not by using the aged platform.

Yes taking away the members list destroyed the society's pulse.
Catastrophic leadership since has caused real harm, sucking the soul and energy from the room, causing economic harm and arguably INZ is driving towards its own doom

..or for years…