morgan godfery

i’m 34 now lol !!! which is probably the age when shane jones went from maori sovereignty activist to neoliberal (and then i think he was in his early 50s when he took his next turn from neoliberal to nationalist). point being maybe there’s still time for me to do something crazy hmmmm

up until relatively recently it was a normal thing to expect that when private investment decreases then public investment should increase :)

i actually do think there’s a lot of merit in mr bishop’s reforms but it’s going to descend into the dumbest debate possible probably

the RUC debate is going to make for some strange allies between the anti-mandate “don’t put a government-issued GPS in my car” types and “i’m extremely lazy and will just pay a highly regressive tax at the pump please” types such as myself

in hindsight the national-maori party relationship under key/english/finlayson and turia/sharples/flavell did a huge amount to keep a lid on the social settlement and social cohesion

kids doing cambridge, a qualification developed for 3rd world former colonies, is so funny and on the nose

the problem with NCEA is, by recognising less smart kids and poor kids via unit standards and non-traditional subjects, that it doesn’t sufficiently demarcate smart kids or rich kids. this has always been the heart of why some parents hate it

possibly the worst offenders. because most university leaders don’t come with corporate experience, or experience in really doing shit anywhere, they’re the most easily captured by the shallowest MBA cliches

i believe the term is we produce outputs (many and varied contracts, many and varied FTEs to support the contracts, etc…) but not outcomes (i.e an actually existing thing)

in my (limited) experience where public and private organisations fall especially short is project management. the new zealand tendency is to manage projects via an ever escalating series of contractual/procurement mechanisms, and then when that inevitably fails… restructure the project team lol

there’s much less focus on the boring mechanics of organisations: effective standard operating procedures, best practice in project management, internal *and* external communication, good wages and secure conditions, etc… instead we have only one button that’s smashed over and over RESTRUCTURE (2/2)

Reaching for change: Is our public service obsessed with restructuring? Annika Naschitzki, who has spent years studying public service restructures, certainly thinks so.

this is fascinating, and possibly a symptom of new zealand’s broader low productivity economy: corporate leaders and intellectuals tend to hyperfocus on “leadership”, as if organisational performance is just a function of a sufficiently charismatic figurehead (1/2) www.thepost.co.nz/politics/360...

we are now on the same trajectory as the UK post-2008 with rapidly diminishing state capacity, and structural limitations in the economy, leading to an inevitable doom spiral

if anyone knows either emmy or graeme they know how crack up this is

lost the plot watching one news tonight when they keyed in emmy as “graeme edgeler” and then they keyed in graeme as “emmy rakete”

every time the government’s covid policies were polled they were overwhelmingly popular. even at the height of the media’s anti-MIQ hysteria a good majority backed the government. and even now the former government is notching up Ws. this must hurt for the media lol www.thepost.co.nz/politics/360...

day in the life of an MP:

scroll in the house
post in the house
apply for leave from the house
board flight, scroll from the front row
land, post based on mid-flight drafts
scroll from a new location in new zealand
post from said new location
ignore constituents and admin
bed time, scroll, etc…

Ian Taylor calling his lawyer at 4 am to update his will with a last letter to Jacinda Ardern

definitely the worst thing about the destruction of mass media and the fragmentation of audiences is political changes that would’ve otherwise been defeated by a media campaign (e.g the government disenfranchising hundreds of thousands of people) just aren’t challenged, let alone won, anymore

reading the odt and dunedin’s civic leadership needs to get real: christchurch’s te kaha stadium is going to cut forsyth barr’s lunch. easy peasy. FB stadium is draughty (it isn’t even fully enclosed lol), the acoustics are terrible (that’s why most acts don’t come back), and accomodation is short

NZ First/Act are doing a great job at engaging their bases on YouTube, filling a vacuum left by a struggling media sector. Spinoff are good, TVNZ have pulled out, Three post a few clips, but all are slow and under-utilizing. Labour picking it up on Instagram but MIA on YouTube. Missed opportunities.

absolutely JOIN A UNION but they’re are so weak rn

your social base in the trade unions are experiencing an even steeper decline than ever before. there is nowhere to go until labour realises just how much the world has changed since 2020

i’m not sure labour have realised the stakes yet: your opponents are actively undermining the norms that guaranteed a democratic détente between capital and labour; your allies have grasped the power the social media monopolies wield and how to deploy a tiny fraction of it to harvest votes; and

Pay your own way for the methane then

a real bugger how the media apocalypse took out most of the great journalists and left the kids just starting out (good luck !!) but also all the old, bad journalists too

most of what i post these days is just a variation of how rnz is the pits, gone to the dogs

he either doesn’t listen to his interviewees OR he’s too thick to comprehend their answers hard to say which is worse

absolutely