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How big are your dreams?
BedsRus forces us to hold two ideas about dreams at the same time Killing two birds with one analogy-stone is a neat trick to pull off. BedsRus has managed a wee bit of magic with its (bus shelter) ad,...
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The secret of being a great storyteller…
To be a great storyteller, you must first become a great story collector (Photo by Heather Ford on Unsplash) …is you must first become a great story collector. Put another way, every story has parts of...
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How about an injection of humour to go with our Covid vaccines?
Should we inject a dose of humour along with the Covid vaccine? If it’s good enough for Taiwan, should New Zealand adopt some of the same ‘funny’ medicine? Taiwan has, for almost a year, adopted a...
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Reframing our future
We go about reframing our future, by changing how we change our use of the planet The words we use and the stories we tell ourselves really matter. None more so that when we’re talking about this third...
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Unearthing a business first story…seeing the wood from the trees
Unearthing a business Million Dollar Message is blimmin difficult From your business point of view – how do you see the wood from the trees? That is, when there’s many different ways you could tell the...
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You mess up two letters, and you’re out of the competition
Twenty outstanding young spellers were eliminated in the Aotearoa New Zealand Spelling Bee final – to end up with one man left standing Reckon you could spell spontaneity off the cuff without writing...
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The least I can do is gift a great name
Mo Hilal, on the left, pointing out the menu of his fantastically named ‘Kebab Plus’ “Perhaps you can help me,” he asked? It was July 2021, and on my way back from celebrating at my brother’s place,...
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Seeing the wood from the trees; unearthing a story in a nutshell
Dr Mark Bradford (L) and Peter Kerr after a successful Million Dollar Message unearthing exercise BeWeDō founder Dr Mark Bradford has been developing what was originally his PhD thesis, into a...
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Yeh, nah, ChatGPT doesn’t mean the end of ‘writing’
ChatGPT is clever, but from an original writing point of view, our brains are far smarter. Photo by Milad Fakurian on Unsplash Millions of words, many of them generated by the powerful A.I. natural...
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A reminder re ChatGPT…you don’t hire a hammer, you hire a carpenter
ChatGPT is just a tool that still requires a human being to operate it. Photo by Jonathan Kemper on Unsplash It probably comes under the law of unintended consequences, but apparently Google allows...
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