Reactions and over-reactions
This week saw me variably succeeding and failing in some of those difficult personal conversations that happen all the time in close […]
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The role of insurance
I hate insurance companies. That is not too strong a word. One could ask why I even get insurance because the very […]
Perverse incentives
Perverse incentives are incentives that have unintended, negative effects that are contrary to the intention of their designers. The ‘cobra effect’ is […]
Living the divide
I find myself continually saddened by the effects of the cost of housing in Queenstown and Wanaka, and the resultant people who […]
Variations on a theme
In music, variations are commonly used to create new musical pieces – a set of notes are played and then repeated with […]
End Day
I don’t know when I first heard about the day the world would end. There certainly was no government announcement; in future […]
Tricky separations
There’s plenty of anecdotal evidence that the COVID-year has driven more couples to separate than normal. Family lawyers say that they have […]
How free is your will?
When I started at the University of Canterbury in 1983, I underwent a minor rebellion and took philosophy instead of chemistry. I […]
Complacency and fatigue
Chronic fatigue is one of the common symptoms of ‘long COVID’. In Britain, there are estimates that 14% of people who tested […]
How real is an earthquake?
As far as I was concerned this week’s news of the week (in a less than good way) was the restating of […]