Blog posts

These posts started out as rather normal blog-like entries. Nowadays, they contain my writings on the things I find interesting.

2023

07 May The Elefant weg 10 Apr Hot chocolate at Milch Bar 08 Apr John Baker in Zürich 07 Apr In Zürich 01 Apr Coffee at Bluebottle Coffee in the Bradley Building 18 Feb Big Sur cafe in Grey Lynn 11 Feb Lunch at Brothers Brewer, Mt Eden 07 Feb Tip Top Factory tour - Sylvia Park 31 Jan My site in history 28 Jan SSL Certificates 27 Jan Cold rice pudding with apples 27 Jan The transformative power of sabbaticals 26 Jan Added backlinks 25 Jan Adding updates to a page 25 Jan Free ice cream at Flower Street 25 Jan Publishing in managment education 22 Jan Olympic Park in New Lynn 19 Jan Figure shortcode (again) 15 Jan A gallery 11 Jan Ali’i Coffee in Honolulu 10 Jan Waikiki Beach in Honolulu 08 Jan TRY Coffee in Honolulu 06 Jan Luau at HICSS56, the Hyatt Resort & Spa 05 Jan Tacos at Honoapiilani Food Truck Park in Kaanapali 02 Jan Lunch at Kusina Ni Jayboy, Lahania 01 Jan Departures at Honolulu airport 01 Jan Auckland International Airport

2022

23 Dec PYO at Zakberry Farms, Waitākere 22 Dec Next notebook 22 Dec Ice cream from Mr Whippy in Newton 22 Dec Coffee at Coffee Pen in Mt Eden 17 Dec Responsive graphics 17 Dec EXIF orientation 16 Dec Coffee at Daily Daily on K’Road 15 Dec Next Gen gym in the CBD 15 Dec Checking with check-ins 15 Dec Coffee at Allpress in Ponsonby 14 Dec Coffee at Goodness Gracious 13 Dec Coffee at Fluffy in Newton 13 Dec Red Rabbit coffee in Newmarket 13 Dec The Lego Store in Newmarket 13 Dec Westfield Mall in Newmarket 12 Dec Posts by month, again 10 Dec Zettelkasten 09 Dec Here to stay? 09 Dec Twitter-dead 10 Jun Nordvpn 08 Jun Docker 28 Mar Four thousand weeks 28 Mar My personal learning environment 09 Feb Hugo directory structure 23 Jan Caran d'Ache 849 14 Jan Hugo and JSON 12 Jan Content structure 10 Jan Third steps to IndieWeb 06 Jan Second second steps in IndieWeb 04 Jan Staedtler Resina 04 Jan Responsive grids 03 Jan New theme progress 01 Jan Another new theme

2021

2020

07 Oct Disposable assignments: Are they really better 27 Sep Dead drive 19 Sep Modus Operandi: A new theme 09 Sep Pace chart 09 Sep Synchronous teaching: Is it really better? 06 Sep A refresh: Back to paper 24 Aug Face-to-face contact in teaching: Some lessons 21 Jul Markingdown markdown: Moving to orgmode 15 May iCalendar woes 08 Apr External protocols 26 Mar Windows 10 08 Mar Git to it 07 Mar Glillani - Chapter 1 07 Mar Time to pivot

2019

08 Oct Thinking about capstone courses 07 Oct Of mountaintops, magnets, and mandates 30 May Design for learning

2018

02 Sep Crazy Rich Asians 30 Aug Market shaping 28 Aug Literature reviews 23 Aug The git go 16 Aug Group assessment 22 Jul Doing strategy 08 Jul Joe Luger on Learning 15 Jun Moved to Netlify 14 Jun TinyTex 13 Jun SVG to PDF 10 Jun Letsencrypt 24 May Ubiquiti installation 21 May Eye candy 21 May Faster internet 14 May Reflection 03 Apr Pilot MR

2017

04 Dec Knowing how, knowing that, and knowing what 02 Dec Bye bye Synology 06 Aug Mason and Mitroff 03 Aug Hugo archetypes 03 Aug Blogging platforms 16 Jun Listing GMail folders 15 Jun Visas and social media 12 Jun Smashrun 2 blog 08 Jun Bye bye Facebook 31 May Citations in bookdown 31 May Mime types on AWS S3 25 May CourseGuide.Info 17 May Lecturing 16 May Pecking order 14 May Course (re)design 09 May Persuasive technology 08 May Bye bye g-suite 21 Apr Learning through play 18 Apr Student engagement 09 Apr Responsibility and capability 08 Apr IBM design thinking 03 Apr Design-less thinking 06 Mar Assessment 08 Feb FreeBSD on a Dell E7450 05 Jan Hanging idents in APA

2016

21 Dec Beyond the LMS 13 Dec Transcribing stuff 11 Dec Hugo and AWS/S3 06 Dec Hogging the CPU: Pandoc-crossref is slow 27 Nov Link rot 25 Nov Rstudio Server 21 Nov Automating Hugo part 2 21 Nov Automating Hugo 18 Nov A new theme 16 Nov Sizing coffee 11 Nov Academic workflow 18 Oct Minion Pro 12 Oct Crunching numbers 10 Oct Back to work 29 Sep Teaching excellence award 08 Jun Project Scribe 02 Jun Theoretical description 24 May Performance reviews 23 May Write that article 26 Mar Autonomous cars 23 Mar Going live 16 Mar ISPIM 2016 15 Mar More static 15 Mar From Pelican to Hugo

2015

30 Nov My bad 29 Nov Pelican problems 29 Nov Kirikiriroa 21 Nov Synology, chown and Google Drive 20 Nov Spreading the news 20 Nov One ring to rule them all 15 Nov Specter 13 Nov Hudson and Halls live! 03 Nov Farewell Daily Mile 01 Nov The Auckland marathon #4 26 Sep Running with ASICS 18 Sep Teaching lunch 25 Aug A fork in the road 13 Aug What I look for in a learning journal 13 Aug Feedback to team members 10 Aug Brown smarties 14 Jul Coffee talk 14 Jul Looking forward to semester 2 30 Apr Kickoff videos 12 Apr Reading and chunking 05 Apr Kick-off videos 03 Apr Windows 8.1 27 Feb A brand new day 21 Feb Grice and conversation 21 Feb Spreading the word 26 Jan Using fabric 25 Jan Google drive 15 Jan Risk and innovation

2014

31 Dec WordPress paranoia 26 Dec Re-converting 25 Dec A walk on the beach 20 Dec Looking ahead to 2016 18 Dec Pelican conversion notes 18 Dec So many ISPs 17 Dec Posting to Pelican 17 Dec A little automation 13 Dec A static site 23 Jul Well, that didn't go quite as expected 16 Jul Graduate Profiles and Curriculum Mapping 16 May Running goals for 2014 27 Mar Open Access Journals 27 Mar AdWords 26 Mar The use of social media 26 Mar Finding the critical issue 24 Mar Thinking about signature pedagogies 24 Mar Some might call it andragogy 15 Mar Piazza 13 Mar Whoosh 13 Mar Defining learning 10 Mar Reasons for reviewing 08 Mar Towards a clearer purpose 07 Mar Reflective practice 06 Mar Learning, Teaching and Assessment

2013

22 Nov Integration with Google+ 19 Nov A consideration of learning and PowerPoint 01 Jun Creaming it 01 Jun The cutting edge 11 Jan Highlighting learning

2012

13 Nov Fitness assessment 19 Jul The spiral of experiential learning 17 Jul Cry havoc and unleash the dogs of war 11 Jul Bad Dog (redux) 25 Jun PhD tick 16 May Running history 15 May Powerpoint and practice 21 Mar Business policy and nGrams 03 Feb VO2 max 14 Jan Lewin and Change

2011

16 Dec Picking up the pace 16 Dec PhD progress 05 Dec Run less, run faster 20 Nov It's all downhill (not) 31 Oct Auckland marathon 2011 27 Oct Walk for Isobella and EB 11 Oct My BHAG 29 Sep Traffic and Ramblings 14 Sep Just do it 12 Sep Run Auckland 28 Aug North Shore marathon 30 May Run Auckland: Race 3 22 May Huntly Half 02 May Peer Evaluations 19 Apr Run Auckland: Race 2 12 Apr PBs and PRs 06 Apr Zotero and commas 03 Apr Multitasking 02 Apr Before and after 28 Mar Run Auckland: Race 1 15 Mar DOI 15 Mar Academics are still practitioners 15 Mar Prescription for textbooks 10 Mar Practitioners 05 Mar How to write an article 05 Mar The paragraph 03 Mar Boots and all 27 Feb Yale on writing 13 Feb Decision-making expertise 02 Feb Academic articles 29 Jan How to read a paper 07 Jan Reviewing articles 03 Jan Wordpress 02 Jan Hydration (Part 2)

2010

31 Dec Hydration 30 Dec Replacing running shoes 17 Dec Lisa Callagher (soon to be PhD) 10 Dec Our new house 01 Dec Why I run 01 Nov Auckland Marathon 12 Sep Running buddies 03 Jul Pulled pork (cochinita pibil) 27 Jun Videon or Vide-gone 14 Mar Around the bays 26 Jan Ten years to master ... 21 Jan Strategy as practice 19 Jan Orgmode: Part 2 17 Jan Orgmode: Part 1 10 Jan Displaying time-series data 07 Jan Zotero tips 04 Jan Relating to relatedness 04 Jan The economics of textbook

2009

24 Dec Alt-MBA 23 Dec Tips for Zotero 22 Dec Referring to Referencite 22 Dec Referencing here and now 22 Dec Whither learning styles? 21 Dec Group projects 18 Dec Using PDF files in nVivo 8 16 Dec MathTran 16 Dec My personal learning environment 16 Dec Dealing with plagiarism in the digital age 13 Dec Research as a second language 03 Dec Learning and knowing 03 Dec Templates and styles 03 Dec The first entry 03 Dec The separation of powers 21 Oct Greys Avenue Deli 08 Sep Jogging 05 Sep Grading 21 Aug Under pressure 17 Aug Farewelling a fine feline friend, Fred 08 Aug The journey continues 08 Jun A vision of students ... tomorrow 03 Apr A vision of students 04 Mar Walking the dogs 04 Mar Academic brand 03 Mar Zotero 1.5 beta 03 Mar Facebook's terms of service 10 Feb SCP Framework 16 Jan From Outlook to Gmail 11 Jan Reading my Maildir 11 Jan Gmail and backups

2008

24 Nov Communities of practice 01 Nov A2 Hosting 29 Oct Discuss 25 Oct Time Management for Anarchists 18 Oct Operational effectiveness: Necessary but not sufficient 09 Oct Videos in PowerPoint 02 Oct The BCG Matrix 01 Oct Playing with game theory 01 Oct Zotero and Thompson-Reuters 25 Sep Reviewing 22 Sep Academic Productivity 20 Sep Moving to Zotero 14 Sep Re-inventing the wheel 11 Sep Does it make the boat go faster 09 Sep Commenting 09 Sep Trajan 08 Sep National League Case Competition 08 Sep Team-based learning 08 Sep Transcription symbols used in conversation analysis 08 Sep Alt Code characters 07 Sep PhD Topic 07 Sep Back to work 05 Sep Templates and styles 04 Sep Team-based learning 01 Sep Blogs about academic life 09 Aug Manager Tools and Facebook 06 Aug A desire to be assessed 06 Aug Yet another upgrade 24 Jul Foundations of strategy 18 Jul Interesting place to visit 18 Jul Google mail 18 Jul Slideshare 24 Jun Self review of INTBUS 202 16 Jun Judgement 16 Jun Times they are a changin' (part 2) 11 Jun Judgement 25 May Power Outage 19 May Free at last 04 May That hurt 03 May Scribefire 13 Apr Zotero 12 Feb Remembering a Ginger cat

2007

31 Dec Looking forward 14 Nov What would you do? 18 Oct Aesthetics and Practice 17 Oct Saku Mantere 27 Sep Words 24 Sep Private Equity 24 Sep More about Orcon 23 Sep No so 'high speed' Internet 16 Sep This is not about Giles Burch 14 Sep The Pillowman 01 Sep Django revisited 01 Sep The Structure of Information Networks 05 Aug Ask Bill Smith 31 Jul The Army in Northern Island 22 Jul Genealogy 22 Jul Team Cru Vin Dogs 10 Jun Doh! 10 Jun Desktop tower defence 10 Jun EGOS 2007 07 Jun Fast writing 05 Jun Industry Recipes 04 Jun Complexity in practice 03 Jun The Lives of Others 24 Mar Cholesterol checkup 24 Mar Course Syllabus 08 Mar How to get rich quickly 08 Mar Economics and Business: Why rate rises won't work 06 Mar Choosing among projects of action 04 Mar Redirections 28 Feb Tony Seba 23 Feb Bad Dog 18 Feb AMBA 17 Feb Under the Grand Chapiteau 29 Jan Teaching Management 14 Jan The copycat syndrome: Plagiarists at work 14 Jan Sunday squash 12 Jan Approaches to research

2006

31 Dec A new host 15 Oct Blogging platforms 12 Oct Setting assignments 07 Oct Average Grades--The average of grades 01 Oct Porting from MovableType to a Django powered blog 08 Sep A new site 30 Jul How much do you love me? 30 Jul Manager Tools 29 Jul The Dean of CBS 29 Jul MMICC: McGill Management International Case Competition 28 Jul Bad Dog 23 Jul Keane 22 Jul The Science of Sleep 22 Jul The Method 22 Jul Animation for kids 21 Jul The Sharp GX17 21 Jul Wah-Wah 19 Jul An Inconvenient Truth 18 Jul Tristram Shandy: A cock and bull story 17 Jul Getting things done 16 Jul Animation Now 15 Jul MBA Drinks 15 Jul A blogging I will go 04 May WikiText 04 May Journalling 22 Apr Grading 19 Apr Strategic Value 19 Apr Structure and value 08 Apr A few new projects 05 Apr Argentina 06 Mar Back to the future

2005

27 Dec More upgrades 26 Dec Upgrades 31 Oct That's interesting 25 Oct Telecom - Customer Service of the year (Yeah. Right!) 23 Oct Getting things done 04 Aug Columbus Coffee 02 Aug Yet another check up 16 Jun Born free 13 Jun Understanding strategic change: The contribution of archetypes 11 Jun An ideal husband 09 Jun Frameworks revisited 06 Jun Why people come to this site 06 Jun My Web Sites on MSN 04 Jun Some problems in market distribution 29 May Still walking after all this time 25 May Frameworks 12 May Hooked on audio books 12 May The quality of research 'packages' 28 Apr Wagamama 09 Apr MBA Reunion 22 Mar Recording on the iPod 20 Mar Reciprocal business. Part 2 20 Mar Reciprocal business. Part 1 09 Mar Alive, alive 'o 24 Jan The exam 24 Jan Questions from MGMT 101 students

2004

10 Dec Teaching Excellence Award 09 Dec Comments on supervision 08 Dec Professional Doctorates 08 Dec ANZAM - Strategising activity and practice 17 Nov Times, they are a'changing 15 Nov Answering the question 09 Nov Planning for next year 08 Nov Sounding out a research site 05 Nov Patterns in the sand 01 Nov Cholesterol still a bit low (and high) 26 Oct Another fitness assessment 23 Oct Carl Zeiss Jena (part III) 23 Oct The women 22 Oct Never can say goodbye 22 Oct More on Carl Zeiss Jena 21 Oct CZJ - Case Analysis 15 Oct Carl Zeiss Jena 15 Oct The last weekend 12 Oct Online journals 11 Oct The good, the bad, and the ugly 01 Oct The rise and fall of the Enron empire? 01 Oct Keeping to the point (what was the point anyway?) 23 Sep Novices and experts 22 Sep Leadership and Supermen 21 Sep Confronting the brutal truth 18 Sep The buck stops where? 17 Sep A variation on the prisoner's dilemma 13 Sep Commerce Act 1986 12 Sep Who's afraid of Virginia Woolf 09 Sep Politics and the English Language 07 Sep Western and Eastern thought 07 Sep Some notes on institutional fields 07 Sep Strategic management and the philosophy of science 01 Sep Discussion forums 31 Aug Yippe and Taking a break 27 Aug Is the class still improving 26 Aug Selected sound bites 25 Aug Crafting and executing strategy 25 Aug What use is theory? 24 Aug The class is improving 23 Aug Journal grades so far 17 Aug Tisdalls - shop of the year 13 Aug Chatting with Chintaka 12 Aug Vinnies 11 Aug Why do you blog? 11 Aug Self-sealing behaviour 10 Aug CEO Summit 10 Aug MECE 08 Aug Sociodrama and sociometry 06 Aug The canon of creativity 06 Aug Still doing cases 05 Aug Becoming a strategist: Branson's Virgin 05 Aug Formal analysis in strategic decisions 04 Aug The starting position 04 Aug Globalization 03 Aug Fitness Assessment 03 Aug Some questions to ponder 03 Aug How long does a team agreement need to be? 02 Aug Team Agreements 02 Aug Clinical Psychodrama 30 Jul Cholesterol too low? 29 Jul Another new pedometer 29 Jul Some notes on ethics 27 Jul Preparing a position on a case 27 Jul On becoming a critically reflexive practitioner 27 Jul We have game 27 Jul Post Exec 24 Jul Class format 22 Jul Mintzberg on management and strategy 22 Jul Docility and near-decomposability 21 Jul Recruiting and CVs 19 Jul Back to school 19 Jul A new toy (or not) 17 Jul Web sites and Google 11 Jul A question of rollover 11 Jul Site maintenance 11 Jul Roughing it 11 Jul Googling 18 Jun Shrek 2 17 Jun PhD Seminar 16 Jun Law firm survey 16 Jun Walking 15 Jun The cultural web 15 Jun Something's rotten 15 Jun What is agency? 15 Jun Some changes 12 Jun Adventures with TurnItIn 02 Jun What makes an incident 'critical'? 02 Jun References 01 Jun Paraphrasing 31 May Planning for the future 31 May Some thoughts on assignments 31 May Quotations from the final presentations 30 May The last class 30 May Lunch with friends 29 May Marking 26 May The sound of a penny dropping 25 May Still doing maps and incidents 20 May OK 20 May Critical incidents and maps 19 May Some notes on the assignment (for next time) 19 May Confusion reigns 18 May Learning journals 16 May The flow of assignments 09 May Mike's Bikes 08 May The end of an era 08 May EVA 08 May Nurses at Auckland Hospital 08 May Pigeon-holing 08 May A wake up call 02 May Devil in the detail 02 May Take a closer look 01 May Kill Bill 30 Apr About risk 28 Apr MBA Diner 27 Apr Governing variables 26 Apr Trails in net space 26 Apr Argyris & Schön 26 Apr The tax man (or woman) cometh 24 Apr Writing, writing, writing 24 Apr Starsky & Hutch 23 Apr PhD Blogs 23 Apr PhD entries 23 Apr Moving on 23 Apr Friday already 17 Apr If you ... 15 Apr Book review and response 14 Apr The railway station 14 Apr Professionalism: The third logic 14 Apr Site updates 13 Apr Achieving routine in organizational change 12 Apr The structuring of organizational structures 12 Apr New goal 11 Apr GeoURL 11 Apr Girl with a Pearl Earring 11 Apr Literature and management 09 Apr About work 09 Apr Going forward and looking back 09 Apr Academic Honesty 08 Apr The Ugly 06 Apr The bad 06 Apr The good 03 Apr Why journal 02 Apr Mike's Bikes Message Board 01 Apr Chocks away on the search engines 30 Mar The 2004 Douglas Robb Lectures and Functioning Knowledge 29 Mar Summits 29 Mar Ambiguity 28 Mar Paycheck 28 Mar Abigail's Party 28 Mar Multiple weblogs 26 Mar Scholarly works 24 Mar Mornington Crescent 22 Mar Trust 20 Mar Testing maps 19 Mar The rumour mill 14 Mar I'm anxious 13 Mar Spelling 12 Mar Echoes of Karl Weick: A few notes on sense making. 12 Mar Broken maps 11 Mar Exploring the year ahead: Creating responses to challenges and change 11 Mar Sociodrama 11 Mar Of maps 09 Mar Opening the floodgates 08 Mar Textile 08 Mar Journaling 08 Mar MGMT 301 08 Mar DPE

2003

22 Nov First Entry 19 May House for sale 28 Mar Duh! 28 Mar Psychodrama 22 Mar Pesky ^M 26 Feb The server saga continues 26 Feb A new server 18 Feb My Unsolicited Commercial Email (UCE or spam) Policy 15 Feb Upgrading to MT 2.6 06 Feb Chicago

2002

20 Dec Men in Black II 20 Dec Managing Links 19 Dec Fitness Assessment 19 Dec Bookmarklets for all 18 Dec Sources of MT ideas 18 Dec Bookmarklets 18 Dec A blog is born 28 May Noises off 17 Apr The Hollow Crown 06 Mar Writing a proposal 05 Mar Day two 25 Feb A new office 24 Feb Sunday, Sunday 23 Feb PhD Progress 22 Feb Strategy seminar 21 Feb Launch Day 20 Feb Setting up the site

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Published: 7 May '23 12:28

Updated: 7 May '23 12:28

Author: Headshot of Peter Smith Peter Smith

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