On being a member of the community
So I just realised something about social media, or maybe about myself. Since the internet began we’ve had people in our lives that are...
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Simon Young
- Sep 28, 2022
- 2 min
Book Preview: Stewardship by Peter Block
We run businesses in a patriarchal, colonial way, and there's a better way of doing things. This, from my early reading of this (2...
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Simon Young
- Aug 16, 2022
- 3 min
Identity
I was watching an academic presentation recently where a Maori academic introduced herself, complete with several Iwi affiliations, then...
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Simon Young
- Aug 9, 2022
- 1 min
Review | Kurt Vonnegut:Unstuck in Time
(original review on Letterboxd) I'm a writer, and I'm a youngest child in my family, and I feel so validated. As I say, I'm a writer, but...
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Simon Young
- Aug 9, 2022
- 1 min
On being youngest
“As a kid I was the youngest member of my family, and the youngest child in any family is always a jokemaker, because a joke is the only...
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Simon Young
- Aug 6, 2022
- 1 min
I need something ridiculous every day
I need something ridiculous every day, because some things are only understood through the lens of humour. Humour denotes higher...
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Simon Young
- Aug 4, 2022
- 2 min
The Land I Own
I don’t own land. Not in a literal sense, not yet. But when I walk, in a sense I own an entire neighbourhood. For now, my neighbourhood...
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Simon Young
- Aug 4, 2022
- 1 min
Thing of the Day
It's been a while. It won't be a while any longer. Please stand by for an onslaught of things that inspire, amuse, or otherwise help me,...
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Simon Young
- Mar 2, 2022
- 1 min
"Do the mundane, to build the spectacular"
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Simon Young
- Feb 24, 2022
- 1 min
RCN Asia | WeChat weekly
RCN ASIA is now sharing WeChat Weekly lucky 8 Asia engagement stories that we have drawn from the ASIA ENGAGE APP community into the RCN...
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Simon Young
- Feb 21, 2022
- 1 min
A beautiful farewell
It’s been an eventful few days. On Sunday, 13 February, Mum took her last breath. My wife Marie and I were privileged to spend her last...
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Simon Young
- Feb 1, 2022
- 1 min
Who hacked the Australian Prime Minister's WeChat? Find out
In the course of helping organisations to tell their stories, I became contracted to RCN Asia to provide stories that support people in...
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Simon Young
- Oct 29, 2021
- 1 min
COMMITMENT | Love is Care
"You become responsible, forever, for what you have tamed. You are responsible for your rose." "It is the time you have wasted for your...
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Simon Young
- Sep 27, 2021
- 1 min
What's on your bookshelf?
Before COVID, we would visit each other's offices and assess each other by the books on our bookshelves. Turns out, there's a way to do...
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Simon Young
- Sep 1, 2021
- 1 min
Authenticity as a Creative Producer
It's only taken me 46 years to figure out the answer to the question "what do you do?" In the age