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Simon Young
Aug 29, 20242 min read
Trying to clone myself
Can AI do what you do? I just something very interesting (to me, anyway): I tried to get ChatGPT to replicate my style, following the...
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Simon Young
Aug 25, 20244 min read
Unlocking Culture: A Digital Journey with Pacific Early Learning Centres
Here's what I learned from the unsung heroes preserving Pacific languages and cultures in West Auckland - and here's how PEP helped them.
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Simon Young
Mar 7, 20242 min read
Introducing One Ancestor At A Time
This is the first post about my new project, One Ancestor At A Time. Stay tuned for regular updates. It’s 2004 and I’m at a family...
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Simon Young
Dec 28, 20232 min read
What should we do if we are privileged?
Every day, I ask God to help me be a good steward of what has been entrusted to me. This includes money, time, talent … and also...
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Simon Young
Feb 21, 20231 min read
Reboot Yourself is Free! Limited time
It's finally here! The Kindle version of Reboot Yourself is available NOW at no charge from the Amazon Kindle store. This free offer is...
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Simon Young
Feb 8, 20231 min read
Early praise for Reboot Yourself
Reboot Yourself is already in the hands of our advance review team, and the early feedback has been very encouraging! "I just finished...
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Simon Young
Feb 2, 20231 min read
Unleashing the Māori tech industry
I am super proud to be the writing/editing part of the team bringing together Paua Interface’s groundbreaking report, Toi Hangarau: A...
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Simon Young
Nov 9, 20222 min read
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, 20222 min read
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, 20223 min read
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, 20221 min read
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, 20221 min read
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, 20221 min read
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, 20222 min read
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, 20221 min read
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
Feb 21, 20221 min read
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
Oct 29, 20211 min read
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, 20211 min read
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, 20211 min read
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 of the side hustle and the 'slashie',...
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