A collection of Kingi's perspectives on business, art, culture and other stuff.
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Checked my portfolio this morning and Ethereum jumped in value. According to Coinbase, this is because the universe of crypto-based lending, saving, and trading apps known as Decentralised Finance or DeFi has been growing tremendously.
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Really impressed with the business and collectibles innovation around Non Fungible Tokens (NFT's). NFTs are exploding on the crypto market.
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The rise and proliferation of neocolonial surveillance corporations, two reports advance ideas of a digitally-powered form of 'surveillance capitalism' and the economic exploitation of society through corporate and state mass surveillance. The primary author is Michael Kwet from the Yale Law School [https://law.yale.edu/mike-kwet]. He
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Was really taken back by the creativity in this video of a supersized Ariana Grande flying through a creatively designed level in Fortnite. The merging of pop-culture and video-game culture. Here is the video: 1. The merging of two larger audiences to cross-promote products. 2. Game development and music video
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I've been tracking the trend of the keyword 'metaverse' since social media business owner Mark Zuckerberg mentioned it in his company's investor call and when news outlets started promulgating the concept around 27 July 2020. Google Trends Due to Google Trends being a proportionally
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News can be good or bad, but it is seldom neutral. I was interested how certain news agencies reported on a variety of topics, are they positive, neutral or negative?
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As part of our shift to avert the Auckland water crisis, have taken two affirmative steps. 1. Installed water tanks. 2. Purchased the domain watercrisis.nz and started ideation on connection points/planning document.
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Really enjoyed building our garden end of March. Have a couple of time-lapse videos to share. We now eat carrots, spinach, bok-choy and save $300 to $600 per month.
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Here are some photos I took during September and October. Had a quick visit to Mauna Kea, Hawai'i and shooting in Kaiteriteri, New Zealand.
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Silicon Valley's finest firm give their advice on key criteria they consider a venture investment opportunity.
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In January a friend asked me how long I expect to have a job (because machines are taking over) 😳. I didn't have a response but now I have more insight...
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I like supporting indie hackers. Here's a couple of awesome projects that independent coders/designers are making. If you like them, show your support by sharing on your social media, subscribing to the author and trying out their free plans.