Posts by Dave Heatley

Your average wombat is probably smarter🍋

World Wombat Day gave me the excuse to review the new Apple Intelligence

Oct 28 •

People are choosing to move to warmer places🍋

In seeming contradiction to rising global temperatures

Aug 24 •

Paying peanuts for passion🍋

Underinvesting in the Social Investment Board

Aug 8 •

The CloudStrike outage: a tale of trust & tradeoffs🍋

The internet is surprising: fragile yet hard to fix

Jul 20 •

Two Years of 🍋Asymmetric Information

NZAE's blog continued to grow in Year 2, doubling subscriptions and nearly doubling views. Thank you, contributors and readers, for a great second year…

Jul 2 •

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We expect too much from universities🍋

And are they at risk of technological disruption?

May 28 •

Thinking slowly about Daniel Kahneman🍋

My thoughts on his legacy

May 4 •

Pricing and fairness on the Milford Track🍋

$92 per night for a hut is too expensive and unfair, says the NZ Herald. But is a lower price any fairer?

Apr 13 •

Whatever happened to Peak Oil?🍋

A grand idea, fuelled by a misunderstanding of supply and demand...

Mar 9 •

Eat the rich! Sustainably, of course … 🍋

Some thoughts on taxing the wealthy

Feb 17 •

Ha‑Joon Chang's "five things they don’t tell you about economics"🍋

95% of economics may be common sense, but the other 5% is not. That 5% matters

Jan 27 •

Wither rail freight in NZ?🍋

A friendly debate between Bryan Crump & Dave Heatley

Jan 20 •

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