Tim Kong
@timoslimo.bsky.social
Process & conversation.
Making time. Enjoying the ride.
Director - Digital Experience @ Te Puna Mātauranga o Aotearoa | National Library of New Zealand
Making time. Enjoying the ride.
Director - Digital Experience @ Te Puna Mātauranga o Aotearoa | National Library of New Zealand
You’re being very inflexible about doing everything in a microwave & that won’t serve you well in the new microwave era. We all know that a microwave is the solution for everything, has no underlying problems & the rate of progress on microwaves will be infinite.
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In the Future All Food Will Be Cooked in a Microwave, and if You Can’t Deal With That Then You Need to Get Out of the Kitchen
As a restaurant owner – I’m astounded at the rate of progress since microwaves were released a few short years ago. Today’s microwave can cook a frozen burrito. Tomorrow’s m…
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August 5, 2025 at 10:44 PM
You’re being very inflexible about doing everything in a microwave & that won’t serve you well in the new microwave era. We all know that a microwave is the solution for everything, has no underlying problems & the rate of progress on microwaves will be infinite.
www.colincornaby.me/2025/08/in-t...
www.colincornaby.me/2025/08/in-t...
Words written in 2018.
Words posted in 2025.
The stories, constructed as they are, are reminders of who we were, and who we no longer need to be. And that's OK.
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Words posted in 2025.
The stories, constructed as they are, are reminders of who we were, and who we no longer need to be. And that's OK.
www.continue.nz/all-just-wor...
all just words
I find it hard to tell you, I find it hard to take
When people run in circles
It's a very, very mad world, mad world
www.continue.nz
July 22, 2025 at 3:06 AM
Words written in 2018.
Words posted in 2025.
The stories, constructed as they are, are reminders of who we were, and who we no longer need to be. And that's OK.
www.continue.nz/all-just-wor...
Words posted in 2025.
The stories, constructed as they are, are reminders of who we were, and who we no longer need to be. And that's OK.
www.continue.nz/all-just-wor...
Some words, as I take my leave of Te Puna Mātauranga o Aotearoa.
Words in keeping with the theme of Matariki mā Puanga I hope.
Of reflection and living in a moment.
www.continue.nz/on-not-losing/
Words in keeping with the theme of Matariki mā Puanga I hope.
Of reflection and living in a moment.
www.continue.nz/on-not-losing/
on not losing
If we believe Aotearoa New Zealand is a Pacific nation - then what choices as leaders can and must we make.
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June 18, 2025 at 10:40 AM
Some words, as I take my leave of Te Puna Mātauranga o Aotearoa.
Words in keeping with the theme of Matariki mā Puanga I hope.
Of reflection and living in a moment.
www.continue.nz/on-not-losing/
Words in keeping with the theme of Matariki mā Puanga I hope.
Of reflection and living in a moment.
www.continue.nz/on-not-losing/
As Mr Hosking turns his ire on Jacinda Ardern and her book, I'm reminded of what I wrote in 2015.
Of men in power, the waving away of behaviour, the sneering at women, all wrapped in a media friendly package.
The challenge remains the same.
www.continue.nz/dear-mike/
✊🏽@alisonmau.bsky.social
Of men in power, the waving away of behaviour, the sneering at women, all wrapped in a media friendly package.
The challenge remains the same.
www.continue.nz/dear-mike/
✊🏽@alisonmau.bsky.social
Dear Mike
an open letter to Mr Hosking in the wake of the PM pulling the ponytail of a waitress
www.continue.nz
June 12, 2025 at 11:06 PM
As Mr Hosking turns his ire on Jacinda Ardern and her book, I'm reminded of what I wrote in 2015.
Of men in power, the waving away of behaviour, the sneering at women, all wrapped in a media friendly package.
The challenge remains the same.
www.continue.nz/dear-mike/
✊🏽@alisonmau.bsky.social
Of men in power, the waving away of behaviour, the sneering at women, all wrapped in a media friendly package.
The challenge remains the same.
www.continue.nz/dear-mike/
✊🏽@alisonmau.bsky.social
"In the Who Cares Era, the most radical thing you can do is care.
In a moment where machines churn out mediocrity, make something yourself. Make it imperfect. Make it rough. Just make it.
Care loudly. Tell others. Get going."
dansinker.com/posts/2025-0...
In a moment where machines churn out mediocrity, make something yourself. Make it imperfect. Make it rough. Just make it.
Care loudly. Tell others. Get going."
dansinker.com/posts/2025-0...
The Who Cares Era | dansinker.com
dansinker.com
June 8, 2025 at 4:03 AM
"In the Who Cares Era, the most radical thing you can do is care.
In a moment where machines churn out mediocrity, make something yourself. Make it imperfect. Make it rough. Just make it.
Care loudly. Tell others. Get going."
dansinker.com/posts/2025-0...
In a moment where machines churn out mediocrity, make something yourself. Make it imperfect. Make it rough. Just make it.
Care loudly. Tell others. Get going."
dansinker.com/posts/2025-0...
"History is made at night. Character is what you are in the dark."
- Lord John Whorfin in 'The Adventures Of Buckaroo Banzai Across The 8th Dimension'
See also DL Moody.
Relevant across this dimension also.
- Lord John Whorfin in 'The Adventures Of Buckaroo Banzai Across The 8th Dimension'
See also DL Moody.
Relevant across this dimension also.
June 4, 2025 at 11:47 PM
"History is made at night. Character is what you are in the dark."
- Lord John Whorfin in 'The Adventures Of Buckaroo Banzai Across The 8th Dimension'
See also DL Moody.
Relevant across this dimension also.
- Lord John Whorfin in 'The Adventures Of Buckaroo Banzai Across The 8th Dimension'
See also DL Moody.
Relevant across this dimension also.
"This is and has always been a company of risk-takers who are unafraid to move fast and break things.
Or at least, that’s what I thought, until a bunch of you started bringing up the many merits of proceeding cautiously and keeping things unbroken."
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Or at least, that’s what I thought, until a bunch of you started bringing up the many merits of proceeding cautiously and keeping things unbroken."
www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/a-c...
A Company Reminder for Everyone to Talk Nicely About the Giant Plagiarism Machine
Hey team. It’s your CEO. I know your time is valuable, so I’ll cut right to the chase: It’s come to my attention that some of you have been bad-mou...
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May 20, 2025 at 10:59 AM
"This is and has always been a company of risk-takers who are unafraid to move fast and break things.
Or at least, that’s what I thought, until a bunch of you started bringing up the many merits of proceeding cautiously and keeping things unbroken."
www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/a-c...
Or at least, that’s what I thought, until a bunch of you started bringing up the many merits of proceeding cautiously and keeping things unbroken."
www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/a-c...
"I finally saw the reality of loss—it doesn’t go away quickly. You can clean it up, you can repair the sidewalks, you can put on a pearl necklace and pretend you’re an adult—and maybe even become one—but the person is still missing, the towers are still gone."
www.thesunmagazine.org/articles/593...
www.thesunmagazine.org/articles/593...
Missing
One week before the planes flew into the towers, I secured my first full-time, salaried job. I had applied to work for the New York City Parks Department at the suggestion of my roommate, Ethan. He’d ...
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May 19, 2025 at 5:16 AM
"I finally saw the reality of loss—it doesn’t go away quickly. You can clean it up, you can repair the sidewalks, you can put on a pearl necklace and pretend you’re an adult—and maybe even become one—but the person is still missing, the towers are still gone."
www.thesunmagazine.org/articles/593...
www.thesunmagazine.org/articles/593...
Issue 19 of @sachajudd.com's 'what you love matters' reminded me of this post I wrote in 2020.
Still one of my all time favourite YT videos. Still criminally underviewed.
Also - subscribe to Sacha's newsletter (email and RSS FTW) - it's ace: newsletter.sachajudd.com
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Still one of my all time favourite YT videos. Still criminally underviewed.
Also - subscribe to Sacha's newsletter (email and RSS FTW) - it's ace: newsletter.sachajudd.com
www.continue.nz/you-are-stro...
you are strong
The truth is, you matter more right now than ever before. The truth is, your skin is beautiful and you are seen.
www.continue.nz
May 15, 2025 at 10:02 PM
Issue 19 of @sachajudd.com's 'what you love matters' reminded me of this post I wrote in 2020.
Still one of my all time favourite YT videos. Still criminally underviewed.
Also - subscribe to Sacha's newsletter (email and RSS FTW) - it's ace: newsletter.sachajudd.com
www.continue.nz/you-are-stro...
Still one of my all time favourite YT videos. Still criminally underviewed.
Also - subscribe to Sacha's newsletter (email and RSS FTW) - it's ace: newsletter.sachajudd.com
www.continue.nz/you-are-stro...
"The digital echoes of our actions will likely continue to multiply, but we can choose which echoes we’re willing to generate and which activities deserve to remain ephemeral — to exist only in the moment they occur and then in the memories of those present."
www.chrbutler.com/digital-echo...
www.chrbutler.com/digital-echo...
Digital Echoes and Unquiet Minds - Christopher Butler
When the iPhone was first introduced in 2007, the notion of an “everything device” was universally celebrated. A single object that could serve as
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May 2, 2025 at 7:26 AM
"The digital echoes of our actions will likely continue to multiply, but we can choose which echoes we’re willing to generate and which activities deserve to remain ephemeral — to exist only in the moment they occur and then in the memories of those present."
www.chrbutler.com/digital-echo...
www.chrbutler.com/digital-echo...
Happy belated 16th birthday to Satoshi Nakamoto's Bitcoin... and imagining the timeline if we'd paid more attention to John Gilmore.
www.mail-archive.com/cryptography...
www.mail-archive.com/cryptography...
www.mail-archive.com/cryptography...
www.mail-archive.com/cryptography...
Bitcoin v0.1 released
www.mail-archive.com
January 14, 2025 at 7:25 PM
Happy belated 16th birthday to Satoshi Nakamoto's Bitcoin... and imagining the timeline if we'd paid more attention to John Gilmore.
www.mail-archive.com/cryptography...
www.mail-archive.com/cryptography...
www.mail-archive.com/cryptography...
www.mail-archive.com/cryptography...
"May we mark the moment even when it seems a little embarrassing, may we talk about one another’s grief out loud, may we admit how fucking hard it is sometimes to be a person at all.
May it be so."
Via Courtney Martin. substack.com/home/post/p-...
Useful reflection on a birthday. Onwards.
May it be so."
Via Courtney Martin. substack.com/home/post/p-...
Useful reflection on a birthday. Onwards.
Prayer for the new year
Okay, 2025...
substack.com
January 13, 2025 at 2:57 AM
"May we mark the moment even when it seems a little embarrassing, may we talk about one another’s grief out loud, may we admit how fucking hard it is sometimes to be a person at all.
May it be so."
Via Courtney Martin. substack.com/home/post/p-...
Useful reflection on a birthday. Onwards.
May it be so."
Via Courtney Martin. substack.com/home/post/p-...
Useful reflection on a birthday. Onwards.
Ars Technica: arstechnica.com/ai/2025/01/1...
WP post: diogenesii.wordpress.com/wp-content/u...
NZETC: (now hosted by NLNZ): ndhadeliver.natlib.govt.nz/webarchive/2...
Papers Past: paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/C...
Turtles, papercuts, citations and metadata all the way down.
WP post: diogenesii.wordpress.com/wp-content/u...
NZETC: (now hosted by NLNZ): ndhadeliver.natlib.govt.nz/webarchive/2...
Papers Past: paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/C...
Turtles, papercuts, citations and metadata all the way down.
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January 11, 2025 at 7:42 PM
Ars Technica: arstechnica.com/ai/2025/01/1...
WP post: diogenesii.wordpress.com/wp-content/u...
NZETC: (now hosted by NLNZ): ndhadeliver.natlib.govt.nz/webarchive/2...
Papers Past: paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/C...
Turtles, papercuts, citations and metadata all the way down.
WP post: diogenesii.wordpress.com/wp-content/u...
NZETC: (now hosted by NLNZ): ndhadeliver.natlib.govt.nz/webarchive/2...
Papers Past: paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/C...
Turtles, papercuts, citations and metadata all the way down.
"“Start close in. Don’t take the second step or the third, start with the first thing close in… start with the ground you know, the pale ground beneath your feet.”
-David Whyte
via Oliver Burkeman
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-David Whyte
via Oliver Burkeman
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The Imperfectionist: How not to freak out about the US election
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October 30, 2024 at 7:55 PM
"“Start close in. Don’t take the second step or the third, start with the first thing close in… start with the ground you know, the pale ground beneath your feet.”
-David Whyte
via Oliver Burkeman
ckarchive.com/b/38uphkho8g...
-David Whyte
via Oliver Burkeman
ckarchive.com/b/38uphkho8g...
"That is real freedom. ... The alternative is unconsciousness, the default setting, the rat race, the constant gnawing sense of having had, and lost, some infinite thing."
-DFW
Reflecting again that the 'alternative' is a choice.
That we get to make. Each day.
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-DFW
Reflecting again that the 'alternative' is a choice.
That we get to make. Each day.
fs.blog/david-foster...
This is Water by David Foster Wallace (Full Transcript and Audio)
David Foster Wallace's remarkable 2005 commencement speech, This is Water, is a timeless trove of wisdom for living a meaningful life. Here is a full transcript along with audio.
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October 16, 2024 at 9:31 PM
"That is real freedom. ... The alternative is unconsciousness, the default setting, the rat race, the constant gnawing sense of having had, and lost, some infinite thing."
-DFW
Reflecting again that the 'alternative' is a choice.
That we get to make. Each day.
fs.blog/david-foster...
-DFW
Reflecting again that the 'alternative' is a choice.
That we get to make. Each day.
fs.blog/david-foster...
As a former educator I may have lolsobbed too much at this one.
It's the "One size fits most" detail that hits the hardest.
It's the "One size fits most" detail that hits the hardest.
October 6, 2024 at 9:38 PM
As a former educator I may have lolsobbed too much at this one.
It's the "One size fits most" detail that hits the hardest.
It's the "One size fits most" detail that hits the hardest.
"We can choose to remain small. We can choose to devote ourselves to something that serves and respects and delights people. We can choose to do our small things in small ways..."
2017 @tashmahal.bsky.social wrote that.
2024 me re-read it & was lifted up.
www.thisisthoughtful.com/3648/exist-s...
2017 @tashmahal.bsky.social wrote that.
2024 me re-read it & was lifted up.
www.thisisthoughtful.com/3648/exist-s...
An exist strategy: In business, small is beautiful too | THOUGHTFUL
Natasha Lampard reflects on what business would be like if we focused less on the exit and more on the exist strategy, prioritising longevity over scale.
www.thisisthoughtful.com
September 16, 2024 at 10:46 PM
"We can choose to remain small. We can choose to devote ourselves to something that serves and respects and delights people. We can choose to do our small things in small ways..."
2017 @tashmahal.bsky.social wrote that.
2024 me re-read it & was lifted up.
www.thisisthoughtful.com/3648/exist-s...
2017 @tashmahal.bsky.social wrote that.
2024 me re-read it & was lifted up.
www.thisisthoughtful.com/3648/exist-s...
Text corrections on the Papers Past site went live this week.
paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/help/text-co...
Very proud of the Digital Experience team here at Te Puna Mātauranga o Aotearoa, whose work builds on that of Collaborative Services team.
On Wards #NLNZ #paperspast
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Very proud of the Digital Experience team here at Te Puna Mātauranga o Aotearoa, whose work builds on that of Collaborative Services team.
On Wards #NLNZ #paperspast
September 12, 2024 at 2:14 AM
Text corrections on the Papers Past site went live this week.
paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/help/text-co...
Very proud of the Digital Experience team here at Te Puna Mātauranga o Aotearoa, whose work builds on that of Collaborative Services team.
On Wards #NLNZ #paperspast
paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/help/text-co...
Very proud of the Digital Experience team here at Te Puna Mātauranga o Aotearoa, whose work builds on that of Collaborative Services team.
On Wards #NLNZ #paperspast
I took some leave with the family last week.
On the second day of leave I received an email with an urgent OIA request.
I told Ms 11 I would have to do a bit of work.
She looked at me and said: "Annual leave isn't when you leave the office. It's when you tell work to LEAVE you alone"
On the second day of leave I received an email with an urgent OIA request.
I told Ms 11 I would have to do a bit of work.
She looked at me and said: "Annual leave isn't when you leave the office. It's when you tell work to LEAVE you alone"
July 15, 2024 at 5:07 AM
I took some leave with the family last week.
On the second day of leave I received an email with an urgent OIA request.
I told Ms 11 I would have to do a bit of work.
She looked at me and said: "Annual leave isn't when you leave the office. It's when you tell work to LEAVE you alone"
On the second day of leave I received an email with an urgent OIA request.
I told Ms 11 I would have to do a bit of work.
She looked at me and said: "Annual leave isn't when you leave the office. It's when you tell work to LEAVE you alone"
Only 3 days late with obligatory NY salutations.
Not stuck at Northern Bass festival.
Spending time with whanau, friends, ping pong, playlists and long evenings around a 🔥 pit.
Here's to a 2024 of low carbs, hazy vibes and being excellent to one another.
Not stuck at Northern Bass festival.
Spending time with whanau, friends, ping pong, playlists and long evenings around a 🔥 pit.
Here's to a 2024 of low carbs, hazy vibes and being excellent to one another.
January 3, 2024 at 7:01 AM
Only 3 days late with obligatory NY salutations.
Not stuck at Northern Bass festival.
Spending time with whanau, friends, ping pong, playlists and long evenings around a 🔥 pit.
Here's to a 2024 of low carbs, hazy vibes and being excellent to one another.
Not stuck at Northern Bass festival.
Spending time with whanau, friends, ping pong, playlists and long evenings around a 🔥 pit.
Here's to a 2024 of low carbs, hazy vibes and being excellent to one another.
13. Guard your energy fiercely.
14. Pour your love into the good ones.
23. Stay kind.
24. Act from generosity, every time.
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via @rands.bsky.social
14. Pour your love into the good ones.
23. Stay kind.
24. Act from generosity, every time.
meandorla.substack.com/p/manifesto-...
via @rands.bsky.social
Manifesto for posting online in 2023
Burn the old rule books. Keep warm by the fire.
meandorla.substack.com
November 26, 2023 at 8:43 AM
13. Guard your energy fiercely.
14. Pour your love into the good ones.
23. Stay kind.
24. Act from generosity, every time.
meandorla.substack.com/p/manifesto-...
via @rands.bsky.social
14. Pour your love into the good ones.
23. Stay kind.
24. Act from generosity, every time.
meandorla.substack.com/p/manifesto-...
via @rands.bsky.social