Blog Posts

Buy! Sell!
14 May 2025

Buy! Sell!

Moving on from the dystopia of last week’s newsletter, we’re back focused on building for our future financial strength — which given the unknowns around jobs seems a good idea! Remember my pyramid from a few weeks ago ? This week we’re half way up it, looking at building your share portfolio.
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Feel the fear and do AI anyway No time to read?
7 May 2025

Feel the fear and do AI anyway No time to read?

If you’ve seen the film Don’t Look Up you will know its underlying theme is that of collective denial of impending doom, and the inability to act because of it. I’m leaning quite heavily into this theme today so buckle up, and perhaps have a drink of choice close at hand
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Did Tariffs make you look?
15 Apr 2025

Did Tariffs make you look?

There is plenty more to make you stare! Welcome back to Look Up Money. A slight delay in getting this one to you - part market chaos and part my 18year old son has just left home on an overseas adventure. The latter has been quite the distraction as I
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Arm Ourselves with Money
2 Apr 2025

Arm Ourselves with Money

The wealthier you are, the more opportunity you will have to do something about it. Screaming on Twitter, crying into TikTok, all that does is make the people on the other side feel even more emboldened. My advice is, arm yourself with money.
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Buy the haystack
31 Mar 2025

Buy the haystack

Index tracker funds have become a popular choice for customers of app based share platforms due to their simple, passive and low cost way to get access to the market
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Thoughts

If the answer is 'handwritten exam's' they are not asking the right questions.

It's two and a half years since the release of ChatGPT and yet still Universities are seeing AI as a 'problem to find a solution to'
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Society building fail in Aoteroa

NZ since the 1970s have lost the ability to 'plant trees under who's shade you do not expect to sit'.
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We're focused on the wrong things

The AI conversation is at the wrong level. We shouldn't be debating whether it's ok to use it to write your content or not, but what
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Galloway on form

@profgalloway.com in fine form on todays @pivotpod.bsky.social (Kara swisher always is). Loved the take on Zuckerberg/Meta (how he seems to believe his own lines) as well
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