Lance Gillespie, a veteran Collective Intelligence member and northern Manawatū dairy farmer, chews the fat about the challenges and rewards of regenerative agriculture (climate-smart land management practices) with a retired sports turf contractor. Over a cuppa they find they share a lot of common ground and Lance gets a healthy dose of cross-generational inspiration to fuel his own journey in biological farming practices.

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Bettina Anderson, a new Collective Intelligence staffer, shares her experiences as a Pākeka who has been on a long journey to learn the first language of this land.

It’s tough going having to unlearn your own well-honed learning style and she invites you to join her in her ‘awkward reo club’, offering up some useful resources to get you started paddling your own waka-o-te-reo.

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Dave Craig, a Collective Intelligence member and southern California native, went on an inside tour of this tech giant’s sprawling San Fran campus. We’ve been reflecting on how social platforms are shaping our interactions (and we them).

So we read with interest in Dave’s tour rundown how Facebook has 1,200 full-time staff tasked with looking for unsafe content 24/7, and these are the people training Facebook’s AI to better identify hateful content and shut it down faster.

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