Mistakes. Learning from your mistakes is okay but it saves time when your teacher makes them first so you don’t have to. My ZTM teacher Daniel taught us the best way to upload our files into Google Drive correctly. You see uploaded files can get deleted once the runtime...
Mistakes and Lessons
Precession and Goal Setting
Bucky Fuller taught many principles to his students. One of them was PRECESSION, which he defined as: “the effect of bodies in motion on other bodies in motion“. He demonstrated this idea with a story about the honey bee. The bee goes about gathering nectar from flowers to take back...
Start Right Where You Are
Such good advice from my creative mentor Samantha Bennett of therealsambennett.com . Start with who you know. Start with something you’re passionate about and good at doing. Start with something that gives value or solves a problem for the people you want to help the most. Make something no...
Becoming a Data Scientist/Veterinarian at 67 years young.
Week 1: In the beginning… It’s true. When the student is ready the teacher appears. I’d “failed” again. I had ventured down the E-Commerce path, dreaming of fame and fortune, only to realize that doing it with a shop centered on French Bulldogs wasn’t going to get me there....
Palm Kernel Extract..Villain or Hero?
There has been a lot of debate about Palm Kernel Extract. I expect you have your own thoughts on it too. Some dairy companies see Palm Kernel Extract as a villain. It’s high in lauric acid which is a saturated fatty acid with a much higher melting point than...
Make More Money With Fibre
A little long fibre in a cows diet goes a long way. After all, fermenting complex carbohydrates is what a ruminant does best. Try giving them some and see for yourself. And it can be a profitable exercise. Through gains in feed conversion and better animal health. So how...
How To Reduce Nitrogen Leaching From Cows
Cows recycle the nitrogen they eat and share it with us in their milk as true milk protein. As well as other N containing compounds like milk urea, which has this molecular formula …CH4N2O Nitrogen is also excreted from their bodies in their urine, again as urea. This represents...
Efficiency…Five Truths That Will Surprise You
Efficiency is a quality that most people don’t have an argument with. To me the word conjures up a vision of a conveyor belt with components getting added sequentially until the finished product rolls off the production line and into it’s final package. How could anyone argue against efficiency?...
3 Reasons Why Ketosis in N.Z. Does Deserve Attention
Clinical and sub clinical ketosis in dairy cows does deserve attention here. In the latest N.Z. trial even the scientists were surprised by how common it was to find ketone bodies in the blood of cows at levels higher than 1.2 mmol/litre….especially in the month just before calving and...
5 Steps To Easier And Faster Problem Solving
We weren’t taught problem solving at school. Rather we were taught A SYSTEM of arriving at the right answer. How to multiply twelve by thirteen for example.Of course in this case there is only one right answer. And back then we weren’t encouraged to figure out our own way...