<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" version="2.0"><channel><title><![CDATA[My Site]]></title><description><![CDATA[My Site]]></description><link>https://www.fridai.dev/field-notes</link><generator>RSS for Node</generator><lastBuildDate>Wed, 08 Apr 2026 21:05:48 GMT</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://www.fridai.dev/blog-feed.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><item><title><![CDATA[There's Engineering Skills Hiding in the Arts Department]]></title><description><![CDATA[Why the skills we’ve historically treated as “soft” are becoming the most powerful levers of the AI age. Spend any time around schools, universities, teacher training, or early-career recruitment at the moment and you’ll feel it: a strange quiet panic, an uneasy hum vibrating under everything. Education has always been a game of aiming at a moving target, but right now it feels like that target is moving and  the ground under your feet is sliding sideways. There’s a dizzy inevitability to AI...]]></description><link>https://www.fridai.dev/post/there-s-engineering-skills-hiding-in-the-arts-department</link><guid isPermaLink="false">69cf7eb92a4608ae001ed7ba</guid><pubDate>Fri, 03 Apr 2026 08:59:05 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/c1ae3a_89dec1dae3cd4b3f85a9741de0fabea6~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Bartholomew Lind</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[What Happens After 300,000 People Have Their Say?]]></title><description><![CDATA[Public consultations are a cornerstone of democratic governance in New Zealand. When Parliament considers a new Bill or a council proposes a policy change, the public gets to have their say. And they do — sometimes in the thousands, sometimes in the hundreds of thousands. The Treaty Principles Bill alone generated over 300,000 written submissions, the largest response to proposed legislation Parliament has ever received. The previous record, set by the Conversion Practices Prohibition Bill,...]]></description><link>https://www.fridai.dev/post/what-happens-after-300-000-people-have-their-say</link><guid isPermaLink="false">69cef37440e74dbec4ff3781</guid><pubDate>Thu, 02 Apr 2026 22:54:39 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/1a0005_2a132fb671f94bdca79b9233e23b401d~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Bartholomew Lind</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[AI is the New Number 8 Wire. Why Are We Leaving it in the Shed?]]></title><description><![CDATA[We Kiwis love a good story. And our favourite one to tell about ourselves is the myth of the Number 8 Wire. It’s our national brand identity. That rugged, can-do, DIY spirit. It’s the tinkerer in their garage, solving a unique problem with a custom tool. It’s our world-famous ingenuity. And it’s not just a myth. It’s a historical fact. In 1900, New Zealand had the highest rate of patent applications per capita in the world . Even as recently as 2006, we ranked 4th globally for patents...]]></description><link>https://www.fridai.dev/post/ai-is-the-new-number-8-wire-why-are-we-leaving-it-in-the-shed</link><guid isPermaLink="false">690148c8db647af5d94a4c39</guid><pubDate>Thu, 02 Apr 2026 09:13:08 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/1a0005_72bbf0e4593d4a709d73cd8ce0e6f9d3~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_1000,h_706,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Bartholomew Lind</dc:creator></item></channel></rss>