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Technology April 2026 6 min read

The accountant working until 9pm is not a productivity problem. It is a technology problem.

Australian accounting practices are running complex compliance workflows on tools never designed for the job. The cost is not just revenue.

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The 9pm accountant

Technology

The accountant working until 9pm is not a productivity problem. It is a technology problem.

Australian accounting practices are running complex compliance workflows on tools never designed for the job. The cost is not just revenue.

April 2026 6 min
Society Coming

Five hours a day. What social media is actually costing us and who is counting.

The average Australian spends five hours a day on social platforms. Nobody measures what that time was worth before it was taken.

Coming soon 5 min
Entrepreneurship Coming

Why I stopped trying to build the perfect product and started building the right system.

The shift from product thinking to systems thinking is the most important move a founder can make. It took me longer than it should have.

Coming soon 7 min
Leadership Coming

What managing 2,200 critical infrastructure sites taught me about leading people.

When the consequence of failure is a network going dark across an entire state, you learn quickly what real accountability looks like.

Coming soon 8 min
Technology Coming

AI is not coming for jobs. It is coming for the hours you should never have been spending.

The fear around AI and employment is real but misplaced. The more honest conversation is about which hours we should be recovering first.

Coming soon 5 min
Entrepreneurship Coming

The businesses that will matter in 2030 are being built right now in Western Sydney.

The next generation of technology companies will not come from the CBD. They will come from the people closest to the problems nobody has solved yet.

Coming soon 6 min

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