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aurynn shaw (@contraurnnian) from Eiara is one of those people we have long time admired from afar for her honesty, strength and passions. We talk photography, moving countries, working for Weta Digital, writing code and what's the default human?! During this chat it was a revelation to hear how hard it can for devops and how Aurynn went through it and out to the other side.

Oh, and she challenges Mike big time and that’s why we are definitely working on having aurynn as a regular on the show, fingers crossed. Enjoy. 

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We share the stories from people that work in New Zealand tech, social media, startups. If you have a story or know someone that does - get in touch!

Mike Riversdale (@MiramarMike) background is explaining stuff, connecting people and getting things done. Raj Khushal (@nzRaj) background is in video, design, media and making things happen.

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This week we talk to Rod Drury (@roddrury) starting with paddle boards and how Rod started in the industry with Microsoft Access and Visual Basic apps before 'why Aftermail' and then, of course, Xero.

We cover youth employment/grad programmes and how they can help grow the industry via the small business that are customers of Xero.

Rod asks what do you do after you make it big – "buy your silly cars, then what?" and puts his view on  how companies can help in communities to build expertise and greater companies that will help evolve New Zealand Inc. 

What's next for Xero ... machine learning ... automate everything! 

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We share the stories from people that work in New Zealand tech, social media, startups. If you have a story or know someone that does - get in touch!

Mike Riversdale (@MiramarMike) background is explaining stuff, connecting people and getting things done. Raj Khushal (@nzRaj) background is in video, design, media and making things happen.

All our past shows are on our website
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This is our last 2015 System Error show with Mauricio Freitas (@freitasm) and we dive into prostitution  (as a service), idiot drivers, and Tile.

We were also joined by Nate Dunn (@nate) and Dan Randow (@danrandow) as we talk about our amazing event happening on the 4th of December.

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We share the stories from people that work in New Zealand tech, social media, startups. If you have a story or know someone that does - get in touch!

Mike Riversdale (@MiramarMike) background is explaining stuff, connecting people and getting things done. Raj Khushal (@nzRaj) background is in video, design, media and making things happen.

All our past shows are on our website
https://www.accessgranted.nz

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Episode 71, This week we catch up with "Frantic Enabler" Aimee Whitcroft. Ring master of the famous nerd night in Wellington and general UnF*cker of businesses. We talk about how she came to be in Tech in NZ and the fun adventures during the Mongol rally...Also we talk about teaching baby AI's their first words...

Also:

PARTAY! Yip, we are having a party – well, we are co-hosting a party alongside the fine folks from Hack Miramar and the community over at Geekzone. It’s going to be a cracking evening on Friday 4th December! There will be live music, beer, prizes and only 100 people – so get over to our blog, Jiber Jaber for the Lil Reggie link to get your FREE ticket.

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We share the stories from people that work in New Zealand tech, social media, startups. If you have a story or know someone that does - get in touch!

Mike Riversdale (@MiramarMike) background is explaining stuff, connecting people and getting things done. Raj Khushal (@nzRaj) background is in video, design, media and making things happen.

All our past shows are on our website
https://www.accessgranted.nz

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This week we talk to Nadia McGregor founder and director of School of Design Thinking. It is a fascinating discussion covering Nadia’s current work with design thinking and what that actually is. Also as an Iranian born woman, design thinking has had a great affect on her life and what brought her to New Zealand.

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We share the stories from people that work in New Zealand tech, social media, startups. If you have a story or know someone that does - get in touch!

Mike Riversdale (@MiramarMike) background is explaining stuff, connecting people and getting things done. Raj Khushal (@nzRaj) background is in video, design, media and making things happen.

All our past shows are on our website
https://www.accessgranted.nz

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It's time for another instalment of System Error with Mauricio Freitas (@freitasm) from Geekzone. We dive into Tractor software copyright issues, stumbling into a real life Tinder event. We have a little food rant (and digital distribution of content) while eating our pizza.

Oh and  dealing with CLICK BAIT – from Spammers and our own news sites! Our solution – fight back with porn...

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We share the stories from people that work in New Zealand tech, social media, startups. If you have a story or know someone that does - get in touch!

Mike Riversdale (@MiramarMike) background is explaining stuff, connecting people and getting things done. Raj Khushal (@nzRaj) background is in video, design, media and making things happen.

All our past shows are on our website
https://www.accessgranted.nz

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This week we talk to Ben Duflou from All Accounted For. His accounting firm has moved into an advisory role in the new age of cloud accounting. They started using Xero, when it wasn't cool. We also chat about the landscape and the pitfalls to watch out for when getting your start up – up and running.

We also get one piece of advice that will change your bottom line.

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We share the stories from people that work in New Zealand tech, social media, startups. If you have a story or know someone that does - get in touch!

Mike Riversdale (@MiramarMike) background is explaining stuff, connecting people and getting things done. Raj Khushal (@nzRaj) background is in video, design, media and making things happen.

All our past shows are on our website
https://www.accessgranted.nz

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We talk to Kate Henderson (@mistyepd), Victoria University student that many have encountered via Summer of Tech, hackthons, Google uni events and at Android dev meet-ups. We cover, Google IO, Google card board and virtual reality.

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We share the stories from people that work in New Zealand tech, social media, startups. If you have a story or know someone that does - get in touch!

Mike Riversdale (@MiramarMike) background is explaining stuff, connecting people and getting things done. Raj Khushal (@nzRaj) background is in video, design, media and making things happen.

All our past shows are on our website
https://www.accessgranted.nz

Follow and Like us on:
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This week we talk to Grant Robinson (@grantrobinson) and Darryl Gray (@darrylgray) from Atomic. We talk about the early days of Xero (employee 5 and 6), some time at BNZ and their first "start up" experiences creating the YouMoney banking platform. We also chat about the earlier days of "interactive" design and using graphics to tell stories – and how they came up with the "Google Docs of design software".

We also have a few words from PledgeMe CEO and founder, Anna Guenther - listen up as there’s something cool closing tonight which is Tuesday 15th September, 2015.

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We share the stories from people that work in New Zealand tech, social media, startups. If you have a story or know someone that does - get in touch!

Mike Riversdale (@MiramarMike) background is explaining stuff, connecting people and getting things done. Raj Khushal (@nzRaj) background is in video, design, media and making things happen.

All our past shows are on our website
https://www.accessgranted.nz

Follow and Like us on:
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This week we chat to Mauricio Freitas (@fretasm) for another "System Error" segment where we talk about switching from Windows phone to Android and the security issues with old Android. We dive into the issues with all the platforms and their update cycles. Mauricio also shows us his new wearable gadget. Then we rant about clueless drives distracted by their tech.

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We share the stories from people that work in New Zealand tech, social media, startups. If you have a story or know someone that does - get in touch!

Mike Riversdale (@MiramarMike) background is explaining stuff, connecting people and getting things done. Raj Khushal (@nzRaj) background is in video, design, media and making things happen.

All our past shows are on our website
https://www.accessgranted.nz

Follow and Like us on:
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