The Plot
Whatever brought you here from the front page, this is where it goes deeper, and where the prawns, the bananas, the boats and the arguments about universities turn out to be connected.
If you don't know where to start
Each of these begins with a beginning. Some have an end.
- A startup saga SHR!MP From stem cells to prawns, in two seasons and counting. One season finale is called Cockroaches-by-the-Sea.
- An argument The Third Nexus The lecture was built for a world short of books. The books arrived about five hundred years ago.
- A voyage UNCHARTED Forty Sea Scouts, a kids' sailing school, and a question for health insurers: could sailing be paid for like a treatment?
The stories
The backstory to the work below, told in seasons.
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SHR!MP
A city office lost twice, and an Entrepreneurship World Cup pitch under the motto Go Big or Go Extinct.
Two seasons, 18 episodes -
UNCHARTED
From a tiny family yacht to the working group behind Australia's national plan for sailing participation.
Season one, 13 episodes Captain Kitty's Log: nine days on the Bay, $112 a head -
Spirit of Adventure
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The work
Two startups, and two done just because they matter: youth sailing and Scouts.
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SHRMP.bio
Asia farms about 300,000 tonnes a year of a prawn native to northern Australia. Australia farms none of it. Yet.
Startup, two people The prawn's history, in eighteen parts -
HBTX
A third of Australia's bananas never reach a shelf. The fruit is fine. It fails an audition, not a food-safety test.
Startup -
Aurora Sailing
Youth sailing on Port Phillip Bay. One capsized, freezing sailor called it the best day of his life.
Volunteer, youth sailing -
Scouts
A German Scout drops his daughter at Sea Scouts, wearing his German uniform. The Group Leader pounces.
Volunteer
Ideas
Arguments and essays.
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The Third NexusNEXUS III
NEXUS III
Reduce a university to delivering content, or to making people job-ready, and you have built a trade school with worse economics, and little value for students.
Seven parts -
Orders, Captain?Data on Deck
Data on Deck
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Free guide -
EssaysField Notes
Field Notes
Ten years early to the longevity party, a company everyone said was dead on arrival, and other detours.
Essays
Session on the Sea
Beyond reading.
Fridays from 15:00 on Port Phillip Bay: three on a boat, one topic each. Bring one that matters to you. The Bay supplies the weather.