Geoff Wilson's Work

Updated 13 Sep 2026 from my home in Auckland, New Zealand after returning from a week in Sydney, AU

HOSTing & mentoring inspiring makers

Being around creative, self-motivated people solving interesting problems is my happy place, and I’ve been leaning back into it. My ‘free time’ calendar has been quite chocka between event hosting, attending, advising, and preparing pitches for more mentoring & speaking opportunities.

I had the pleasure of hosting the HackAotearoa co-working community for a day — a space for startups who need a space to build solo, together. “Scheming” is my word of the year for all the behind-the-scenes pies I’ve got my finger in. You’ll find me at Auckland Startup Week coming up in October, and I’ll hopefully soon start having events listed at academyEX.

A new product in the works?

What started as an advisory conversation around product roadmap prioritisation and setting healthy expectations led to me suggesting, “Why do we just walk down to that café right now to test out your concept? Then you’d know whether this is worth putting more energy into it.”

An hour later, we had a business owner saying she’d immediately trial this prototype if we could get her a version with one or two key things fixed—and she was already talking subscription pricing. I was keen to spend more time on this product idea. These founders I’ve been mentoring were keen for me to get more involved in this product idea. It’s now a “we thing” rather than a “their thing”. Next step: need to get on those MVP changes for another round of testing!

Writing or recording when I have time

I’m sitting on a backlog of draft blogs and podcast recordings, but—as you may have noticed from the above activities—I’ve had a lot going on and these have fallen to the wayside. Because I am once again regularly engaging with people face-to-face,

I write when the mood strikes me or record when I don’t feel like writing, and I haven’t recently felt the desire to do much of either. Advising and engaging with communities face-to-face tends to lower my motivation to sit down and publish something for a faceless internet audience. No amount of Views or Likes can compare with seeing someone’s face light up with a dawning epiphany. So, I’ll still post something when I get around to it, but it’ll be even less regular than it was.

REading, playing, or generally consuming

• Incorruptible (book)
• The Forever War (book)
• Tribe of Mentors (book)
• Hogwarts Legacy (game)
• Fallout: New Vegas (game)
• Korean & Chess on Duolingo

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Thanks to Derek Sivers for the /now page inspiration—you should have one too!