Can bots be our friends? I’ve got a new book review up on YouTube. This one is by British novelist, Kazuo Ishiguro and it’s one that stays with you long after you put the book down. Themes of love, hope, loneliness, human-like bots made to be AFs (artificial friends) for children, genetic editing and uplifting, […]
The Natural History of Love
My new book review is now published on YouTube. How this book got into my hands was full of coincidences that I simply couldn’t explain and wrote about them in the blog post: Eerie Coincidences. In the video, I wander around the golf course showing where the site of the original Mayfields House was. I’m […]
Book Reviews for The Week
I’m a mad reader and currently onto about my 55th (?) book this year which has focussed on reading authors who come from a non-English speaking background. I’ve read some interesting ones which are all sitting on my YouTube channel. Here’s a few that have been uploaded in the last week or so. There are […]
Our Attention Has Been Stolen
I published a new book review this morning on a book I recently finished reading. It’s Johann Hari’s new book called Stolen Focus: Why You Can’t Pay Attention. In the book he provides the different causes over the years as to why we feel our attention and focus has been hijacked and offers a not-so-startling […]
Dare to Unlead: The Art of Leadership in a Fragmented World
Celine Schillinger wrote this wonderful book recently that I have recommended to everyone I know. It’s a book about a different style of leadership needed in today’s world. When I was reading the book, there were times when I was angry and had to put it down to reflect more. It wasn’t what was written, […]
Book Review on The Bookseller’s Tale
A new book review is now on on my YouTube channel if you’re interested. This one was fabulous because it was written by a bookseller who collated and curated all sorts of different stories and facts about books, book collectors and book stores. A great read.
You Are Not A Gadget
A new book review is now up on YouTube and it’s Jaron Lanier’s, You Are Not a Gadget written in 2010. In the video I talk about how I read this book as at times it took a while to read due to its writing style and at times, grappling with some of the words […]
Reading Jaron Lanier
I’m reading a couple of books by virtual reality pioneer, Jaron Lanier at the moment. The first one is You Are Not a Gadget and the second is Ten Reasons To Delete Your Social Media Accounts Right Now. They’re not the reason why I’m getting off social media as I’ve noticed that once we make […]
We Wrote a Book
Our second book is now available through Amazon Kindle. This one is a little bit different to our first book which was called Microsoft Teams: A Manager’s Guide to Communication, Collaboration and Co-ordination. This first book provided some ways for teams to be able to use a framework that helped support these. We had received […]
Struggling Through Certain Books
‘If you don’t have anything nice to say, don’t say anything at all.’ Just about every parent I’ve been reading a book as part of a book club by Kim Scott called Radical Candor: Be a Kick Ass Boss without Losing Your Humanity and admittedly, I’m really struggling to get through this book. I’ve read […]
Welcome to My Bookshelf Tour
This week I decided to do a bookshelf tour of three shelves in our lounge room and although most of the books are my husband’s, you can instantly tell how different our tastes are! Enjoy!
Radio Girl
I’m currently reading a book by researcher David Dufty called Radio Girl: The Story of the Extraordinary Mrs Mac, Pioneering Engineer and War Time Legend (what a cracking title) and the more I read it, the more I believe that Australian film makers MUST make a film or a series about her. Violet McKenzie grew […]
Be Continuously Surprised
I’ve been reading Martin Amis new book called Inside Story which he calls a novel. I’ll do a video review on it once I finish but so far, all I can say is that the writing is beautiful. It’s as if I’m catching glimpses of his life and in particular, the moments he shared with […]
What Did You Miss in June?
A busy month of learning in June. Here’s what I wrote about: Separation & Flow – the importance of setting boundaries between work and play Levelling Up Your Skills through Mini Challenges Lockdown Lament A BS Mantra: Fake It Until You Make It When Subscriber Numbers Get Scary Books vs. Cigarettes Ways to Follow This […]
Updating my YouTube Channel
For the last week or so, I’ve been trying to put some semblance of order on my YouTube channel and in frustration, I’ve realised it’s a MASSIVE job. There are over 400 videos on the site and as it’s a channel that is used as a record of work and learning, a portfolio if you […]
The Bed of Procrustes
The irony is not lost on me that much of what we go through in our life happens to be a Procrustean bed. They are born, then put into a box; they go home to live in a box; they study by ticking boxes they go to what is called “work” in a box, where […]
Books v. Cigarettes
I’m a huge fan of George Orwell. Guess you could say he’s my literary crush. I love all his books and I can’t help but feel that he was an empath writing about the human condition and the inequalities in society as well as making some predictions of the future which have somehow all become […]
Future Fit
Recently I finished reading a book by Andrea Clarke called Future Fit: How to Stay Relevant and Competitive in the Future of Work. Although the book was not relevant for me (in the sense that I have for many years now, been building an online profile and networks to help navigate through my different projects, […]
When Do You Give Up Reading a Book?
For the last few years, I’ve been changing my reading habits to try and force myself to: Read widely Read fiction Read classics The reason I wanted to do this was that I was finding that I tended to be influenced by others in my network who were reading the same books which were usually […]
Adopt & Embrace Microsoft Teams – A Live Read
I don’t know if you caught the live reading on the Adopt & Embrace YouTube channel on Friday where founder, (and my boss) Paul Woods (@paulwoods) read from the first chapter of our book Microsoft Teams: A Manager’s Guide to Communication, Collaboration and Co-ordination with Microsoft Teams. We wrote the book as a team, using […]