An excellent post by Alan Devine showing his frustration with ChatGPT. The quote however hits the mark. Lying, Hallucinating? I, MuddGPT – CogDogBlog — Read on cogdogblog.com/2023/05/i-muddgpt/ Another good conversation to follow in Mastodon (HT Stephen Downes) in response to the recent Guardian article by Naomi Klein called AI Machines Aren’t Hallucinating, Their Makers Are […]
More Casual Library Assistant Job Rejections…Lost Count 
I’ve been applying for casual jobs for several libraries in the area. In fact, I have alerts set up to receive notifications when these are in the job sites. Casual jobs in the library mean serving customers, seeking out books for them, checking out books, returning books to shelves. I’d love a job like this […]
Activate Learning in the Post-Work Years
So it seems that I’m not the only one in my circle of family and friends who decided to retire early. It must be a “thing” now. Chatting with them, the main reason for retiring early are mainly related to changes in their job circumstance. Others I spoke to who are still working, have all […]
Unselfing
Today I saw an excellent post on the site Unselfing.Social and it’s such a great idea… As an experiment, for one continuous month, make the focus of one in every three things you share on social media — wherever you normally share, however regularly or irregularly you do, however many people you reach — something […]
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, […]
We Wrote Another Book on Gourmet Teamwork
A couple of years ago, the company I was working for at the time Adopt & Embrace, decided to write a book together. The book was called Adopt & Embrace Microsoft Teams: A Manager’s Guide to Communication, Collaboration and Co-ordination with Microsoft Teams. It was a wonderful experience to write a book with my colleagues […]
What Would You Remember from Your Work Life?
Last night while in bed, I was reflecting on my work life. I entered the workforce while I was in my 3rd year university holidays as an Undergraduate Entry Naval Officer. At the time, I was studying Chemistry at Monash University with the aim of doing an Honours year in it but during Orientation Week, […]
We Need the Social at Work
Last night, my colleagues at Rapid Circle and I took part in a fun online Trivia Night. It’s now been four weeks since our Adopt & Embrace team were acquired by this new company and given that many of us were in lockdown in Melbourne, we were unable to meet each other in person. However, […]
From Training to Learning to Knowledge to What?
(This is a collection of rambled thoughts – I’m still formulating what the question is in my mind so please humour me and go with the flow. I will find my way soon). I’ve been working on some interesting projects at Adopt & Embrace, a Microsoft Partner and where I work three days a week […]
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 […]
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, […]
Foster & Build Lifelong Learning Practices in Your Day-to-Day Job
I’m excited to announce that our work at Adopt & Embrace will have a new book out some time in the new year that will be slightly different to our first published book called Microsoft Team: A Manager’s Guide to Communication, Collaboration and Co-ordination with Microsoft Teams. Although it will be a surprise, the focus […]
Managing Boundaries in Your Work and Home Life
Yesterday I was involved in my second Table Talk for Microsoft Ignite with a group of people and our topic was….. Join CON199 Working from home – How are other people doing it? | #MSIgnite #TableTalk https://t.co/GBa57GeFx1 — Darrell as a Service ? #RE365 #365MCS (@DarrellaaS) September 24, 2020 Darrell Webster (@DaaS) did a great […]
Random Morning Thoughts About Information Served Up to Us by AI
Every morning, I go for my walk and like to listen to podcasts. Usually these make me think about something or another and send me down rabbit warrens to explore. This week I decided to listen to Learning Uncut the podcast by Michelle Ockers (@michelleockers), Karen Moloney (@karenmoloney) and Amanda Ashby which was on “Democratising […]
We Wrote a Book on Microsoft Teams But Who’s It For?
This morning I put down some thoughts into Twitter about who may benefit from buying our book that we wrote at Adopt & Embrace on Microsoft Teams. I wanted to collect my tweets here before they got lost into the Twittersphere Never Miss a Blog – Subscribe to Receive a Monthly Email Email Address First […]
The Triptych of the Future of Work
For some strange reason, the word ‘Triptych” keeps coming up in my world. It comes from two Greek words – tri (meaning three) and ptysso (an ancient greek word for fold or drape – trust me I had to look that one up). A triptych is an art term that is a painting on three […]
Learning in the Modern Workplace
In my recent blog post titled Drawing as Thinking…and a Treasure Map about #MadMapMarch, I wrote how I delved into some journal articles that explained the benefits of using different ways to express ourselves as a challenge to the way we think. In this case, it was comic books. That is, drawing our thoughts in a comic book format […]
Drawing as Thinking and Treasure Maps
This morning I sat down to go through my bookmarked tweets so that I could catch up with my reading and spent all of my time on the one tweet which was this one by @GiuliaForsythe… Got my reading list sorted for this weekend. The #LearningOrganization a Literature Review https://t.co/Db9nojNkqB #activatemylearning – currently now […]
Mind Map My Business
This weekend I decided to mind map my business. I had a couple of wonderful conversations with some peers who inspired me through their outlook and approach to work which aligned to my own personal values which made me question my approach to who I wanted to work for and with. For some time now, […]
Changing Work One Human At A Time
I love this statement, “changing work one human at a time” because I feel that in some part, over the last few years that’s what I’ve been inspiring to achieve. This morning I was trying out the Couch to 5 Km running app while listening to James Altucher interview writer Steven Pressfield about his latest […]