So I googled myself recently and found that someone had reblogged one of my posts onto his site and I had COMPLETELY FORGOTTEN I HAD WRITTEN THIS POST. It’s a gem of a personal post written in 2019 when I was going through the same angst about the lack of value that social media was […]
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I Wasn’t On the Org Chart
Last week we had our monthly Team Sync. That’s an opportunity for our CEO of our Australian team to share news and updates of our company. I look forward to this meeting because it’s a snapshot of what’s happening in the company and also learning about what other teams are up to as most of […]
Update on LinkedIn: Stay or Go?
It’s been 2 weeks since I deleted Twitter. Do I miss it? Not at all! Facebook is now permanently deleted too. That is, I didn’t post anything in it for over a year now but I just decided to bite the bullet and permanently delete the accounts once and for all and become social media […]
Curated TidBits For the Week: Lessons for Learning
Substack, Schmuckstack I know that creators out there need a way to make money from their content and create substack newsletters but frankly, I’m really sick and tired of hearing about it. There’s a lot of hype around it. These platforms come and go like waves. First there was blogging, then there WordPress, then there […]
Curated Tidbits
Beware of Facebook’s Metaverse ? It’s why I detest the concept of Meta being used by Microsoft for the workplace. Virtual reality isn’t bad per se but when it goes to the hands of the few who start to use it for nefarious purposes, that’s where it goes to crap. Like pretty much everything else. […]
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 […]
Notifications Pinging
Early morning my phone started to ping like a thing possessed. Usually I have all my notification sounds turned off. Everything for work – off. Everything for social media – off. Most of the time, I get to my messages when I pick up the phone and see them sitting in there. My daily life […]
The Tower of Babel
It’s hard to believe that I’ve spent a majority of my working life trying to help organisations and people see the value of peer learning and community building and at times, I feel I’m constantly banging on the same old drum without having achieved anything. To be fair, that’s only the way I think. If […]
Weird Client Story No.1
Many years ago, I had a client who was off his face on drugs. Initially I had no idea that he was affected as he just seemed out of it. There was a lot of weirdness about him. I’d end up waiting for him to rock up to appointments made; he’d forget or he’d call […]
Oh What Would I Do?
I’ve got about a couple of extra years in me to continue working in this capacity. No rhyme or reason for it but I think I’ve just reached that age where you don’t need to prove anything to anyone anymore. Besides, I’ve seen and worked with all different tasks and projects that over the years […]
The Home Office
We have a small room in the house that was classified as a bedroom but it’s quite tiny. You certainly can’t fit bed in there but it’s perfect for a study or home office. That room was where we used to go into once in a blue moon to sit at the computer and check […]
Waking Up on the Wrong Side of the Bed
I woke up this morning with pain all over my body. A different kind of pain from the body aches yesterday post vaccination. For example, I couldn’t swallow – it felt like something was stuck in my rib cage. Anyway, that abated after a while. Then I had a bit of numbness in my left […]
Third Day in Brisbane
I had a better night sleep last night and woke up at 6:30am to get dressed and head out again to explore the quiet Brisbane streets. This time I walked the opposite way from my hotel and found another smaller park called Cathedral Gardens. Market stalls were being set up ready for trading. Green grocers, […]
Reminiscing About Different Fitness Classes Over the Years
One of the things I keep hearing about is that I should incorporate more weight training in my exercise routine. To be fair, exercise is something I’ve been doing most of my life but most of the time I’m half hearted about it, in that, I’m not obsessed by it. It is what it is. […]
Things I’m Happy to Have Experienced At Work in the Past
Let’s face it things have changed at work haven’t they? Those my age or older have faced a completely different work environment than the newbies just entering the workplace. I’m not going to say that it was better back then – let’s just say, it was different. Much like what the workplace/working from home is […]
Quietly Quitting
Last night, a YouTube video showed up in my feed which piqued my curiosity. I have never watched any of this bloke’s videos so this was the first one I watched where he shared his thoughts about ‘The Great Resignation’. I am unsure of the evidence of some of his claims that many people are […]
Goodbye Castlemaine
Our last day in Castlemaine to end a weekend away, saw us head up to the hill to the old Castlemaine Gaol. It was built in the 1860s and permanently closed in the 1960s but now, it’s in the process of being made into different artisan workshops. Certainly last time I was there, there weren’t […]
Husband is on Holiday
Finally! My husband Andrew is on leave. Ever since Covid started, he has been putting in long hours through one of the most uncertain periods of work. He’s in a role that has a lot of pressure but he takes it all in his stride managing a large team. He loves his work because it’s […]
Subscriptions Be Gone
Today, in a bit of a hissy fit, I cancelled a few of the paid subscriptions I had regarding my pro-versions of my RSS feed reader and note taking apps deciding that the days of having a personal knowledge management routine is well and truly, behind me. I looked at everything I was collecting over […]
Getting Back Into It
It’s always a little difficult to get back into working mode after being away for a week. This morning, I had forgotten my login details – a complete mental blank and then once I remembered them after I stared at the screen for a while, I had to go about changing my password yet again. […]