Today the only thing I did was to walk around the block for a bit of exercise. (Rest of the day was spent watching The Crown épisodes on Netflix and reading Anti-Fragile by Nassim Nicholas Taleb – a quiet day). During the walk I saw this public Payphone. I stopped and read the notices to […]
The Decline of Eye Contact
Yesterday I went for a walk with a good friend who has been in my life for many years. She put a proposal in front of me regarding a potential opportunity to return to my first ever employer. The industry is going through a massive build up here in Australia and there’s plenty of opportunities […]
No More Screens After 5:30PM
So one of the things I’ve started doing (and which I hope lasts for a long time), is going on an “intermittent fast”. If we can do it for food, we can do it with our screens. One thing I’ve noticed over the years is that when I’m in a gathering of people, there are […]
Why Are People Unkind?
I don’t understand some people. I have a YouTube channel where I “loosely” review books. I say “loosely” because they’re really my own reaction to the books based on the themes that make me think and reflect about my own experiences in life. I’ve hid all my previous videos where I worked out loud through […]
Do You Need To Be Prompted All The Time?
One of the things I’m scratching my head over is, at times, people have been asking me for “prompts” at work. Prompts to help them write posts to share what they’re working on. Prompts to to help them respond to posts they’ve been mentioned in our enterprise social network. Prompts to help them remind them […]
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 […]
I Am Not a Cat
Last year, I experimented with Snapchat Camera on Microsoft Teams and it was a lot of fun. My boss Paul Woods has downloaded it on his desktop camera and naturally, I wanted in. You download the app onto your desktop and then you can add a variety of Snapchat filters and lenses to your camera […]
Humans Connected But Alone
via GIPHY Recently I’ve been watching a series on ABCiView called Humans. It’s a show created in the UK about a recent future where robots (they call them ‘synths’) are used for various manual labour situations in the home or work. Seeing these situations played out on the television screen makes me mind race with […]