and people try to warn us about microplastics. Ha! we made them.

Five Clusters of AI Use Cases AI presents a unique transformational opportunity for organisations. Hand wringing has begun about potential job losses as a result of the implementation of AI capabilities. However, it is already …

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yes. why would you ever stop? There’s a Doctor Who quote from the Tom Baker era ‘There’s no point being a grown up if you can’t be childish some times’

All of the Alexandrias around the world.

thank you. good day for this reminder

Woman behind me on the train announced loudly ‘i like this for us’ then laughed in a cascade. It felt gleeful and possibly romantic. She kept talking energetically. It became evident her interlocutor was a work colleague and they were discussing a new client pitch.

Fast company’s consulting debunking unit disproved the fish head meme (article sadly now behind a firewall www.fastcompany.com/37205/do-con...). Apparently fish rot from everywhere equally, particularly the guts if still there.

I spent a day looking for my writing notebook all over the house. Didn’t write. Found the notebook at 9pm by the desk where I thought it was.

yes. the companies don’t want anyone pointing out the elephants in every conference room and most of the foyers. They want pretty art to go on the wall.

you can’t paper over a business model with fancy degrees (though many have tried). Same goes for the marketing campaign about how good you are.

Daily. Applies to all draft emails too.

NYE focaccia

well that went well 😳! Is it going to finish tomorrow?

Definitely Christmas now. Just teared up to Tim Minchin’s ‘white wine in the sun’. Thinking of distant friends and family.

trumped again!

Time for an old fashioned social media post:

My coffee machine has been cleaned. Much later than it should be but well before never.

Thank you. You know that is important to me.

Pay your freelancers before Christmas.

Tiramisu from Jocks

Hot day ice cream

Wealthy people make credible donors for large donations. There’s also the possibility the funds are on behalf of another state/party/person with whom the wealthy individual has a relationship.

I often tell the story that I had one job where my title inflated three times in a month as more people were hired. Nobody got more money and the job didn’t change but I went from executive to manager to director to Vice President to meet my new colleagues’ needs.

we make ‘occupations’ and ‘titles’ into such a big thing often beyond the actual significance and where it hides the person (deliberately?). People are reluctant to assume them or argue about qualifications. Often more useful just labels to help others understand what you do/who you are

Thinking of variants: Are you an artist if others treat your hobby as art? are you a consultant if you only appear at conferences? are you a teacher if people share what they learned from you? Are you a researcher if you have carefully marked up notes? a sportsperson if you own the equipment?

i’m sure the answer is more complicated but a cane like a whistle can be an affectation. Perhaps they need only one.

There is the word Wortschöpfung which literally means coining a new word, so I‘ll go with Wortschöpfungsfreude.

feels like should be a compound german noun for that excitement.

I am all for wellbeing in the workplace but I will never rely on the workplace for my wellbeing.