Firstly there’s Knowledge Work: honest, friendly and highly beneficial mentoring for young professionals. Then there’s the launch of something that is truly beyond words. Unequivocally remarkable. Those of you who know me know what I’m talking about…for those…
Category: Time
Taking stock
I’ve been writing this blog for almost a year now since I decided to make the switch. Every now and then I look back at some of the things I’ve written…sometimes I can’t even remember ever writing…
Noise
Wherever we turn, no matter what we’re doing, we have to deal with noise. Even in complete silence, we filter cognitive noise. This noise is audible and visual too. Our lives are being bombarded with noise. Useless and utter crap.…
Why?
There is nothing and no one waiting for you. Your life is yours and lived only once. Why do we strive for distraction? Time in space is all we have. Attempting to avoid reality. The…
Backing up
When backing up large amounts of data and waiting an extraordinary amount of time for these 1s and 0s to get from here to there, it reaches a point of no return when you aren’t…
Making time
You will never find time for anything. If you want time you must make it. Charles Buxton I always try putting in place a few measures to ensure I get exposure to challenging and confronting…
The old becomes new again
Everything is cyclical…everything. We often loose sight of the bigger picture so its worth recognising and acknowledging the circular nature of our existence. Although cliched to the hill, ‘what comes around goes around’ and ‘what goes up…
The journey continues
As we all see the end of another year that our Gregorian calendars number 2013, what better time to reflect and celebrate the year that was. I sincerely hope that those reading this have had…
Community
What does community mean? How do we define who is in our community and who isn’t? Geographical parameters work…well sort of…but what about online communities? Do online communities exist by virtue of a username and…
Illusion of scarcity
Our consumerist existence operates on the concept of scarcity. We are made to believe that the things we have become obsolete, that the sales on offer are for a limited time, that the goods we…
Entertainment
It’s a wonderful thing: To entertain. To be entertained. To laugh. To make others laugh. It’s a skill that some people possess naturally. Others work hard at it and pull it off. Entertainment can take so…
Waiting rooms
They’re never friendly and happy places waiting rooms. No one visits a waiting room for any purpose; other than to wait of course. I think what’s most frustrating though is usually the overwhelming feeling of…
Seriously…
Don’t take this life so seriously. Be free. Enjoy. You have only one go at it. Why waste it?
Eggs will hatch
You may have heard the saying: Don’t count your chickens before your eggs hatch The basic premise is self explanatory. We have so many chickens and yet we still insist on counting our eggs. Instead of…
Visuals
Source: Pop Chart Lab I picture things. All manner of things. I draw pictures to understand. I visual scenarios to recall a detail I need to remember. I take a snapshot of a page as…
On the road
The Estyn Curve
The theory illustrated in the Estyn Curve was developed by a small group of undergraduates (including yours truly and a guy named Estyn who’s idea it was in the first place) whilst procrastinating instead of…
This is water
There are so many people going places; doing things; always in each other’s way all at the same time. Everyone is in a rush operating in some sort of vacuum, oblivious to their surrounds. If…
Meandering Mondays VII
Happy Monday! Australia is a vast country mainly of deserts and rocks… ULURU This had to be portrayed in colour…for obvious reasons. It’s a sacred place to indigenous Australians but if you’ve ever been you’ll…
Mastering
Getting to know something like the back of your hand takes time, dedication, commitment and above all sacrifice. To master an art is to choose this art over all others. Most fall into vocations that…
Tram No. 2092
From A to B is what I do. I carry hundreds of people and I’m at the mercy of each and every one of them. This makes me very nervous. What helps me stay on…
The marvels…
We can be here and there right now, at a point in time. Simultaneously engaging with our own thoughts, interacting with our fellow human beings in our physical vicinity and with those across the other…
People watching
People are amazing, they’re unpredictable. Not one person is the same. We are all different; both in appearance and in the way we think. Stopping to observe people on the street, at work, interacting with…
Sunk costs
There is nothing more sobering than a sunk cost. It’s the most truthful realisation of a f&*k up. Often the term is associated with business and economics and known as a previous expenditure that can…
Sudden stops are sometimes necessary…
…so hold on. We never know what is around the corner. No matter how prepared we think we are, we just never know. The only thing we can control is now, the present. What we…
Tune in
Every now and then stop and tune in to what is happening around you, be conscious of your place. How does what you are doing [or not doing] relate to everybody else around you? What…
Terms and conditions
We live in a world of terms and conditions. Almost everything we do and almost everything we own are all subject to terms and conditions. From the toaster we use to the cars we…
Freebies
I used to love freebies; free food, freed drinks, free memberships, giveaways of any sort! Some say that nothing is for free. Although I never really understood that previously, in most cases now, I agree.…
Pulling faces
We are all very different. None of us are the same. Yet we are all connected. We all live and breathe along a continuum of time in finite space. Let’s embrace each others differences and…
Sailing off
We all need a holiday every now and then. They help us unwind, reset, clear our heads and start afresh. Holidays aren’t always those that involve traveling away from home. It’d be great if we…
Deadlines
Deadlines are an everyday part of life and they can take on varying forms like getting to work on time, catching a scheduled bus or handing that assignment or report in on time at school…
Shapes around
Photography taught me to look at the world in a completely different way. When you study the art of photography (not on a formal basis by doing a course or anything like that) you learn…
Building bridges
We’ve all experienced a traumatic event or stuffed up majorly. Sometimes these incidents are a little worse than others but we’re all still here, sanity intact and physically able to [at least] get to Ask…
∞ Infinity ∞
Infinity is a concept that can be explained in words pretty easily right? Something that has no end…it continues forever. I suppose its even easier to explain in pictures: ∞ Our reasoning can accept the…
Falling from grace
I always think to myself what once was when I hear of people who have fallen from grace. I’m not talking about that celebrity or sportsperson who has decided to play on for one season…
Flying by
Have you noticed that time has been flying lately? It’s an interesting concept because we all now that there are sixty seconds in a minute and sixty minutes in an hour and twenty fours [or…
Cafes, Coffee, Culture
I like mine strong, triple shot in fact. It helps me engage with my senses from the get go, every morning, regardless of how sleep deprived I might be. I’m also addicted to the caffeine…