I suppose it is reassuring that my sister — who is vastly more qualified than I and levels above me on the career ladder — also hates her job. In fact, she pointedly observed, everyone in their forties hates their job. There is no greener on the other side. Everyone has reached the plateau of …
I have bad, unproductive weeks all too frequently. I feel guilty for being so easily distracted, but evidently, that guilt has no impact on my ability to focus. At the start of the week, I’ll be telling myself I’ll need to make up all of my unproductive hours, but by the end, I realise it’s …
This afternoon, I thought I finally had a real-world task for Copilot. A favour for a colleague. I loaded up a data table and asked Copilot to turn it into an organisation chart for me. Could it do it? Not on your nelly. Well, maybe that’s premature. It’s thinking about it. And it has been …
Hey kids, sorry to be a party pooper, but the place for racing is Silverstone on track day, not our narrow urban streets night after night. Go home before you kill someone. It’s all fun until it’s not.
Shock, horror, I may be becoming an AI convert. Not Microsoft Copilot, which I still find next to useless. But for creativity and code: I think other models may have something to offer me. It’s early days yet, but impressions so far: I’m slightly blown away by it. Who knows, it may even reinvigorate my …
Everybody now sees who the terrorised are. Nobody believes the propaganda anymore.
So my organisation is — slowly — starting to awake to the realisation that what I have been banging on about for a decade is actually a big deal. It’s true that for most of that decade, I had no actual clout to affect change because I was in the wrong team. As far as …
I thought I was being generous to my colleagues, proposing that we invest in training for them. But it hasn’t quite worked out that way. One colleague, booked on a course entitled Organising Work and Time forgot to attend the course. Another with lamentable computer skills decided to cancel their MS 365 Essentials training in …
When I get to do my job, I could say I love what I do. Today was one of those days, enabling me to remain productive all day long. Sadly, most days are not like that at all.
What does it take to stand up in the face of wrongdoing or injustice? A lot more courage than you might imagine. I learnt that a few years ago, when I found myself standing alone, in near complete opposition to everyone I knew, feeling myself compelled to articulate the fruits of my own research. Most …
That’s the word that most often comes to mind in my encounters with the commercial web industry. Also known as companies pulling the wool over the eyes of their customers. A recent one I came across: a web host deliberately crippling core functionality of a platform for the sole purpose of differentiating its own products. …
LinkedIn prods me: “Your account has been in hibernation for 6 months.” I think to myself, “So what?” and hit delete. But by morning, I’m peering in, wondering what’s new. I find my former manager being congratulated by a multitude of well-wishers on their new role. I decide not to join them, as it feels …
