InBusiness Generations Leadership

Enabling Managers in a GenMe Landscape

Providing more structure, not less, in both the daily tasks of employees and their perceptions about career pathways, offers the strongest viable path to improved staff retention and higher team performance.

21 May 2023
Read Time12 mins

InBusiness Generations Leadership

Challenges for Leadership when Managing GenMe

By reframing the leadership models presented, propositions for managers can be advanced to enable better leadership of people with GenMe attitudes.

14 May 2023
Read Time18 mins

InBusiness Generations Leadership Social Comment

Leading GenMe

Given the obvious dichotomy in this approach to work generations, the practical implications for management are that the leadership theories many have encountered will struggle to provide solutions when it comes to developing coherent teams.

7 May 2023
Read Time7 mins

InPolitics Social Comment

Defund the Police — Yet Again

No matter which way you look at it, police popularity seems to be at something of a low ebb with even the usually excoriated politicians enjoying something of a bump in the polls when compared to the men and women in blue.

15 April 2023
Read Time6 mins

InSocial Comment

On Replies and ‘Reply Guys’

We do well to live and let live, we also do well to post and let post. Devote what limited energy we are gifted with to thought and the formulation of our views and let the 'reply guys' reply. They are, generally, all sound and fury signifying nothing.

5 March 2023
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InPhilosophy Social Comment Technology

Our Mind is a Blurry Image of Life

The hope is much, for having gotten this far is to be forewarned and thus forearmed. In that we do well to employ scepticism when listening to a human interlocutor. Because even the best of us are filling in the blanks in our memory.

18 February 2023
Read Time9 mins

InHistory Publishing Social Comment Technology

Autodeleting the Public Record

Rage if you will and burn screen time if you like — I simply accept if I want my thoughts to be personal and private then I ought not post them online.

9 December 2022
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InSocial Comment Technology

A Warning From Content

You can join me in camp confusion or post using or not using CWs with a certainty that would make a prophet blush.

15 November 2022
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InHistory Leadership Social Comment

With a Quiet Heart

The Queen was an ever constant in a changeable and unpredictable world. Over seven decades, she was always there for us.

19 September 2022
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InPhilosophy Privacy Social Comment

The Subjective Nature of ‘Nothing to Hide’

Whether you have something to hide has far more to do with who is looking than what they can see.

30 July 2022
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InLeadership Social Comment Technology

Jotting – Anatomy of a Search Engine

I wonder if there is an alternative reading in which they did not make a conscious decision to be 'evil'?

4 June 2022
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InPolitics Social Comment

5 reasons I will be celebrating the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee

It becomes a partnership not only between those who are living, but between those who are living, those who are dead, and those who are to be born.

1 June 2022
Read Time5 mins

InPhilosophy Psychology Social Comment

Pseudo-Profound Bullshit

In this context, we do well to reject the bullshitters of this world, but we do our understanding a disservice if we are sceptical to a fault.

23 May 2022
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InHistory Philosophy Social Comment

They Are Teachable

One of History's lessons is that once a group is deemed unteachable they will be placed in the category of an ever present threat to the preferred social order.

28 February 2022
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InPublishing Social Comment

My Copy of The Times

When we cut each other off from access to knowledge, we may preserve our copyright, but we run the risk of endangering our copy's posterity.

27 August 2021
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InPublishing Social Comment Technology

Life is Long, Access is Short

If not accidentally lost, your data can vanish in other ways: the community project shutters, a company goes under, or the subset of services you use are axed.

2 August 2021
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InPublishing Social Comment Technology

A Peer’s Tube

Winter Ink PeerTube will allow for the documenting and preservation of videos to which I can link in my ongoing speculations about life and art. Links, and the content they reference, which are permanent and will always work. A necessity to promote the adoption of individually-owned and controlled sovereign spaces which enable an open and healthy web.

19 July 2021
Read Time6 mins

InSocial Comment Technology

The New Cathedral Door

Does it truly safeguard that which is dangerous and true while restricting that which is dangerous and false, and does it arrive at this determination through a process of deliberation; or, does it merely replace one arbitrary determination for another about that which is dangerous.

22 May 2021
Read Time7 mins

InPolitics Social Comment

Jotting – Protect Duty

While I am not keen on the idea of self-policing, lest we go the way of some American states, I do wonder if society may not be better able to protect its citizens if its citizens were more involved in that self-same protection. Be it physical, intellectual or cyber.

18 May 2021
Read Time1 min

InPolitics Social Comment

Hail, Lobster!

The moment when left leaning popular culture overreached itself and instead of fascist shaming a once obscure academic into silence, brought back into popular use what had long been taboo and empowered the very thing they thought they were destroying.

16 April 2021
Read Time5 mins

InSocial Comment Technology

Bitcoin’s Dirty Little Secrets – Environmental

I have long been concerned with the negative human impact on our environment and while I am some way off from thinking the world is on fire, it is clear that business as usual is going to leave a decidedly lessened planet for our children. Thus my spotlight on the ecological effects of our choices is slowly widening and most recently has taken in cryptocurrency.

29 March 2021
Read Time4 mins

InSocial Comment Technology

A Mastodon To Call My Own

Mastodon allows you to run your own server which means you have "absolute control over your own voice on the web, not subject to anyone else's rules or whims. Your server is your property, with your rules."

6 March 2021
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InScience Social Comment

Virus From Below

The history of the world, for a long time, was the history of great people. Mostly great men. It focused…

7 August 2020
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InPhilosophy Social Comment

The Ability To Ignore

Since the earliest days of our evolution on the savanna, our visual and aural senses have been attuned to ignore content.

4 August 2020
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InHistory Social Comment

Late Abroad Again

As the contagion bit hard, Pepys chronicled the flight from the city, mostly of doctors, lawyers and merchants. Then as now, only those with the financial means to do so can seek refuge in seclusion.

3 August 2020
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InSocial Comment

Wedding Feast

In the tradition of my family, and the civilised everywhere, I will be planning the meal starting with dessert, working through the main to the entree.

31 July 2020
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InSocial Comment

Tranquility Reflected

Day 83 of the 100 day challenge and I have drawn a total blank. I have faced writers block before,…

24 July 2020
Read Time1 min

InSocial Comment

And I’m Feeling Good

Today was a day of relaxing. Well, it started in mild dismay looking at the stock markets, descended into a…

18 July 2020
Read Time1 min

InAcademia Social Comment

The Shape Of Things That Are

Though conclusions drawn from data may be offensive, we should be slow to take offence at data. Even if it contradicts our deeply held beliefs.

17 July 2020
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InPhilosophy Social Comment

Shape of Things to Come

A striking feature of Wells' book is the way in which he prefigured 'cancel culture' in the thinking of his fictional social scientist.

15 July 2020
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InPhilosophy Social Comment

Skepticism and Wonder

In the vast ignorance of a society absent of sceptical enquiry, evil festers and spreads, like the coming of night, and all foul things come forth.

10 July 2020
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InSocial Comment

Lacklustre

Today… what can I say about today… it was nothing out of the ordinary, very lacklustre indeed. Neither terrifying nor…

2 July 2020
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InSocial Comment

Red Tape Is Fun

As a child, the sense of being tested vexed me much. This persisted into early adulthood, as I steadfastly continued to avoided administration.

26 June 2020
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InSocial Comment

Circular Conversations

I seem to recall a time when life was filled with good conversation. The kind of talks in which minutes melted into hours.

23 June 2020
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InSocial Comment

The Power of the Snub

Declines in sexual activity seem to owe more to 'the introduction of the iPhone in 2007 and the global recession of 2008' than fear of contracting Aids.

13 June 2020
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InSocial Comment

Competing Thoughts

Today was a day in which, if you’ll forgive this writer a reification, my thoughts have been battling in my…

12 June 2020
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InHistory Leadership Philosophy Social Comment

Media Archipelago

Pushing back on unorthodox views has given rise to 'wrongspeak,' 'the things we believe to be true but cannot say,' creating a Media Archipelago.

10 June 2020
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InPolitics Social Comment

Proportionality in Pursuit of Justice

Specifically put, proportionality isn't a one way street in which the power of the state is neutered to the benefit of an individual.

30 May 2020
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InSocial Comment

So I Could See Further

In the main, scholars, developers and researchers cite those who have gone before, without whose work their own product would be much reduced.

25 May 2020
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InReligion Social Comment

A Day of Rest

If I seek a day in which I am not on duty, and politicians are merely flesh and blood, should they too not be allowed a moments reprieve?

24 May 2020
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InPopular Privacy Social Comment

So this is how privacy dies…

To be a part of a society which doesn't take these choices means the most meaningful solution is to look at ambient as well as personal privacy.

11 May 2020
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InArt Social Comment

Endurance Through Renewal

I came across a stone bench that appeared to be very old. Carved into an ancient looking wall, dappled in moss, thick creepers wound across its surface.