The Effective WIP
The value of a WIP is to discuss and monitor results. Unpacking how the outcomes of work relate to the organisation's strategic goals.
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Essays
Everything published, most recent first. Two a week: a standalone piece, and a reflection on that week's conversation.
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Acting for Privacy - An Australian Story
There is the case to be made that this is not only the cost of doing business in the digital age but that, like environmental protections, there are great rewards to be reaped in improved quality of life.
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Tempus Fugit
As Apple's privacy respecting posture gives way to the pull of marketing dollars through making user data the product, their third way begins to fall short.
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On Replies and 'Reply Guys'Opinion
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.
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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.
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Ghost Writers: Rise of the Machines
Ultimately, I do not think the problem is that we are building machines so ‘smart’ that their output is indistinguishable from human compositions. The problem is that we are educating humans whose output is so illiterate, and devoid of experience, it is indistinguishable from computer generated text
Inner Circle
An Opportunity Afforded
This is why some people will look at a library and see a wealth of opportunity, while others will see the same space and same books and apprehend only barriers to entry or exclusion from a world in which they think they have no part to play.
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As 'An' Historian
Modernists may disagree, but if challenged by these dangerous revolutionaries, refer them to the below and the glorious roots of our language.
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Autodeleting the Public RecordOpinion
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.
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Review: Doom, The Politics of Catastrophe
So long as we keep our heads while all around are loosing theirs, never dwelling too long on exaggerated threats, we are in a position to muddle through.
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A Warning From ContentOpinion
You can join me in camp confusion or post using or not using CWs with a certainty that would make a prophet blush.
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Twas Gunpowder Treason Day
As late as 2015 in Great Britain, Royals who married Catholics were removed from the line of succession, and Prime Ministers avoided disclosing their Catholicism in office.
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Questions for a Future Employer
An interview is a crossroad, one at which you are making a choice between merely seeking a job and wage or using the opportunity to grow a career.
Inner Circle
Response: We Need To Stop Calling Ourselves ConservativesOpinion
Those of us who believe in the merits of conservatism, the road ahead is one on which it is more important than ever to start calling ourselves conservatives.
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Reading More Efficiently And Effectively
I can well picture 'Hitch', cigarette languidly hanging from the corner of his mouth, hand clasped around a whisky glass, tossing the book toward the wastepaper bin, and then leaning back in his chair. Content in the knowledge he had repaid the reading in the only way fit.
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