Just as an aside…

…am I allowed to slap someone who uses the terms “best practice” and “continuous improvement” in the same sentence?
Surely “best” practice implies that, well, it’s the best? Wouldn’t this significantly reduce the chances of “improvement”?
How do you improve the best?

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“Professional” Development

I’ve always been uncomfortable with the phrase, “Professional Development”. The very wording seems corporate and cold, lacking any kind of appeal or engagement.
For me, the implications of the term “professional development” seem to lean towards the organisation benefiting more than the person themselves. Which isn’t a bad thing – goodness knows that organisations need an [...]

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RSS has made me fussy…

The majority of my Interweb browsing is done via my RSS aggregator. With the amount of content I go through in a day, there’s no way I could actually go to each and every site, filter through and find the good stuff, whilst juggling work at the same time.
I’ve been an RSS jockey for a [...]

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Acts of Futility Episode #48

By telling someone to ignore something, are you not sabotaging your very intent?
Hmmmm…

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The democracy of the Internet

The beauty of blogging and collaborative Internet publishing tools is that users who may ordinarily have little voice in the context of our flesh-based hierarchies of reality are able to speak out and have their ideas and opinions heard.
The ideas of objectivity or veracity may often be discussed in relation to posted articles, but to [...]

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Lamentations

Last night, Perth had the honour of being the start line for the national tour of the Dalai Lama (6/6).
My train journey home takes me past the venue where he was to speak and I don’t think I’ve ever seen so many cars packed in like vehicular sardines at this place. It was incredible the [...]

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