Happiness, depression and coping in general.

If you are a natural cynic, a sufferer of depression or otherwise jaded with the world then your immediate attitude and response to being told to "choose to be happy" may very well have been the same as mine, namely "go fuck yourself" or some form of derivative invective thereof.

Four cups of coffee, three angry eMails, two Work meetings and an ulcer in my pear shaped body …

… and it’s only just ticked over to 08:00. On the Work Front Busy would be an understatement. My to-do manager (available in good-ol’ fashioned pen and paper format on my desk) has a current task list covering three A4 pages. Believe it or not, that means it has shrunk and I’m making headway. My […]

expanding the synaptic roadmaps

The value of maths problems from those mathematics classes when we were at school was not about whether you would ever use them in real life (though I have in some of the strangest ways!) but the fact that it rewires your wetworks.

Does agility need an old-fashioned, solid, foundation?

How can an organization anticipate, adapt and respond to whatever complexity the global economy, competition and changing technologies present?

Data … it’s not (meant to be) a dirty word

Part of my role these days is trying to gather, analyse and present data to better manage our group and in turn provide greater value to the organisation. This is often frustrating. There are certain data elements that I expected to already be in place – not just collected, but collated and correlated as well. […]

I still don’t really understand what CLOUD is and WHY it is a game changer.

So, without revealing names or confidentialities, I had a contact reach out to me with this query, and so, I though that maybe, just maybe, there may be others who may be in a similar position. So, hopefully this helps and doesn’t obfuscate with the curse of knowledge. Q: I’m trying to get my head […]

6m3 of red gum ain’t the only heavy load.

I haven’t been around the interwebs of late. Life has been dense with activity in all aspects of my life. On the work front, I have taken on a new role. Not quite a promotion, and not really a sidewise step, so I’m going to call it a diagonal slide. Unlike the project gigs with…

post weekend post

So, the weekend was a busy one. The Ag Show side: Although initially there for the range of lectures, I did spend. A lot. Between the lectures on Friday, I went walking around the show and talking to a few different suppliers, consultants and vendors of all things great and sundry. This resulted in the…