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We had to replace our oven a few months ago. Not a choice, really, the old one gave up, and I am a mad baker so cannot live without an oven.  The new oven is a marvel. We didn’t spend top dol…

I have a very particular way of gardening.The weather has to be good. I need to have a good chunk of time, not a scrap of it, a proper block. And I need the energy. All three need to line up. Then …

I went to a webinar last week with my glasses on and coffee ready. That detail matters, because it tells you exactly where my head was.I’d read the post advertising it. The facilitator was ta…

I wear bifocals all day, every day. They are, quite literally, the thing that lets me see clearly. And yet at least once a day, I take them off for some perfectly sensible reason – cooking so…

A few months after a significant cardiac event, I found myself thinking about weight loss…well the exercise physiologist delicately suggested it. My heart event was related to a virus and a c…

There’s a particular kind of optimism that comes with assigning someone a self-paced online course. From an organisational perspective it feels considerate. People can do it in their own time…

I’ve dived down a rabbit hole about cognitive load.. and I’m in here with neurons firing exploring ideas and concepts. I’ll move on soon, but for now there are a few more things I…

A few days ago I was at a specialist appointment with one of my kids. At some point the conversation turned to teen fatigue across the school week – the kind of bone-tired-by-Thursday feeling…

There’s a conversation happening in many AI training sessions that I think is missing something important. It usually goes like this: here’s a framework, here are the parts, here’…

I’ve been thinking about this for a while. I use AI regularly and benefit from doing faster work, help thinking more clearly on hard days, and getting through content I’d otherwise stru…

I’ve been doing a lot of work lately reviewing Microsoft 365 learning programmes at work, and experiencing learning Claude for my own curiosity. Videos, activities, the whole journey from &#8…

I was at the Digital Workplace Conference in Melbourne last week and kept hearing people talk about Skills in Copilot Cowork. It stopped me in my tracks. Not because the concept was unfamiliar, but…

Last week was a big one.I moved through analysis, content, ideation… the kind of work that would normally take me days of circling, drafting, second guessing. By Friday I realised I’d pushed …

Last month I wrote about my first experiences with Claude. I ended that post promising month two would get more interesting. Oh, it did. This month I set myself a comparison activity. I’d alr…

Organisations aren’t short on technology. We have collaboration platforms, analytics tools, automation, AI copilots, and more “productivity” features than most people know what to do with. Yet desp…

The Technology Acceptance Model (TAM) can help to figure out why people say “yes” or “no” to new tech at work. It all comes down to two big questions:“Will this actually help me do my job better?” …

The Technology Acceptance Model, or TAM, is basically a way to figure out why people decide to use (or not use) new technology at work. It was created back in 1989 by Davis, and it boils down to tw…

Technology is used in the workplace to streamline processes and add value, but organizations often lack proper training for employees regarding technology adoption.

I feel like I’ve been going on about Executive Functions for years. Probably because I have been a wee bit obsessed for quite a while. In fact it has been many years since I first did a confe…

This blog is long overdue. I have been using Copilot for a while and it has become part of my work, but am yet to share. This is partly because there is a lot of content out there already. I don&#8…

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