I'm reading The Luminaries at the moment and it's the sort of mystery story I like.
It reminds me of Raymond Chandler because you're also trying to figure out what the mystery is. It's not a simple case of 'someone died, who did it?' It's a much more complex case of 'what the fuck is happening?'
Also, it's set in New Zealand during a 19th century good rush so that's somewhere different for a story.
Try to break up the 'boring' stuff from lessons with songs you're interested in too. Spend a bit of time 'eating your vegetables' then you can work on songs you like.
Soon you'll be able to put it all together and identify the scales, keys, and rhythm you've learnt from practice in songs you've been practising
Had that work efficiency session at the start of the week and I think I figured something out about why AI has been such a top down push in the workplace.
A member of the global leadership team was in the sessions, and she's all in on AI. She was telling us about all the work she was getting done with it, and it was just things like reports, presentations, communications plans, and risk strategies.
It's all just typing up a bunch of stuff that gets turned into PDFs and sits on the company Sharepoint. She's at a high enough level now she's not working on any of the implementation, so you can use AI to just write everything for you.
Really, you could probably download templates for all these documents and change the details specific to your business. It would be much better for the environment, but these people wouldn't feel like they're doing anything meaningful if they're just playing corporate madlibs.
I could use AI in a bit of my work, but I need to make Facebook ads, emails, and manage a website. AI can't do any of that, it's just an elaborate autocomplete.
And it's telling the perspective on AI is 'Look at all this amazing work I'm getting done with AI' and not 'The iPhone autocomplete can do my job faster than me, what's the point of my job?'
One of my only applicable use cases was a business case document. Copilot just wrote the most boring version of an SEO friendly article on Viva Engage, and even then I felt I had to step in and write some things myself to both make it more interesting and specific to the business. And say this goes ahead, AI can't put people into Viva Engage groups for me.
I remember when I looked into it I could salary sacrifice an extra $500 a month into super and only take home $250 less because of how PAYG tax works. You can sacrifice up to about $12,000 into super a year before you have to pay additional fees on it or anything.
It's worth doing if you feel you can afford it, as you're still getting that money, just further down the line.
You shouldn't need gst for a small amount unless this place needs you to be GST registered. Use some free accounting software like Wave if it still exists and operate as a sole trader.
Talk to your accountant if you have one. They'll give you this advice for free as they make their money from doing your books if you make it big
It's a PEP training session. We've just started but it's been alright because it acknowledges we have to work in Office 365 and how to work in there.
The main thing this session is reminding me is how much I hate Microsoft and how poorly implemented all of their products are.
Workplaces should get everyone to do sessions like this so everyone knows how to use their software, and how to use it consistent with the organisation as well
City sleepover for work. We're doing a workshop on our project management software so I don't know how much work will actually be done. I just hope the dinner is good
I've seen some of these and it's reddit off putting when you know what's going on. Whether these people are supported by gambling companies or not, they're saying everything the gambling companies aren't allowed to in their ads with none of the disclaimers
Took the boys on the train to the Preston Market. I'm impressed with the place. I'm surprised I've never been here before. I've lived around Preston but never near or in Preston before, so that's probably why. But I should have checked it out sooner
The ozbargain post I saw said the Oceania expansion improves the early game. I think it's like video game dlc where the expansions never go on sale. I'll get some expansions if we like it.
Has anyone played the board games Heat or Wingspan? I heard they were good and they were on sale at EB so I picked them up. I want to make sure they don't sit on the shelf for ages and actually get played
I ordered some retro handhelds for the boys to get on Christmas shopping early. I got the R36s because I found it cheap and I'm pretty impressed.
Buttons feel good, it uses Emudeck on the frontend so everything looks nice, and they even shipped with Stardew Valley on the SD card. It boots up, takes a while to load but it boots up. I know one of my boys in particular is going to love this once they get them
I waited two weeks for this lamp I ordered from Bunnings. Then they tell me it's not made anymore and refunded me. Now I need to find a new lamp. I wanted that lamp
I'm reading The Luminaries at the moment and it's the sort of mystery story I like.
It reminds me of Raymond Chandler because you're also trying to figure out what the mystery is. It's not a simple case of 'someone died, who did it?' It's a much more complex case of 'what the fuck is happening?'
Also, it's set in New Zealand during a 19th century good rush so that's somewhere different for a story.