tombruzzo @ tombruzzo @aussie.zone

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The early morning ride to work was about 3 minutes faster than usual. I feel like I can chalk that up to less traffic so less time at lights.

Maybe I should try these super early starts more often.

I do not like that these are being subsidised by the government here.

I don't want to admit it, but a lot of these chest thumpers have actually been the cars to give way to me on the bike. That could be because I'm extra cautious around them because of their size.

Tune down to drop A for maximum djonk.

I've also found 7 string sets weirdly light for the type of guitar they go on

They can go down to 9 these days. There's ones that have even more range sometimes too

I haven't watched it but I saw this train youtuber video about it https://youtu.be/s0Wq20-glcY

Is that a 7 string? They feel weird at first but then you get used to it. Some people get so used to the 7 string they can't go back to 6 strings

Early start tomorrow. I'll probably take the bike to work so I won't fully get to experience the change in traffic, but it will be interesting to see what it's like riding then as well

It might be worth cross referencing available providers with local Google reviews. Maybe stick with the bigger places as well as working with Centrelink is just another NDIS level grift. My brother in law was with a provider and I swear it took him a year to find a job so no rush if you find a decent place

This reminds me of the Big Laundry joke from Phineas and Ferb

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.

I've had that happen before. I was logged in to my emails in one job and could still get in months later.

I've also had two jobs where they never collected the laptop. Flash whatever OS you want on a usb drive and the thing is as good as yours.

I've heard they work so I hope they give you the refreshing sleep you're after

I had that feeling not long ago. A good workplace will make you feel welcome almost straight away

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