Last Friday I was lucky enough to host a Melbourne Jelly at The University of Melbourne’s Woodward Conference centre. So far, everyone I’ve told about the Jelly has asked “What’s a Jelly?”, so let me explain.
Today I’ve started to try and use the Action Method for organising myself. Mostly this has stemmed from listening to Scott Belseky talk at a Portable talk the other day.
Recently at work I’ve found myself being pulled in a few directions by some departures and reshuffles and this has made me think about something I haven’t had to really articulate before so I thought I’d give it a go here.
As part of an attempt to showcase more of my own work (and/or work completed by my awesome team), I though I’d post up a brief wrap-up of the Open Day website we recently completed for The University of Melbourne.
So I’m sitting here on a Saturday morning trying to figure out the best way to get my mother-in-law into the modern era and into e-commerce. There are several challenges so I thought it might be useful in a similar situation if I was to document my thoughts.
On the weekend I attended an event called Trampoline. One of the speakers, Rod Sherwin, suggested among other things that in order to improve our satisfaction with our jobs we should analyze what it is about them we like so that we can actively pursue ways to get more time to spend on those tasks.
I’m sleepy today both because I had 4 coffee’s yesterday and couldn’t sleep, but more because over the last few days I’ve found two concepts that have really interested me.
Just watched this on TED and thought it was very relevant. It discusses how we should try and slow down our busy lives to make the time we do spend more worthwhile.
After all my talk about needing to find something to be passionate about yesterday, I just finished reading a article about exactly the opposite – not letting your passion blind you in your entrepreneurial adventures.
I’ve struggled for quite some time trying to work out what to make this blog about. By nature, I’m a generalist and I can do a massive range of things quite well (I think anyway) but I’ve been completely unable to commit to writing about any single one of those things because I’ve decided I’m [...]