In a recent LinkedIn post, Katherine McLennan has perfectly articulated something that has been bubbling in my mind since the Government announced it was holding an economic reform roundtable, which has been informally dubbed the "productivity summit." But what is productivity? The productivity commission definition says:
"Productivity measures how good we are at producing output.
30 June 2025 - End of the financial year, 9 days past the solstice.
Earth - Turning on its access, orbiting around the sun.
Humans - Connections of care and consideration.
The moment is always now, here, with us.
Long ago I lost track of how many conference talks I've given. The first step for most of those was taking a deep breath, logging in to the conference website, and writing a short description about what I would talk about.
The first step on the journey is responding to a call for papers, call for sessions, or call for talks. So, I learned to ignore the fear of rejection, and just throw my idea in the pot. There was so much more to gain from the risk the organisers would say yes, than the risk they would say no.
Hello. Nothing much to say, but I want to mark the start of another year. 2025. Hello 2025.
The image, is a weird artefact that was generated when scanning some old family photos. It's a fragment of a larger photo - somehow auto-detected by the scanning software. It's a snippet of a painting done by my grandmother Ruth Benjamin
She said "A bit of painting, that's all I'm good for," so perhaps that's why I felt urged to save and share this scanning glitch.
What's the difference between a practice, and a method? How do they related to theories and philosophy?
Connie Benn and Joan Benjamin developed the 4 power model in the 1970s whilst working in the Poverty Education centre at the Brotherhood of St Laurence. I've always found it to be a useful frame of reference when seeking to understand what's going on in teams, projects and organisations.
Once upon a time, in another century, I directed a student theatre production of Romeo and Juliet. A couple of things went very very wrong. But in the end, they didn't really matter.
Water color painting of the city of melbourne from southbank looking towards flinders street station.
Image gen: https://huggingface.co/spaces/KingNish/Instant-Image
