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The Way we (will) Work

Tuesday, March 6th, 2007

On ABC-TV’s Dif­fer­ence of Opin­ion: The Way We Work, there is an excel­lent view on the world of mod­ern “work”.  The world of work has changed from a mere 5 years ago, let alone 10 or 15 years.
IM (instant mes­saging), blogs, RSS feeds, live cal­en­dars etc all dra­mat­ic­ally change the imme­di­acy of inform­a­tion and access to […]

The Protestant Work Ethic Does’t Work.

Friday, December 1st, 2006

In a cul­ture where work can be a reli­gion, burnout is its crisis of faith.
About the technology-centric world in which we live: One has to won­der whether the devel­op­ments of a high-speed world haven’t made burnout worse.
Another good read is “The Latham Diar­ies”. Whilst Mark Latham has dam­aged the Aus­tralian Labor Party more than their political […]

10 Most Stressful Professions.

Monday, September 18th, 2006

eknow­ledger lists the top 10 stress­ful pro­fes­sions. IT is top of the list.
Bad Man­age­ment seems to be also a bug bear.

Anti-antidisestablishmentarianism

Tuesday, August 15th, 2006

Why Do You Work So Hard?
Is it maybe time to quit your safe job and fol­low your path and infuri­ate the establishment?

First Day of Self-employment

Monday, July 31st, 2006

About 21 years ago, before sit­ting my “final” exams I knew I had a full-time job. Thanks to Tim Kleemann now owner of Next Byte, the IT industry had sucked me in. Janu­ary 6th, 1986. I was work­ing for the man.
20 years on…and for the first time in my employ­able life, I am tech­nic­ally self-employed. […]

07:364:23:59:59, Press [Pause]

Friday, July 28th, 2006

Adobe. 8 years. Yes, this post is going to be a little dif­fer­ent.
On my –1’st day at Adobe, I jump on a plane and head to the US for Applic­a­tion Engin­eer train­ing. Whilst some indus­tries call this a Sys­tems Engin­eer style job, at Adobe you are demon­strat­ing and integ­rat­ing applic­a­tions. Along with a host […]

Welcome Mark Szulc to Adobe

Tuesday, May 25th, 2004

New faces at Adobe in Sydney: Mark Szulc
Where has Nick been in the most recent two months? 70 Days, 7 Countries