One of my favourite ‘I slid into their DMs’ stories comes from Rob McElhenny and Ryan Reynolds recounting the beginning days of a friendship that has matured into a(n ad)venture with the North Welsh soccer team, Wrexham AFC. If you have no idea what I’m talking about, go watch Welcome to Wrexham. It’s a wonderful […]
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10 things I wish I knew on entering the workforce
Around a food laden table recently, a group of women at various stages in our careers had the chance to share our journeys with our friend, a new university graduate embarking on making the first steps in her career. We found our conversation turning to the challenge of figuring out ‘where do you put your […]
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Seasonal Change
Here in the south east of Australia we’re in the early weeks of spring. It really crept up on me this year. I was so absorbed in the routine of my everyday wintery life that for a minute I might have thought it was going to be like that forever. I would have no complaints […]
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Pandemic Fine
CW: Mental Health, Depression, Human Frailty. This is a cross post from our company internal updates blog with a few details changed to protect identities. I thought it might resonate with others so I’m giving it a wider audience than I might usually do. In our updates post we ask these, and a few other […]
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Doing, or Being – a meditation on taking rest.
“To be is to do”—Socrates. “To do is to be”—Jean-Paul Sartre. “Do be do be do”—Frank Sinatra. As I write today, I am looking at and listening to the waters of the Gippsland Lakes, whipped up just a little into waves that don’t so much crash on to the shore as they do crinkle. My […]
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Simone – WordPress 5.6
The tagline ‘Code is Poetry’ is synonymous with WordPress. On this occasion, the code we delivered in Nina’s name does for our users what her music and poetry does for her audience, it gives people a way to give voice to that which has sunk into their own hearts and souls.
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