List of things to simplify – finance
Kate Carruthers Thinking about things in my financial life that can be simplified or reduced: credit cards bank accounts superannuation fund accounts shopping insurance Off to work out an action plan to…
Shopping plans
I’ve never really bothered to plan my shopping & have traditionally just bought whatever appealed to me on the day. But that is all about to change. I’m going to…
Time for some public transport
This week my goal is to take public transport to the city on at least 3 business days. Just been checking out the NSW government 131500 website to plan my…
Fight AND listen…
“Fight as if you are right, listen as if you are wrong!” — Karl Weick The first part of this quotation is easy, it’s always easy to fight as if…
First post re simplifying my life
In the past I thought of frugality as a negative thing but recently I’ve been thinking that it would be good to simplify my life, to reduce the complexity and…
Comparing the Steves (Ballmer & Jobs that is)
Went to the Microsoft Liberation Day in Sydney the other day where they announced the Microsoft operating system Azure. It also gave me cause to reflect on the differing presentation…
Key Themes from Gartner ITxpo 2008
Have been visiting with the folks at Gartner and if they are right then the following topics will be popular next year with the corporate IT world: cloud computing web…
Habit and destiny …
“Watch your thoughts; they become words. Watch your words; they become actions. Watch your actions; they become habits. Watch your habits; they become character. Watch your character; it becomes your…
Mary Meeker Web 2.0 Presentation
Morgan Stanley’s Mary Meeker presents a utilitarian slideshow on the technology and internet trends in the light of the current global financial crisis. Not exciting but worth a look if…
Social networks & identity, or how do we know they’re our friends?
Some things never change. When human beings form into groups we want to ascertain who is friend and who is foe. We want to know who we can trust and…