My housemate recently got a record player. She’s a big Swiftie and wanted to pick up her vinyls, ahead of the release of Dead Poet’s Society. This record player is pretty interesting, it can connect out via some wires or, as is expected in this day and age, a bluetooth connection. So naturally, I got […]
Hello, and apologies for the late blog this week! I am visiting my family for the Easter long weekend and that has thrown my schedule off slightly. So this is just a quick post about my experience learning a second language, Indonesian, before I commence fieldwork later this year. There’s a myth that children can […]
I love Academy Awards season. It’s always exciting to see what the academy has judged as the best films (setting aside the debates about what “the academy” consists of for now). In any case, the awards season seems to spark more discussions about film than any other point in the year, and I think they […]
I’ve come up with something I like to call the “Effort:Reward ratio”. It’s something which we all do, but which affects us in numerous ways, from work to our personal lives. Simply put, the effort:reward ratio asks us to examine how much effort we put in to something, versus the amount of reward we get […]
I’ve been back into the swing of things this week, including back to my full time schedule now that I have largely recovered from the initial accident. In this post, I’ll talk about how I use the pomodoro method and how I structure my day to get a lot done with less time. What is […]
When I was a student leader at ANU, we had a training session on self care. We were told about how we needed to take time for ourselves, to relax and look after ourselves. They proceeded to give examples. One of their examples, was cat videos. Is that really self care? I’ve noticed that’s a […]
You’ve probably heard of David Allen’s Getting Things Done philosophy, which (very broadly) states that the brain was not built to remember things, and so we should use other systems (to-do lists, etc.) to help keep track of all the things we need to do. It is probably one of the most mainstream and fundamental […]
Whenever a new year starts, it always feels like everyone is keen to reinvent themselves. As soon as January 1 (or perhaps 2, or perhaps whenever you go back to work or school) rolls around, we tell ourselves that this is our year. We look at productivity blogs and YouTube videos for advice and we […]