The thing about having and embracing shiny object syndrome is that it’s also hard. Don’t let anyone lie to you about this. I run 90% of blogs, ideas, projects, future books, podcasts, youtubeseseses, services and whatever else I do via NormalNess. Because we are all normal to ourselves. For me that means a lot of ideas. […]
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Community Trust
There was an article was on the ABC news website about Rio Tinto and community trust. While I’m far from across the details of the scenario, and don’t think there is enough information for me to comment on the specifics mentioned in the article, it prompted me to want to write about community trust. Community Trust […]
Definable Knowledge
If you want to run your blog as any kind of business, you’ll have to have a product or service to sell at some point. When you’ve been blogging a while, you’ll inevitable have learned a lot, sometimes without knowing it. Then, when you start to think about monetising, you don’t know what you know. […]
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Why I’m Not Taking Employment Contracts
Originally published on virtualanthropologist.com This article from The Guardian has been doing the rounds on many academic-focused Twitter and Facebook accounts. Including my own: This is why I work unrelated to my degree right now & started Virtual Anthropologist. Secure $ and attempt to stay in my field w/freelancing https://t.co/Xum3OP8FZw — Vanessa Smith (@virtualanthro) December 3, […]
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Shiny Object Syndrome Is Not A Business Error Or A Character Flaw
Recently there was a discussion in a Facebook group about shiny object syndrome. As per what seems to be “normal”, it was framed as a rookie mistake or something to be “overcome”. Shiny Object Syndrome Is Not A Business Error Or A Character Flaw As you may know, I like the podcast […]
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Change Makes Us Weird And That’s Ok
As you may have seen from social media posts, we recently moved house. Apparently one of the most stressful times in someones life, it felt a bit compounded for us by having been in the one (crummy) rental for over 9 years, and basically moving at one week’s notice. And physically moving everything ourselves (ourselves […]
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Why I’m Distrustful Of KPIs
Does anyone else’s anthropologist/aka over-analysing brain get totally distracted by one small part of a news article? Mine sure does! Why I’m Distrustful Of KPIs This article I read got me thinking again about KPIs. I’ve always had a bit of a policy about avoiding jobs where they mention KPIs in the job […]
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Qualitative Research
In 2016 I undertook a Graduate Certificate in Social Change and Development at the University of Newcastle. One of my last assignments was to write an essay defending qualitative research to people who are unfamiliar with it. Qualitative Research While I appreciate the reality of the educational system in asking us to do […]
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People And Culture Jobs
It’s a pet peeve of mine – when I was looking for a job a few years ago, I would see roles titled “People and Culture” adviser (or similar). It seems that Human Resources jobs aren’t satisfied with their titles and have “decorated” them with the word culture in previous years. People And Culture […]
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Why I Hate The Term Work/Life Balance
I hate the term work/life balance. I really do. I think it’s partially because it has been overused, and partially because it implies we are different people at work and home. And, look, we all probably are to some degree. What I do for my job, pays my bills, but has little to do with […]