G’day! I’m just a Melburnian with opinions and a keyboard. Expect rants about everything from coffee prices to climate change. Warning: May contain traces of sarcasm and smashed avo.
Recent Posts
Why We Need to Stop Thinking About AI Tools in Isolation
I’ve been watching the AI tools landscape explode over the past couple of years, and honestly, it’s been both exhilarating and exhausting. Every week there’s a new “game-changing” platform that promises to revolutionize how we work. But here’s the thing that’s been bugging me: we’re still talking about these tools the wrong way.
Someone recently shared a project that maps 137 AI tools and their actual connections – not just another directory, but a visual graph showing how these tools integrate with each other in real workflows. Twenty-five complete workflows, from podcast production to SEO content pipelines, showing exactly which tools feed into which at each stage. The whole thing runs in your browser, no login required, completely free.
When Bad Questions Lead to Worse Headlines: The Problem with Recent Youth Survey Statistics
There’s a headline doing the rounds that’s got everyone fired up: “40% of teenage boys believe women lie about domestic and sexual violence.” It’s the kind of statistic that makes you want to throw your phone across the room. But before we all collectively lose our minds, we need to talk about something that’s been bugging me for years now – the way survey questions are worded, and how those wordings get spun into inflammatory headlines.
One Bag at a Time: On Depression, Clutter, and the Small Steps That Matter
I stumbled across a post the other day that really stuck with me. A bloke in his early thirties, drowning in depression and surrounded by the physical manifestation of it – a studio apartment filled with rubbish, unopened packages, and the crushing weight of money wasted on things he never intended to keep. He’d been quoted three grand by a professional cleaning service he couldn’t afford, and he was asking for help.