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“Thank F#ck it’s Friday” I remember saying under my breath when I woke from an interrupted night’s sleep on November 23rd, 2022 up in the northeast of Victoria some two and a bit hours from home. And then it hit me like what I’d describe as a forceful punch in the guts that stopped me in my […]

People with highly transferable skills may be specialists in certain areas, but they’re also incredible generalists – something businesses that want to grow need.” — Leah Busque You know the drill by now. The most technically proficient humans tend to be the ones promoted, even though many organisations today talk of hiring for attitude and training for skill. It […]

Bubble wrap plays a very important role in protecting the integrity of something that is valuable to we humans. A piece of fine China handed down over generations, that expensive new laptop or big screen television, or one I see quite regularly a bottle of boutique gin and tonic meticulously wrapped so that it turns […]

What came first – the chicken or the egg? It’s a question that has been pondered for years and years with no real resolution as far as I know. It’s a bit the same with the construct of experience and experienced. Who’s ever uttered the words “they don’t have the experience”, or even “they’ve got […]

SIMPLY, PRACTICALLY HUMAN WITH MARK LEBUSQUE Mark is out and about in Tassie and whilst hiking Lake St. Clair kept ruminating over the absurdity of how we use ‘experience’ and ‘experienced’ as a throwaway line in our lives. He shares his thoughts and some provocative questions in this solo episode. Find more episodes of Simply, […]

Think back to a time when you were learning a new skill as a young child. A common one is the time when your parents removed the training wheels on your very first bike. You were starting with no experience of the skill, but a willingness to sit with the discomfort and knowledge that in […]