📒 June 2025

I wonder if some months are longer than others, both mentally and literally? School wise, it has been a long term. With illness associated with the colder season, the focus has become about survival. This includes limited opportunities to get back into jogging.

With that said, we did manage to get away for a mini-getaway over the King’s Birthday Long Weekend down to the Bellarine Peninsula. This involved exploring Point Lonsdale, Fort Queenscliff, going to the Great Ocean Road Chocolataire and Ice-Creamery, and eating out at Jack Rabbit Winery, going to Bells Beach and visiting the Australian National Surfing Museum. Although it was wet, we still managed to have a nice time away.

The big focus at work feels like ‘process’. There is an attempt to double down on who is doing what, especially as we move into a new phase. The dilemma is that processes can be too rigid, therefore preventing movement, or too open, therefore creating inconsistencies. I wonder if the glue within all of this are the relationships between teams.

Associated with this, there has been a push to foster the sharing of skills and knowledge within the organisation. Although I agree with this to a point, as I often benefit from talking through my technical problems with colleagues, the the question I am left with is whether there is a limit to formalising the informal in-lieu of more formal and deliberate training?

Here is a list of books that I read this month:

  • The Castle by Franz Kafka – A novel that engages with the absurdity associated with engaging with bureaucracy.
  • Lady Chatterley’s Lover by D.H. Lawrence – A novel which delves into the dichotomy between mind and body through Lady Chatterley’s differing relationships.
  • North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell – A novel exploring the world wreaked by the Industrial Revolution.

No new music purchases this month, but I have been listening to the new unapologetic albums from TFS, Montaige and Lorde. I also attended Twinkle Digitz Album Launch Extravaganza.

With regards to my writing, I wrote a post wondering When is Getting Things Done Is Not Actually About Getting Things Done

Podcasts that stood out this month:

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