Simon Terry
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Not in that order | portfolio life | miscellany | observations
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There is the word Wortschöpfung which literally means coining a new word, so I‘ll go with Wortschöpfungsfreude.
November 26, 2025 at 3:35 PM
There is the word Wortschöpfung which literally means coining a new word, so I‘ll go with Wortschöpfungsfreude.
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I am all for wellbeing in the workplace but I will never rely on the workplace for my wellbeing.
November 11, 2025 at 10:49 PM
I am all for wellbeing in the workplace but I will never rely on the workplace for my wellbeing.
The magic of LLMs is that, suddenly, everybody is transforming into an AI expert. A worrying signal
November 3, 2025 at 10:56 PM
The magic of LLMs is that, suddenly, everybody is transforming into an AI expert. A worrying signal
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“If prose is a house,
poetry is a man on fire
running quite fast through it.”
~ Anne Carson
poetry is a man on fire
running quite fast through it.”
~ Anne Carson
October 6, 2025 at 12:06 AM
“If prose is a house,
poetry is a man on fire
running quite fast through it.”
~ Anne Carson
poetry is a man on fire
running quite fast through it.”
~ Anne Carson
Remind me to create a map of streets in the Melbourne CBD without plane trees for next time there is a pollen fall.
October 22, 2025 at 3:50 AM
Remind me to create a map of streets in the Melbourne CBD without plane trees for next time there is a pollen fall.
OH this week: oat milk is pasta water
October 3, 2025 at 5:19 AM
OH this week: oat milk is pasta water
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“What does freedom mean if we accept the fundamental premise that humans are social beings, always raised in certain social and historical contexts and belonging to particular communities that shape their desires and understandings of the world?” ~ Lila Abu-Lughod, Veiled Sentiments
June 26, 2025 at 4:45 AM
“What does freedom mean if we accept the fundamental premise that humans are social beings, always raised in certain social and historical contexts and belonging to particular communities that shape their desires and understandings of the world?” ~ Lila Abu-Lughod, Veiled Sentiments
Reflecting on Adam Kahane’s new book’s lessons for digital health simonterry.com/2025/06/13/e...
Everyday habits for Transforming Australian HealthCare
waking themselves up tohabits which collapse on every blocklike a tidal waveof Hokusai’s sketchesForest Gander, Kata: Bus Stop Life is full of curious coincidences. Late last week, I discovered t…
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June 14, 2025 at 11:30 PM
Reflecting on Adam Kahane’s new book’s lessons for digital health simonterry.com/2025/06/13/e...
On the weekend I saw an old school circus set up in the outer suburbs, a big tent & trucks circled. Looked bit tired as all circuses do when closed & without the glitz. I realised in gentrifying & corporatising circuses we endangered the magic of a people on wild edge of cities entertaining everyone
May 28, 2025 at 3:16 AM
On the weekend I saw an old school circus set up in the outer suburbs, a big tent & trucks circled. Looked bit tired as all circuses do when closed & without the glitz. I realised in gentrifying & corporatising circuses we endangered the magic of a people on wild edge of cities entertaining everyone
‘Thrilled’ on Linkedin has become such a cliché that marketing mocks it.
May 27, 2025 at 2:28 AM
‘Thrilled’ on Linkedin has become such a cliché that marketing mocks it.
Innovation: Be curious, have diverse experiences, network widely, and persistent when successful nautil.us/the-father-o...
The Father of Modern Metal
The creation of stainless steel took equal parts metallurgy and perseverance.
nautil.us
May 26, 2025 at 11:29 AM
Innovation: Be curious, have diverse experiences, network widely, and persistent when successful nautil.us/the-father-o...
Discrimination is not going away as an AI issue but how much is it AI systematising historical patterns?
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Discrimination Lawsuit Against Workday’s Job Screening AI Gets Bigger
A federal judge opened the case to other plaintiffs who accuse the recruiting platform of systematically rejecting job applications because candidates were over 40.
www.inc.com
May 26, 2025 at 1:42 AM
Discrimination is not going away as an AI issue but how much is it AI systematising historical patterns?
www.inc.com/bruce-crumle...
www.inc.com/bruce-crumle...
Reflecting on the human in the loop in AI simonterry.com/2025/05/23/h...
Human in the Loop
The Lord insists: “You are the one who chooses to live this way. I build cities where things are human. I make Tuscany and you go to live with rock and silence.” Jack Gilbert, Goi…
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May 23, 2025 at 8:19 AM
Reflecting on the human in the loop in AI simonterry.com/2025/05/23/h...
April 30, 2025 at 10:48 PM
What happened to our focus on employee agency? simonterry.com/2025/04/29/t...
The War with Talent: Job Crafting, Late-stage Capitalism, and Agency
Humans master the dynamics of responsive change. We can leverage human agency to easily drive change in your tired goals, roles and processes. Before we embrace Agentic-AI should we try giving our …
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April 30, 2025 at 8:28 AM
What happened to our focus on employee agency? simonterry.com/2025/04/29/t...
Thoughts on the more efficient production of crud simonterry.com/2025/04/13/t.... With thanks to all the creators doing the work of making something of meaning and value.
Thoughts on the More Efficient Production of Crud
There’s nothing quite so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all attributed to Peter Drucker Curating a Mountain of AI output We are on the verge of a creative explosion a…
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April 13, 2025 at 4:31 AM
Thoughts on the more efficient production of crud simonterry.com/2025/04/13/t.... With thanks to all the creators doing the work of making something of meaning and value.
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Lots of repetitive stories creating second hand embarrassment in my neck of the LinkedIn woods. Stories can silence, harm and divide as much as they can inspire, heal, and unite. Tie that in with self-promotion and the beauty of storytelling (myth making) gets lost in a pile of AI generated piffle.
April 6, 2025 at 4:59 AM
Lots of repetitive stories creating second hand embarrassment in my neck of the LinkedIn woods. Stories can silence, harm and divide as much as they can inspire, heal, and unite. Tie that in with self-promotion and the beauty of storytelling (myth making) gets lost in a pile of AI generated piffle.
The heroism of Linkedin made-up stories leads us nowhere simonterry.com/2025/04/06/m...
Made-up Stories
Fiction is a good home for the reach of the human mind Deborah Levy Listen. Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government. Supreme executive powe…
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April 6, 2025 at 1:34 AM
The heroism of Linkedin made-up stories leads us nowhere simonterry.com/2025/04/06/m...
What if the secret was to encourage our natural human instincts to betterment and empathy? simonterry.com/2025/03/27/b...
Be Alive!
“Keep awake, alive, new. Perform the paradox of being hard and yet soft. Survive without calcification of the tender membranes. Be a poet. Be alive.” – Tennessee Williams We can a…
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March 28, 2025 at 12:03 AM
What if the secret was to encourage our natural human instincts to betterment and empathy? simonterry.com/2025/03/27/b...
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"When a complex system is far from equilibrium, small islands of coherence in a sea of chaos have the capacity to shift the entire system to a higher order."
Iya Prigogine, Noble prize-winning chemist
Iya Prigogine, Noble prize-winning chemist
March 23, 2025 at 4:39 PM
"When a complex system is far from equilibrium, small islands of coherence in a sea of chaos have the capacity to shift the entire system to a higher order."
Iya Prigogine, Noble prize-winning chemist
Iya Prigogine, Noble prize-winning chemist
OH at the train station from a 4yo girl: Do dinosaurs get the train?
Mum: Humans built the trains. There were no humans when dinosaurs were around.
[Mums can be tricky. I keep my eyes open for dinosaurs on the train]
Mum: Humans built the trains. There were no humans when dinosaurs were around.
[Mums can be tricky. I keep my eyes open for dinosaurs on the train]
March 17, 2025 at 10:24 PM
OH at the train station from a 4yo girl: Do dinosaurs get the train?
Mum: Humans built the trains. There were no humans when dinosaurs were around.
[Mums can be tricky. I keep my eyes open for dinosaurs on the train]
Mum: Humans built the trains. There were no humans when dinosaurs were around.
[Mums can be tricky. I keep my eyes open for dinosaurs on the train]
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The one with historical experience knows that hubris always goes hand in hand with nemesis. The regulator of arrogance is justice. At all times, they struggle to restore balance.
If you despair over the state of the world right now, know this.
If you despair over the state of the world right now, know this.
February 21, 2025 at 8:48 PM
The one with historical experience knows that hubris always goes hand in hand with nemesis. The regulator of arrogance is justice. At all times, they struggle to restore balance.
If you despair over the state of the world right now, know this.
If you despair over the state of the world right now, know this.
Don’t measure by today. Today is not the end. Measure the increments of progress from today.
February 18, 2025 at 12:55 AM
Don’t measure by today. Today is not the end. Measure the increments of progress from today.
Sharing the usual views is more than a waste of time. simonterry.com/2025/01/22/t...
The Loudhailer of Blah
Saying the things No man can own another man’s soul—body maybe, but a man’s soul on the zephyr is free. The sea is one long sigh.Antoinette Brim-Bell, What Caesar Learned at Sea An article in a new…
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January 21, 2025 at 10:45 PM
Sharing the usual views is more than a waste of time. simonterry.com/2025/01/22/t...