Roger Lawrence
Experience | Innovation| Future Tech
How Can You Keep In Touch When Isolated
Being isolated doesn’t have to mean losing touch. Here are a couple of tools you can use to maintain relationships with your friends and family.
Dealing with Coronavirus Pandemic Anxiety
How Are You? How is the global coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic making you feel? Between the media, the uncertainty, and the overwhelming voices, many people are struggling with anxiety, fear, even pessimism about the future. Those are all rational responses to this...
The Importance of Meta-Data And Whether To Leave WhatsApp
Facebook has changed the privacy Terms and Conditions for WhatsApp, with effect from 8 Feb 2021. So should you leave? Can you leave? And what is meta-data anyway?
An Update
That’s quick... Tl;dr After admitting to Westmead Public Hospital again last Saturday (24 Oct) for a racing heart, I’m currently in Westmead Private Hospital, in the Cardiovascular Ward, awaiting a procedure to implant an Implantable Cardioverter Defibrillator (ICD)....
Eight Tips To Make Your Virtual Parties Great
Most countries have now implemented practices from Social Distancing (please stay at home, and don't gather) to full lockdown (leave your house and we will punish you). This means Friday afternoon beers and post-church morning teas are outlawed. Already people are...
Three Tips To Make Working From Home Successful… …For Your (Micro-)Manager
One of my daughters, Amanzi, is a Social Worker in Western Sydney. On Monday, she shared her concerns about working from home, and overcoming her anxiety at being able to demonstrate that she is both working, and getting stuff done. At least for her office work....
Lockdown
Here's a poem from one of the podcasters I follow (Tim Ferris) and I find it comforting. Perhaps you too. Lockdown Yes there is fear.Yes there is isolation.Yes there is panic buying.Yes there is sickness.Yes there is even death.But,They say that in Wuhan after so many...
Your Quick Start “Working from Home Guide” for #COVID-19
If you are dreading the idea of working from home, because of COVID Social Distancing measures, or struggling with setting yourself up, this guide is for you
New Year Resolve… …2019
2020's First BLT Where do you sit on New Year's resolutions? Do you consider the date to be arbitrary? Just a point in time to co-ordinate calendars and computers? Do you make grand plans to improve yourself? From the usual "lose weight, be kind, make money" to some...