Lyndall Thomas

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Writer, editor and content designer.
Slayer of the inner critic.
I live and work on Bunurong Country (southeast Melbourne).
Websitehttps://www.ramble.com.au/

Expertise isn’t measured in headcount.

It’s measured in scar tissue.

Twenty fresh opinions can’t replace one person who’s lived the problem long enough to see it mutate.
https://www.joanwestenberg.com/experience-doesnt-stack-the-myth-of-collective-knowledge/

Experience Doesn't Stack: The Myth of Collective Knowledge

We treat knowledge like so much cargo. Stack it high enough, gather enough people, and surely you'll reach critical mass. Twenty smart people, each with a year of experience, must be just as good as one person with twenty years. Right? But knowledge isn’t additive. It’s not clay

Westenberg.

I wrote a list of the brands to support and the brands to avoid in light of all the US shenanigans. See what you think.

https://www.ramble.com.au/power/

Power

Or, wielding our consumer power for the greater good.

Ramble Communications
Can’t wait to unwittingly say “My hovercraft is full of eels” in whatever language I’m trying to learn. https://www.theverge.com/news/657594/duolingo-ai-first-replace-contract-workers
Duolingo will replace contract workers with AI

Duolingo cofounder and CEO Luis von Ahn says that the company will “gradually stop using contractors to do work that Al can handle” as part of an all-hands email announcing that the company will be “AI-first.”

The Verge

Hello Mastodon. Please help me leave the Metaverse.

This is Take Two ...

Look how my gorgeous little World of Moose advent calendar is coming along 😍 Haven't done any decorating or anything yet but this is making me feel festive.

It's not too late to start one! You can download yours here: https://www.worldofmoose.com/pages/2022-advent-calendar

Thanks @MooseAllain ❤️ 🎄 🤶 So much fun!!

World of Moose '"2022 Advent Calendar" in a Robot Voice'

Advent calendar from World of Moose for you to print off and decorate.

worldofmoose

For #women in #science, our work often gets framed in a way that focuses on gender. It’s not a bad thing, but there’s so much more to who we are.

Many of us didn’t set out trying to be “females in science” so much as simply “scientists” doing research we love.

Our contributions are frequently less about shattering glass ceilings, and more about succeeding at institutions that weren’t built by us or for us.

Ok, I’m dropping him in it. I was drowning in work so Mr Ramble made dinner. Nice of him, sure. But he boiled the cucumbers!! “I thought they were zucchini,” he said. Ate them anyway. Beggars can’t be choosers. Tasted weird but not completely shit.

Hello Fediverse, here is my latest offering. It's about literary FOMO. You know, that anxiety that happens because you can’t keep up with #reading all the latest books. Or perhaps you’re like me, managing teetering stacks of books with all the good intentions in the world.

https://www.ramble.com.au/intention/

Let me know if it resonates! ❤️

#literature #amwriting

Intention

Or, swimming in the troubled waters of literary FOMO.

Ramble Communications

Did you know that if you capitalize each word in a multi-word hashtag, #ScreenReaders can read them as words, but if you leave them lowercase, they can't? Well, now you know! So, for #accessibility, please capitalize words when there's more than one in a hashtag.

#MastodonTip #TwitterMigration