Amie Albrecht

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Picard management tip: Question authority, and permit others to question yours without fear of punishment.

Book cover: “The Mushroom Tapes (Conversations on a triple murder trial)” by Helen Garner, Chloe Hooper, Sarah Krasnostein

I’m not that interested in the case itself, but I’m absolutely here for what these three think about it. I soon adapted to the conversation format and wanted the book to be much, much longer. #read2025

velociraptor = distanceraptor / timeraptor

That sounds so positive and useful.

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There's a point, around the age of twenty, when you have to choose whether to be like everybody else the rest of your life, or to make a virtue of your peculiarities.

Teacher working conditions and low pay (but I think the latter is not as dire as the US). Heading out for the day now but if I remember later, I’ll look for something for you.

Just pushing the issue further up the pipeline.

Milestone! Your phone’s autocorrect finally stopped changing it to ‘ducking!’

Your Texting Age is 63: You spell out ‘you’ and use punctuation- Ok, boomer!

Amazon, please stop asking me if books I bought month ago met my expectations. I still have unread books I bought in 2012. Be real.

I’m a bit player on a grant application about how people perceive fairness in education, and I hope it gets up because I think the responses are going to be wild.

Here is a godawful joke in chart form to ruin your Christmas season 🤪🎄

iPad showing book cover image: “Careless People: A Story of Where I Used to Work” by Sarah Wynn-Williams

A conflicting read. On the one hand, an absolute jawdropper about shenanigans at Facebook, and stories of the filthy rich. On the other hand, the author can hardly absolve herself of all responsibility in the way she seemingly does here. #read2025

An outdoor concert. The back drop of the stage says AC/DC.

Still got it.

My hand holding a shortbread cookie in the shape of an airplane. There are red sprinkles in the pattern of the survivorship bias plane.

A plate of the same cookies.

Does anyone want a survivorship bias shortbread

Potato conservation law.

Oh. I meant ‘what are business cards?’ as you don’t see them anymore. I’ve been following the merging with interest.

What a great headline

A large (maybe 3 feet wide by 5 feet tall) sign on the end of a row of bookshelves that tells the “address” of books that have sensitive content.

Sometimes I think it’s going to be the librarians who will save us all.

Love it!!

I mean, it would be worth it for the business card (what are they?!).

I’m never not going to find this discombobulating.

Photo of the Walkley Awards Instagram page announcing Mean Streak by Rick Morton as the winner of the Walkley Book Award.

I think award season is now over. Mean Streak just won the Walkley Book Award to cap it off and I’m so thankful. Buy or borrow, the story is more fucked up than you think.

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Making Your Own Sense Reflections on maths, learning and the Maths Learning Centre, by David K Butler

I’ve dusted off my blog and given it a new home. davidkbutler.xyz

I need to get myself to Melbourne before March. Look at these geometric designs!

Picard management tip: At a high level, know how all the machines work.

iPad showing book cover image: “Uses for Obsession” by Ben Shewry.

Read this after hearing Shewry on a podcast. More than the typical chef memoir—honest, introspective personal essays with an insider’s view of the profession. Uneven and occasionally self-aggrandising, but I think that’s more a function of the form than Shewry himself. #read2025​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​