I used to get very anxious when I would post on Instagram especially when I had my notifications turned on. Now as I have gotten older I find I care less about the interactions I receive but more about the quality of each post. Especially as a media student it is sometimes difficult to not think about the quality of the content I am sharing with my followers.
I think there's a part of me that associates being a media student with delivering high quality content on Instagram. So I guess there is still some pressure from society to "preform" well on the platform.
I can see both sides of the argument for and against keeping whatsapp as encrypted as it is. Nowadays it is near impossible to find a company that is this willing to keep data confidential but at the same time it can have fallback as the article highlights.
Reminder at how simple it can be for an organization to rebrand itself, even with social media I feel many individuals will still be unaware of this change that will be occurring.
Looking at these career options, it seems all of them are easily attainable with a Masters or even a Bachelors if you get some good work experience straight out of university.
The question is if you take one of these career paths: was it worth it?
Perhaps you could have been finished with academics years earlier already working in these positions.
My original post was the Gizmodo article, but it seems a moderator updated the link to point the the PDF. I have no problem linking to the actual study.
Here is the original link with some opinion and commentary.
When I was younger I would go to a new country and wouldn't even notice the change in time zones. Now that I've gotten older it takes a solid 4-5 days.
However, fasting for 16 hours? I'd rather deal with some jet lag than be hungry and uncomfortable in the cabin of a plane during a long haul flight.
Interesting to know if the tactic is successful with humans.
Sydney has had a huge influx of population and the lack of infrastructure to accommodate this growth is a major issue.
I just don't see how splitting into three cities solves any of these problems. Now they are three separate governments with different amounts of funds/budget.
The Easter Harbour District with the CBD should garner the highest budget and thus have more runway to build infrastructure, but what about the other two cities?
Will they still be able to benefit from the tourism revenue from the CBD and Harbour?
I recall listening to an LSE presentation by the mayor of Lagos, where they split the city into several CBDs so people could commute and work around one of those rather than having to come into the single centre. I think this is the general idea where a city would have several central areas so that each of them becomes a functioning city in its own right and it would lessen the peak hour intensity of travel for each of them.
Parramatta already is a functioning CBD with infrastructure issues that have been present for the last few years as its become more and more popular for realtor companies to develop. This is the one area that I could see benefiting from this plan.
I'm most skeptical of the Western District becoming its own thriving and independent CBD.
Something more west than Parramatta?! I would have guessed the next main CBD would be North.
Granted I was lucky when I lived in Sydney, I was able to afford to live close enough to walk everywhere. I hated driving though, the traffic mainly but always fearful of accidentally turning onto a toll road. I'm still dismayed about the governments insistence on big toll highway projects.
The NSW Government is so crazy that they’re adding new tolls to a previously free highway to pay for a ridiculously expensive new toll road.
Sydney and Melbourne’s populations are both growing way too fast for the Governments to keep up with infrastructure, schools, hospitals, etc. even if they were competent... (The Federal Government sets the skilled migration rate, which is unusually high compared to other OECD countries, but the states have to pay for the infrastructure. At the same time, there’s huge slack in the employment market with up to 20% unemployed or under-employed).
I’m so glad my family moved away from Sydney when I was a baby... If you can find a good tech job, life is much better (and cheaper) in Brisbane.
Finding one job is easy. However what's the contingency if that job goes (bust, relocate, get fed up with the politics, etc)
People seem to flock to major tech hubs because they are more likely to be able to find a replacement job. There's less competition for jobs in Brisbane, but there's fewer jobs available, and it's harder to leave one job on Friday and start a new one on Monday.
"part of the plan is to transform Western Sydney into an aerotropolis -- a metropolitan sub-region where the layout, infrastructure, and economy are centered on an airport"
The plans to create a CBD in the west are centered around the new airport to be built in 2026. Seems pretty ambitious as this will likely serve smaller domestic flights.
I travel a lot and this seems insane to me. The noise a lone would be enough to drive me away from this.
Even if you are doing a transcontinental flight, I would much rather be set up in chair with ample leg room and access to my own entertainment system.
If I'm hopping on a 8 hour flight across the Atlantic, do I really need to settle in my own sleeping compartment as if I'm spending the night in a hotel?
Perhaps for super long haul flights from Australia or NZ this makes sense, but getting settled into a bed for an America - Euro travel seems unnecessary.
