Simon Harris

🏳️‍⚧️ Trans rights are human rights.
🖤 Living on Wurundjeri land.
☕️ Made a joke about non-dairy crema.
🤷‍♂️ Opinions are sometimes mine, sometimes others, rarely substantiated.

pronouns: he/him/his
website: https://harukizaemon.com
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Last Notes

2026-07-10 00:22:55 UTC

Surplus wind power is used to lift concrete blocks. When the grid needs electricity, the blocks are dropped to spin generators. https://boingboing.net/2026/07/06/post-china-built-a-40-story-tower-that-stores-wind-powe.html

2025-12-19 01:44:14 UTC

My new jump rope came with a QR code to “complete setup”. This is truly the worst timeline.
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2025-10-22 11:23:42 UTC

OH: “oh god I have bookmarks that are older than some coworkers”

2025-09-19 10:37:56 UTC

Miss 15 and Mr 13 trading guitar tips. Not sure why they keep discussing haemorrhoids. Oh wait, hammer-ons. Never mind. As you were.

2025-08-01 18:58:07 UTC

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I wish there were a similar service here in Australia. The exchange rate between USD and AUD makes it 4x as expensive as Audible. It’s probably cheaper to buy the physical books locally 😞

2025-07-05 11:48:00 UTC

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I cannot stand him. Never could. But what prompted this toot?

2025-07-02 23:38:48 UTC

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and back to your original “a team should have psychological safety” is nonsensical. Psychological safety is a hallmark not an outcome. Airline crew resource management (CRM) is intended to improve safety. One of the hallmarks of effective CRM is psychological safety. But aiming for psychological safety itself is pointless.

2025-07-02 23:13:59 UTC

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“Peoples Democratic Republic of Psychological Safety”
AFAICT almost nobody has bothered to understand the body of work underpinning it, and have simply decided it means whatever they want it to mean to their advantage *cough* agile *cough* thus rendering the term similarly useless in practice.

2025-06-28 23:32:02 UTC

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I have a real interest in Amy Edmondson’s research and approach. I resent the way corporate leadership has perverted it into what I would probably characterise as gaslighting.

2025-06-28 01:39:21 UTC

Adding ‘reslience’ and ‘breaking silos’ to the list of phrases I’m sick of hearing.

2025-04-19 02:59:15 UTC

Common pantry item my arse. Who the fuck has [redacted] in their house on a regular basis?!
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The Saturday Paper Quiz No. 546
We got 6/10!

2025-03-19 13:35:30 UTC

The waning gibbous, and the waxing takousaway

2024-11-22 22:29:31 UTC

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it’s become a family thing, hence “we got”

2024-11-22 22:15:38 UTC

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If not for Jess and our kids I would never get the popular culture questions.

2024-11-22 21:15:03 UTC

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The Saturday Paper Quiz No. 527
We got 9/10!

2024-11-18 01:40:00 UTC

What's an acceptable number of Aldi spiced biscuits to consume in one day? Asking for a friend.