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Fiona Tribe
@fionatribe.bsky.social
Cultural Anthropologist | Workplace Strategist | Ethnographer | Clay Artist | into architecture, cultural literacy and Stuff | Wurundjeri land/Melbourne | fiona@whiteowl.net.au | No DMs | whiteowl.net.au
There needs to be a Royal Commission into the amount of pointless cortisone injections people are being prescribed.
Contentedness is having a choice of leftovers in the fridge.
A friend’s thesis included a series of material (clay) artefacts you might find if you dug up the future, today. I love this so much.
I wrote a thesis the year immediately following my Dad’s death. I buried my grief in it. All I remember is how much I struggled to think/write. My anxiety was off the charts ridiculous, and whilst I submitted something I was proud of, I’m not sure the impact it had on my mental health was worth it.
I remember very matter-of-factly saying “He died, and I stopped writing” about grief and my inability to write. Seems my brain was a little bit broken. thestory.au/articles/wri...
Grief Breaks the Brain: A Writer's Long Journey Back to the Page
When tragedy destroyed his ability to write, Patrick Pittman went looking for a way back to the page. But is the cure for writer’s block in your heart, or in your head?
thestory.au
I have friends who, when they first go to a country where they've not been before, make a point of visiting a grocery store and a hardware store.
Shannon Mattern@shannonmattern.bsky.social · 2y ago"I always take my characters grocery shopping when I’m working on a novel. I like to push a cart around a supermarket, deciding what my character will buy. It’s the single best way for me to understand a character well enough to inhabit her on the page."
A friend of mine talks about “illness ghosting” as something she experienced when she became ill many years ago. It didn’t happen suddenly. It was more of a gradual thing. This happens with grief, too. And unemployment. Divorce. Anything that sees you struggle, essentially.
"We build our computer (systems) the way we build our cities: over time, without a plan, on top of ruins." ~ Ellen Ullman
My local Milk Bar is owned by a Lebanese-Australian family. On hot summer nights they sit in the street on milk crates, smoking, playing cards, and laughing. I can hear them through my open window. These sounds are my home.
The fact I have little to no knowledge of your industry or organisation is precisely what makes me valuable. I can only experience and interpret phenomena for the first time, once.
Setting aside safety issues, naivety can be a strength when you’re diving into something new. If you know all the rules, the “way it’s done”, even “how” to do things and what tools to use for what, it can hamper your creativity. Be a child before the adults adult you.
The stunningly beautiful tapestries woven to the designs of #arthurboyd, currently on display at the @NatGalleryAus. They are based of the themes of the life of St Francis - highly recommended
I found a woman who knows a woman who knows a guy who makes drill powered caulking guns for extruding clay. Get excited! What are you excited about that nobody else gives two hoots about?
Painting created by Anthony Dare c.1964 in the art therapy studio at Netherne hospital in Surrey, where he was compelled to live. No biographical information is currently known to us about him, this is one of his four surviving works & the subject is art therapist Edward Adamson &
Don’t tell me your values — they’ll reveal themselves soon enough.
“On questions foreign to his technical competence but not to the power he has acquired through it, [the Expert] can pronounce with authority a discourse which is no longer a function of knowledge, but rather a function of the socio-economic order.” ~ Michel de Certeau, The Practice of Everyday Life
And also in that same issue of Astronomy - a composite photo of the moon making an analemma over the course of a month by Omar Wael - phenomenal!! mymodernmet.com/lunar-analem...
I’m a fan of something between a children’s playground and a mausoleum when it comes to workplace design.
I’m looking for the perfect pair of jeans, white t shirt, and black tailored pants. Why is that so hard.
Things I believe and will continue to bring to everything I do: 1. Enterprise software should be delightful to use. 2. Meetings should be enlivening. 3. Colleagues can like each other without pretending we are a family. 4. It's cool to contribute to things (even "simple" or "mundane" things)