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Gus has won his third "Dog of The Day" title. Stop what you're doing and listen in.

Another big week, packed with:

• Shame-watching Mormon Wives on Disney
• Meeting Irish men at the gym
• An expanding reliance on Claude to hype me up for social situations..

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Otto Talks | Episode 31

This week:

• This Week's Reading: Two articles: one on small actions and the slow accumulation of luck; another on how AI is quietly reshaping the working world, one unremarkable Tuesday at a time
• Realisation of the Week: On still playing football in your mid-thirties, the indignity of patellar tendinitis, and whether the golf era is finally upon us
• What I'm Consuming: Louis Theroux's Manosphere doc, Love is Blind Ohio, and the return of NRL & AFL
• What Does That Even Mean?: A look at Anthropic's new report on AI exposure by industry, and my backup career plan involving snow peas and greenkeeping

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Apologies in advance as the vacuum cleaner makes repeated appearances in this episode.

If you would rather read these musings, head over here.

Anyway, a great week spent:

• In Auckland,
• Learning about "AI Companionship", and
• thoroughly embarrassing myself at a community gathering...

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Lovely hot sunshine and heavy rain combo this week. It's at this point every year I remember that Australia is not my natural habitat.

Some fun and games this week:

• More AI-spiralling,
• Fishing (successfully!), and
• Watching too much Netflix as always..

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Dad and Christine have left the building and successfully returned to the rainy motherland. 

Action packed week in which I have spoken to:

• Spoken to random local people,
• Been invited for Yum Cha, and
• Finished the first season of The Pitt (comfortably my favourite show since Slow Horses Season 1...)

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Some more time spent in Melbourne has led to thoughts on:

• Creating luck
• Talking to strangers
• Spending too much time on my phone with no purpose

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Two weeks to cover as I have slacked off..(thanks for the nudge Doug) but what a two weeks it has been!

• Dad and Christine were in town and so fancy restaurants were on the agenda
• Manon and I went to Melbourne for the Australian Open and successfully avoided Djokovic
• Gus has a girlfriend..

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We're taking on water in Sydney this week but despite the substantial downpours, there is a ray of sunshine in a visit from the Thoresen-Montgomery clan!

Other than that it has been a week of:

• humbling yoga experiences
• football with optimists, and
• questioning why "Heated Rivalry" is even a thing...

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Week 2 of the year in the books (almost) and a few highlights to ramble about:

• A day at the fifth ashes test
• Gus's annual performance review
• My favourite breakfast place recognises my valuable contributions, and
• My slow descent into listening to lifestyle gurus...

I will switch back to the old microphone next week as this TikTok-style one is pretty rubbish. Nothing to do with me obviously. Completely the fault of the microphone..

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First one of 2026!

Recap of:

• The festive break (half-price staycation, a Christmas cold and 9pm fireworks on New Year's Eve)
• Centennial Park (an Alastair Cook sighting and committing to 80/20 days)
• Stranger Things S5 (some times maybe good, some times maybe s***)
• My increasing usage of ChatGPT ("athleisure" wear for sensitive skin, anyone?)
• Intentions for 2026

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