Mar 2022 - Present
Dr Robert Winter
- @robert_winter
- Philosopher and historian by training, Product Manager by pay cheque
- Sydney, Australia
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Senior Product Manager, Standards Australia
Jan 2021 - Jul 2021
Operations Manager (Distribution & Licensing), Standards Australia
Nov 2019 - Jan 2021
Director of Operations, The Child Development Institute
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The problem, or dog-whistle in modern parlance, is that such a philosophy deepens the partisan divide by reinforcing the social construct of an insoluble them and us.
Time again at a premium, I mused on my latest quest for minimalism. In doing so I realised that I was creating as many problems as I was solving.
Sit with ambiguity, but be aware when a seemingly circular conversation is enhancing a definitional understanding and when it is just a group of individuals unable to comprehend ambiguity hoping th...
From time to time I contemplate how I publish because I like ‘the elegance of a refined work flow’. A euphemism for: corporate IT is bloating applications and driving development in the direction o...
Essays
I wrote a blog article about Bitcoin’s Dirty Little Secrets – Environmental. I have long been concerned with the negative human impact on our environment and while I am some way off from thinking t...
I wrote a blog post about Bitcoin’s Dirty Little Secrets – Political. In praxis, the result for Bitcoin is that the ideological claims for a decentralised, government free, anonymous currency has g...
I wrote a blog post about memex. 'While access to information is now relatively more widespread than in the past, the modern paywall can often prove to be as much of a hurdle to access as the price...
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Today I mused on Pseudo-Profound Bullshit. https://robert.winter.ink/pseudo-profound-bullshit/
Today I had a darker musing, about Power and Control: Tech Billionaires in Politics Don't worry about the populist, worry about what comes after them. And what is coming seems clear: Billionaires o...
I wrote an article about my participation in #100DaysToOffload I began the challenge hoping it would improve my journaling habits and ability to write short form pieces. Sprint research as I like t...
I wrote an article: Tool Time Consider that a UI should assume the user doesn’t have a high level of software experience, nor is willing to learn how to use the command line to undertake some level...