Keep working, keep building. Even if no one recognises your work or name, keep grinding and recognise your own game.

The opposite of schadenfreude is "freudenfreude" — the bliss you feel when someone else succeeds, even if it doesn't directly involve you. The benefits are plentiful but don't always come easily. Here's how to experience more freudenfreude.nyti.ms/3H5WlwD

The state of chats on ChatGPT

ChatGPT: “it’s a preview of progress; we have lots of work to do on robustness and truthfulness”…. I read somewhere C Kozyrkov describing it as touching reality at a tangent. Perhaps it is tangent to truth for now.

Artists: “They are calling it a new original work but some artists are having their exact style replicated exactly in brush strokes, colour, composition – techniques that take years and years to refine.” … AI company:“the AI develops a mental model…” theguardian.com/australia-news…

Great Dilemma of 2022 finally unravels

Absence of Presence … could be an apt descriptor of certain aspects of organisational life and work in 2022

For 2023, my wish for you & me, to be as light, nimble & free as we can be, to take flight and soar, for new horizons to see, with strong roots yet yielding as an oak tree, equally at home at the slow, shimmering sea, give a like or follow if you agree

Wishing everyone a year without fear, and one that keeps safe and near what we hold dear

#Public Domain Day: consider authors’ rights and property, their exercise and expiry, and the public domain, our collective memory and tales, cultural resources, and public good. Consider as well AI models trained on data in the “public” domain. And consider remixing in music.

Stacking goals: This year began on a high note for me, with the receipt of my Chartered Fellow professional designation from ⁦⁦⁦CIPD⁩ - the UK and global professional body for people practices. linkedin.com/posts/ajayjiva…

How we are made visible and measurable data points by digital platforms and ecosystems

“Foundations of People Metrics and Analytics”: a newly launched South African publication to help students and HR practioners in the African context to navigate the evolving field. I had the opportunity to contribute two chapters to it. #hrmetrics #hr linkedin.com/posts/ajayjiva…

First 2023 Fact Sheet: Evolving role of the Chief HR Officer (CHRO). linkedin.com/posts/ajayjiva…

I will be in conversation with Karen Lowe, Director of 4dayweeksa, on the 4 day work week in the below mentioned webinar. We explore the realities of 4 day week and the emerging data from global pilots. We will also discuss the planned SA pilots.

“leads to a new phil of physics that rejects the idea that the universe is a machine governed by unconditional laws with a prior existence, & replaces it with a view universe as a self-organising entity in which all sorts of emergent patterns appear” theguardian.com/science/2023/m…

How do we cite ChatGPT? Some questions on authorship and a suggestion from the APA reference style guide: peoplefactor.co.za/how-do-we-cite… #ai #HR #ChatGPT #author

Why do we need good #HR or people practices in the evolving world of work? What does good mean? And what standards of good people practices can we set and how for the future world of work and the future of the HR profession? linkedin.com/posts/ajayjiva…

Right to disconnect: In this December Fact Sheet I explore the right to disconnect from work after hours. I consider global examples and contexts, and thereafter the South African context. #hrm #hr #shrm #decentwork linkedin.com/posts/ajayjiva…

How is the landscape of 2025 taking shape thus far? linkedin.com/posts/ajayjiva…