PROFESSIONAL
DEVELOPMENT
Three things worth knowing, none of which will help you at work. Thursday afternoons.
You have been nominated by a colleague. They already outrank you.
Staff record
STAFF NO.
UNASSIGNED
Vacant
- Rank
- Last. For now.
- Direct reports
- 0. Fixable.
- Reports to
- No one. You found this yourself.
You are on the list. Thursdays, then.
Now nominate a colleague. Anyone who signs up through your link reports to you, permanently.
It is in your welcome email too.
How the number works
- 01It’s a rank, not an ID. Everyone who joins after you sits below you.
- 02It only improves when someone above you leaves.
- 03Nominate a colleague and they report to you. Permanently.
From Issue 08
The Tim Tam is named after a racehorse.
- In 1958 Ian Norris, a food technologist at Arnott’s, tried the Penguin biscuit on a trip to Britain and came home determined to make a better one.
- That same year the Kentucky Derby was won by a horse called Tim Tam, and Ross Arnott, a keen racegoer, liked the name.
- Getting the biscuit right took another six years, so the Tim Tam didn’t go on sale until 1964.
- When it did, Australia’s favourite biscuit went out under the name of an American racehorse.
Back issues
- 08The black box nobody wanted
- 07Music for the 3pm slump
- 06Out of fuel at 41,000 feet
- 05They voted it away
- 04If only His Majesty were at home
- 03The man who left his money to a race
- 02The most private minute ever recorded
- 01Why the scam emails are so badly written
Sent Thursdays, when it stops mattering