True Vine

I’ve been letting God prune a lot of branches of mine lately, in part inspired by the book of John, chapter fifteen, crystallised into this timeless statement:

Leaders travel light

Part of that is pruning LinkedIn. So if you’ve noticed a change from 1st to 2nd (or so) in the little relationship graph thing, it’s likely because I have no recollection of meeting you in person, somewhere on this planet. Might have been a past employer, a conference, a tech or other meetup, rUNSWift, UNSW & CSE, Revue, high school or some other school-related thing, or even a chance church meeting – a divine encounter and a step into eternity. If I can’t remember meeting you, I don’t think I can in good faith say I know you. That I’ve met you before.¹ Which is a critical piece I think of being human, and so perhaps one thing that still identifies us as children of God, made in God’s image, and not an AI shadow.

I know you… I’ve met you before

So if you actually do know me (and so it’s just my less than good, pleasing and perfect memory that’s the problem), I invite you to fix that – please reach out to me by any means you have, and let’s have a coffee or other reason to be somewhere, together on this planet.

1. Or perhaps you’re one of a very small number of exceptions, for instance you now work for a company like DuckDuckGo, that I use more than daily, and this connection was made, many years ago, in that time known as pre-COVID ↩︎