Challenge

Name Discrimination in Hiring:
I am a "residential year" student in AGSM (Australian Graduate School of Management) UNSW (University of New South Wales). Residential year is the last year of an MBA journey anyone undertakes with AGSM. The year is designed to bring together the entire cohort for a week across four terms and engage them into group written mini thesis.
By Narghiza Ergashovaabout a month ago in Writers
Poor Mindset
In her frustrated speech Senator Mehreen Faruqi states that there should be no billionaires in Australia and that having 150 of them is directly related to incremental unfavorable changes in statistical representation of the percentage of the Australian population living below the poverty line. In other words, the 150 of them are the reason why the country is getting poorer not the government itself that runs policies and administers the states that see poor stay poor.
By Narghiza Ergashovaabout a month ago in Writers
The Centaur of the Centaur
Automating your processes? Hallucinating AI is a terrible co-pilot. It is an "automation blindness" that lead to screening officers meticulously spotting every harmless shampoo bottle on X-rays, while missing nearly every gun and bomb smuggled through their checkpoints.
By Narghiza Ergashovaabout a month ago in Writers
The Case for Real-World Leadership
I see numerous ads on leadership and promoting leadership through uptake of schooling. There are degrees that focus specifically on honing one’s leaderships skills. This begs the natural question of can you build a leader based entirely on theory?
By Narghiza Ergashovaabout a month ago in Writers
When performance is measured against curated feed of perfection
Have you been to a performance review that inevitably ends up comparing you to popular Joe, charismatic Jackie or high performing Jack? Most formal performance reviews have sections where employees are compared sideways against peers within and outside their departments. Definition of a “peer” here is largely determined by a line manager who is assumed to have the power of veto to be able to understand the term, its correct application and most importantly the ramifications of its misuse. The review fails to appreciate that the line manager is just another fallible human being with no previous “human psychology” training.
By Narghiza Ergashovaabout a month ago in Writers
My First Vocal Challenge Victory
Greetings, Vocal readers and subscribers! Eight years: that's all it took me to accomplish something that I achieved recently, which I'll explain in a bit. Over a week ago, I've written and published my 500th story, which you can read in the link down below. I previously told myself that if I were to win my first Vocal Challenge that we would celebrate it together. I logged into my account and went to my profile. All of a sudden, I found an icon that read HM. Turned out that I received an Honorable Mention for a story I've written and published. The challenge was called Twenty-Four Hours. I had to describe a place where I would spend 24 hours and the things I would do in that timeframe. I'll also post a link to the full story down below.
By Mark Wesley Pritchard about a month ago in Writers
What I Can’t Say
Verse 1: Whispers in a megaphone, senseless static, void of tone So much to say, but where did the words go? You’re so good at listening,
By SUEDE the poetabout a month ago in Writers
Cut The Cord
Steal from myself, huh ? Ok. You got it, Vocal. When I saw the new challenges drop, two of them grabbed me by the throat. This was one of them. I love taking old things and giving them new life, so this one seems right up my alley. I started digging through my notebooks and sorting out the old bones of things I never finished or shared trying to decide what exactly was worth stealing.
By Sara Wilsonabout a month ago in Writers
I Used Four AI Models to Write a 10,000-Word Article in One Night. Here’s What It Cost Me.
At 11:07 p.m. last Tuesday, I pasted a 10,000-word brief into my writing tool and hit go. Half an hour later, a red bar appeared: quota almost gone. I scrolled the draft. Correct. Boring. I deleted a sentence. Typed it again. Deleted it. The cursor blinked. I made coffee. Forgot it.
By Jinabout a month ago in Writers
The Draft Was Clean. It Was Also Dead.
I had two sheets of paper in front of me. One described what the story had to contain: childhood, betrayal, a goodbye that never happened. The other described what the language must never do: no “truly,” no “it’s worth noting,” no narrator stepping in to summarize a character’s feelings.
By Jinabout a month ago in Writers
"You'll Be Missed!"
I'm putting out my bi-monthly challenge late this time, mostly because I've been sick for over two weeks now and also because I just started teaching again, so a lot of work and responsibilities on these shoulders.
By Lana V Lynxabout a month ago in Writers
Where the Dreamwalker Treads Challenge Results
Things have been crazy busy for us here at ViM , and at Vocal too, over the last few months! Things have been absolutely topsy-turvy everywhere, to say the least! For us Vocalites, though, many have had their worlds ripped out from under them by the glitches Vocal's IT staff can't seem to work out, yet...
By Mother Combsabout a month ago in Writers