Shake it off — Happy Friday! How’s your week been? It’s been a bit of a tough old week for me. Nothing particularly nightmarish has happened, but I would characterise it as wading through treacle. If it was a colour, it would be beige. I made some progress, but it wasn’t nearly as much…

“Can you tell me a bit about yourself?” — Good things I did quite a bit of interviewing. As ever, I enjoy listening to people talk about their work and getting a glimpse into other organisations and their challenges and how those multiply with scale. We successfully migrated our repairs system into Azure. We had a few minor unforseen snags to…

How are we in mid-January already? Absolute madness! Compared with the gentle on-ramp of last week, this week very much felt like it went from zero to 1000 miles per hour in an impressively short space of time. …

Happy New Year! Do you have a rule for when you stop wishing people Happy New Year? I don’t think I have a date in mind for this. I think I’m going to carry on until it seems weird. I’m mixing up the weeknote format to give me half a…

Happy Friday! I’m attempting to get back into the weeknoting groove. To that end, I’m trying a condensed format to lower the barrier to pressing the publish button. Good things Starting to see the use of user stories and prototypes being used in the team to better understand the work and challenge…

Hello! Happy Friday! April.. already? Where is the time going etc. etc.?! Nice to welcome the sun back though eh? Sunshine in the morning, lighter evenings, not quite so rainy as before. As someone wisely said on a video call this week, talking about the weather is the ultimate ice…

This afternoon I was able to hop onto my phone to continue a meeting so that I could walk up to school to meet my kids. There isn’t anything particularly novel or exciting about this, but afterwards I still had a bit of a ‘Huh, this is pretty great!’ moment. …

Boundaries — I’ve been doing… This week felt like I spent quite a lot of it on video calls for one reason or another. I roughly estimate just six hours out of my working week that were totally free of video calls. Whether that’s a problem or not really depends on the purpose of those…

Busy! — Hello! Welcome to another set of weeknotes. These will be hastily composed as I’m looking forward to giving my brain a bit of a rest and do something entirely non productive like watch 7 solid hours of Netflix. I’ve been doing… It’s been a week filled with lots of video calls, so perhaps…