Its a bonus week this time around, so plenty to pack in. I started at public digital last Monday, but only worked three days and was off on Friday…so thought I’d save all my weeknotes up! Some thoughts on the last two weeks: The long read this week is an old one that has been…

Wasn’t sure if was going to write anything. I’ve been between jobs this week but trying to keep myself in the habit of weeknotes given I’ll need to keep them up in the new gig!  This week has mostly been.  I start at Public Digital on Monday. Excited but also expecting to need to learn…

Last day at Co-op, a real privilege to have worked with the CX, design, digital and operations team over the past 2.5 years. As I’ve said to everyone who asked, it still doesn’t feel real. But sat on the train back from Manchester for the last time it’s starting to sink in. Thankfully you all…

A bit of a strange week, to be expected when you share your own job on social media. Confirming leaving Co-op still feels weird, but you can now apply for my job. If its something you’re interested in, I’m very happy to chat about it. This week I thought about: Long read this week is…

We’re finally moving back into the house, with a bathroom very very very nearly complete. So that’s this Friday’s main highlight. Things I’ve been thinking about this week are: Long read this week is Successful iteration requires going beyond agile. The part that REALLY got me thinking is this: While software is a prerequisite to…

Trying to make this a thing again, two weeks in a row. Things that were on my mind this week: Long read this week from me is ‘The tyranny of collaborative ideation‘. One of the things I took away from my time at PDR was the importance of structured ideation approaches. With people with PhDs…

Obligatory ‘its been a while’. Over a month, we’ve been moving round different generous family members spare rooms whilst the bathroom is being done, and we navigate summer holiday childcare fun. Things on my mind (aside from whether that flooring will arrive in time) recently have been: Long read this week is everyone’s favourite service/organisational…

I’ve been pretty poor at weeknoting recently, things have been and continue to be busy – partly in work (managed to be in a design sprint, whilst also prepping another bit of discovery work at the same time two weeks ago) but mostly outside. We finally have a house move date, contracts have been exchanged…

Its been a busy week, but in a good way! I’ve actually really enjoyed the variety and manageable sense of urgency that its given me. This week I: Long read this week – the complete guide to measuring lostness. A approach to UX metrics I’d not come across before, but could maybe prove useful if…

Its been a bit of a side-quest week. Had an invite land in my diary late last Firday, a call Monday and then a follow up on Friday to prepare for. Whilst its not ideal to have to reprioritise the week based on what someone else is asking for, it made me reflect on a…

Like many people I took some time off this bank holiday week (and it was half term for us too). So this is a mix of holiday and work related ponderings: Long read this week is sustainability related. Atlassian has published ‘Don’t #@!% the Planet’ as their summary of their approach to “building a sustainability…

Short week 1/3 out of the way in May. Just in case you’re wondering I’m strongly team ‘do not reorganise Monday’s regular meetings to Tuesday when it’s a bank holiday’. Anyway this week I: Long read this week is taken from some of the ‘extra reading’ that Neil’s pulled together for the course: ‘The new…

These weeknotes are mostly brought to you by spite, and as a way to stop tidying the house for the umpteenth time for another house viewing that may or may not get confirmed tomorrow morning. I’ve had a 3/4 week hiatus (I lose count) because of various reasons, mostly a combination of my wife having…

The week Ai content generation went mainstream? With GPT-4 launching, and both Microsoft and Google announcing integrations of some form or another, it feels like some kind of threshold was crossed. Things that happened this week: This weeks long read is a proper long one, and continues a bit of the Ai theme too. What…

Its Friday already, yes we had some snow, no its not around anymore, yes its still a bit chilly, thank you for asking 🙂 This week I sent (what I thought was) a particularly witty chat message during a meeting that I’m still unreasonably proud of…but I don’t think I’m allowed to have that as…

Double header, I was off (most of) last week so didn’t get around to writing anything. Last week my daughter had chickenpox/shingles, so now our son has chickenpox (which was predictable), so no nursery for him this week has meant a proper test of everyone’s work flexibility! We also put our house on the market…

I’m tired, like really tired. We’ve had a pretty rough week, a couple of trips to hospital with my daughter which identified a thankfully a relatively manageable illness. That said, giving two types of medication four times a day to a 5 year old who already feels terrible and has only left the house for…

Broke my streak…missed a week last week. But that’s how it is, from memory I was proper exhausted. I think a mix of trying to sort stuff to put house on the market (spending evenings re-painting the same walls every time the kids draw on them again) and trying to get fit on the bike…

My main reflection is that I can’t believe its time to write weeknotes already again. This week has gone quickly, and its been a mind-expanding one.

I’m writing these on the train back from Manchester to Cardiff. So far its going much more smoothly than the journey up! Travelling up to the office is both really enjoyable and quite exhausting. So what happened this week!? I didn’t have an obvious long read for this week but I can share the two…