Category: Weeknotes

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…

First full week of the new year, didnt manage to get these typed up on Friday afternoon evening – in part because of a rather frustrating time trying to put the kids to bed. Fair to say I’ve still got plenty of opportunities to practice more patience. In the spirit of not letting that get…

End of the year. Its been a year, and we’re really going out all guns blazing in this house. My son has some sort of viral infection but you can’t get antibiotics for love nor money and my wife’s in bed with a fever as well. Thankfully I was already on a bit of a…

Made it to week two without giving up, I’m impressed. Didn’t feel great this Friday, so made use of our new(ish) ‘Not feeling 100%’ slack status for the first time so people were kind! I’ve decided a ‘long read’ for the week is going to become what I share at the bottom of these notes…so…

This week properly started to feel like the countdown to Christmas. First week of December, I guess that’s fair. Big things that happened this week: Longer than I expected, some real positives which is nice. I think I’m meant to add some personal type stuff…the one thing that stands out is this (very) long read…