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: I had grand plans to be really productive at the start of this week (don’t we always) and then…

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’ve been supporting designers moving from one piece of work that we’re having to pause because of funding not being confirmed to another piece of work – that to…

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!? Monday was hectic, a full day where you have to squeeze lunch in. Amongst other things,…

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. Most of this week has been supporting the team to pull together a presentation on the work we’ve been doing around tills for our senior Operations and technology stakeholders on Monday. They’ve done great work, and the battle (as always) is trying to share this…

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: Defining whether a piece of work is an open discovery or a sprint on a predefined topic, this was a bit of both, which led to some uncertainty and a…