Weeknotes
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The Liminal Space
I’m in a liminal space with work at the moment. It’s why I haven’t spent time weeknoting recently.
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The Stormy Seas
Nothing much to report work-wise, but I went along to a couple of online talks this week.
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The Sunset over Ynys Enlli
Meetings that could have been emails, the value of synchronicity and collaboration, and signals for strategy.
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The Glaw
Spreadsheets, frustration, low spoons and a lightbulb moment.
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The Hell's Mouth
Direct Debit, and how we save government money, was the theme of the week.
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The Relocation
So that’s it, I’m no longer living in London. Now I live in Wales.
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The Pigeons in the Station
It’s Q3 2020/21 and much of my week was spent kicking off our latest piece of work.
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The Week Between
Thoughts on autonomy and empowerment for product teams.
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The Bushy Park
Accessibility, digital exclusion and barriers, plus some thoughts on distributing areas of responsibility amongst a team.
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The Nonsuch Palace
Brief notes on our strategy work, meeting accessibility regulations, and shifting the organisational Duplo blocks.
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The Beach Below Sea Level
Culture and cohesion, the Comprehensive Spending Review and the Square of Despair.
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The Ridgeway
Professional development objectives (yawn), outline business cases (double yawn) and the story of a successful alert.
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The Coal-Tax Post
Mainly a week of working on bigger-picture strategy things. Contracts, opportunities, and building consensus.
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The Success
Open and honest conversations, building trust, purposeful retros and designing strategy. Belter of a week, to be fair.
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The Surprise Entry
A week of ups and downs at work, but the road ahead feels clear. Oh, and we started organising the Product People unconference!
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The Asynchronous Communication
We avoided meetings face-to-face meetings and emails for a week. It was both heaven and purgatory.
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The Untiring Advocate of Summer Time
Busy but short week in which we ran a user group session and chatted to Open Banking.
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The Productivity Hack
Managed to get heaps done this week, all thanks to one weird trick…
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The Shock of London
We started Q2 2020–21 this week, so I was mostly doing kick-off things and writing OKRs.
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The Commute Must Die
It’s firebreak week! Haven’t had a firebreak since January 2019, if you can believe it.