I was back at work this week but it has felt pretty odd if I am honest. Having two weeks off then returning for just 14 working days over three weeks (just 10 now) has left me with a motivation deficit not helped by the fact so many people are on leave, the ongoing [ ]
One of the (many) things that makes me feel like a dinosaur at work is my stubborn commitment to the principle of ‘make things open, it makes things better’. I mean I literally had it tattooed on my arm. My advocacy and support for it is starting to feel unhelpful though as it is clear [ ]
I’ve been off work on a true ‘staycation’ the last couple of weeks. Stayed in Bristol, mainly stayed at home. Relaxed. Even my blood sugar and blood pressure settled down. Tomorrow is 20 weeks since I first went into hospital. Which seems like forever ago but also like yesterday. I had a recent appointment with [ ]
I’m writing this to hold myself accountable as much as anything. To stop me taking the path of least resistance and to be more intentional about what I do next. I have a little breathing space so I don’t need to jump into something to keep the lights on or the Ocado deliveries delivering. Plus [ ]
Sometimes it is important to give people their flowers especially when (a) they do something that makes your life easier and (b) are already partners in crime. In quick succession in recent weeks my collaborators on the Product for the People meet-up series shared things that immediately got added to my product coaching toolbox. [ ]
Well gosh that was quite the week wasn’t it? Oh my. The dissolution of DSIT didn’t come completely out of the blue I’d seen some online speculation bandied around and then there were articles in the Sundays but it was still shock enough to widen the eyes especially the move to DCMS [ ]
A while ago I mentioned that I was having a chat about whether I had an idea for a book with a genuine, real life publisher. As it happened I had two which is just as well as one of them has actually been bagsied elsewhere 😆 Now I don’t know whether the publisher will [ ]
I was recently a ‘guest’ on Dan Hon’s new online event type thing How People Work…LIVE!. The session is on Youtube I will never, ever look/listen at that but maybe you will. It was a pretty nerve wracking occasion given some of the folks who attended (at least three of whom I was [ ]
I think sometime this week was 100 working days in this role (if you remove all of my sick days). Usually I’d try and write some kind of retrospective to mark the milestone but honestly this week I’ve been feeling pretty disappointed by the whole experience even accounting for the health scare (and England [ ]
It is currently still 32℃ in Bristol and I have barely emerged from my dark cave for days (all curtains, blinds, doors and windows closed in my flat.) Since my last weeknote I experienced the Pitbull invasion in Cardiff Saturday while I was there catching up with Laura and checking out the Meeting of Styles [ ]