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I have this small blog with the byline, “ For my friends. ” However, my personal website isn't the place to be posting about specific Spark work I've been doing. There are posts I've made on Yammer/Engage, but it's not the best place for blog-style posts. 1 Sharepoint sites are another alternative, but they seem impermanent, sometimes disappearing when an admin leans on their keyboard. Then I…
I keep writing about social platforms while drafting ideas on paper. These ideas are often existential and philosophical, requiring analogies and exposition. In a word; big . One day I may write about these ideas. Maybe they’ll be individual posts that turn into a book, or hopefully something comprehensible. But right now, I need small ideas . Small ideas are palatable and easy to process. Small…
Projects are an expedition through ‘The Jungle of Unknown’. Clearing a path with a machete, hacking through vines of problems, setbacks, issues, and trees with bushes, and people with negativity. The toil is rewarded by reaching a clearing. Today, I have cleared a path to a decision clearing. Our team has discussed what options we have, and now I need to take a sharp left turn to start hacking…
Surprisingly, I’ve done moderately well in ‘reading print’ since my previous post: Formatted The New Yorker for print using GoodLinks and Marked 2 Printed an edited PDF version in a Duraclip binder 1 Realised how much simpler the magazine version is to 80 gsm paper, so I got it out from the library Hope to to subscribe to The New Yorker again in the future, but I want to be up to date before I…
Since returning from camping, I’ve been trying to continue the routine of reading at night. My final crutch was removed by using our HomePod as an alarm instead of my phone. 1 My hope is that this is now a freestanding habit. While researching Ezra Klein from something I was reading, I found an article from 15 years ago describing a similar approach: At night—if all this goes perfectly—I want to…
Every week at around 8:30am our Squad asks, who’s on Stand Up? How could we automate an answer for this, every week? Workflows in Power Automate I’ve seen workflows used in company wide messages, but I’ve never used one myself, or one that runs on a weekly schedule. The flow needs to: Run every Monday at 8am Post a message in our Squad chat And @mention that Squad member, so they get a…
Perfection; notebook, writing app, blog Field Notes for notes, Writer for writing, Blot for hosting (with a Writer inspired design). But I’m always looking for perfection—optimisation of my notebooks and platforms. Field Notes is expensive and embraces seasonal design; but I bought some a while ago, meaning I can’t buy the Moleskine alternative which is somehow hard to find anyway, and…
These points resonated with me when I read this post: How to Be a Leader When the Vibes Are Off I’m personally working on what ‘leadership’ I can do from the position I have in the office, and my private life. I am small, but my voice can echo. Wear the ‘Company Hat’, especially in a public setting Acknowledge and validate privately, then safely push for change ‘This is not the time for…
Everything is easy, and simple. Sometimes these features are the ‘product’ the AI companies are trying to sell you. Some document it, some don’t. Sometimes it’s just their prompt telling the LLM to ‘think through it’, sometimes it’s more than that. This document is for Anthropic’s ‘Claude’ from 2024. The most interesting section is the answer key , but the introduction and chapters are helpful…
For a long time I’ve used the default iPhone Home Screen as my own. I like to use the defaults for products so I best understand how a company wants to showcase their user experience. However, I thought it could be simpler. So I moved to solely using the dock, and replacing Safari with the app that was most in fashion at the time. 1 Recently I started listening to audiobooks again, and suddenly…