May 25Burn-doubtWorking through it — I remember having a cold when I joined the conference SDinGov last September. From that point, through November I seemed to constantly have a cold of some form or other, and at some point in October I also had a very weak but very real extra line on a covid…Burnout5 min readBurnout5 min read
Published inWeb of Weeknotes·Mar 26Weeknotes S15 Ep 8Last in series — I feel like I had a week of two sides, the beginning part felt ok but by Friday I was in a terrible mood, instead of launching straight into that I’ll just try and take a measure of the week. I joined the associate directors catch up with our CEO…Weeknotes11 min readWeeknotes11 min read
Published inWeb of Weeknotes·Mar 19Weeknotes S15 Ep7This must be what football feels like for other people — I fully intended to go into the office on Monday.But (in what is unlikely to be a surprise to anyone who actually reads this) I felt awful. Over the weekend I had been so tired that I slept on my parent in-laws sofa on Saturday afternoon, amongst the conversation, my…Weeknotes4 min readWeeknotes4 min read
Published inWeb of Weeknotes·Mar 11Weeknotes S15 Ep6Oops — I went to a gig last week and then had a relatively busy weekend and didn’t find time to weeknote. Before I’d realised I was catapulted into this week with little time to stop. I’m tired. I’m craving a day to myself. The kind of day to mooch around town…Weeknotes3 min readWeeknotes3 min read
Published inWeb of Weeknotes·Feb 25Weeknotes S15 Ep5February hiatus — This weeknote covers 6th to 24th February. Wait. February is almost over? So I guess this is an inadvertent threeknote which is kinda interesting because life comes at you fast and a lot appears to have happened in this duration of time on the planet. I definitely feel the difference…Weeknotes3 min readWeeknotes3 min read
Published inWeb of Weeknotes·Feb 5Weeknotes S15 Ep4Generalist musings — So I went into this week with some trepidation, hangover from last week’s feeling of being a little lost and desperate and wondering how I could communicate that in a meeting I had coming up on Tuesday. Generally I’m feeling like for various reasons (bidding in October and November, resourcing…Weeknotes5 min readWeeknotes5 min read
Published inWeb of Weeknotes·Jan 30Weeknotes S15 Ep 3Downnotes. — Well Friday came and went, and the weekend came and went and so these weeknotes are very late. Last week was hard, and ended with a retro which for various reasons was also quite hard. It made me reflect on some…Weeknotes4 min readWeeknotes4 min read
Published inWeb of Weeknotes·Jan 22Weeknotes Ep15 S2Word of the year / Work / GovCamp — Word of the year I’ve been thinking a lot about creating a word for the year, but nothing has particularly stuck, but I was reading Cate’s weeknote this morning and it inspired me to have another think, and I think I’ve finally settled on ‘outside’. One a basic level that comes from a need…Weeknotes7 min readWeeknotes7 min read
Published inWeb of Weeknotes·Jan 15Weeknotes S15 Ep1To 13th January ’23 — Happy New Year! — Last year I maintained a three weekly weeknote cadence across the whole year. I’m pleased I did that because it sort of kept my hand in, but it also didn’t feel as satisfying, and I found that the distance between writing wasn’t enough to do the active reflection I…Weeknotes5 min readWeeknotes5 min read
Jan 8Are we in the business of opening doors (and keeping them open)?And is that a problem? — I’ve been doing a lot of thinking recently about the nature of work and some team dynamics. I’m going to try and outline that thinking here in the hopes that it might be useful for others, and also that it helps me to work through how we might address it. Working in complex systems …Ways Of Working7 min readWays Of Working7 min read
