3 days ago#SDinGov 2023Hurried train thoughts on a few days of conferencing — I am sat on an LNER hurtling through the British countryside. The train has now deemed it appropriate to grant me a teaspoon of wifi, a mostly insufficient dribble which I hope will facilitate the publishment of this blog post. This post also acts as a tiptoe back into #weeknotes…Sdingov7 min readSdingov7 min read
Sep 11Hello, I’ve missed you.Back in May I took some time out. I was ill and burned out, I thought I would take a month off blogging, I ended up taking 4 months and now I’m tiptoeing back, it’s September now — how did that happen? Why am I here? On Friday I headed to One Team Gov…4 min read4 min read
May 25Burn-doubtWorking through it — I remember having a cold when I joined the conference SDinGov last September. …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 things that I have found particularly difficult over the…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
