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Tag: weeknotes

  • myWeek (s4e12)

    Burned or burnt man This was quite a week one way or another. To start with dear readers, some advice. Do not try to read Slack on your phone while also carrying a large pan of recently boiled pasta water — this can lead to accidents and a badly burned/burnt/scalded foot. Ouch. There has been some limping this…

  • myWeek (s4e11)

    This is a .44 Magnum, the most powerful handgun in the world It was my birthday Monday. At my advanced age this is no longer particularly an occasion for celebration — just the acknowledgement of another year survived. That said I traditionally do not work on my birthday — I’ve pretty much always booked the day off since I started working…

  • myWeek (s4e10)

    10 things I learned in 10 weeks Here is a special edition of #weeknotes to mark my first 10 weeks at mySociety. [01] Things aren’t that different I was pretty nervous about taking this job — excited — but nervous. I have almost exclusively been a public servant one way or another throughout my career and while mySociety is undoubtably…

  • myWeek (s4e09)

    The Venice of the North As I have mentioned before mySociety is a remote working organisation. There are a couple of small clusters of people in Oxford and Bristol who tend to work together but for the most part we are pretty scattered. This has a whole bunch of benefits but also presents a few challenges — especially…

  • myWeek (s4e08)

    Hatton Garden Heist My head is killing me and I have just had an ill-advised beer ahead of official knocking off time as, like the Verve once sang, the drugs don’t work so gods knows how this is going to turn out. I am keen to try and keep tomorrow (Saturday) free of any screens not…