Continuing a great start to 2026, through a full-on work week, along with ticking off a quick new year resolution off in our 3rd week: a sub-20 minute 5km PB (19.34). Lots of quality time with both family and friends as well.

Work

Time spent in meetings: 16.6hrs

  • Workshop design and facilitation for our new rehoming service: Working with our service design team, pulled together a symphony of great insights and background to our ‘as-is’ rehoming service. Subsequently led and facilitated a kick-off workshop on Thursday, mapping out user journeys for our critical four personas. Solution design to start next week!
  • Building a single briefing process prototype for the directorate: Clear direction from new leadership is agile needs to be organisationally rolled-out. As a result, working with our transformation team, I spent Friday building out a single briefing process for my digital teams as well as respective comms teams, to be presented next week.
  • 2026 objective setting: following last weeks positive end-of-year review, pulled together my individual objectives for this year, influenced by the wider DX strategy I developed the end of last year. Focus is on content design (particularly for LLMs), a lot more user-centric design, and of course to win some more awards.


Read 📚

Work

Fun

Lonesome Dove - Larry McMurty. Finished the 900-page masterpiece this week.

Listen 🎧

Focus

Music

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Play 🕹️

Sports

🏆 Very happy with hitting my NY res of a sub 20 min 5km at the Battersea Park run, gratefully paced by my mate.

  • Run - 9.7km
  • Workout - 3hr22mins

Watch

  • ★★★☆☆ Zooptopia
  • ★★☆☆☆ Sinners

Other

  • Meal with mates at Hawksmore - unbelievable steak, would recommend
  • Meal with family for grandma's birthday in Bourne End - Oak Spade
  • Had a nostalgic night in Friday playing MW3 via a LAN party
  • Drinks on Thursday after work