Wuthering Heights. Shrove Tuesday. And a bit of superfluous stress at work. Overall, a well-balanced week.
Work
Time in meetings: 19hrs
- New brief user journey mapping and persona profiling: Spent a lot of this week getting my hands dirty, building out our response to a brief we've had for a new subdomain for our animal welfare centre. Included personna development, user journey mapping, and sitemap development.
- Planning: Planning for future sprints as part of the long range plan. Balancing and negotiating projects across summer, where we appear to have a real crux for demand.
- Strategic Comms Planning: A day planning session with the comms group. Presented our total search strategy, with a desire to push forward some of the recommendations around cross-team working groups, LLM authority, and reddit offense.
- HR bits: Still in the weeds of writing paper after paper for HR and contracts. Processes really need to change.
- Friday on AL.
Read đ
Work
- Art of War - Sun Tzu. Recommended by my boss, some solid transferable leadership advice around discipline, confidence and attacking when weak.
- https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/two-years-building-generative-ai-government-what-ive-learned-dennen-pywhe?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_ios&utm_campaign=share_via
- https://www.nngroup.com/articles/state-of-ux-2026/
- https://glazkov.com/2011/01/14/what-the-heck-is-shadow-dom/
Fun
- Flesh, David Szalay ââââ. Read within 2 days, a bit of a page turner.
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Focus
- History of the Falklands War
- Shop Talk - Lit-HTML and more
- Magnesium supplements
- The standard EMQs + Rest is Politics + Foreign Desk for my weekly politics
Music
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Missing Spotify API Credentials in .env
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Watch
- Wuthering Heights
- Industry (eps 4-5)
- The Naked Gun (2025)
Other
- Wuthering Heights on Tuesday at the cinema - phenomenal.
- Shuffleboard on Thursday.
- Race across London bar crawl on Saturday.
- Tapas restaurant on Friday called Condesa.