A relatively peaceful week, my legs unfortunately exhausted throughout. The half marathon PB took it out of me early this week, followed by a 30km run on Saturday. Work now relatively stable again, now looking ahead to the rest of 2026.
Work
Time spent in meetings: 20.4hr
- A few presentations: Took some time to socialise what my team has been doing over the last few months, including an overview of our content design approach, and our total search strategy.
- Some lookaheads: spent some time in with some of leadership, discussing and planning future opportunities.
- Long range planning: Spent some time mapping out the rest of 2026 following our updated business plan, and sat down with the team to run through and amend it.
- Messing around with Figma/ Claude MCP: Lots of excitement around the figma MCP, tested it using an upcoming tool I’ve designed.
- Wrapping up before holiday: Wednesday and Friday was spent primarily concluding open admin before shooting off on the slopes next week.
Read 📚
Work
- https://uxdesign.cc/the-craft-of-the-instruction-f0da34c445cb
- https://nurxmedov.medium.com/70-of-design-skills-will-be-obsolete-by-2030-heres-what-will-survive-5cac5ed2b53e
- https://uxdesign.cc/the-last-interface-6f488a54fc4e
- https://uxdesign.cc/product-ethics-have-never-mattered-more-9529887d975d
- https://uxdesign.cc/designing-for-accessibility-is-not-that-hard-c04cc4779d94
- https://uxdesign.cc/ui-cheat-sheet-dropdown-field-a30025c0f432
- https://searchengineland.com/claude-code-seo-work-470668
- https://www.searchenginejournal.com/googles-liz-reid-says-llms-unlock-audio-and-video-indexing/569009/
- https://clairehughez.com/writing/women-working-in-digital-teams/
Listen 🎧
Focus
- Is Blair undermining Starmer on Iran
- Programming in the AI age
- The standard EMQs + Rest is Politics + Foreign Desk for my weekly politics
Music
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Play 🕹️
Watch
- Pearl Harbour
- Into the Manosphere (Louis Theroux)
Other
- Dinner with some mates on Wednesday at the Bethnal bad boy pizza restaurant
- Sunday spent at a mate in Stafford before flight out on the Monday
- Some drinks after work on Thursday