Weeknotes

I’ll admit – I’m struggling a bit. Which is expected with the B-Day coming up. I spin into a well every year questioning everything, wondering where I’ve been and where I’m going.

Was I the navigator I hoped for?
Nope

Will I be next week?
Probably not

Am I ok with that?
Meh 🤷

Can I do anything about it?
These weeknotes, listen to good music, love my kids, keep working on Designing my Life, movembering, general fun, playing with various fediverse sites

Here’s an interesting idea
Replace Scrobbling with something connected to ActivityPub. It can ingest Scrobble and then let you do more.

I was not the captain this week. I was a deckhand being ordered about from bow to stern, trying to stay standing as the ship rocked heavily on the ocean.

I dreamt for the next dock. The sound of the waves and wind are beautiful, but after too long is tinnitus that requires a long, long silent sit on dry and solid land to get reprieve.

Maybe next week I can at least be the navigator I think to myself.

• Movember is going strong.
  • Though I’m not sure if I have enough facial heir left for 22 more days. 🙀
• Been going through Designing your life and I’m a bit stuck on the alternative lives exercise. Envisioning 5 years out is a tough one for me; always has been. When I break it down I don’t really think I even have 1 plan, let along 3.
• 🐘 Lastly… oof. Glad I live somewhere else.
  • Here in Canada, it’s hard to culturally fight what’s happening. It spills over the border.
  • Though a friend said they were kinda glad that FB turned the news spigot off for us.
  • I’m working on a theory on how it ties back to Orality. I’m leaning towards a characteristic called “Situational over abstract”. You’ll find out more later.

• It’s Movember! As a change junkie, it’s a great time for me to mix things up.
• It’s also getting close to my b-day, so I tend to review everything I do, why I do it, what I want to do, what I like to do, what I… you get it.
• Push for communicating at work
  • Started doing weeknotes on our internal sharepoint
  • Asking poignant questions like “What does it take for someone to change your mind?”
  • General poking the bear, up in everyone’s face saying “why aren’t you communicating!”
  • Fearful maybe they just aren’t communicating with me.
• Getting back to my orality work
• Spotify made the mistake of filtering my New Releases. I now only get a small, small, set of “handpicked” releases. Have they seen my varied listening habits? Mistake.
  • Hello YouTube music. What? You want to give me 2 Months free? Why ,thank you! I wasn’t sure about trying, but now I definately will.
  • And BTW, I kinda like it.

This week I’ve really been digging into all thing Giles Turnbull: Weeknotes, The Agile comms handbook.

So, per agile comms, when in doubt – weeknotes.

I’m hoping to shake off my self censorship and silence. I default to “not saying” lately and I don’t like it. So, try something new, right?

Also, I’ve been thinking a a lot about internal comms this week. Something I feel so passionately work should do something about it and fix. It’s something I’m willing to be fired for. I’ll keep going and pushing and fighting and trying. I’m going to trust that instinct.