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February 17, 2026 ·
I've been doing more work on implementing the outputs from COOPilots’ ”AI for Ops” course....
February 8, 2026 ·
This week I've spent some more time working with OpenAI Codex to integrate it into my business'...
February 1, 2026 ·
I think - for the first time since I started making these week notes public - I'm really not in...
January 26, 2026 ·
We treat structure as a prerequisite. As though you need to know what you think before you are...
January 25, 2026 ·
In a somewhat indulgent - but also justified, I feel - manner, I only ‘worked’ for 3 days and...
January 18, 2026 ·
I was meant to have lunch with an ex-colleague on Monday, but the car wouldn’t start - flat...
January 15, 2026 ·
Some lines stick. You don't know why. This one comes from Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the...
January 11, 2026 ·
First full week back at ‘not being on holiday’. I'm already missing my afternoon naps. Quite a...
January 4, 2026 ·
It’s that time of year when you either (a) have nothing to do, or (b) have no energy to do the...
December 28, 2025 ·
Well. Christmas week. What fun. Not much to say, really. I wrote a reflective piece about High...
December 22, 2025 ·
I knew something was wrong before anyone told me. Sitting in my first one-to-one with a new...
December 21, 2025 ·
Another quiet week, client-wise. I was due to meet up with a potential new client on Wednesday,...
December 15, 2025 ·
Another quiet week, as the slow down for Christmas engulfs the world (or at least the bit that I...
December 9, 2025 ·
Christmas films all have the same shape. You know the one: Conflict rises; Family fractures;...
December 8, 2025 ·
What with it being almost Christmas, and all, work-ish activities are winding down and I’m...
November 30, 2025 ·
A quiet week, but no less busy for that. It gave me the opportunity to take stock of work, life,...
November 24, 2025 ·
I completely re-tagged all 30+ posts on The Ode Map. It was too loose and unstructured, so I...
November 16, 2025 ·
With the GovCamp Cymru event over and done with, it’s now time to do the wrapping up. That means...
November 15, 2025 ·
You open Netflix. Twenty minutes later, you're still scrolling. Nothing feels right. You close...
November 10, 2025 ·
It was a week of two halves. Mon-Thu morning was solo work; Thu afternoon - Sat was spent with...