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June 28, 2026 ·
Interesting: A call with Matt on Monday, which gave me a much-needed kick start to the week. We...
June 21, 2026 ·
I wrote a couple of articles: "The Execution Gap in Fractional Hiring" discusses how ...
June 14, 2026 ·
A busy week with a trip to Coventry on Saturday. A call from a cousin mid-week lead to a trip...
June 7, 2026 ·
Sometimes my cautionary style stops me getting on with things. A colleague and I stepped up on a...
June 1, 2026 ·
The week seemed to end before it started. Not sure where the time went. Not a great deal of note;...
May 25, 2026 ·
A long-standing friend is in hospital for tests on his heart. It's made me think about my own...
May 17, 2026 ·
Another short week - I was away in Brighton on Thursday and Friday for a wedding - so not much to...
May 10, 2026 ·
With a bank holiday at the beginning of the week, and a long birthday weekend at the end of the...
May 3, 2026 ·
Whilst I was looking through my creative writing notes on my reMarkable, looking for something to...
April 26, 2026 ·
It was a weird week. Something was amiss but I couldn't put my finger on it. Whatever it was, it...
April 19, 2026 ·
I made some progress getting the data management foundations into Notion for a client. They're a...
April 12, 2026 ·
This darn cold is not showing much evidence of passing. The Easter weekend was a washout, but at...
April 6, 2026 ·
Very short (and slightly late) week note this time around, because I was unwell for most of the...
March 29, 2026 ·
I had a face-to-face with a client founder on Monday. And I started building out their Notion and...
March 22, 2026 ·
In contrast to last weekend's 3-day, 500+ mile road trip around the south of England and Wales,...
March 13, 2026 ·
Writing these notes a couple of days' early this week. I usually write my week notes on Mondays...
March 8, 2026 ·
Another week that seems to have finished before it started. I'm sitting here at my computer and...
March 1, 2026 ·
Some weeks go by in the blink of an eye; others seem to drag on for a month. This week has been...
February 22, 2026 ·
I signed a client NDA on Wednesday - it’s always great to take on a new client and this one is...
February 17, 2026 ·
I've been doing more work on implementing the outputs from COOPilots’ ”AI for Ops” course....