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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....
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...