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Weeknote #37 (12 - 18 January 2026)

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I was meant to have lunch with an ex-colleague on Monday, but the car wouldn’t start - flat battery, so I spent most of the afternoon waiting for the guy to come and replace it. Rescheduled lunch for same time the following week.

I had managed to get ahead of myself on the writing front, so didn’t spend much time writing; more looking ahead and planning future articles, collating ideas that I’d scattered in various places and ‘taking stock’.

I managed to put in just under an hour on book 2 (~350 words). Not as much as I need, but better than nothing.

On the work front, I started a review of my services and have decided that I need to re-think the whole information architecture to make it easier for people to see what it is that I do. A work in progress..

I also put together a couple of new views & automations in AirTable to support a new n8n workflow that I desperately need to complete (to save me 1hr/week, and - more importantly - the hassle).

Watched:

  • The Diplomat series 3
  • Agatha Christie’s Seven Dials. I thought it was good. Just the right mix of humour and chutzpa.
  • Masters Snooker (whenever I got the opportunity). Semi-finals were nail-biting and final was great.

Listening highlights include:

  • Cerys Hafana - “The Bitter” EP
  • Tchotchke - “Tchotchke” Album
  • Boris Blank - “Electrified” Album
  • evilgiane - “Giane 2” Album
  • Julianna Barwick & Mary Lattimore - “Tragic Magic” Album
  • Attrition - “The Hand That Feeds” Album