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I wrote a couple of articles:
- "The Execution Gap in Fractional Hiring" discusses how *operational maturity* is the more likely reason a fractional hire may not work out.
(I have pre-engagement checklists, playbooks, etc., if anyone is interested.) - "Why Lyrics are Different", about my inability to write lyrics, yet I can rattle out prose and poetry with relative ease.
Interesting:
- I finally signed off an internal process automation project: 4 workflows; 3 sub-workflows. Using n8n, Airtable, Slack, Buffer and a (very little) bit of AI magic. I just let it all run and it tells me when I need to do stuff (Human in the Loop).
- Came to the realisation that I love processes. (This is more of a re-realisation, TBF.) I've been spending a lot of my 'professional' time around strategy delivery recently, and it's nice to (a) learn new tools; (b) keep my eye in, operations-wise; (c) have a bit of variety day-to-day.
- Client work continued to evolve towards a soft launch and 'going public', but some 'admin' has meant moving it back a bit.
There'll be more as and when I'm able to disclose. - My rumination on lyrics and poems (see above) led me down a rabbit hole of thinking about how lyricists operate. Which led me to David Bowie's well documented use of the William S Burroughs / Brion Gysin technique of cut-ups and random recombination. (A technique also used by Andy McCluskey[OMD], Thom Yorke [Radiohead], Genesis P-Orridge [Throbbing Gristle] and more.)
- So I build an app to do it. It's not the first; it's not the best. But it's mine. Line-arranger. (V2 will feature a better name - which I intend to 'discover' by using V1.)
- I have more ideas than I know what to do with. (I have mentioned that before.) (Probably more than once.)
My reading was elevated greatly by the arrival of "Random - The Book", written by Matt Ballentine and Nick Drage. I was lucky enough to be one of the people chosen to review a random selection of pages before it was finalised, so I'm delighted to be able to read through the many other pages that I was not lucky enough to be given.
An added bonus was the extra signed authors' page. Which arrived a couple of days after the book. Random.
This week, I watched (and abandoned):
- "Wonka". I wanted to enjoy this, but I found it really disappointing. Nice to see the Horrible Histories / Ghosts crowd being gainfully employed, but that's the only positive I can find. Gave up after 30-ish minutes.