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By Tom Watson —

Weeknote 60

Back from a break, back to school, backing off from things, paying attention.

Weeknote 60
A german beer, on a british paddleboard, on an austria lake, in the sun,

Forgive me reader, it has been 50 days since my last weeknote. As some of you will know, I generally take the summer off, and head off to the hills in a campervan and unplug. And this is what I did. In many, many ways, I'm lucky to be able to do this. But it's also intentional and I often have to turn down work for it, cram other work into evenings though the year, and other such things. Lucky yes, but not without risk or consequence. But there is life outside work, and this summer I began to remember this.

So anyway, I did have a lovely time. Austria and Germany, places I love. The forests and the mountains and the lakes and the rivers. Here's some photos if you like that kind of thing. Yes there was cake.

Oh and before I took off, I played my one and only gig for the year at Dinky Dub Fest

This is life outside of work.

But, I do also enjoy my work and well, have need to it at times! So it's back to properly this week. I spent the back half of last week preparing myself, thinking about what I want to do, and how I want to do it, and where to put my attention.

I felt spread too thin the last few months. Most of that was of my own doing, working on things freely without pay is nice sometimes, and it's something I do intentionally. But I want it to have meaning. And so some things have to go.

One of the things I've decided not to spend time on is trying to make any difference in the grant funding world. I wrote The Grant Application Is Dead. What Comes Next? back in march and did some work on a follow up more practical work through in this https://good-ship.co.uk/open-org/. But over the summer I came to realise what I already knew really, that people are paid to care about this stuff, and do something about it, and they do not want or care for ideas such as these.

What I am actually paying attention to or doing

Interesting things

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