Weeknote 25
Illness got me this week. Still managed a bit. Principles of Organisational Resilience, mushrooms and interesting things.
It wasn't supposed to be this way. I'd come into the week recharged and full of ideas, intention. I was going to run a lot, I was going to make progress on work. Instead I got a horrendous sore throat that put paid to most of my good intentions. It happens. Be careful out there folks.
This will be a short one!
Prior to getting ill I went on a lovely walk to the forest with the family. I made a joke about clinging onto summer when everyone wants to talk about Christmas (which I stand by). I do actually enjoy aspects of different seasons and the forest allows me to watch this unfold. This week was mushroom season!
Photos of all types of mushroom growing in the forest. Red ones, brown ones, big ones
What I did
- Managed a little bit of work on prototyping a portal for SOS and the Race report. That and our thoughts on reshaping the data structure seems to be well received.
- Shared our refreshed Principles of Organisational Resilience and accompanying questions for feedback. The feedback has been really helpful. Some of it has reinforced that this is useful, some of it has really helped focus on the language and the nuance. I'd love it if you took a look and provided feedback.
- Some updates on The List - adding bits that you don't know you need until it's really been used. Wild to see it approaching 700 subscribers in less than two weeks.
- A reminder that I'm running a Vibe coding meetup in Newcastle next week - feel free to come along if that's of interest (or if you fancy doing one near you!)
Interesting things
- The Certainty Conundrum - "All grantmakers need to be humble, willing to consider they might be wrong and others might be right. In hard-to-measure fields the best picture of what is going on mostly emerges in slivers and nuggets and brief flashes of insight that emerge from conversations with people working at the coalface" 👏
- Grantmaking in the Age of AI - "AI is not a silver bullet. While powerful, AI cannot fix systemic inequities in funding" indeed
- No innovation until everything works
- Urban Taxonomy
- Are We Valuing [Open] Data All Wrong?
- What if NGOs (or charities) wrote your ads - a humorous post but honestly the amount of vague stuff I see with buzz words rather than just real plain language is real
- Design As Repair
- The missing bar, why we need X-shaped people in a digital world
- The Data Innovation Toolkit
