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Weeknote 35

Another week, another note. Getting stuff done, structuring workshops for information output, llmstxt.socal write up, sharing garden of ideas, meeting several people, LOTS of interesting links.

Weeknote 35
A mock of example output from llmstxt.social

What a year this month has been…

Yes January is complete, the first end of level boss toppled. I don’t actually like wishing away time, you spend the first part of your life wishing things would speed up, and then the rest wishing it would slow down. But January did feel long. I’ve been out and about a fair bit this month, and as I sit and write this I’m on a 5 hour journey to Great Yarmouth to kick the week off with two days of Organisational Resilience. 

What I did (Getting stuff done and meeting people…)

  • Spent time this week just getting stuff done that I’ve slightly been putting off/or not had the time because I’ve been here and there. Lots of writing stuff up, workshop outputs, finalising slides and documents. I think I’m very good at this when I actually get into it (but it takes me time to get into it) Partly this is about thinking very clearly about how to structure workshops and conversations with the end goal of clear information as an output (i have a blog maybe coming about this)
  • Caught up with Nathan. It’s been a while since we last spoke, but we have similar outlooks on social tech and I really like lots of the things that ProMo Cymru do. 
  • Caught up Jesse who has previously coached me, and despite my crap communication in organising, is up for doing it again. 
  • Caught up with Bobi (who I worked with on Powering Up) who is now at Poteris, also met Peyman. 
  • Had a debrief following previous weeks OR sessions. 
  • Met up with Doug on Friday at One Strawberry as we worked on some ideas for collaboration and ate some banging pulled shitake.

Writing

I wrote up and shared a couple of things this week. First was a very simple facilitation tool I wrote about in last weeks weeknote - The Garden of Ideas. I shared the actual docs and then did a write up. It seemed to go down well. 

garden-of-ideas
1 Garden of Ideas Cultivating ideas together through seasons of growth, care, and pruning
Google Docs

On the other end of the spectrum I also wrote up a blog getting under the cover of LLMStxt.social a tool I built which does the below (crawl, extract, enrich, analyse, generate).

Again this seemed to go down well, although to a very different crowd! I think people appreciated the actual practicality of it, technical enough to really explain it, without putting less technical people off. Information explained simply, that was my goal and I seemed to hit the mark. 

Started to think about updating my about me and work page. Got as far as “heart in the mountains, head in making complicated ideas simple”. I think that sums me up, but not very useful as a tag line for work ;)

Interesting things