- New office, new cycle route for the first half of the week. This always
throws out the routine for a little bit, but you get used to it soon enough,
- With this project I’m trying out a new tactic: pairing by default. I’m
starting from a position of not being confident in the technologies we’re
using, so that’s helping me. Plus I’m trying to solve a problem I regularly
have, which is to fall deeply into a specific problem at the expense of the
overall goal. I’m hoping by instead asking, “shall we pair on this?” we ask
“why shouldn’t we be pairing on this?”,
- This week I really enjoyed Cadence by William Van Hecke, who
previously worked on OmniFocus. It fits well into what I’ve been starting
to do recently: focusing on building habits (something I see
come up more often), thinking about the long-scale things I want to do
and reviewing it regularly. But also: keeping loads of notes (mostly with
Notion, some on paper), using the crappiest notebook I could get myself
to like and staying no to things that don’t fit in the bigger plan,
- Related to that, this week I planned out three bikepacking trips and a
weekend to brew some beer (something which without planning is impossible to
make happen), but also decided to not do another handful of things. It’s a
weird feeling.
- Tortoise did a good series on Trees; about planting, to capture CO2 and the
science behind it. I’d recommend starting with Plant a Trillion
Trees.
- And related to that, this week I started (and then finished!) reading
Getting Started in Your Own Wood. Owning a wood is one of those ideas
that comes back to me every so often, did so again recently, and this time I
decided to go a bit deeper into working out what that might be like. Still
much, much more to look into.