Turned my new PC on for the first time in front of my sister. She comments on the RGB lights.
'Oooh it has party mode! Oh look! And your keyboard has party mode too.'
Well... My grown up purchase very much feels less grown up now.
A single swan is holding up a 10-carriage train and absolutely refusing to move.
It won, a 20 minute delay.
And yet this afternoon here I am saying I can't change this or that. I'm just one person.
You know you can sometimes look at an image and hear a sound?
I now think it's possible to look at a Jira ticket title and ID and hear something.
Is there a word for this?
101 Reasons why I couldn't be a content designer number 76.
I ask questions like 'what's the proper, but not proper noun for that? '
'Do you mean what's it called? '
Yes i do.
Thanks, that's kind of you to say!
It's deffo and old reliable.
An A0 worksheet, hand drawn. It has four sections. Gestation, birthday, maturity and creative destruction. It also has two traps labelled on the far left and far right. The scarcity trap and the rigidity trap. Theres not yet anyone's contributions to it.
Spent the afternoon guest facilitating a liberating structures eco-cycle for another team.
It helped me practice my skills in a space that I'm not too comfortable in, and I get to hear what my peers think of the practices they use.
Lots I can take back and think about in my own work.
Win win.
If you see one thing at the cinema this week. Treat yourself and go see Secret Agent.
Nouvelle Vague is a fun film.
Here I am pitching a dummy hang up call button in video call software.
Never again will someone say 'is there anything else you want to talk about' where you confidently say 'no' only to be immediately struck by a new thought when you hang up.
We've seen why it's critical to run things safely. Often this can be traced back to decisions made over time.
This framing is helpful for teams. Adds weight to raise outside of retros.
Short post on tackling tech debt. Make it visible + modernise incrementally.
rummanamin.co.uk/tackling-tec...
If your venn diagram niche is
public benches
service design
accessibility
then I have a short blog post for you
What's with all of the missing park benches? – Rich Blake share.google/CkdeSUmPbX7T...
That feeling when NS&I send you an email on premium bonds draw day, only for you to log in and find it's just a duplicate 'secure' message copy of an email they sent you 4 days ago.
Thinking about making an illustrated picture book called 'look mum, that looks like grandad' and it's just a series of different people, animals and objects wearing a flat cap.
What can you learn about team dynamics from watching a film about football?
Quite a lot actually.
See my weeknote.
richblake.github.io/blog/weeknot...
I'm slowly trying to get into week-noting and writing more about creating great teams as well as living with arthritis.
Feel free to follow along.
Oh, and there's a backlog of ideas linked from the homepage.
richblake.github.io/blog/weeknot...
At least the worst user journey about going to the library in the sodding rain only to realise you forgot to bring the book you wanted to return is that you can just renew it and get another book.
Trying to decide how to log a cook book in story graph.
100% when you've done the flick through of the pictures and decided what you like the look of?
100% when you've read all of the prose at the start of the book?
100% when you've cooked every recipe? surely not!
I hear Mutley in this photo.
Top work! What are your top picks so far?
My service to Hertford North (on the tannoy) says Cambridge North on all of the in train signs.
I am feeling quite tired. so let's see if I end up in the right county or not.
Need to spot a Brit in Helldivers 2?
Simple!
Watch for people getting into the right hand side of the fast recon vehicle expecting to put the pedal to metal and get the hell out of danger.
Then a sad pause, followed by a 'loop of shame' where we run around to the left side. Drive on Diver!
Welcome to Jira Camp.
We're going to stand in a circle, and update each other on how we got on.
When you're done. just trust fall into the arms of the next person so they know it's their turn to talk.
I WAS RIGHT FFS!
In today's episode of Rich is an idiot. I've been playing a lot of Clair Obscur.
It has a lot of French swearing in it, which I don't know the words for 😇
Anyway I've figured out that they're not exclaiming about a Canadian dish of chips, cheese and gravy when bad things happen.
A large rusty nail points pointy bit up on a very old rickety picnic table
The pricks in my pub come with a follow up tetanus shot.
Who's taking part in 'bring your parents to work day' tomorrow.
And will it help them understand what you do?
How many of them are going to have a sleepless night thinking you're going to physically put them inside a computer?
Was feeling the high of hearing my new PC is on the way.
Then hit by the car crash low of seeing the words 'our delivery partner is DPD'.
This is a really nice post. Would love to see more writing like this everywhere I work in the GDS.
Slack is such a menace for focus.
Playing a co-op campaign of BG3 and my companion made a bad roll which angered Scratch during the meet.
And now I need to spend the next sixty hours campaign being cross at them.
Poor Scratch.