Weeknote 26/2024
I’m writing this weeknote a day late, mainly because I’m knackered. Last week, I gave you bullet points; I’m afraid this week I’ll be doing the same.
So, this (last) week, I’ve been:
- Working on MIT DCC stuff. Laura was away, so it was reasonably quiet on the work front.
- Meeting with Steve Brewis about the Viable System Model (VSM) which I then wrote up here.
- Chatting with Ian Ames, who I’ve followed since my wife worked with him at NHS Digital, but who I’d never spoken with directly. What a nice guy.
- Interviewing for two (quite different) roles, with one of these then progressing to doing a two hour test.
- Having an exploratory chat with Jobs For the Future (JFF) about some work potential work for WAO with the International Rescue Committee (IRC) as part of Walmart-funded work into skills-based hiring.
- Applying for a couple of jobs.
- Accompanying my son at two open days at Loughborough University and Lancaster University, respectively. Loughborough was seriously impressive, and he’s keen to study Geography with Sports Science there. He thinks he’d like to go to a campus-based university, but we’re still going to visit Sheffield University next week, where my wife and I met, and I studied Philosophy.
- Taking my daughter to various football trials.
- Experimenting with three (paid-for) workshops for WAO to help people and organisations get ‘unstuck’. Details here.
- Watching England scrape through in the EUROs in an extremely unconvincing way against Slovakia.
Next week is going to be interesting. There’s the results of the elections in France, and then the UK General Election (in which I’ve already voted by post). We should find out about the JFF/IRC work this week, and then I should hear about the two jobs I’m currently being interviewed for next week. Our collaborator, Anne, starts a new job mid-month, and so it’s potentially all change…
Image taken by me at Loughborough University on Friday
