Weeknotes 19 June, 2026

This week felt sticky. That’s allowed.

Some weeks you ship things. Some weeks you think about what’s worth shipping, and why, and whether you’re going about it the right way. This was the second kind.

A lot of this week sat in the space between doing and deciding. I’ve been doing more agentic engineering and learning as I go. I’m not alone in finding it non-linear. It’s been reassuring to hear others say the same.

A friend put it well: zoom out. What feels like four steps back on a Tuesday looks different by Friday. They were right. By the end of the week, I could see the movement, even if I couldn’t feel it in the middle of it.

Some of that movement was strategic rather than executional – updating my goals, documenting key results, making the thinking visible in a way that gives the next few months some shape. That kind of work doesn’t produce anything you can point at immediately. But without it, the doing doesn’t hold together. I’m trying to get better at recognising strategy as progress, not as a warm-up to the real work.

There was also a lot of exploration without resolution. Prototyping potential accessibility improvements, asking whether this is the right approach, and sitting with the uncertainty of not yet knowing. No final decision this week. That used to feel more uncomfortable than it does now. The exploration is the work. The decision will follow.

I’ve been chipping away at a help article review – a task I’d already decided needed human eyes, not AI ones. That call still feels right. There’s a version of me that wants to block out two or three days and get it done in one go. The more sensible version knows that spreading it across sprints is more sustainable, even if the urge to close the tab permanently is strong.

Slow weeks are part of it. I’m glad I zoomed out.

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WINS

• Finishing the week knowing you’re moving forward, even if it felt slow.
• Goals updated in the HR portal with clear key results and progress tracking – strategy in place.
• Accessibility prototyping underway; exploration is progressing, even without a decision.
• Deliberate, reasoned call to keep help article review human – and the self-awareness to know why.

Opportunities

• Articulating the value of “strategy weeks” more clearly to myself (and possibly others) – so they feel less like lost time in the moment.
• Finding a way to mark exploratory work as progress in real time, not just in retrospect. The accessibility prototyping this week felt unresolved, but it was progress. A way to recognise that in the moment, not just on reflection, could be to log exploration as a task type in my tracker, or to note a “question answered” at the end of a session, even if no decision was made.
• The user research work is early, but progressing. I’ve identified users to speak to and am thinking about what to share with them. The opportunity is to move this from thinking to doing – for example, booking a first call, or scoping one piece of content to test so it’s ready to go.