TTSS: a notebook on life.

At the end of January, I mentioned that I could see Spring on its way. Fast-forward to now and there are lots of crocuses popping up in my local park. I can’t tell you how much I love seeing this. My dog, also on the walks, couldn’t care less. Presenting a content audit at our…

Every week, I try to stick to writing my Weeknotes in 30 mins. I went through a phase of taking quite a bit of time on them, and then one week writing them took forevvvvver. My boss sent me Giles Turnbull’s Doing Weeknotes and it inspired me to limit how long I spend on Weeknotes.…

It’s been a sweet week. I’ve not had a whole heap of on my plate, which is a welcome change. Although I’m the one that plans my work and decides how much to do each sprint, I do have a habit of overloading myself. This sprint was different. Good different. This, then, should make for…

It’s been a week of workshops. Preparing them, facilitating them, and participating in them. They’ve been both productive and enjoyable. Finalising and facilitating tone of voice training. I’ve been putting this together over the last week or so. We ran the session yesterday and we ended on a quiz, which folks seemed to enjoy. I’ve…

I saw someone describe how long this month has felt as the “Four years of January.” I robbed this depiction at speed and have sinced used it several times. This week? Paaaaacked. I’m glad it’s Friyay, pay day, and time to wave a happy goodbye to the first month of the year. And, Spring… I…

Friday, woo! (I must get more creative with my openers for these Weeknotes). Let’s get straight into some of the stuff I’ve wrangled over the last 5 days. Reviewing content. Making the language simpler and less robotic e.g. switching “override” to “replace”. Enjoying seeing others succeed. How good is this?! It’s a huge high when…

We can always do more. We can. But, should we? This though have been top of mind this week. The universe (not that I believe in this as such) has been telling me to take on less. I’m pretty sure Lauren Pope’s 2024 Button talk was on a similar vibe – doing less, but doing…

The first week back at work is complete. It’s been nice to get stuck into things again. Here are a few of the things that have kept me busy… Aligning terminology between products. This has involved something of a messy, complicated audit. It’s been messy as it’s meant I’ve had to log in to two…

Woo, Christmas is almost here. It’s been noticeably quieter on Slack (I’m loving it) so I’ve had decent focus time this week. Here are some of the things I’ve crossed off my to-dos. Tying up loose ends. With a designer to make sure we’ve wrapped up certain projects. Also, adding copy testing results to our…

Last week I had Friday off so I skipped my Weeknotes. Sue me. I’d say this week has been busy but it’s more that it’s been productive. As the days pass, I sometimes wonder if I’m getting through enough. Writing a weekly update for leadership gives me the answer. I’ve got through a tonne over…

I’ve had such a great week this week. It’s been packed. It’s also been full of really rich things like collaborating with my team in person, eating well, and walking more. I’ve also been sleeping well. After being sick a couple of weeks ago, I prioritised rest – for a whole week. I’ve also been…

I had a couple of days holiday last week, which meant no Weeknotes. I’m back this week so let’s get straight into it. Doing a lot of auditing. I’m making auditing more of a daily thing to break down what can feel an unsurmountable task into slow, yet steady progress. I mentioned a while back…

This week has been quite similar to last week – lots of content auditing. Lots of great collaboration too. Spending time with SMEs. Resulting really fruitful, not to mention enjoyable collaboration on terminology and voice stuff. Pair writing content with a designer. I’m 100% pro pairing – we smashed through creating the content for a…

I’ve had a narrow-ish focus this week which I’ve enjoyed. It’s meant I could get into deep focus mode. Started to analyse results of a confidence score survey. I sent this out at the beginning of the week and a few responses are in. It’s so interesting to see how folks are getting on with…

I swear the weeks are melting into one. Someone at the gym said, “There’s only 95 days left of the year.” I told him to stop it. And with that, I’m going to stop referencing on my Weeknotes how time is evaporating and how the weather is all over the shop. I’ve done my quintessentially…

So much has happened this week, including working from two countries and three different places. Here’s a pinch of my progress… Puzzling through upgrade content. I mentioned this last week – i’m still working on it. I’m struggling to get info on what product B adds to product A and how that’s of value to…