• Last day of [[vacation]]; tomorrow I go back to work.
  • My mum leaves today. It was very nice seeing her on both ends of my travel!
  • We played [[Rummy]] and had beautiful conversations. We also played with [[Lady Burup]].
• [[done]]
  • Yesterday I paid [[bills]].
  • I pushed [[async agora]] to production, meaning anagora.org, and it's holding up quite well! I notice an improvement in speed, which I know is only partially there -- nodes load as slowly as ever on a cache miss, but the fact that the UI doesn't block on it really helps. I can start reading wikipedia or move on to a web search before the node fully loads. It just feels more responsive.

2023-11-21

• Today at work I:

  • Did the usual inbox trawls and day planning.
    • Day planning I do with org-mode, org-agenda and org-timeline.
  • Prepped for the meetings for the day.
    • Mostly with mindmaps.
  • Did some strategic planning for next year.
    • Mindmaps and freeform writing.
  • Some rote work
    • processing incoming applications for things, updating website accordingly
    • always good to think with this stuff how processes could be streamlined
  • Minor website content change.
    • Minor change, but thinking about the UX of it is always interesting.
    • And how it affects client agreements/expectations, too.
  • Planning and assigning work for my team.
    • Bit of mindmapping combined with going through Jira.
  • Reviewing new features.
    • Code and functionality. Code review is in Github.
    • Testing I tend to build the feature branch locally.
  • Meetings.
    • Sometimes I jot things down on mindmap.
    • Somethings I record things straight into knowledge base.
    • Sometimes I log things straight into org as TODOs.
    • It's a bit haphazard to he honest. Could be improved.
  • Emailing external partners.
    • Always interesting the amount of work that goes into crafting an email to get across all the nuances of your position on something.
  • Distracting myself with Slack threads not really related to what I'm doing.

• When I'm working, I don't log a lot in the journal, I noticed.

  • So experimenting with logging thoughts on work activities.
  • Not much detail on specifics, more reflections on activities and process.
  • I quite enjoy it so far. Useful to reflect.

• Listened: [[Hotel Bar Sessions: Revolutionary Mathematics]]

  • So far, discussing frequentism and Bayesianism schools of thought in probability.

• Patient privacy fears as US spy tech firm Palantir wins £330m NHS contract | …

  • Absolutely gutted by this. Despite all the campaigning by Foxglove and Just Treatment, fucking [[Palantir]] still awarded the contract with the NHS.
  • Makes me sick. This is not the kind of organisation our health service should be in partnership with.