events Product Tank Leeds — November 2025 notes Notes taken from Product Tank Leeds, Wednesday 19 November 2025. Contents * Talk 1 notes: Mark Palfreeman — Rejecting a culture of experimentation * Talk 2 notes: Jennifer Riordan — Building your backlog: leveraging user research * Talk 3 notes: John Steward — Sustainable AI for the design and delivery of greener products * Patterns and themes
month note Bi-monthly note — July and August 2025 Lyf Had a wedding, got married to my foxy bestie. We kept it small. We did a Google Doc to help people coming along, you might want to borrow from too (you might not). We’ve combined our surnames so I am now Simon Morgan-Wilson. I’ll start the aggro
Grimsby Town FC Won 20, drew 8, lost 18 On Saturday 3 May 2025, Grimsby Town played their last league game of the 2024-25 season, against AFC Wimbledon. A win for Grimsby and they would have made the end of season playoffs at the expense of their opponents that day. But they didn’t, they lost 1-0. As the
weeknote Week note — week commencing 19 May 2025 15 minutes tops to look back on the previous seven days, which I tend to do most weeks. Sharing in case it’s useful to someone somewhere out there, somehow… How does it feel after that? Tired. Why? A lot of early starts, long days. A few nights of interrupted
weeknote Week note — week commencing 12 May 2025 15 minutes tops to look back on the previous seven days, which I tend to do most weeks. Sharing in case it’s useful to someone somewhere out there, somehow… What did I enjoy? Being able to walk normally on Wednesday after the marathon the Sunday before, “jog able”. About
weeknote Week note — weeks commencing 28 April and 5 May 2025 15 minutes tops to look back on the previous seven-to-fourteen days, which I tend to do most weeks. Sharing in case it’s useful to someone somewhere out there, somehow… What did I enjoy? The front garden is finished. Deck down for a bench, beds in for fruit and veg,
weeknote Week note — week commencing 21 April 2025 15 minutes tops to look back on the previous seven days, which I tend to do most weeks. Trying to get back to sharing these publicly (with some mindful edits/cut outs). Maybe something in here helps someone else. 🤷🏻♂️ Work-y (not explicitly about the work I am doing, maybe just
weeknote Week note — weeks commencing 7 April and 14 April 2025 15 minutes tops to look back on the previous seven fourteen days, which I tend to do most weeks. Trying to get back to sharing these publicly (with some mindful edits/cut outs). Maybe something in here helps someone else. 🤷🏻♂️ Work Nothing publicly about work at the moment. There’s
weeknote Week note — week commencing 31 March 2025 A 15 minutes tops look back on the previous seven days, which I tend to do most weeks. Trying to get back to sharing these publicly (with some mindful edits/cut outs). Work Week 4 of (current gig product manager-ing on) an alpha at NHS England. Need to tie it
2025 running Run note — 2025 #6 — let’s just say it’s for March 2025 March summary * 31 days. * 17 days running. 14 days off. (2 days off more than the last 31 day month, January.) * Total of 108.23 km ran. (Over the 100 km target for each month this year.) * Average of 6.37 km per run. (Pretty much same as last month.
2025 running Run note — 2025 #5 — Monday 3 February to Sunday 2 March 2025 It’s been a month since the last note. So this is a month note. Links below in the post are to the activity pages on Strava. February * 28 days. * 17 days running. 11 days off. * Total of 108.1 km ran. (Over the 100 km target.) * Average of 6.
2025 running Run note — 2025 #4 — Monday 27 January to Sunday 2 February 7 days. 5 runs, Thursday and Saturday off. Total of 33.4 km ran. Average of 6.68 km per run. Daily average of 4.77 km. January is over. Running total for January: 109.3 km (over distance target). Daily average of 3.52 km per day. Total for
2025 running Run note — 2025 #3 — Monday 20 January to Sunday 26 January 7 days. 4 runs. Total of 26.2 km ran. Average of 6.55 km per run. Daily average of 3.74 km. Total for January so far: 85.8 km KM left to hit target for the month: 14.2 km (5 days left, need 2.84 km per
2025 running Run note — 2025 #2 — Monday 13 January to Sunday 19 January Just the 7 days to cover in this note. Busy busy busy week with a lot on my mind. 7 days. 6 runs. Total of 33.5 km ran. Average of 5.6 km per run. Daily average of 4.8 km. Steady going. For the month so far that’
run note Run note — 2025 #1 — Wednesday 1 January to Sunday 12 January A bit of a week + a full week = enough for a run note. 12 days. 5 runs. 26.1 km (average of 5.22 km per run). After hitting 1000 km for 2024 with a day to spare I had new year’s eve off. Started the year with a
run note A note about running in 2024 Numbers Distance ran by month January 57 km (10th) February 24.7 km (11th) March 62.2 km (9th) April 80.4 km (7th) May 83.1 km (6th) June 93.66 km (4th) July 7.7 km (12th) August 86.1 km (5th) September 168.8 km (1st) October
NHS England Weeknote for Monday 30th September to Friday 4th October 2024 I am currently working for NHS England in the prevention services programme. I write a note at the end of every working week to help me reflect and take stock. Another one of those weeks where the team is making connections and each others' understanding gets closer. We had
NHS England Weeknote for Monday 23rd September to Friday 27th September 2024 I am currently working for NHS England in the prevention services programme. I write a note at the end of every working week to help me reflect and take stock. Started the week (and "sprint 0") with a smattering of one on ones with the team. I hope
run note Run note — for week Monday 25 August to Sunday 1 September 2024 End of week reflections on my running and general health, but mainly my running. Last week I planned: * Monday: Try a run and see if I can go as far as 6km. * If that goes OK, for the rest of the week chip away at another 30km (5 x 6km,
run note Run note — for week Monday 19 August to Sunday 24 August 2024 End of week reflections on my running and general health, but mainly my running. Last week I planned: * 5 runs on 5 days, 25km (stretch: 6 runs on 6 days, 30km) * 1 climbing session * 1 bike session * Daily stretches and heel raises * 3km+ walks on 5 days I only managed
workshops The road junction Here is an exercise I've been using with teams over the last 8 years, called The Road Junction. I show teams an overhead image of a road junction. I present some problems with the current layout and then brief teams to work out what they could do to
run note Run note — for week Monday 12 August to Sunday 18 August 2024 End of week reflections on my running and general health, but mainly my running. Question I entered the week with: Can I keep running at the same level I did last week? (That was 4 laps of Roberts Park, trying to maintain a pace of 6:00 minutes per km,
Good enough It’s just over five months since Kristin and I moved into this house, in early March this year. We got the keys on 27 October 2023, six months after our offer was accepted. Back in March 2023 we had had the obligatory initial snoop as we looked around for
weeknote Run note — for week Monday 5 August to Sunday 11 August 2024 End of week reflections on my running and general health, but mainly my running. Question I entered the week with: Can the Achilles tendon in my right leg handle exercise that isn’t just stretches and walking? It was a week for testing. I’ve read many times before with
run note Run note — start of August 2024 July: * After falling down the stairs I was nursing a back injury from the start of the month until the middle of the month * From the middle of the month tightness and soreness in my right Achilles tendon So, it wasn’t a very running month, tracking just 7.7km
