Simon Wilson

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Weeknote for 20 May to 2 June 2024

At the end of every week I reflect on the previous seven days and look forwards. These are thoughts on work, work adjacent stuff, a little bit of life which I am willing to share (in case maybe it helps someone else out there), any culture notes, running/fitness, home

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Weeknote for 13 May to 19 May 2024

At the end of every week I reflect on the previous seven days and look forwards. These are thoughts on work, work adjacent stuff, a little bit of life which I am willing to share (in case maybe it helps someone else out there), any culture notes, running/fitness, home

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Weeknote for 6 May to 12 May 2024

Work Even coming out of a three day weekend I spent the week with a massive underlying sense of tiredness. Being up most of Saturday night lingered over the week and played havoc with my ability to concentrate. It was my ADHD at its worst, when my structure went to

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Weeknote for 22 April to 5 May 2024

Two weeks, one note. That's weeks and note. Work The user base of the product I work on at HMPPS widened so it is now available for probation staff out of hours as well as in hours. A blog post another time for how you design a service

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Weeknote for 15 to 21 April 2024

New blog. Moving away from ermlikeyeah stuff. Will move posts from ermlikeyeah.com over to here over the coming weeks. Time to get back to some good, healthy reflective practice/habits. Work notes At the moment I am mainly a product manager (PM) working for Create/Change on a service

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Run note, 3 September 2023

2023: goals and how it’s going It’s Sunday 3 September 2023, about two-thirds of the way through 2023. Time to take stock of how the year is going. I started out with a target to run 1400km in 2023. To meet that I need to run an average

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2023 run notes, week 2

Look back on week commencing Monday 9 January 2023 TL;DR: Planning for a steady week was working well, then scuppered by weekend IBS attack. Runs Goal: 40km   Total distance ran: 24.6km (15.4km off goal)   Number of runs: 4 Longest run: 10.08km / 53mins 46secs, Monday 9 January

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2023 run notes, week 1

Week commencing Monday 2 January Runs: 5 Total distance: 32.86km Average distance over the days of the week (total distance / 7 days): 4.69km Average distance over the week’s sessions (total distance / number of runs): 6.57km Average pace over the week’s runs: 5m 28s per KM

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2023 running: week 1, planning

With lots going on in life and training for a marathon and trying to get my fat down it takes _a little_ planning — and being mindful things don’t always go to plan (work can be very reactive which can wobble my lunch run plans). Around March last year I

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Run note for 2022

(With a bit of walking too.) Didn’t do a run note for 2021 but let’s go again. In short Start of the year aimed for 1,600km. A slow start, things picked up for a steady few months then hit by Covid and heel aggro in July and

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Run note for July 2021

By the end of June I had run 71km and was looking forward to the coming weekend, despite being laden with a problem with the Achilles’ tendon in my right leg. I’d had a few days rest and hoped that would help me get going again. It didn’t

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Run note for May and June 2021

In my previous run note, two months back on 1 May, I was looking forward to building my running back up again after a long time out with a stress fracture. How have I got on since? May started with some gradual progression building back up, a nice steady day

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Weeknote, Monday 14 to Friday 18 June 2021

I'm just looking through my references for the week of work. My notebook shows two spreads at least for each day of the week. 16 spreads for the week in total, full of lists, notes, scribbles, sketches. But the board we use for work has just one thing

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Weeknote, Monday 7 to Friday 11 June 2021

The development of the service map prototype trundles along: Some fixes; Pulling through some new types of data the team has put into our database; A little tidying up some messy code and files to make it easier to update latest info in the future. I want to get this

Grimsby Town

Weeknote, Sunday 9 May 2021

Grimsby Town And so the season is over for Grimsby Town. Competition-wise it was over a couple of weeks back with the 2-3 defeat to Exeter, meaning the maths said Town couldn’t stay in the fourth division, relegation confirmed. The last two games have been devoid of competition meaning

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Weeknote, Saturday 1 May 2021

I was in the Rec this morning and all the dandelions are out in FULL FORCE. One of the best times of the year. Also means all the knot- and bind-weed will be out on the veg patch. One of the worst times of the year. Last weekend I made

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Run note for April 2021

My last run note was published back at the start of December 2020, five months ago. Towards the end of that note I wrote: >I’ve got my six week check with the physio at the end of this week. My hope then was I’d get the all

MHCLG

2021 note number 2 — week commencing 8 February 2021

After last week’s weeknote, Katy shared the note on Twitter: > I think this is the first that anyone's said publicly about some really cool cool work we're doing trying to answer the big question: what is MHCLG for, and how can we do it

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Cycles

I am not doing much running at the moment. I am “recovering” from a stress fracture on my right tibia, which my doctor believes is just from doing a lot of running. My doctor and physio want to help me to get back to running regularly. As part of that

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2021 note number 1 — week commencing 1 February 2021

Despite it being a guiding principle for work I’ve not been very _working in the open_ the last couple of months. I’ve more been: 1. Focusing on the full time contract I have been on since early December. 2. Trying to preserve evenings and weekends for _not work_

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Run note for November 2020

In the middle of October I was told to lay off running, to lay off just about anything strenuous on my right leg for six weeks. The detail is in October’s run note. So November has been a waiting game, an observation game, a little trial game. In November

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Weeknote, Monday 23 to Friday 27 November 2020

Project stuff Project MT was steady away this week then had some reprioritisation. Which is fine, but not so straightforward if that needs some of your time and you’ve only two days a week planned/budgeted for the project and you’ve used them by that point aaarrggghhh. I

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My guiding principles for working

Late in the afternoon on 17 June 2013 I opened up a Google Doc and started typing. I can relay this precise date because that's when the document was created. The version history tells me I did a couple of versions that afternoon. The date allows me to

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Weeknote, Monday 16 to Friday 20 November 2020

Projects I spent the most time on Project MT (I think a few people know I am working with/for Pilot Works, Placecube and Kit at the Royal Borough of Greenwich council), doing service design work for two days overall. We ended the week having a chat about a couple

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How I plan my day

Here’s a method I have used for the last 15 years to help me get on with my working day. I do this out of habit at the start of the working day. I have had roles in the past where things can change overnight so I found too