Ben Werdmuller (werd.io)Sometimes we all need a robot cheerleader.
I’ve been using Copilot a bit recently as I’m writing about really complex topics that I don’t know too well. I can compare its writing with mine and if we have a glaring disagreement, I know to bring it to the experts. It helps. I really like this « robot cheerleader » view!
One weeknote is just one week’s worth of effort, summarised. Useful! But an archive of dozens or hundreds of weeknotes, stretching back through time – months, perhaps years – is a fabulous repository of thoughts, ideas and decisions. It’s a time machine that helps the team themselves, or their bosses or stakeholders, look back over recent history to work out why and how things are as they are. Much, much more useful!
I’ve been doing weeknotes at work for over 5 years now and they really help me − in good times, I can brag. In worse times, I can look at my weekly recap and realize that it’s not empty, that my work still has values even on bad weeks. It has always helped. (It’s especially…
Dune: Part Two: Movie from 2024 with Timothée Chalamet, Zendaya, Rebecca Ferguson
While I absolutely suffered through part 1, I felt bad not finishing the suffering. I at least wanted the payoff of knowing how this ends. (My issue with the first was solely the horrible pacing, with every single scene being seconds longer than it should be. I went to the toilet in the middle of the…
The other thing is that I’ve had this draft for ages and procrastinated on this topic. Luckily, today, I stumbled across this post from Raed explaining their reasonings for deleting their account. I thought, « Yeah, see, I had the same idea but procrastinated on it! ». Not anymore!!
I have reasons similar to Raed’s, but here are some of the thoughts that have been lurking in my head.
(and I, too, have stopped using it − not deleted yet, though.)
Brad Enslen