Weak Notes Ep. 1

I've been meaning to write things down weekly for a while now, but the thing that always stopped me was the fact that the previous version of this site was tired and needed a whole lot of work to get back up to date and lovely. What always started as writing a few words down ended up with feeling rubbish about letting a website stagnate again.

So this time I just left all the customisation behind and fired up a self hosted Ghost blog, with a theme written by someone talented, and now I can get back to just writing if I want to.

What I'd like to do is pop a few words down each week about what's going on in my world, and see how it goes.

So what's happened this week?

At Rightly (oh yea, I have a normal job now...) we launched the first of our LegalTech journeys and it was great to see something go public that we have been working hard on for a few months.

I spent some time making my development environment look a whole lot more stereotypical for a software developer

I worked out, doing something other than running, which feels like a big deal. I love doing cardio stuff, but it's been getting harder and harder work over the years and I've been making the same excuses so many of us do. Maybe I can get back into the habit again.

I spent a lot of time this week thinking about how it's possible for such a huge percentage of people in a country the other side of a sea can have such different views to what feels logical. That continued to thoughts about how quickly our own country will allow itself to fall in the same way. It's scary stuff. In 2016 I mused about the fact my daughter would never grow up in a world where Donal Trump hadn't been president – it's insane to me that it's happening again. Trying super hard not to think about it more than is healthy.

What I've been listening to

Not a whole lot, but right now I'm listening to a playlist that I spied was being played at Chalk in Brighton a while ago when I went to see Death From Above 1979