February 10 - 16 My “weeknotes” capture events, thoughts, and other items from the past week, mostly focused on work. Learn more about the weeknotes concept here. This week in #weeknotes Photo by Markus Winkler on Pexels.com Winning the talent war. We had a surprise (but not surprising) resignation this week that suddenly opened up … Continue reading 2025 Weeknote 07 : A victory amidst defeats
February 2 - 9 My “weeknotes” capture events, thoughts, and other items from the past week, mostly focused on work. Learn more about the weeknotes concept here. The Calendar™ Back from vacation, it was another wall-to-wall week at work. The calendar had almost no daylight peeking through (until a cancellation on Friday morning, which then … Continue reading 2025 Weeknote 06 : Flood the zone
January 27 - February 2 My “weeknotes” capture events, thoughts, and other items from the past week, mostly focused on work. Learn more about the weeknotes concept here. Before we get into the weeknote proper, I just wanted to share my new post over the GX Foundry blog, focused on how a recent report from … Continue reading 2025 Weeknote 05 : A supposedly fun thing I’ll never do again
January 20 - 26 My “weeknotes” capture events, thoughts, and other items from the past week, mostly focused on work. Learn more about the weeknotes concept here. About this week's subtitle That's a snippet from Allen Ginsberg's famous poem Howl (1956) and it felt like a crystalline reflection of this week in history, with the … Continue reading 2025 Weeknote 04 : Lacklove and manless in Moloch!
Ever since the 2024 election handed Trump his numerically narrow but emotionally broad margin of victory, one of my favorite government thinkers and writers—Jennifer Pahlka, author of Recoding America—has been posting thoughts on her Substack about how this new Trump era might be an opportunity rather than a threat. Here's her latest: Thoughts for inauguration … Continue reading Can the Trump 2.0 era deliver us from ineffective government bureaucracies?
January 13 - 19 My “weeknotes” capture events, thoughts, and other items from the past week, mostly focused on work. Learn more about the weeknotes concept here. And now for something kinda different... This week, as a change of pace (but still providing a weeknote), I thought i would share a "week in the life" … Continue reading 2025 Weeknote 03 : A week in the life
