Dog Tired
What I’ve been doing…
- Mostly, imitating a zombie. A mixture of child and dog related sleepless night shenanigans saw me flying on fumes for much of this week. Apart from Thursday night in which I got glorious NINE HOURS of solid undisturbed sleep after which I felt like my battery had been recharged by 200% and my brain was functioning like that dude from Limitless.
- I’ve been pondering whether there’s any scope for GOV.UK’s Notify service in Social Housing having seen this tweet about its rollout to the NHS. We currently use a mixture of different notification platforms for different bits of services. That’s mostly determined by the system vendor and who they’ve chose to integrate with. That means managing different pots of SMS credits (on different rates) and having limited control of the content and frequency of the notifications themselves. Feels like an area that’s ripe for a bit of simplification and standardisation. Thanks to the wonder of Twitter, Jyoti Basuita very helpfully put me in touch with Egle Uzkuraiyte to have a bit of a chat about this. Watch this space.
- Our Chief Exec asked for some suggestions on further improving openness and transparency. I’ve always felt our workplace is reasonably high trust and values autonomy. The spots in which we need to improve are really in trying to better coordinate when you’ve got lots of people who are all trying to make things better. I don’t think this is specific to us. If you look at other organisations who have tried to embrace a less hierarchical approach, there’s always a balancing act of enabling people to fix things they know to be wrong and having structure to keep the collective aligned. This is the sort of work I’ll gladly keep grinding away at because I think it’s really important!!
I’ve been reading…
- Workplace rituals and organisational culture.
https://medium.com/experiments-in-working-out-loud/workplace-rituals-and-organisational-culture-1b68c80dee68
by Paul Taylor. - Braindump #3: The future of housing management.
https://medium.com/@cheryltracy/braindump-3-the-future-of-housing-management-cc955f5a616d
by Cheryl Tracy. - Your likes, hearts and flattering comments are bad for my brain.
https://medium.com/@dhh/your-likes-hearts-and-flattering-comments-are-bad-for-my-brain-80b5243280c4 - Failing well is the key to success.
https://medium.com/the-mission/failing-well-is-the-key-to-success-842d3bd21ff0 - Exiting the dark ages of capitalism.
https://m.signalvnoise.com/exiting-the-dark-ages-of-capitalism-480f0600f103 - What happened last week? Jan 8th — Jan 14th 2018
https://medium.com/@notnowcato/what-happened-last-week-jan-8th-14th-2018-9d49d28f7ba4
by Louise Cato. - Week 15 and a little bit.
https://medium.com/@dave.floyd/week-15-and-a-little-bit-cc950016e012
by Dave Floyd. - Who are you? The change starts at home.
https://medium.com/@adclarkie/who-are-you-61f8f04df700
by Adam Clark. - Y18W02 #weeknotes: fake email, sprint planning and reusable cup.
https://medium.com/@jaCattell/y18w02-weeknotes-fake-email-sprint-planning-and-reusable-cup-4e2fc71d2adb
by James Arthur Cattell. - Weeknotes #10 — This snowflake ain’t for melting.
https://medium.com/@katie_attwood/weeknotes-10-this-snowflake-aint-melting-9b78d3dcec48
by Katie Attwood. - New job, Basic Income.. my first week.
https://concretedog.blogspot.co.uk/2018/01/new-job-basic-income-my-first-week.html - Superheros don’t work 90-hour weeks.
www.bbc.com/news/business-42705291 - No one likes a meeting. Can we fix this?
https://medium.com/@e9to5/this-blog-was-jointly-written-with-louisa-thomson-8d18fa76e73d - Working with Citizens Advice and its amazing data.
https://gds.blog.gov.uk/2018/01/10/working-with-citizens-advice-and-its-amazing-data/ - Authentication and the alternative to portals.
https://blog.wearefuturegov.com/authentication-and-the-alternative-to-portals-4493fabf98e2 - Officials in Helsinki have developed an interactive board game to encourage city staff to think creatively about how they can improve their dialogue with citizens.
https://www.centreforpublicimpact.org/making-engagement-meaningful-helsinki/ - Walking in Tenant’s Shoes
https://medium.com/the-satori-lab/walking-in-tenants-shoes-76d33df2e8f5 - 4 powerful ways to use rapid prototyping to drive product success.
https://www.producttalk.org/2018/01/rapid-prototyping/
I’ve been listening to…
- Eat Sleep Work Repeat: The new work manifesto.
http://pca.st/hpAs - Wired Podcast: Nuclear warning, Carillion collapse.
http://pca.st/y25J - Wired Upvote: 18 predictions for 2018.
http://pca.st/9TSd - Reasons to be cheerful: Ep 17 — Economics 101. Time for a reformation in economic thinking.
http://pca.st/TZ9C