Weeknotes, Friday 18 October

It’s been an interesting if somewhat frazzling week. Going to see comedian Kiri Pritchard-McLean this evening so looking forward to that. Here’s what’s been top of mind this week:

Disco discombobulation

Working on a discovery that’s off to a confusing start. The subject area is politically sensitive and under a lot of pressure. It felt clear-ish at first what our objectives were, but several spanners have been thrown into the works.

There’s a strong sense that we don’t want to repeat any research that’s already been done, but it’s unclear where things were left and what happened to that research.

Hopefully by the end of next week things will be clearer and we can crack on.

Social care is tough to unpack

Who knew?
Conversations continued this week on what to do in the short and long term when it comes to Adult Social Care content. There are literal years of previous work on this that haven’t been actioned yet for complex reasons.

For now I’m making small changes while bigger decisions are made.

Digi-fun

Watched some great talks from the Digital Leaders conference, including this banger on inclusive language: Disability, language and inclusive design with Jack Garfinkel

Distractions

Listening

Mainly this 5 hour set from Floating Points: Floating Points (5 Hour Set) | Boiler Room: New York — YouTube

Watching

Lonely Planet on Netflix (rubbish but an easy watch)

A man called Otto on Netflix (loved it, absolute tear-jerker)