Weeknote 780: sampling

This week I have learned:

to do lists are sometimes the way that you can exert some sort of control when it feels like you don’t have it. They don’t need ot be a permanent fixture.
the political shenanigans this week are just more evidence for me not of strong or weak leadership, but of a system that needs root and branch reform, but yet vested interests means that is very unlikely to ever happen. The two party system gave us pre-defined coalition governments. 4, 5 or even 6 parties break that in ways that have never been assumed possible.
for £7, Ableton Note on iOS is remarkably good fun for buck. I’m also fascinated by how different user interfaces bring out different sorts of music in me.
planning for the book launch is now in full swing.
there was a model that we used in the company with whom I did management training. It was useful, but they were always a bit cagey about where it came from. A bit of poking around in Claude seems to point at Transactional Theory. Claude also pointed out that consulting firms at that time often rebadged models to try and side-step copyrighted content.
I’m fine talking to camera in the privacy of my home office. Stick me in a public place, though, and I find it much more intimidating. It would probably be easier with a film crew.
the ability for me to take an idea and then have a working prototype within an hour using Claude is really quite amazing.
the busyness on College Green used to be my barometer for how batshit politics was at any point in the UK. Went past on Thursday morning and it was weirdly empty. So much for yardsticks…
16 years now (yesterday) since my first weeknote. Seems quite odd to have kept this practice going now for nearly half of my career.
over a year now of working with someone using Internal Family Systems has been transformational. Not in a “big bang” sudden way, but slowly and incrementally. It’s important to do the work.
The MPC Sample is worth the hype.

The week in media:

Saw

Legends on Netflix. Loosely based on the true stories of how an underfunded Customs & Excise group battled the war on drugs in the early 1990s. Really quite good. I also found out that the courtroom scene was shot in the now retired magistrates court in Watford…

Read

continuing to slowly progress through Joel Morris’s Be Funny Or Die.

Listened

sometimes I have a fixation on a particular piece of music or a specific genre. At other times, I flit about like a butterfly. I’m currently in butterfly mode.

Next week: