Alex WaltersWeek notes 16 — content, learning and data 📖📱👨🎓This was my first full week at Stairway. While it has been challenging to get my head around the volume of information available to me, it…Aug 9, 2020Aug 9, 2020
Alex WaltersWeek notes 15 — more interviews and a new role 🤦♂️ 🤩July was a really strange month and this is my first set of week notes as a result. With lockdown easing and the sun shining, I managed to…Aug 2, 2020Aug 2, 2020
Alex WaltersWeek notes 14 — modelling an outbreak and just enough research 🦠 🔍 (12th July)I felt much more productive this week and a handful of good interviews really helped. The courses I am doing around COVID stepped up a…Jul 12, 2020Jul 12, 2020
Alex WaltersWeek notes 13 — breaking rules and changing tack ⛵️⏎ (5th July)One of the big lessons of this week notes exercise has been seeing how correlated the weather is with work. Week before last, the sun was…Jul 6, 2020Jul 6, 2020
Alex WaltersWeek notes 12 — wicked problems and lean UX 👿 ✏️ (21st June)Next September a cohort of undergraduates will begin their university journey in the first new university to be created in a generation…Jun 22, 2020Jun 22, 2020
Alex WaltersWeek notes 11 — Black Lives Matter and computer science ✊🏿✊🏾✊🏽(15th June)The last two weeks have been hardest since lockdown began for me. The killing of George Floyd, the protests and the online dialogue the…Jun 15, 2020Jun 15, 2020
Alex WaltersWeek notes — Greek myths but not much work 🔱 ☀️This week has been the slowest and hardest since this learning journey began 9 weeks ago and I don’t feel that I have very much to say…Jun 2, 2020Jun 2, 2020
Alex WaltersWeek notes 8 — sunshine and speeches ☀️ 💬 (24th May)The last 10 days feels like my least productive period since lockdown began. I have struggled to find the same motivation that I had when…May 25, 2020May 25, 2020
Alex WaltersWeek notes 7 — horses, SQL and Jam 🐴 📈 (17th May)It felt like a strange week. I did a handful of interviews and was rebuffed on one in particular that I thought was great. It really stung…May 18, 2020May 18, 2020
Alex WaltersWeek notes 6 — business analytics and spreadsheets 💻 📊 (10th May)I started the next phase of my learning journey last week by kicking off Udacity’s Business Analytics Nanodegree. I signed up because I…May 11, 2020May 11, 2020