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Weeknotes 01

At the Satori Lab we encourage reflective practice and working in the open. Inevitably we are not as brilliant at doing this ourselves as we might be. Matt Jukes gave an excellent talk about working in the open at Service Design in Government and this has galvanised me, a bit.

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Weeknotes 02

Well I managed a second week. I’m using the Satori Lab reflection questions again:

What held me back?

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Weeknotes 03

Well that seems to have been quite a good week.

What held me back?

Nothing.

Actually this was a pretty good week. I felt like we knew what was important to do right now. I felt like I achieved things. We got some…

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Weeknotes 04

What surprised me?

When I look at my diary for last week I see a whole range of things in there which I thought, when I put them in would be exciting, positive moments. When it came down to it many of them turned out to be rather disappointing.

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Weeknotes 05

What did I learn?

I learned about pirates. Along with all the other listeners to the Reasons to be…

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Weeknotes 06

It was a mixed week.

What did I learn?

We (Esko Reinikainen and I) made a visit to the publishing team at the Office for National Statistics. Visiting digital webby-folk is always interesting but also slightly awkward. “Oh, I see you too have…

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Weeknotes 07

Rather rushed and truncated and late because I went offline for the weekend to celebrate my birthday

What did I learn?

I learned the difference between a rebel and a pirate.

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Weeknotes 08

I use our Reflection Questions as a basis for my weeknotes. They are available on a postcard. We’d like to send you our questions on a postcard.

What happened this week that gave me a glimpse of the future?

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Weeknotes 09

I use our reflection questions. We hand these out on a postcard at our workshops and bootcamps and we will send one to you if you ask us nicely.

What surprised me?

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Weeknotes 10

What did I learn?

Wednesday was a Cardiff day (Wednesdays are typically good days to catch me in Cardiff BTW). I had a good chat with Ena Lloyd and and Sara Woollatt from the WAO Good Practice Exchange about data, organisational culture and the Ladder of Data…