Reading Time: 5 minutes Warning: there is a bit more venting in this post than usual. This is about how some people self-promote and show themselves to others in their social media bubble. Weeknotes everywhere If you are not familiar with the concept, you can learn more in this article: Weeknotes: what they are,… Read More »Dissonance and social media bubbles
Reading Time: 5 minutes I’m in my third role this year, which is a personal record but looking back, once again, it was the right decision for me. This post is a little retro about the year. Work Resigning Twice this year, I left a place shortly after joining because even though it looked… Read More »2023 Retrospective
Reading Time: 3 minutes I did yes! But what I do during my time off is usually not what others would consider nice or fun, like spending most of my day re-doing my professional journey as a tube map. Mondays I have not been in a office for a long time now, but still… Read More »Did you have a nice weekend?
Reading Time: 8 minutes In this post, I share about my experience as a speaker and reflections about online versus in person conferences. In part 2, I share separately highlights from the sessions I attended. In person versus online conference Before lockdown, I attended a few conferences including UX Scotland in 2019, but since… Read More »UX Scotland 2023 – part 1: Experience of it
Reading Time: 3 minutes I’m in this nice phase where I’ve left a role and haven’t started the next one yet. My old laptop is packed, waiting to be picked up by a courier and the new one will arrive this week. At this point in time, I don’t have to worry about the… Read More »In between
Reading Time: 4 minutes My weekend started Friday and we were changing the clocks. With the Twitter takeover, I started wondering if I should leave that space and this prompted a bigger reflexion about how I want to use my time and get informed. Social media, and even Internet were not a thing for… Read More »Changing the clock, getting some time back
Reading Time: 4 minutes I’ve just finished a lego set I had bought myself for Christmas: the typewriter, and today I was looking online for images of old sets I had as a kid from the 70s. This might bring back memories to others too. The typewriter It was a really good set, I’ve… Read More »Lego
Reading Time: 5 minutes I had an end of year review at work yesterday which prompted me to think back about my professional journey. 10 years ago I wasn’t in a good place. I had worked hard to build up my classes where I was teaching French to various groups. I was self-employed but… Read More »Looking back
Quite often now, when you create an account, you’re supposed to pick a question and enter your answer to it. There are many problems with this.
Communities are vital in times of crisis. This is where people found their own solutions to help each others at the start of the COVID19 pandemic, way before public services could do anything for the citizens.
We need to engage with them but we need to do it the right way.
