Mondays - 21 Oct 2019

First entry in a work journal experiment...

It’s Monday, which means that I’m looking over what I managed to get done last week and what I didn’t – and scoring myself against the goals I’d set at the beginning of last week. Not a great week as these things go, the system I’m using gives me a percentage based on the number of tasks I completed, out of the number of tasks I set for myself during the week. Last week (week 3 of this system) was a measly 59%, compared to 67% the previous week, and an amazing 92% in week one.

After scoring I have a brief think about what went wrong. Mostly it was the 101 move debacle and the fact that it ate up a huge chunk of my time last week.

Planning for this week has two major shifts from expectations in week 0:

- I need to give myself at least an hour each day to deal with email, and

- I need to set time aside every day to deal with the move.

Aside from the above, (plus a homeowner nightmare (flooding) that gobbled up time today and tonight), notable stuff from today (or really from the weekend) was

- Oona being setup to give Michael a quick demo,

- OPS engagement with Kenzie, and

- a conversation with Jason of TrekMedics about his program’s status and the possibility of us using Beacon as a Responder stand-in.

(Which also made me think we should consider offering our tools as a “grant” that org’s could apply for: we could demonstrate our contribution as “$25,000 worth of consultation, tools, hardware” etc and require matching contributions from org’s or something similar...)

Presentation to Opioid Surveillance Task Group at 10am tomorrow. [link]

Action points that came out of stuff today:

1- replace all instances of Coop rules with the collated, updated version Mary sent last week, [link]

2- replace coop application with the version I have updated with minor language changes and cleanup, [link]

3- upload today’s invoices (Flic, Github, Passacaglia) to Sharefile for accountants,

4- need to setup a leaving do/treat/something for 312 Main before we actually leave...