Week commencing Monday, 30 September 2024
Quantified Self
- This week: Stand 7/7; Exercise 7/7 and Move 7/7. (100%). Morning walks: 2/4 (days in the office don’t count). Office days 1/5. Total steps: 70,420
Life
- 33 years.
- Previously, 12, 13, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32.
- I attended a “lunch and learn” about Kanban. Far too much discussion of WIP. I shouldn’t have joined. See last week’s note. My fault I wasted an hour, not the host’s problem.
- For information-based jobs, the working-at-home genie isn’t going back in the bottle. There may well be a temporary rebound as desperate executives try, and some employees do prefer it. I see it in leaders around me who can’t articulate the benefits outside of wavey-hand “better together”. The story of the woman who went back and died, unnoticed, at her desk is an awful indictment of the “collaboration” excuse.
- 23 September was the fiftieth birthday of Ceefax (and UK Teletext). I’m surprised I didn’t read more about it, which is why I did not comment on it last week. But, if you have the time, join the campaign to find old teletext broadcasts and archive them.
- From comments to that article, I don’t recall Radio Rentals selling mobile phones. £43. Bargain.
- In 1882, the world’s first coal-fired power station was fired up in the UK. On 30th September 2024, 142 years later, our last coal plant shut down.
- British Seniors is a life insurance company. They advertise on TV, a lot. I don’t feel senior. It drives me mad.
- Thursday, Coriolanus at The National Theatre is superb, but as with all Shakespeare, it takes me a while to get into the flow of the language. The stage text helped.
- Dinner with friends on Friday, and also on Saturday, was lovely. The service at the Holborn Dining Room was fantastic.
- Sunday included a visit to the Isle of Wight festival exhibition at the O2 and another fabulous Cozy Cows presents: this week it was the Bee Gees
Media
- I wouldn’t want to work in press for D&D restaurants; this double page feature in the new London Standard wasn’t glowing: Has this legend of the restaurant scene lost its cool?