{"id":10684,"date":"2024-01-22T22:18:52","date_gmt":"2024-01-22T22:18:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/andrewdoran.uk\/blog\/?p=10684"},"modified":"2024-01-22T22:18:52","modified_gmt":"2024-01-22T22:18:52","slug":"weeknotes-256-28","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/andrewdoran.uk\/blog\/2024\/01\/22\/weeknotes-256-28\/","title":{"rendered":"Weeknotes #256 \u2014 2^8"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A \u2018flying by the seat of my pants\u2019 kind of week. There\u2019s so much going on. Work needed to be regularly prioritised so that we didn\u2019t miss the next deadline or scheduled event. At points it felt almost overwhelming. But I\u2019ve been loving it. It\u2019s been a very long time since we\u2019ve had such important hard external deadlines to meet. They act as a forcing function, making it easier to separate the most important or urgent things from everything else. Out of necessity, my delegation instinct has also come to the fore. It feels very good to decisively hand things over to colleagues who probably should have had the work on their plate long ago; hopefully it feels the same for them.<\/p>\n

Next week we have the three Johannesburg-based colleagues from our management team joining us for an offsite. We\u2019ve been preparing for weeks, so I have my fingers crossed that Storm Isha<\/a> doesn\u2019t disrupt our plans.<\/p>\n

I had to spend some time at the weekend catching up with work in order to release some of the pressure next week.<\/p>\n

Hitting weeknote #2<\/a>^8 feels like a beautifully geeky milestone. Sometimes it has felt like work, but overall it\u2019s been fun.<\/p>\n

This was a week in which I:<\/p>\n