My vision for 2025
In 2025 I will focus my efforts on Bringing humanity to the workplace. The idea has been circling quietly in my mind since around 2011. Every now and then I’d hear a louder whisper yet I never felt I had the resources to begin properly. Now I do.
We spend a large amount of our lives at work. Too much time is wasted failing to recognise the humanity in ourselves, others, and the situations we experience. I know we can do better.
The idea resonates strongly with me and those I’ve raised it with. I’m slowly realising that I have been building to this for many years. Gathering experiences, collating information and building the systems I need to support me. In July I cut back to 4 days a week to create space for me to develop my ideas into something shareable with others. I knew I needed the time. It has taken until now to hear the thread of purpose.
I’m deep in Wonder about where I’ll be in 12 month’s time and what I’ll have created and shared via The Quantum Garden Website. In 100 is the magic number I committed to 100 blog posts this year. At approximately 2 per week, one will be a significant piece on Bringing humanity to the workplace.
Holiday gardening
My photo library, Mediabank, has undergone some big changes this last week. I removed the risk of uploading personal information when sharing photos to Flickr and Pixelfed. Location and event information previously stored in a photo’s metadata has been moved to IMatch categories, and only the minimal information needed for the target site is added to the jpeg version. IMatch to Socials is the second best piece of code I’ve ever written and the ease of changes this week confirms that.
I’ve also improved my Affinity Photo editing skills. I can quickly remove scan lines from images, and colour correct yellow snow to white snow.
Snow covered lake in Norway, 1988
My Digital garden has also received attention. Today I refactored my templates for better note metadata after yesterday FINALLY integrating 60+ notes previously captured in Omnivore.
Tomorrow it gets physical. The shed will get its annual clean out.