There has been an awful lot going on. Or at least it feels that way.
At work I’m redefining my role to move away from the drudgery of certain types of project work to more engaging conversations with my clients where we can create something instead of just going through the corporate motions.
I spent too much time over the past week and a half learning about Retrieval Augmented Generation and how I can apply it privately to my own notes. Not to create content, but to assist me in finding hidden patterns across my public and private writing.
I’m reading Le Cunff (2025), Tiny Experiments by Anne-Laure Le Cunff and am trying a new note-taking method. There has always been a friction between taking notes, matching them to a source and sharing them online. I want to keep certain articles I read for reference, yet it’s inappropriate for me to reshare that article. Sharing my notes is fine. Until now notes and sources have been in the same document. I’m now running with “Source” and “Source (notes)”.
My memory of Project Hail Mary the book wasn’t great. I remember listening to the audiobook and enjoying it, but time has ranked it behind The Martian. Today, after seeing the movie in the cinema with my daughter has reset that. It’s an uplifting and humorous story about working together for the benefit of all. Something the world needs. My other reading is a return to Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell. Book and tv-show in the past, now the audiobook. I will recommend to you During the Dance by Mark Lawrence as a sweet very short story.1