What am I doing now?
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Lately I’m…
May 2026
- Working with a government department to build bespoke contacts & events tools
- Helping the Government Digital Service to enable widespread AI adoption across the public sector
- Living in North London with my wife and teenage son
- Learning more about ADHD, Autism, and Aspgergers
- Reading A Time of Gifts by Patrick Leigh Fermor
- Participating in various live coding events in London
- Sometimes playing the piano
- Taking long walks with my son (recently Seven Sisters, Windsor Great Park, Tring Circular)
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Previous updates
March 2026
- Working with a government department to build a bespoke tool to improve UK diplomacy globally
- Helping the Government Digital Service’s AI Enablers team to publish AI guidance and grow a community of AI practitioners within the public service
- Living in North London with my wife and teenage son
- Reading the A Time of Gifts by Patrick Leigh Fermor and Free Play by Stephen Nachmanovitch
- Participating in lots of live coding events around London
- Still occasionally playing the piano
December 2025
- Helping two different departments in the UK Government to:
- Build a bespoke tool to improve UK diplomacy globally
- Publish updated AI guidance
- Training and coaching smaller OKR clients like B Lab UK
- Living in North London with my wife and teenage son
- Reading the Annual Banquet of the Gravediggers’ Guild and other books
- Live Coding via pastagang
- Occasionally playing the piano
- Writing about my 2025 thus far
21 Jan 2025
- Back at the “new” GDS as a Portfolio Lead designing and implementing a reporting and governance system to help teams deliver the new Digital Centre for Government
- Continuing to train and coach OKR clients
- Meditating almost every day
- Letting the winter be the winter and not expecting it to be anything else
- Avoiding the news from America
- Living in North London with my wife and son
- Trying to read more books
- Occasionally making creative stuff
- Playing the piano
21 Nov 2024
- Helping the CDDO and a few other clients to get more from OKRs
- Trying to slow down, do less, consume less, & own less
- Meditating – I just hit a 100 day streak
- Living in North London with my wife and son
- Enjoying the woods near my house as often as possible
- Not really writing week notes anymore
- Trying to do good work with interesting clients
- Occasionally blogging and publishing videos
- Avoiding LinkedIn and social media in general
- Working through various books
- Seldom making music 😢
3 July 2024
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