Week notes
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2026
Goal: Find a better balance.
2025
Goal: Establish, improve (or stop) habits which achieve goals (or not).
- Week 49The Pensions Regulator, Working group, Guidance
- Week 43The Pensions Regulator, Working group members, 1-2-1 engagement
- Week 42The Pensions Regulator, Pensions UK Conference, Excellent merch
- Week 41The Pensions Regulator, The Brighton Office, Walk in the park
- Week 40we have a date!
- Week 39new project 🥳
- Week 15On the up, Moving movement, Art
- Week 13Job search
- Week 9UK Gov Camp grants, One Team Gov reboot, Midlands job search
- Week 22025 goals habits, Reflections on 2024, UKGovCamp’s next week!
2024
Goal: Come to terms with and fix my imposter syndrome (assuming that's the issue).
- Week 46New client(s), Juggling stuff, ADHD meds
- Week 45Deliver Con 2024.2, Ignorance as a superpower, Something has to give
- Week 43New client, ukgc25 team, TCC Happy Hour
- Week 42OggCamp 2024, Ration Club, ukgc25
- Week 29The PIE network launch, community standards, job interviews
- Week 28meetups, meetups, meetups
- Week 20funemployed week 3, 2 unconference blog posts, apathy / skin problems
- Week 19funemployed week 2, more busy than ever(ish), new co-working space
- Week 1The week in a paragraph, Imposter syndrome, Health
2023
2022
- Week 39Working week, What I've learnt this week
- Week 34Civil service stuff, Cross-government community stuff, Chat with a fellow One Team Gov member about some interesting work he's doing, Hub team delivery manager
- Week 16Vacation week 2, so no week notes.
- Week 15Vacation week 1, so no week notes.
- Week 14?
- Week 13Blood tests.
- Week 12Work.
- Week 11Went for a long walk. Caught up with Arfah and Imran on our potential community work / business. Did some…
- Week 10Started the week be catching up with Arfah and Imran on our potential community work / business.
- Week 9Started the week be catching up with Arfah and Imran on our potential community work / business. We've…
- Week 8This week's been much better than last week, which is great. My health's getting back to normal, including…
- Week 7It's been a shit week. For the third time in the last few months, my skin's gone bad, it's dried up, and a…
- Week 6On Monday, I used j.mp/typing-now to set goals for the week.
- Week 5The start of the week was dominated by pain. I endured the worst bout of food poisoning I've experienced…
- Week 4Well, things haven't quite gone to plan over the last few weeks. But that's okay, plans change. Expect change.
- Week 3This week was dominated by the amazing community event that is UKGovCamp (-:
- Week 2It was my first week back at work after a lovely, long, quiet break. Was slightly complicated by the fact…
- Week 1Routine, Habits, Goals
2021
- Week 41I'm sitting at home on Sunday evening after a lovely, relaxing bath. Perusing Twitter I see Sam Villis…
- Week 38So, I'm registered to study Y032 People, work and society Access module. Week 1 of the course starts on…
- Week 11Where to start? New job!
- Week 10Accepted new job, Started transfer process, Started year 1 statistics
- Week 9Offered new job, Home kanban, Study decoration
- Week 8Nothing to see here. Move along. Move along.
- Week 7This is a shorter week note than usual as I'm on annual leave for 9 days starting Saturday.
- Week 6Well. What can I tell you?
- Week 5Neatly folded t-shirts are a sign of my anxiety.
- Week 4Service manual
- Week 3I went to Croatia to help out at an Open Data event a few years ago. Whilst there I was introduced to the…
- Week 2I need to start with a sincere appology to everyone I've upset over the last week. Turns out that losing…
- Week 1I’m your host James, let’s play!
About week notes
The world wide web (or web for short) is a good place for you to keep a log of you're activities. It's lets people see who you are, what you do and why you're doing it. If you're so inclined, you also invite comments on what you share.
What you post to your web log (or blog for short) is entirely up to you. The things you post on your blog (a.k.a. blog posts) can take any format you like. A popular one is to post a note of what happened in your week. These week notes have many styles, some of which you can see on Sam Villis's blog post on Week note styles.
My week notes journey
I want to stabilise my on / off relationship with week notes. I range from blogging every weekday to going months without a single post. Rather than setting another new year's resolution, I've made it my intention to publish a week note every week.
I was a member of the weeknot.es community which is hosted on Medium.com (a popular blogging platform). I sometimes see other members posts popup in my Twitter feed. I draw inspiration and encouragement from this community to help me blog better.
Me week noting in Brighton, October 2025.