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Weeknotes s3e1
Week commencing 28th December 2020.
A new year and a welcome week of fewer meetings, time to think and digest, join some dots and come up with some experiments for the next few weeks.
Life
- Recovered from Christmas madness with two very excited toddlers 🎄
- Tried to mostly avoid the news because
- Set out my #Gymshark66 pledge to move every day for 30mins+ for 66 days, stick to my weeknotes consistently and be more present. Read more about #Gymshark66
- Started Year Compass for the fifth year in a row, it’s a fair few pages to work through but I’ve found it really useful each year
Work
- Going over rcruitment pipelines and applicants for some engineering roles - take a look at our current vacancies at Gymshark 👩💻
- Reviewed some great posts from Lead Dev on designing equitable hiring processes 🎉
- Mapped out some of the communication paths and relationships between the Tech teams in preparation 🔗
- Had a great session with some of our team getting to know more about our architecture and existing services 👁️
Down time
- Finished Team Topologies and made a lot of notes 📕
- Finally started watching The Mandolorian on Disney+ 🪐
- Caught up on my current podcast subscriptions from 2020 🎙️
- Stuck to my ‘move every day’ pledge thanks to Peloton 🚴♂️ (referral code:
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Data (from January 1st 2021)
- 01/01/2021: 40 minute run // 4.5 miles
- 02/01/2021: 4 hour walk // 13 miles
- 03/01/2021: 30 minute bike // 10.4 miles // Peloton