At work, things were a bit quieter this month as it was school holidays and there were a few people away. As a team, we took this opportunity to go to Sri Lankan restaurant Mr Hoppers for lunch. This is something we had been planning for since the start of the year. One interesting development, we started the move to Culture Amp to support goals and development, although apparently we all have the same goals which I still do not get. I also had my first experience of another team actively using AI front and centre to collaboratively complete a task. Although I have used it in passing, this was the first time I had seen how a team starts with AI. I am sure it is not the first time this happened, but in an open planned office it was the first time that it has a part of the open conversation.
As it was the holidays, we managed to cram a lot in without actually going away. There was time spent at grandmas, cooking, bowling, going out for dinner at Okami, gathering together for Easter, TV (Bump), trying things from Too Good To Go, and country driving to Daylesford, which was in the midst of a wasp plague (we were unaware when we planned it).
Personally, I went and saw the Damian Cowell’s latest iteration with Tony Martin, Arseless Chaps, at The Howler. Learnt a new acronym, FOSAGAWI. He was also supported by Twinkle Digitz.
Here is a list of books that I read this month:
- Listen: On Music, Sound and Us by Michel Faber – A meditation on what it is we talk about when we talk about listening to music.
- White Teeth by Zadie Smith – A novel that explores the messy realities of multiculturalism, the enduring power of friendship, and the search for identity in a rapidly evolving world.
- Juice by Tim Winton – A dystopian cli-fi novel set in a stark, climate-ravaged future Australia.
- Faster than a Cannonball : 1995 and All That by Dylan Jones – An exploration of 1995 in Britain, all that it involved, what led up to it and the subsequent legacy.
- TISM’s Machiavelli and the Four Seasons by Tyler Jenke – An exploration of each of the tracks on TISM’s Machiavelli And The Four Seasons, as well as an introduction to the band’s legacy.
No new music this month, but decided that the 90s was actually a long time ago, so have started creating a playlist of 90s song that I remember. It is interesting watching Spotify try and make sense of all this with regards to the algorithm.
With regards to my writing, I wrote the following:
- REVIEW: Juice (Tim Winton)
- REVIEW: Listen – On Music, Sound & Us (Michel Faber)
- REVIEW: This Much Is True (Miriam Margolyes)
I also created a /Colophon page too, which like the /Now page displays the latest Colophon tagged page.