back to work
back to work after 2 weeks off! hope everyone enjoyed the break from my relentless posting.
do I now
A: read emails, get up to date on work, think of a topic, come back and post something useful and work-related
B: start writing a thing now with no real direction but a brain that's not swirling with work for once
lets do B
first off I left my notebooks at home so that's annoying as half my thoughts are in there. i had been whirling around on the improving collaboration stuff (as per half baked ideas) and on using ML / LLMs for something more strategic (as per brain dump after Town Hall 2030)
but I haven't got there yet 😵
I think the stumbling block is going to be that anything you want to do with a computer needs good data to run on and we don't have that
either our data is a muddle or the information we need literally doesn't exist in a digital form
so maybe I need to put more time into pondering on that
and I think I need to think more about problems not just cool stuff
for example, today
- I have a load of junk in my emails and a load of emails in my junk
- I have to manually look through them all and will probably still miss some #standard
- someone asks me what server something is on as if anyone knows the names of all the boxes off the top of their head
- there is so much stuff to remember. we write as much as we can down but its still all over the place. and you still have to manually click on stuff to see it
- I have a meeting
- I cant remember what we are talking about so I have to look it up in various notes and emails
- someone asks me another question while I was looking up the things
- more things to remember and look up. in this case, most of the information we need is in the computer but its either split up between different people's files and systems, or its split across systems in a way that only individuals can understand and manually dig out
- someone asks me a question on teams but they end up at the back of the queue because the real-life people are harder to ignore, sorry
but also - would I work better and quicker if I didn't have to do all that stuff?
- like, if I gained 30% time, would it all be spent on productive work? should it be? should it be spend on more of my job as it exists now or should it be something new?
- do I really want to sit in silence while the computer bring up answers for me, or do I quite like wandering over there to ask so-and-so a question?
for example, yesterday
I used the google to set a timer to not forget about the pasta. that means
- look at packet, see what time the funny alphabet pasta needs
- ask mrs google to set a timer for that amount of minutes
- she does it if she feels like listening to me
so here I am, manually reading and transferring the data
imagine if
- mrs google knew what I was cooking and just sorted out the timer for me
- problem is that it probably involves seeing everything I am doing, which is creepy 🧛♀️
useful things I have experienced
that make me realise we do actually live in the future when you really think about it
- if I arrive somewhere and just take off my seatbelt the car automatically puts the handbrake on and puts itself into park. it also tells me off for what I just did 😅 but, it has the ability to automatically do the thing that I probably want to do myself, so it just does it for me
- if I take the pans off the hob but leave it switched on it turns itself off. again, it has the ability to automatically do the thing that I probably want to do myself, so it does...
ok time to work now