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@ art assoiants
2023-07-12 03:12:11Water navigating complexity | Logging accomplishments | All-product survey | Mountains | Ice water
Career
Practices
Logging Accomplishments
Started a new practice of logging daily accomplishments. Learned about it here.
The idea is to build an internal proof of work. Accomplishments, successes, and victories get lost as we push past the daily slog.
I write my accomplishments separately for each portfolio/ project. That way i can quickly skim through at the end of the week to write up a weekly log of successes.
Template for Work
Created a lightweight daily work template in Logseq that i really enjoy: https://cdn.nostr.build/p/4a84.png
Government of Alberta’s DDD (Digital Design & Delivery)
Beginning to find a groove. I’m part of a newly forming team called Design HQ.
The vision for Design HQ has boundaries - there is a collective will for its creation. At the same time, the definite idea of how the vision looks is yet to be cocreated. And it will likely continue to be shaped and refined for the next while.
Table stakes for Design HQ are to support design practitioners: UXers and service designers. It’s a wildly challenging and exciting task to build resources, tools, and supports for and with these practitioners… using service design approaches. It’s as meta as you can get.
There are many brilliant humans across the DDD. Navigating this space reminds me of the importance of staying cognitively flexible. Building in complexity is like being like water - as Bruce Lee put it.
https://cdn.nostr.build/p/80Zg.png Link here
I’m still continuing to do spaced repetition to internalize the org’s mental models, practices, and philosophies.
Chaincode
User Feedback
Created a tiny but efficient all-product survey. https://cdn.nostr.build/p/lMdP.png
The design goal was to use one data collection tool across several products. This decreases overhead, especially while products move from alpha-beta-live.
Insights will of course be paired (and triangulated) with user interviews.
Product Development
Most products are super close to alpha release. It’s going to be like popcorn soon.
Here’s a sneak peek with the Bitcoin Knowledge Project (name is still in progress): https://cdn.nostr.build/p/PxZ0.jpg
Lifestuff
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Been helping Brittany a bunch to prepare Bolli Imports for Shambhala https://cdn.nostr.build/p/Wgdk.webp
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Went camping in Alberta’s crownland. We’re so far north that could still see the silhouette outline of the mountains at midnight. (Image not at midnight lol). Did a bunch of cold dips in the ice cold creek. https://cdn.nostr.build/p/6KZ2.webp
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Hit up the Calgary Stampede. Ate nasty food. Saw big majestic horses. https://cdn.nostr.build/p/BmZ0.webp
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Wrote part of this with my feet in a bucket of ice water. This one hurt life hell for some reason. Usually not this bad. https://cdn.nostr.build/p/QEwP.webp
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