Weeknotes 🗓️
A weekly missive from the virtual desktop of Jay Springett.
Each issue covers what I’ve been: reading, doing, thinking about, and include links recommendations, a good meme and more.
As Much or as Little
It’s your website. You can choose to write as much or as little as you want in a blog post.
Stars
I came across a new (to me) performance of Eriks Esenvalds’ Stars. It’s one of my favourite choral pieces.
Questions of Value
As the conversation circled the question of ‘value’ I was told I need to get better at doing the paid supporter ask.
Terminal Access
From this week I’m adding a new section to my weeknotes. I want to highlight work friends who’ve posted to the web outside of social media
Back To It
I can’t believe we’ve been back from our holiday for a whole week. Time has flow by.
Not Having Done
“If you enjoy Having Done so much, why do you have a hard drive full of hundreds of thousands of words of shit you haven’t finished?”
Groggy Mornings
I’ve been fighting off a low level cold all week. Groggy mornings and generally feeling slow and under the weather.
Panning Process
A while back I wrote a post about how I use my RSS reader. This morning I thought I would document what came out the ‘panning process’.
A Little Like Me
Every now at the right angle I’ll think “Oh hey that metahuman does look like me” but then it’s gone. Like recognising the features of someone you know in a stranger at a concert.
Sea of Flowers
After dinner we found our selves drifting towards the Mall and Buckingham palace to see the flowers.
Grown and Grown
I went to a 40th birthday over the weekend and the night was wall to wall Jungle.
In the Other Room
After a few minutes of careful listening I said ‘It sounds like a man peeing into a bucket standing up next to a washing machine’. The ‘correct’ answer was ‘A field recording of jungle cicada’s next to a stream’.
Different Lengths
I’ve spent the week trying to write things at/of different lengths. Sitting down with a timer, set to 20mins or 40. Just practicing to see how I go.
No Clear Container
I’ve felt a bit undirected in where I’ve been putting my attention this week. I did watch The World Excel Championship though.
Summer Chalk
I went down to the chalk for my Dad’s 70th (!!!) birthday. Saw lots of family, ate some lovely food at a local restaurant. It was great!
