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* [How digital agents will redefine work itself](https://venturebeat.com/ai/onboarding-the-ai-workforce-how-digital-agents-will-redefine-work-itself/)
* [Boardwalk Robotics - Alex](https://spectrum.ieee.org/boardwalk-robotics-alex-humanoid)
* [Hume.ai](https://www.hume.ai)
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#### 2024-10-06
* [What's Left for Me? - Forrest Brazeal](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hrfEUZ0UvRo)
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XXX
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* Start of Rubix + lots of sales
* Severance - S01
* Thinking about CloudOps for private cloud
* L&G incident + report
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XXX
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* Rubix + Intangibles
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XXX
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* 2 days in London - Cloud Optimisation bookcamp + Rubix
* Tim Minchin london in the evening
* Star Trek Discovery - S04
* Sharepoint consolidation
* More Rubix
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XXX
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* Internal workshop on AWS (Barnwood)
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XXX
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* More Rubix
* Digital Apps portfolio
* Handling customer novation
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XXX
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* Lots of 30m calls
* Killed sharepoint site - 5000 limit issue
* Finishing aws-reporting scripts to hand over to team while on leave
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author: "liamjbennett"
title: "Week Note 27"
date: "2024-10-05"
description: "31-Sep-2024 - 04-Oct-2024"
description: "30-Sep-2024 - 04-Oct-2024"
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XXX
This week was the first of two weeks of well earned rest. You'll see from the past few weeknotes that I've been spending a lot of time working with one particularly large new potential customer. I love doing this, it stretches me personally, makes me re-validate assumptions and think from a customer's point of view. Despite my excitement for this time of work, it can take it's toll mentally, so I'm glad to have the time off.

I spend this first week with the family in Centre Parcs - this year at Longleat. Meredith loved Eleven last year and this year was no different (the consistency helps). While there is the usual busy fan fair of swimming, bike riding and other adventurous activities I also really value to down time and the quiet woodland setting.

This year I've been much better at the work detox - only permitting myself 5 mins a day to read emails (but not respond to any!). I've also been using that old GTD method of just writing down my thoughts and ideas on a page as a virtual inbox (in this case in Obsidian) which gets it out of my head and allows me to focus more on the activities in the moment.

Anyway, it's been a great week, feeling a lot more relaxed now and I'm off home tomorrow for another week off, focused on home activities.

Bonus: a couple of interesting links:
* [They Built This Robot For Your Home](https://youtube.com/watch?v=2ccPTpDq05A)
* [I Lived With a Humanoid Robot for 48 Hours](https://youtube.com/watch?v=Sb6LMPXRdVc)
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XXX
I was on leave again this week and I had planned to spend it doing all the domestic activities that required action but despite a few odd jobs, mostly got distracted by other family activities.

We're spending some time focusing on the house because we're thinking about moving next year. We've lived where we are for almost 10 years now, a lot has happened here and we both feel it's time for a change. Our house currently just sits outside of the town (5 mins drive) and we're looking to move back into the country and get the horses living on our own land. A big ambition and probably typical for the stage of our lives we're in.

I suppose the only activity done this week that's relevant to the usual content I write about on here is that had my first attempt at decluttering my office. That means going through those boxes old cables, old gadgets, empty boxes and draw with books I value.

Things I learnt re-discovered as a result of this activity:
1) I have too many old hard drives with content I don't need or use any more. Time for some review and backups.
2) No one needs that many USB cables - seriously, you don't!
3) I think my experience with using a mechanical keyboard was a bit of a failure. I used it for about 18-months, it was mostly hated in the house because of it's noise and I really didn't like it as much as my old usb Apple Magic Keyboard. I'll be selling this one off soon. Like all geeks who fall down this rabbit hole, I'll likely re-try this experiment in a couple of years time.
4) I have lots of ebooks that I don't read and only a handful of physical books that I have read cover-to-cover (some several times) these are:
* [The Manager's Path by Camille Fournier](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/33369254-the-manager-s-path)
* [Team Topologies by Manuel Pais and Matthew Skelton](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/44135420-team-topologies)
* [Accelerate: The Science of Lean Software and DevOps by Gene Kim, Jez Humble, and Nicole Forsgren](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/35747076-accelerate)
* [Atlas of the Heart: Mapping Meaningful Connection and the Language of Human Experience by Brené Brown](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/58330567-atlas-of-the-heart)

Some interesting links from this week:
* [Sergey Brin | All-In Summit 2024](https://youtube.com/watch?v=XzK9bx3CSPE)
* [Hume.ai](https://www.hume.ai)
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XXX
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* Slow Horses
* Project Nimbus
* SLAs, OLAs and tagging
* Designing Offboarding workflow (and closing a few AWS accounts)
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XXX
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* Project Nimbus - contracts, scripts and reviews
* Very fragmented week
* Star Trek: Strange New Worlds - S01
* ControlMonkey
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XXX
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* Writing code for azure-reporting
* Reviewing OpenShift, Anodot and Flexera - lots of vendor stuff this week
* More sales meetings and exploring/sharing the value of DNSDumpster
* Strange New Worlds - S02
* Rivals - S01
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