ASOS Alumni on Make Life Work, tons of new vinyl for the Archive Collection, plenty live music at Dad Camp, Finsbury Park and Princess’ performance, major milestone with a work project and a “quiet” week to myself.
Make
- Released Carlo Beschi, Aj Wilson, Lewis Prescott and James Norton‘s episodes of Make Life Work Season 9
- Blogged about my Podcast Kit after a few conversations around a Twitter Community and On The Side
- Outlined another Product On a Page about creating event GIF’s based on calendar feeds for sharing on social networks
- Posted a ton of records from my birthday dig on The Archive Collection and created a dashboard based on release year, record format and archive value (some of the data is a bit dirty which needs attention)
- Renewed HouseFinesse.com and MakeLife.Work for another year as I try to reduce my (unused) domain portfolio, focusing on those that are actually used
- Enjoyed our first ever House Finesse group call with Disco77 and Black Dynamite, reminiscing over old tunes, moaning about modern music
Life
- Great fun on our annual Dad Camp trip, this time with a full weekend of music cover acts including an epic Whitney Houston finale
- Enjoyed my birthday off with a healthy swim, record shop dig at Weedon Antique Village and cheeky lunch at Bacco Lounge
- Blown away by Princess’ drumming debut performance at school, she’s a natural!
- Saw George Ezra and friends at Finsbury Park with Princess and her BFF’s family – great day out but hardly knew the support acts
- Smart ForFour died on the way back from a school play with the alternator failing us
- Finalised details for our Wedding Vows Renewal on our 17th anniversary next month
- Quiet week alone with the whole family holidaying on Essex coast, spending much of it listening to records
Work
- Released our first ASOS Tech Podcast episode with Craig & Albino talking to Nat & Lewis about open source followed up by Emma’s Day In The Life Of
- Fascinating workshop with other tech leaders understanding our personality types with the Insights Discovery framework – turns out I’m 💚💛💙❤️
- Hired another software engineer into our Stock & Fulfilment team
- Had a coaching session with Jon, exploring how the GROW model can be useful
- Started line management of 3 new engineers after handover of 3 others to a new engineering manager
- Another great Lightning Talk from Lewis J about accepting Bitcoin with BTC Pay
- Announced the Tech Podcast to all of engineering with some entertaining audiograms created in Descript
- Enjoyed Dawn’s ADHD Tech Develops session followed by an impromptu session demonstrating how to publish podcast content in Pinecast