Hello dear friends of X! How've the last 6 months been for you? I'm still here, still working for the man. 💼 This year, I've relocated to Bristol (in March!) and I'm JUST about settled. 😂 I now WFH full time with monthly trips to the office. I don't talk much about my job ⤵️

My first sunny Christmas. 🏝️ Beyond grateful to be able to be here 🙏 I even deleted Teams off my phone. No work can reach me for a whole week, I am relieved! Spot the English vs the French breakfast 😂

I keep working till 8-9pm and skipping the gym and then wondering why I wake up feeling like a zombie at 9am 🤔 Someone snap me out of this! Nothing's worth my health yet meanwhile 🫠

Sorry whose job is it to design these magnificent emoji stickers for Google Keyboard. I've gotta know. How do I get in on this 😂

Timezones ⌚🪄

You know when I was young the one advice I used to get is "work smart" Only over the years I realized "to work smart , you need to work hard"

Planning to dust off (metaphorically) my collection of techy audio books and actually purposefully learn something. This is what's in my library... (I've half read Phoenix Project but it got too stressful 🤣) Any recommendations?

The AI X "Fast" thing is kinda GOATed, actually. It analysed my whole profile. I'm super surprised this is free. Or am I accidentally paying for something?! Who knows, but it's fun!

Who remembers Web3? Is it still a thing?

Clean Code, Second Edition.

Are there any established tech meetups in the Bristol area? Been a while since I've been to anything like that and I miss it!

Caveat - make sure you're using a tenanted instance of CoPilot etc - don't put your company's sensitive data into public AI systems! 🔏

But one thing I have LOVED is AI meeting summaries. Those are 🔥 and the time saved notekeeping is immense. 📝 Highly recommend exploring that for summarising and highlight actions to takeaway. ⤵️

AI in the workplace - do you use it? 🤖 Most companies are rushing to define their "AI strategy" - and a lot of people (including me!) are skeptical. I don't tend to rush into new things. I'm not going to start "vibe coding" at this point in my career. ⤵️

Getting verified - is it worth it? I'm thinking of doing a bit of a profile "rebrand" and getting more active on here again. But definitely my views/likes are ridiculous compared to my follower count. Granted I've been mostly AWOL the last couple of years 😅 Any advice? 🙏

Since turning 30 the immense feeling of RELIEF of not being 20-something anymore has been amazing... I feel clarity in what I want from life, my strengths and limitations. In my career, a feeling of undeniable legitimacy. Would I go back to being in my 20s again? Hell no!

Wow seems tough to get post views these days judging from my earlier attempt. What makes the algorithm tick besides meaningless engagement farming/reposts?

Online because of company policy and privacy but there is some stuff I may share as I've been working almost 1 year on a public project within the UK energy industry which could be interesting to write out/read now it's almost "over". Let me know if you'd like to hear about it!

Haha! I've finally dropped below 20K followers. I expected it to happen much sooner cos I don't ever post anymore.

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