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Weeknotes w/e 5th May 2023

I had some brilliant conversations this week

2 min readMay 5, 2023

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Embroidered portrait of an elderly white woman with a blue shirt and purple coat

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Polly Thompson

Weeknotes w/e 29th April 2023

I don’t want to be Darth Vader

2 min readApr 28, 2023

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4 frame comic featuring lego IT manager (I think!) and darth vader
ITM: Our systems are a mess of our 8 previous IT projects
DV: We will build a new Death Star and learn the lessons of the past
ITM: Our systems are a mess of our 9 previous IT projects
DV: We will build a new Death Star and learn the lessons of the past

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Polly Thompson

Weeknotes w/e 21st April 2023

Week 2 in my new role rushed past. I’ve made progress with:

2 min readApr 23, 2023

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A black grey hound wagging her tail happily in front of a ripped up sofa cushion

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Polly Thompson

Weeknotes w/e 14th April 2023

This is a beautiful day, it is a new day. My first week in my new job!

3 min readApr 18, 2023

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Primal scream’s Screamadelic album cover art. Abstract Sun

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Polly Thompson

Weeknotes w/c 29th March —Sunshine and Communities of Practice

Only 2.5 working days this week. Lovely.

3 min readApr 7, 2021

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A graph showing normal distribution of number of people against skills confidence levels. i.e. most people are in the middle of the range, with some at the low end and some at the high end.

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Polly Thompson

Weeknotes 2. Week ending 26/3/21

In which I observe that people are not cows, language is interesting and full stops are optional

3 min readMar 30, 2021

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A farmer in a tractor, herding cows

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Polly Thompson

Weeknotes 1. Week ending 19/3/21

I’m easing myself into weeknotes by starting with a week in which I had one working day…

3 min readMar 22, 2021

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Weeknotes 1. Week ending 19/3/21

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Polly Thompson

A user manual for me (pandemic edition)

A guide to the care and keeping of @pollyrt, complete with some classic early noughties nostalgia — a word cloud!

5 min readOct 4, 2020

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A user manual for me (pandemic edition)

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Polly Thompson

All the jobs I failed to get

No, really: all of them…

3 min readSep 21, 2020

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Julie Andrews admires the wide open expanse of an alpine meadow and says ‘look at all the jobs I failed to get’

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Polly Thompson
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Valleys To Coast Design & Tech Blog

Testing our job advert against Juksie’s top tips

Yesterday @jukesie posted a summary of his investigation into effective job ads/descriptions as a set of 10 top tips. Today he’s posted an…

4 min readAug 26, 2020

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A C- grade in red pen

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Polly Thompson

Polly Thompson

@pollyrt feminist, powerlifter, parent, #localgov tech person (formerly @citizensadvice), exiled londoner, adopted cardiffian, curious generalist

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