2025-w50 hotel
The word that sums up this week is hotel 🏨. I stayed in one for two nights for project workshops in London, and took part in said workshops in another hotel, over three days. Felt like I was constantly travelling and walking through hotel lobbies. I think I spent about 12 hours on trains / the tube 🚇! A top moment for me was getting to spend some in-person time with my design manager: also a break reading my novel in the British Library whilst addressing my sugar low with a fizzy drink 🥤. Something I’m looking forward to next week is just getting the year over with: also a return to routine.
Random thought: how can I seek after beauty this week?
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December w/c 2025-12-08
Understanding. Ways to systematically come up with new ideas 💡: breaking fixedness. My favourite was creating a linear flow chart of a process, and randomly mixing it slightly and seeing what can come of it.
Creating & cultivating. I’ve lost my personal phone, so this has somewhat forced my hand in my transition to a ‘dumb’ phone: Nokia 235 📞; I’ve enjoyed it so far! I have made a ‘not Google’ list in my notebook: things I’ve caught myself wanting to look up but now can’t. I’ve enjoyed adding things in here!
Consuming. A tonne of hotel food, and a barrel of coffee ☕️. Quite a lot of Wheel of Time while on trains.
Connecting. Absolutely crazy amounts of conversations and networking this week, exhausting really (but useful). Sort of lonely in the midst of it. I’ve enjoyed that my wife has finished Wheel of Time book 1: I’m super excited to share thoughts and conjecture!
Pen & ink combo: Majohn A1 with ⬛️ Lamy Black.
For my future self: it doesn’t have to be me