❄️🐾 This Week in My World!
Sage vs. grasshoppers 🐱, Luna's love attacks 💕, and Mork's heart-melting cuteness. Plus:

✅ First snow! ❄️
✅ Acupuncture + meditation = focus.
✅ Daily workout streak 💪
✅ Mom’s cookies 🍪
✅ Helping writers — always learning!

How was your week?

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Happy Friday, everyone! 🎉

A study suggests that acknowledging your week’s achievements can boost happiness and satisfaction. Let’s do that!

Share one thing you’re proud of accomplishing this week. #FeelGoodFriday #WeeklyWins #buildinpublic

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The sourdough starter (liquid and live) that I ordered from a relatively local mill is doing very well which means that sourdough will be starting back up soon.

I've gone back to a knitting WIP that was just needing the sleeves done. It'll be an oversized Cosy Wifey but sometimes you just want a sweater to curl up in.

I got a bunch of nail polish racks up on the wall and loaded. I ordered the next set to finish setting up my nail polish display/collection.

What are yours?

Well, my brain is mush now, and I only got 3.5 of my 5 goals for the week done.

But I think I managed to get a stakeholder onboard with getting the data science team involved much earlier on in the development cycle. I've been pushing to get in at the handoff from design to engineering for a while now, and going through my manager hasn't been productive on this front (due to no fault of his own, I've come to learn). I had a opportune meeting with a project manager, though, where they were looking for guidance, and I was able to raise it with him.

And his eyes lit up like a kid on Christmas.

It's hard to change process, especially when you don't like to rock the boat. Selling an idea up channels can be a slow endeavour, and it's a path that takes you through many people who are not invested in the problem. Indeed, often they are invested in there not being a problem, and so don't care to hear ideas to change things.

We're a story telling species. Everyone has a narrative, and rewriting it is challenging and uncomfortable.

I, as a person, like consensus. There's comfort and security in consensus. Even if you're wrong about something, you're wrong as a *community*. It's not an isolating experience. So, I like to work to get people on side with my ideas, and do so in ways that don't step on other people's toes.

But often the easier way forward is just to go straight to the other side of the line and discuss the common pain point.

I'm sure I've learned nothing from this experience. Except I now know for certain that there's at least one person on the other end who will support my pitch.

And who will hopefully back channel invite me to the meetings I want to be invited to going forward, of course.

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Edit: My phones keyboard now creates as many typos as it fixes. Sigh.

Hey folks! It's Friday afternoon (here) and I thought it might be nice for to share some wins from the week.

What went well for you this week? Big or small it doesn't matter, as long as it made you happy or brought you joy.

#WeeklyWins #Joy #tgif