Week 27, 2025 — Reviving weeknotes
I let go of my Legacy plan on Squarespace and switched to the Basic plan so I can have 1,000 pages instead of 20, after fuming for several years about this artificial constraint. I want to override that bitter taste, and am determined to use and enjoy my website again.
Analytics says Fieldnotes for Liberating Structures gets daily traffic, and I wonder how I might make them more useful. I'd like to write more about what I'm learning through my coaching practice, Emotions at Work initiatives and all kinds of peer conversations about human systems. And about cycling and travel, too. So here's Weeknotes back in action.
This week, I’m coming off a big field research stint in Tokyo. It was exhilarating and exhausting in equal measures, and I’ve been carefully transitioning from rest and celebration to starting analysis. For myself and what I can for my team, too. It’s all good. I feel incredibly fortunate to be in this position, while the industry talks about synthetic users and scale. And how wonderful it was to be zipping about my hometown where I haven’t lived in a decade, to be among the sweaty, well-coordinated throngs of 40+ million people in the greater Kanto area, learning about the lives of our participants.