This weekend, I thought about bank holidays and where they come from. I found out a few interesting things.
In the UK, we used to have 33 public holidays before someone in 1834 thought that was ‘excessive’, so they brought it down to four. Thankfully, we’ve added four more since then, but we’re still second-lowest in the world for public holiday provision, if you can believe that.
It made me think about how much we work now. I read about the overwhelming positive findings of 4-day work week trials and the resistance to them. As someone who enjoys their job and loves their craft, I believe we can only do really good work when we’re content (eh?) and rested.
Apparently the ancient Romans used to have around 160 public holidays a year, and look at what they achieved!
It was a short week, but felt like I actually achieved a fair bit.
I am currently working on a content design training slide deck, which is helping me to consolidate the most important elements of my job. I created five content design exercises that I’m hoping will get juices flowing and team brains aligned. It’s also prompted a couple of blog ideas.
Had a really good talk with Oliver about Replay/BoF and it got me excited to work on something that’s not what I usually do in my day-to-day. Looking forward to seeing where this goes.
Went to the Donut on Thursday at the IMAX which was awesome. Got to see a lot of incredible work and progress across the organisation and it made me feel proud to work at the BFI.
Seated for IMAX screening of the Donut
With the work I’ve been doing for the content design training slides, it reminded me of how much there actually is to content design and I worry I fail at some things.
I said I’d do some work stuff for someone and forgot.
I sense a lot of prioritisation in my future and I’m not the best at that. There’s actually a scene in Malcolm in the Middle that I think about all the time when I approach task management.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AbSehcT19u0
Monster - Lovely ⭐⭐⭐⭐
Fungi: Web of Life - Cool but creepy ⭐⭐⭐