Week 3 - Getting back on the tools

Big Win: As a company operating in multiple European countries with different xmas traditions, week 3 was the first week back where everyone has returned to work. What better way to start it other than a open space/unconference session?

Hat's off to Martin in the platform team who arranged the whole thing with help from Claudius and Ivan. The whole day ran so well, they put a lot of effort into the Miro board and creating all the teams rooms and disussion boards for the topics. The thing I like about doing this right after the break is everyone came back a little lethargic and throughout the day you could see the energy and excitement building. My personal favorite topics were around AI and how we are utlising it and documentation.

Topic suggestions moving to a timetable with MS Teams meetings links ready for the discussion.

Medium Win: I haven't been on the tools working with code for some time, I decided to change that this year and spend time getting my development environment running how I like it. I use Neovim, Lazyvim, Lazygit and have a set of dotfiles for my mac. I wanted to refine these and remove a lot of useless things I have accumulated over the years. I also wanted to ensure that my development experience is as identical as can be on my work mac and my Omarchy linux machine. I got this to a good place by the end of the week and hope to have it good enough by the end of this week.
Small Win: We made a decision on the technical architecture we would be aligning with for our occupational health services that we are developing in Sweden. We already have some great products we have built and want to evolve these into a service offering that will delight our partners and also work well for our clinical and administration teams. We are now in the process of hiring a couple of roles to move things forward.

What I Learned: I learned about opencode which is a TUI that sits in front of AI Agents. I set it up with Claude Code and had a play around with it. Using some tmux foo I was able to get it to popup over the top of neovim when coding. It looks and works really well. I still love coding in terminal as it gives me old school vibes and I like having the tools right alongside the code instead of in seperate apps, windows/browsers etc.

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Add to tmux.conf
bind C-o popup -E -d "#{pane_current_path}" -w 90% -h 90% "opencode"

Current Mood: I've been hitting the gym and doing structured training on the bike regularly so I am feeling pretty good in that sense. My mood is still a little on the downside given what happened last year but that's another post.

Man's Search for Meaning - Viktor E.Frankl: I am not sure what I can say about this book to do it justice. I am surprised I only just discovered it. How a man can go through such a struggle for survival in the Auschwitz camps and come out of it finding meaning is remarkable. It's an outstanding book. Everyone should read it 10/10
Writing to Learn - William Zinsser: Currently reading this

Meal Prep is a game changer. I now only make things if I can make 6-10 portions of the same thing, macro balanced as breakfast, lunch or dinner. I no longer think about what to eat, worry about the time to make it and it makes shopping so much easier. I also don't waste anywhere near the amount of food I used to.

The Main Goal: I am working on something strategic with regards to the technology we have built and aquired over the years. I can't say much more about it right now but I am going to enjoy putting the effort into this next week.
Long burn: This is an area that we can improve on, we have great documentation and some not so great. Some is managed really well, some not to much. This is an area everyone wants to improve but is difficult due to many reasons - time, tooling, process, value, ROI. I will be putting some thought and structure into this next week.
Anticipation Level: [7/10] - The physiological progress I have made since food prepping, lifting weights and structured cycling is showing significant change. It's addictive. After what I can say is the worst year ever [2025] behind me, I am hopeful 2026 will be a better one full of growth and learning. I am cautiously optimistic.

Have a great week