We’ve put FF Studio into liquidation.
My partner’s PhD thesis is submitted, the culmination of six years of hard work.
The sun’s finally come out again.
No grand reflections but a post to mark what feels like a big fortnight in our very small corner of the world, with important things coming to a close and new things beginning. Trying to see the world with more lightness, and to finish the apple puree in the freezer before our apple tree brings a new crop in the summer.
I’ve got a lot of open browser tabs from over the past two years. Arc deletes your open tabs at the start of the day, but you can still drag stuff to ‘pinned’ if you want to keep it, and every so often I drag a load of things up to pinned and then never look at them again. To think when I started using Arc I felt scorn for everyone still using Chrome with loads of tabs open.
Anyway, I’m trying to close the tabs, because I have too many bits of unfinished business out in the world at the moment. I don’t have a decent bookmarking system. So in lieu of some kind of personal tooling, here’s a bunch of links I collected a while ago about closing or finishing a project.
https://emilywebber.co.uk/a-short-retrospective-format-to-close-a-piece-of-work/ https://ustwo.com/blog/how-to-break-up-with-your-team/ https://rachaelashah.medium.com/part-2-a-retro-template-and-activity-for-stewarding-the-closure-of-a-team-6a83f51a2970 https://gamestorming.com/memory-wall/
I’m still trying to close tabs.
Here’s some links about complexity in system design.
Me putting the link here isn’t me endorsing it. I’m just posting it and saving it in case it is useful for future me, or perhaps today you.
Relatedly, it feels like Arc is dying its death now that it’s effectively been decommissioned by The Browser Company. I’m curious as to where they go with Dia, but I can’t say I’m all in. What browser are we using?
https://sticky.studio/ is a tool by Kumu, “a collaborative canvas for untangling complexity” System Effects research methodology