2024 Life review

Here’s how 2024 panned out for me…

2024 Cultural Stuff

Here are my reviews for 2024. Let’s start with the cultural stuff.

A miserable figure

Why I have 1-1s with devs on my team

As a Tech Lead, I always make time to have 1-1 catch-ups with the devs on my team. This is alongside the 1-1s I have with the people I line manage, who are outside of my team. This is just the way we’re set up in GDS. But the former is key, as that’s actually voluntary on my part, and I’ll tell you why I do it.

2023 Deeper reflections

Was 2023 better than 2022? Last year was a blur of heartbreak and grief. In some ways yea, things got better. There were some positive changes. I’ll get to those. I want to save that for the end as a high. But this year also had its share of new problems.