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Lions and summits and AI, oh my
Feb. 28th, 2025 07:33 amAn update on the Lion thing: we had coffee-less coffee, and it was actually fairly pleasant. I also acquitted myself well. ( Read more... ) I am winning this round, thanks in no small part to social support and brainstorming, here and on a particular Discord server. So thank you, friends.
This workweek, the final workweek before I tell my boss I'm retiring, is also ACTUALLY PASSING. Has almost passed. It's been less painful than it looked on the calendar like it would be, because there've been multiple summits where I get to space out, or be loudly opinionated, or knit (I tried to cast on for a hat, the arduous way with double-knit alpaca on size 3 needles and two shades of grey; it came out too big, but at least will be useful as a gauge swatch and a test of all the techniques I need). Today remains, but Friday is just a half-day from home. I always feel like the hard part is behind me when I come home from the office on Thursday.
And in one of these summits, sitting there as one of three subject matter experts (on tech leading), another of the experts side-chatted me saying "btw I'm giving notice on Monday", and I just replied "lol, same". Then we had a nice back-and-forth between our personal email accounts, still while participating in the summit on the corp network. Both summits spent a ton of their time talking about AI and how it's changing the industry, and, holy disruption, Batman -- it's an excellent time to get out.
I know it's not over over, but I currently feel reinvigorated. I got sleep, and there are only a few moves left in the game. Gotta write up my transition plan so that I have something sensible to hand to my director on Monday; let him anchor on my plan and deviate from there.
This workweek, the final workweek before I tell my boss I'm retiring, is also ACTUALLY PASSING. Has almost passed. It's been less painful than it looked on the calendar like it would be, because there've been multiple summits where I get to space out, or be loudly opinionated, or knit (I tried to cast on for a hat, the arduous way with double-knit alpaca on size 3 needles and two shades of grey; it came out too big, but at least will be useful as a gauge swatch and a test of all the techniques I need). Today remains, but Friday is just a half-day from home. I always feel like the hard part is behind me when I come home from the office on Thursday.
And in one of these summits, sitting there as one of three subject matter experts (on tech leading), another of the experts side-chatted me saying "btw I'm giving notice on Monday", and I just replied "lol, same". Then we had a nice back-and-forth between our personal email accounts, still while participating in the summit on the corp network. Both summits spent a ton of their time talking about AI and how it's changing the industry, and, holy disruption, Batman -- it's an excellent time to get out.
I know it's not over over, but I currently feel reinvigorated. I got sleep, and there are only a few moves left in the game. Gotta write up my transition plan so that I have something sensible to hand to my director on Monday; let him anchor on my plan and deviate from there.
