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Lions and summits and AI, oh my
An update on the Lion thing: we had coffee-less coffee, and it was actually fairly pleasant. I also acquitted myself well. Basically offered him two Kickstarter tiers of potential engagement henceforth. I told him that the status quo hadn't been great, probably for anyone, and so I'm totally up for texting and for having occasional coffee/lunch whatever in a nice public place (or the office, for as long as we have that). For a more relaxed friendship that could eventually include taking walks, watching TV shows or visiting houses, I'm going to need to hear directly from his wife that it's okay to make an attempt at said friendship. Which is, honestly, brilliant. It forces them to talk, and it's not something he can lie about, so it tests all the old fault lines to make sure they're more solid now. I also don't think I'm using the situation to ask her for anything weird, or for an apology about the past -- though parts of me would like both those things -- just a forward looking I'm okay with this. Lion agreed that it was a very reasonable thing to want, and that the most difficult part of it would likely be her actually addressing me via email or text. I raised my eyebrows and shrugged and said could be. At any rate, I feel good about how I handled this and I got a solid apology with a light text-friendship. 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.