The most experienced and accomplished women in the world are condescended to and belittled by the most inconsequential men you've never heard of (and will never) on a daily basis.
I’m only about 10 pages into Gentle Disclipline by Sarah Ockwell-Smith and I honestly think this may be mandatory reading for managers over any of the business school scammer books 🙊
I’m only about 10 pages into Gentle Disclipline by Sarah Ockwell-Smith and I honestly think this may be mandatory reading for managers over any of the business school scammer books 🙊
#Weeknote 6: this week, 1) the return of the homework portion of these post (a digest of links related to my various areas of interest - data, government, policy, feelings, etc; 2) the first iteration of a lo-fi personal finance dashboard; and 3) varia. heidi2o.cc/weeknote_6
Weeknote 6 - a Low-fi Personal Finance App and return of the Reading List
I’ve been on vacation this week and spent most of it being at the beck and call of Mishka. She requires a minimum of 7.5 hours of snuggles a day.
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Super excited to have gotten tickets to see @joshjohnsoncomedy.bsky.social in Ottawa in June!! I was so bummed to find out about his last show a week after it happened last time :)
Shout out to second langage evaluations, even practice ones, for being uniquely able to make me question my ability to communicate in any language.
As per my previous email - er, post, please find attached the current standings of Data Friendship bracelets. P.S. I'll bring some to the Federal Government Innovation Showcase next week 😉 heidi2o.cc/friendship_b...
Data Friendship Bracelet Ideas
Ranking based on most corporate bland to most spiciest takes.
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On June 13, I'm hosting a little experimental gathering. Inspired by UKGovCamp and OneTeamGov Unconferences, #GovActionCafe2026 is a 1-day participant-driven gathering for the doers and the helpers to connect, collect, and turn ideas into relentless implementation. heidi2o.cc/GovActionCaf...
Save the Date for GovActionCafe 2026
Purpose Canada is facing a generational challenge.
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#Weeknote 5 is posted. This week: taking better care of myself while taking care of a partner with Long Covid. heidi2o.cc/weeknote_5
Weeknote 5 (Feb 9 - 15, 2026)
I realized over the course of the last week that I may have been just going through the paces for a while now.
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The biggest thing we’ve learned from this module of French class is that my responses for how to treat basic maladies are insane.
Without naming your job, tell me something you say over and over again at work. "No, you don't need a dashboard"
Hannah Millenial@hannahmillen.bsky.social · 6mo agoWithout naming your job, tell me something you say over and over again at work. "We'll give that a go and if it works great, if it doesn't we'll do something else. Sure I've run it past the boss"
#Weeknote 4 is posted. This week: a perfect month, making friends internationally, and sharing a tool for generating a stakeholder map. Read here: heidi2o.cc/weeknote_4
Weeknote 4 (Feb 2 - 8)
This is going to be a short one1 because I’m a bit under the weather and I should be studying for my French class test on Wednesday.
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How dare the internet upset me this early in the morning by showing me the minions routine that can’t be performed at the Olympics because of a copyright claim
#Weeknote 3 now up a bit late because it needed a bit more time to write. This week: Heated Rivalry, brain stuff, and what do we owe to each other? heidi2o.cc/weeknote_3
Weeknote 3 (Jan 26-Feb 1)
It’s been a fever dream of a week where Hudson William gave Mark Carney his Team Canada fleece1, it was declared Shane Hollander Day2 in Ottawa, and I was stranded downtown for 2 hours because the tra...
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Do you think Shane Hollander's dad got a letter last week to let him know that his position at Treasury Board of Canada is being eliminated? #heatedrivalry #Ottawa
Do you think Shane Hollander's dad is celebrating Shane Hollander day by participating in transit hell to buy overpriced tiny sandwiches to help "save downtown" for businesses that close before 5pm who keep going on the news to say how much they hate him and his coworkers? #heatedrivalry #Ottawa
having to argue about this shit when your job is on the line is incredibly fucking stressful if you actually do know what you’re doing, and one of the biggest unexamined risks of AI is how many legit experts and pros will just decide that the fight isn’t worth having
Just a small bean contemplating RTO5 and the meaninglessness of our existence while sitting at Queen St fare for an hour and counting as the Line 1 is running with only 1 train car and 14 have been alternatingly cancelled or delayed 30-60 minutes or too full to get on and Uber is X3 surging
📣 Our introduction to structural causal models in science studies is now published: doi.org/10.1162/QSS.... @tklebel.bsky.social and I tried to make our introduction as accessible as possible. We illustrate the theory by three case studies based on a simulated model of Open Science. 🧵(1/6)
Weeknote 2: planning for #GovActionCafe2026, the state of conferences, and being creative again heidi2o.cc/weeknote_2
Weeknote 2 (Jan. 18-25, 2026)
My brain has been fairly creatively fulfilled and challenged lately. The team I get to work with is really coming together.
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"Can you imagine a Socratic dialogue with 50,000 likes?" This is excellent. We've driven out epistemology and driven ourselves mad.
The Discourse is a Distributed Denial-of-Service Attack
In September 2016, the security journalist Brian Krebs had his website knocked offline by a botnet called Mirai. Hundreds of thousands of compromised devices, mostly cheap webcams and DVRs manufacture...
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Will I keep up with writing #Weeknotes this year? No idea, but here's one. Reflecting on my first week back after vacation (great team, bummer times), progress in French training, and participating as a mentor in the FYN's Career Bootcamp Speed Mentoring sessions: heidi2o.cc/weeknote_1
Weeknote 1 (Jan 12-17)
Is it too early to say “what a year” yet? It’s felt like a heckuva year these first few weeks of January.
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As usual @ukgovcamp.com looked like so much fun and I wish I could fly over one of these year or finally get around to starting a GC version.
