Rich Blake

A place to reflect on how I'm learning to live with arthritis, my experience leading high performing teams and everything else in between.

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19 July 2026

Stats

Total cards: 8 Planned: 13 In Progress: 3 Published: 7

Everything else: 4 Leading high performing teams: 16 Living with arthritis: 2

Planned (13)

These are the ideas that I think are good enough to put energy into. I like the metaphor of 'things being in the long grass' as a way of describing my backlog. I've got another step in my process called 'ready to write' which is when done my research, my thinking and committed to put pen to paper. I doubt I'll write all of these, but I can talk about all of them over a brew.

Card Name Label Progress
My approach to Dev Ex Leading high performing teams Ideas in the long grass
Using Maslow's hierarchy of needs as a Dev Ex planning tool Leading high performing teams Ideas in the long grass
Dealing with the tortoise and the hare Leading high performing teams Ideas in the long grass
How I plan to affect change in teams over the long term Leading high performing teams Ideas in the long grass
My approach to servant leadership Leading high performing teams Ideas in the long grass
A newfound awareness of the ground under your feet Living with arthritis Ideas in the long grass
Accessible, inclusive facilitation Leading high performing teams Ideas in the long grass
Being deliberate about preparing for things to go wrong Leading high performing teams Ideas in the long grass
Why running your own support desk makes your team more user centred Leading high performing teams Ideas in the long grass
Getting the basics right: retrospectives Leading high performing teams Ideas in the long grass
Getting the basics right: stand up Leading high performing teams Ideas in the long grass
Getting the basics right: planning Leading high performing teams Ideas in the long grass
Getting the basics right: show and tell Leading high performing teams Ideas in the long grass

In Progress (3)

These are pages that I'm working on. Work in progress limits? What are those?!

Card Name Label Progress
How to automate your public backlog Leading high performing teams Writing
Arthritis product reviews Living with arthritis Writing
Smart home install Writing

Published (7)

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Card Name Label Progress
Now page Everything else Done
A public backlog of ideas Everything else Done
Starting a practice of weeknoting Everything else Done
Re-writing an article from 2020: What? So what? Now what? Retrospective facilitation guide Leading high performing teams Done
Re-writing a 5 minute exercise I use to deal with worry (from 2020) Everything else Done
Liberating Structures tier list Leading high performing teams Done
Re-writing an article from 2020: Stand ups are precious Leading high performing teams Done