This week felt sluggish. There was nothing wrong as such, but it didn’t feel like I was getting in a good rhythm. In the weekend I didn’t feel very well physically. This week I:

• Had our monthly half day work session with my business partners, and our monthly stand-up about our company fiancials with the entire team.
• Had a thorough discussion about where a client wants and needs to focus when it comes to data sharing. The to be newly created legal instruments also allow us to ask different strategic questions about the use and value of datasharing and shared data.
• Did some bookkeeping for the company.
• Had the weekly client meetings
• Read the proposed EU Digital Rights and Principles and did a first round of highlights and annotations. It’s a so called ‘communication’ so some of the critique I saw w.r.t. it lacking actions or commitments I see as a misinterpretation of the role of this document. Aspects already have become part of proposed laws that do have teeth, such as most clearly visible in the proposed AI Regulation.
• Was pointed to DeepL as a dekstop app. This will be useful to blog in German more frequently.
• Finished my Microsub reader with integrated micropub functionalities. In the past few days I used my self-built feed reader, and responded to things by posting direclty to my blog from inside my feed reader.
• Released a wiki about the EU data laws on a client URL (until now it was living on a github.io URL). This thing is automatically generated from my markdown notes on my device (The notes get pushed to Github, where a Respec script grabs them and publishes them as web pages)
• Learned to solve a Rubik’s cube
• Enjoyed that Y enjoyed her weekly swimming lesson a lot again.
• Enjoyed walking with Y while she rediscovered roller skating again.
• Had a board meeting of the Open Nederland (Creative Commons) association, where we mostly aimed to pick up our activities again. Our work had lost pace in the past year, due to the pandemic.
• Had an interesting first conversation with someone who recently started as a self employed consultant w.r.t. ‘applied’ ethics.