Weekly Notes 37/2026

What's been happeningWith the events of last week, the mood in the office was pretty sombre. Literally every single conversation started with "Who from your team was let go?" Pretty depressing stuff. But work continues. I'll get to that later.First, swimming — I have been making lots of good progress here. I was able to swim about a third of the length of our pool without stopping, so that's a good confidence booster. I am getting better at floating on my back, and I can swim on my back through the length of our 25m pool, so that's cool. Hoping that with some more practice, I can improve on my freestyle. For a change, my instructor asked me to do something different - she threw this thing which sinks to the bottom of the pool and got me to try to fetch it by diving head-first in from the surface of the pool, pick it up, and keep throwing it to the end of the pool. The pool gets deeper (1.2m to 1.5m) the further away you go, so this was a fun exercise. Also, I realized how hard it is…