October 2026

Key things that are happening now… as of October 2026

• October marked two years into working at Beacon CRM. We had a bad August, but we’re coming out the other side of that. We’re now in the process of rolling out the Google Spanner update to all customers.
• Globe started two services in September, it’s been a change to go from one gathering of ~300 people cramming into a school hall to go into two. As always with these changes there are teething issues to work through, but it’s been encouraging.
• I was invited to be part of the team that fed into the v2 update of the FaithTech Playbook. I got a copy of the update a couple of weeks ago, and we worked through it with the participants at BUILD - the revised Lament -> Discern -> Build -> Steward loop is really clear and helpful. I’d recommend giving it a read. I also supported the FaithTech London team hosting BUILD again this month.
• I was optimistic about getting back into running in May… it was short lived.
• There have been no standout books in the reading list recently, I did enjoy reading The Rosie Project by Graeme Simsion though. I’ve got the latest Stormlight Archive coming up soon which I’m looking forward to getting into.
• In May I was slowly watching through Stargate SG1… I’m still going slowly on that!