Andrew Jacobs
@andrewjacobslnd.bsky.social
L&D strategist and innovator. Author and producer of the Women Talking About Learning podcast. Not a guru or rock star.
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Talk. Record. Change: The UK’s First Podcast Learning Festival
On Thursday 26th February 2026, something new arrives in London: the first ever Podcast Learning Festival. The UK’s first face-to-face event bringing workplace learning and podcasting together.One …
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This is an excellent breakdown of the legal challenge by POTUS.
Personal blog non-substack: davidallengreen.com/2025/11/a-cl...
November 11, 2025 at 1:31 PM
This is an excellent breakdown of the legal challenge by POTUS.
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Remembrance Day is now dominated by performative nonsense. You don't need a house sized poppy and a model spitfire to show you care about the sacrifices made for the country. Where's the sense of dignity and the quiet respect gone?
November 10, 2025 at 6:55 PM
Remembrance Day is now dominated by performative nonsense. You don't need a house sized poppy and a model spitfire to show you care about the sacrifices made for the country. Where's the sense of dignity and the quiet respect gone?
Celebrity TV shows are notoriously facile and vacuous. #CelebrityTraitors has broken that record - brilliant telly.
November 6, 2025 at 10:24 PM
Celebrity TV shows are notoriously facile and vacuous. #CelebrityTraitors has broken that record - brilliant telly.
A film you've seen more than seven times with a gif.
November 5, 2025 at 9:17 PM
A film you've seen more than seven times with a gif.
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Sweet mercy. This tremendous volley from veteran Trevor Francis is 37 years old today.
Watch yourself, old son. You could put your back out spinning like that…
Watch yourself, old son. You could put your back out spinning like that…
November 2, 2025 at 9:21 PM
Sweet mercy. This tremendous volley from veteran Trevor Francis is 37 years old today.
Watch yourself, old son. You could put your back out spinning like that…
Watch yourself, old son. You could put your back out spinning like that…
Being named Andrew today makes listening to the news very peculiar.
October 31, 2025 at 12:12 PM
Being named Andrew today makes listening to the news very peculiar.
Are we still making this together? lostanddesperate.com/2025/10/30/a...
Are we still making this together?
I was reading about a film writer and director recently. He was talking about the breakdown of his relationship with his producer. In the last two months of pre-production, he had received only fiv…
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October 30, 2025 at 8:34 AM
Are we still making this together? lostanddesperate.com/2025/10/30/a...
Post a perfect album from 1989, a perfect music year
October 29, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Post a perfect album from 1989, a perfect music year
Merit isn't neutral lostanddesperate.com/2025/10/29/m...
Merit isn’t neutral
I called out an all-male panel – a manel – last week and one of the panellists responded with the reply: “Merit trumps all.” I checked yesterday and he has apparently now deleted that c…
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October 29, 2025 at 8:55 AM
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New wine, new bottles, new tools lostanddesperate.com/2025/10/23/n...
New wine, new bottles, new tools
I’m working on the structure of a new book and have been using some Large Language Models to help with building the outline and scaffolding. I say some – I’m taking content from o…
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October 23, 2025 at 7:16 AM
New wine, new bottles, new tools lostanddesperate.com/2025/10/23/n...
I remember when middle aged men bought big cars. Now we buy big mics and cool podcast tools. I have the PodTrak P4 and this looks awesome.
What is it about the new Zoom PodTrak P4next that makes sound sound so good?
October 22, 2025 at 4:03 PM
I remember when middle aged men bought big cars. Now we buy big mics and cool podcast tools. I have the PodTrak P4 and this looks awesome.
Obviously coffee is wrong anyway but this doesn't make sense to me.
I feel Thames Water should have been asked to comment.
Woman fined £150 for pouring coffee down drain www.bbc.com/news/article...
Woman fined £150 for pouring coffee down drain www.bbc.com/news/article...
Kew woman fined £150 for pouring coffee down drain in Richmond
Burcu Yesilyurt says the fine is "disproportionate" while Richmond Council say it is in line with its policies.
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October 22, 2025 at 9:20 AM
Obviously coffee is wrong anyway but this doesn't make sense to me.
And a SIM PIN and an unlock code to make it tougher to circumvent.
Finally, this is a personal thing but I don't use face unlock on my phone/apps. A hostile adversary can just hold it up to your face to unlock it - and that's not just a thief. It could be border guard, bullies, whatever. Use a fingerprint instead. And use different codes to unlock different apps.
October 21, 2025 at 6:15 PM
And a SIM PIN and an unlock code to make it tougher to circumvent.
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Price of data
I got a marketing email the other day which offered me the chance to win one of three prizes. They’re of good value – £250 – and at first sight seem to be a no-brainer to complete…
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October 21, 2025 at 7:06 AM
Price of data lostanddesperate.com/2025/10/21/p...
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maybe she’s behind it
October 20, 2025 at 6:08 PM
maybe she’s behind it
Building a team lostanddesperate.com/2025/10/20/b...
Building a team
I’m delighted to start confirming speakers for the Podcast Learning Festival and this first group says a lot about what the festival stands for. We were really keen that people coming get to …
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October 20, 2025 at 12:49 PM
Building a team lostanddesperate.com/2025/10/20/b...
This is the exact point; not every Maccabi TLV fan is a rabid hooligan and they're all being punished for the actions of some. Similarly, it's perfectly OK to protest about Israel without going on a 'Jew-hunt' or declaring all 'Zios' need to be buried.
The lack of nuance in this is astonishing.
The lack of nuance in this is astonishing.
Policing the public order risk of the match involves protecting legitimate fans from Israel, but not the racist hooligans who support the same club who did engage in disorder at the away match
And protecting legitimate political speech about Israel, but not antisemitic intimidation & threat
And protecting legitimate political speech about Israel, but not antisemitic intimidation & threat
October 17, 2025 at 2:23 PM
This is the exact point; not every Maccabi TLV fan is a rabid hooligan and they're all being punished for the actions of some. Similarly, it's perfectly OK to protest about Israel without going on a 'Jew-hunt' or declaring all 'Zios' need to be buried.
The lack of nuance in this is astonishing.
The lack of nuance in this is astonishing.
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If we want to call ourselves evidence-informed, we need to show our working.
Cite your sources. Credit the people whose research you build on.
It’s not just honesty; it’s how others keep learning, too.
🔗 bit.ly/47atByd
#LND #LearningAndDevelopment #Research
Cite your sources. Credit the people whose research you build on.
It’s not just honesty; it’s how others keep learning, too.
🔗 bit.ly/47atByd
#LND #LearningAndDevelopment #Research
October 17, 2025 at 7:30 AM
If we want to call ourselves evidence-informed, we need to show our working.
Cite your sources. Credit the people whose research you build on.
It’s not just honesty; it’s how others keep learning, too.
🔗 bit.ly/47atByd
#LND #LearningAndDevelopment #Research
Cite your sources. Credit the people whose research you build on.
It’s not just honesty; it’s how others keep learning, too.
🔗 bit.ly/47atByd
#LND #LearningAndDevelopment #Research
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Huge thanks to @lizzicollinge.bsky.social for organising today’s Westminster Hall debate celebrating Ada Lovelace Day and support for women in STEM. It was an absolutely amazing experience and I am so honoured to have been recognised this way.
October 16, 2025 at 6:56 PM
Huge thanks to @lizzicollinge.bsky.social for organising today’s Westminster Hall debate celebrating Ada Lovelace Day and support for women in STEM. It was an absolutely amazing experience and I am so honoured to have been recognised this way.
I've seen these before but are always worth revisiting.
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Instead of taking the photos themselves, they invited passers-by to take their own photograph...
In 1979 Derek Bishton, Brian Homer and John Reardon created a pop-up photography studio on the street outside a terraced house in Grove Lane, Handsworth, Birmingham.
Instead of taking the photos themselves, they invited passers-by to take their own photograph...
Handsworth Self Portrait: 40 Years On - 1854 Photography
When Derek Bishton, John Reardon, and Brian Homer set up a photography and design agency in the late 1970s in Handsworth, a multicultural, inner-city district of Birmingham, they were viewed with susp...
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October 16, 2025 at 2:21 PM
I've seen these before but are always worth revisiting.
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THERAPIST: How long has it been since you experienced an anxiety attack?
SINGER FROM BARENAKED LADIES: It's been...
THERAPIST: Please. We talked about this.
SINGER FROM BARENAKED LADIES: It's been...
THERAPIST: Please. We talked about this.
October 16, 2025 at 12:20 PM
THERAPIST: How long has it been since you experienced an anxiety attack?
SINGER FROM BARENAKED LADIES: It's been...
THERAPIST: Please. We talked about this.
SINGER FROM BARENAKED LADIES: It's been...
THERAPIST: Please. We talked about this.
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Anyway, no real point to conclude with. I'm honoured and delighted to see my hard work recognised like this. And I am really going to enjoy my trip to Parliament this afternoon.
But if anyone wants to hire me or give me freelance work — writing, ghostwriting, research, DEI, comms strategy, comms...
But if anyone wants to hire me or give me freelance work — writing, ghostwriting, research, DEI, comms strategy, comms...
October 16, 2025 at 8:51 AM
Anyway, no real point to conclude with. I'm honoured and delighted to see my hard work recognised like this. And I am really going to enjoy my trip to Parliament this afternoon.
But if anyone wants to hire me or give me freelance work — writing, ghostwriting, research, DEI, comms strategy, comms...
But if anyone wants to hire me or give me freelance work — writing, ghostwriting, research, DEI, comms strategy, comms...
Hats, haircuts, and tattoos lostanddesperate.com/2025/10/15/h...
Hats, haircuts, and tattoos
I saw this fascinating post last week about decision making and context. In L&D we make all three types of decisions, but too often we treat EVERY choice as a tattoo. Buying a new platform, rol…
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October 15, 2025 at 2:38 PM
Hats, haircuts, and tattoos lostanddesperate.com/2025/10/15/h...