Dave Rogers
@daverog.bsky.social
Technology forms layers in your organisation - over years, these can start to feel like layers of rock in a geological formation. This is slowing down everything you do.
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The deep digital geology that’s slowing your company down — Public Digital
public.digital
October 3, 2025 at 1:08 PM
Technology forms layers in your organisation - over years, these can start to feel like layers of rock in a geological formation. This is slowing down everything you do.
public.digital/pd-insights/...
public.digital/pd-insights/...
Interesting looking sessions at the next @transformgovtalks.bsky.social see you there if you're coming too 👋
🚨 6PM, WED 24 September 🚨
Join us at the MoJ or online
* Dr Moira Nicolson & Holly Marquez "Failing Forward: Why Planning for AI Disasters Unlocks Breakthrough Innovation"
* Ben Sauer "Always Be Creating Clarity: Daily habits for strategic storytelling"
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Please share! Thanks 🙏
Join us at the MoJ or online
* Dr Moira Nicolson & Holly Marquez "Failing Forward: Why Planning for AI Disasters Unlocks Breakthrough Innovation"
* Ben Sauer "Always Be Creating Clarity: Daily habits for strategic storytelling"
luma.com/sm09nslz
Please share! Thanks 🙏
TransformGov Talks : September 2025 · Luma
Dr Moira Nicolson, Lead Behavioural Scientist (Cabinet Office) and Honorary Research Fellow (UCL) plus Holly Marquez, Senior Behavioural Scientist, (Cabinet…
luma.com
September 16, 2025 at 8:08 PM
Interesting looking sessions at the next @transformgovtalks.bsky.social see you there if you're coming too 👋
This team was brilliant today. The time they gave to explain their mission and personal stories was generous, and incredibly insightful. Go @adhdpathfinding.org.uk 🙌🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻
What an absolutely amazing day! Thanks again to @daverog.bsky.social and @publicdigital.bsky.social!
Connecting, workshopping, showing, telling… we’ll share more soon!
For now, our latest weeknote:
medium.com/adhd-pathfin...
Connecting, workshopping, showing, telling… we’ll share more soon!
For now, our latest weeknote:
medium.com/adhd-pathfin...
September 12, 2025 at 3:31 PM
This team was brilliant today. The time they gave to explain their mission and personal stories was generous, and incredibly insightful. Go @adhdpathfinding.org.uk 🙌🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻
We're looking forward to having you all at @publicdigital.bsky.social and having an opportunity to support your mission 🙌🏻
This Friday will be our first in-person meet as @adhdpathfinding.org.uk! Huge thanks to @daverog.bsky.social and @publicdigital.bsky.social for hosting 🙌
We’ll be running a strategy workshop and doing a show and tell with the PD team.
Learning and working in the open, shaped by lived experience 💙
We’ll be running a strategy workshop and doing a show and tell with the PD team.
Learning and working in the open, shaped by lived experience 💙
September 9, 2025 at 9:27 PM
We're looking forward to having you all at @publicdigital.bsky.social and having an opportunity to support your mission 🙌🏻
We need more of this kind of thing ✊🏻
ADHD support shouldn’t feel like a maze. But for many it does.
So we’re launching ADHD Pathfinding. A volunteer team with lived experience, exploring how to design more joined up and accessible pathways.
This is about change, not just awareness.
Read why we’re doing this and what comes next.
So we’re launching ADHD Pathfinding. A volunteer team with lived experience, exploring how to design more joined up and accessible pathways.
This is about change, not just awareness.
Read why we’re doing this and what comes next.
Introducing ADHD Pathfinding
Exploring more joined up and accessible ADHD care
medium.com
July 15, 2025 at 8:53 PM
We need more of this kind of thing ✊🏻
🚨 Awesome new technologist role at Public Digital 🚨
Come join my team @publicdigital.bsky.social!
We’re looking for technologists from all kinds of backgrounds to join us and use your hands-on experience to help leading institutions around the world adapt for the digital age.
apply.workable.com/public-digit...
We’re looking for technologists from all kinds of backgrounds to join us and use your hands-on experience to help leading institutions around the world adapt for the digital age.
apply.workable.com/public-digit...
Tech Principal Consultant - Public Digital
Salary: £85,000 - £105,000 (depending on experience)Location: United Kingdom (Hybrid – with regular in-person client meetings. Some travel, including international travel, may be required depending on...
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July 11, 2025 at 1:11 PM
🚨 Awesome new technologist role at Public Digital 🚨
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A proposal for a “Single Front Door” for ADHD. Shaped by my own lived experience, conversations with dozens navigating ADHD journeys and strengthened through generous input from experienced designers, policy thinkers and former civil servants
This isn’t just a blog post. It’s a call to action.
This isn’t just a blog post. It’s a call to action.
A Single Front Door for ADHD
Rethinking how we access diagnosis, support and care
himalmandalia.medium.com
June 24, 2025 at 8:58 AM
A proposal for a “Single Front Door” for ADHD. Shaped by my own lived experience, conversations with dozens navigating ADHD journeys and strengthened through generous input from experienced designers, policy thinkers and former civil servants
This isn’t just a blog post. It’s a call to action.
This isn’t just a blog post. It’s a call to action.
Using LLMs for software development can't solve the problem of technical debt, but it feels like it's changing the game share.google/4XDOSKp1OQTs... but I do wonder if it can outpace the ability, with the same technology, to create new technical debt at greater speed
How the GitHub billing team uses the coding agent in GitHub Copilot to continuously burn down technical debt
Tech debt is a big problem that no one has time to solve. GitHub Copilot coding agent can help.
share.google
June 13, 2025 at 11:34 AM
Using LLMs for software development can't solve the problem of technical debt, but it feels like it's changing the game share.google/4XDOSKp1OQTs... but I do wonder if it can outpace the ability, with the same technology, to create new technical debt at greater speed
Reposted by Dave Rogers
On the myth that efficiency should be the primary goal of government transformation. foreignpolicy.com/2025/04/07/d...
Efficiency Isn’t Everything
Successful delivery of state services requires judgment, not chainsaws.
foreignpolicy.com
April 7, 2025 at 4:12 PM
On the myth that efficiency should be the primary goal of government transformation. foreignpolicy.com/2025/04/07/d...
On Friday I'm speaking on a panel at the Institute of Philosophy and the Institute of Commonwealth Studies's event Diplomacy in the Digital Age commonwealth.sas.ac.uk/news-events/... exploring the state of government technology, and the impact this has on this critical domain.
Diplomacy in the Digital Age
The Institute of Philosophy and the Institute of Commonwealth Studies have organised a high-level, invite-only dialogue on Diplomacy in the Digital Age on 28 March 2025.
commonwealth.sas.ac.uk
March 25, 2025 at 9:13 AM
On Friday I'm speaking on a panel at the Institute of Philosophy and the Institute of Commonwealth Studies's event Diplomacy in the Digital Age commonwealth.sas.ac.uk/news-events/... exploring the state of government technology, and the impact this has on this critical domain.
Reposted by Dave Rogers
#CampDigital - Meet our speakers!
We're delighted to announce that @kwastell.bsky.social and @blangry.bsky.social will join our lineup on 3rd July, with their talk 'Getting things moving in a system that doesn't want to!' 🥳
Grab your tickets today at: tinyurl.com/mw4bcyb9
We're delighted to announce that @kwastell.bsky.social and @blangry.bsky.social will join our lineup on 3rd July, with their talk 'Getting things moving in a system that doesn't want to!' 🥳
Grab your tickets today at: tinyurl.com/mw4bcyb9
March 18, 2025 at 9:09 AM
#CampDigital - Meet our speakers!
We're delighted to announce that @kwastell.bsky.social and @blangry.bsky.social will join our lineup on 3rd July, with their talk 'Getting things moving in a system that doesn't want to!' 🥳
Grab your tickets today at: tinyurl.com/mw4bcyb9
We're delighted to announce that @kwastell.bsky.social and @blangry.bsky.social will join our lineup on 3rd July, with their talk 'Getting things moving in a system that doesn't want to!' 🥳
Grab your tickets today at: tinyurl.com/mw4bcyb9
Someone really needs to have a word with whoever is putting up all this 'red tape' in the first place 🙄
March 17, 2025 at 9:19 AM
Someone really needs to have a word with whoever is putting up all this 'red tape' in the first place 🙄
Reposted by Dave Rogers
I hope one thing digital government practitioners are taking away from attempting to divine what is happening in the US: it should be a mater of public record how digital public services and infrastructure work, when they change and what data they use. No more excuses.
February 7, 2025 at 6:30 PM
I hope one thing digital government practitioners are taking away from attempting to divine what is happening in the US: it should be a mater of public record how digital public services and infrastructure work, when they change and what data they use. No more excuses.
Found it! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overton...
February 6, 2025 at 12:03 PM
Found it! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overton...
Reposted by Dave Rogers
I wrote this on this day ten years ago. It has become a necessary ritual to share it again each year and to remember for those who no longer can.
On not going to Auschwitz
It is thirty years since I didn’t go to Auschwitz. The memory of not going has never left me. In 1985, I was living in Kraków, just 40 miles on the slow stopping train from Oświęcim. I could …
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January 27, 2025 at 8:00 AM
I wrote this on this day ten years ago. It has become a necessary ritual to share it again each year and to remember for those who no longer can.
That was a very enjoyable #ukgc25 (if slightly exhausting). Brilliant to hear different experiences of leadership, problem solve the spending review, and hear people's understanding of and reactions to 'test & learn'. And see so many brilliant people I haven't in a long time. 🤗
January 18, 2025 at 5:39 PM
That was a very enjoyable #ukgc25 (if slightly exhausting). Brilliant to hear different experiences of leadership, problem solve the spending review, and hear people's understanding of and reactions to 'test & learn'. And see so many brilliant people I haven't in a long time. 🤗
See you Saturday if you're off to @ukgovcamp.bsky.social we've got a few of us coming from @publicdigital.bsky.social, we're sponsoring again 🙌🏻 Come and say hi to us, we'll be hanging out near our banner in the marketplace and generally milling around and pitching some sessions. 👋🏻
January 15, 2025 at 11:16 AM
See you Saturday if you're off to @ukgovcamp.bsky.social we've got a few of us coming from @publicdigital.bsky.social, we're sponsoring again 🙌🏻 Come and say hi to us, we'll be hanging out near our banner in the marketplace and generally milling around and pitching some sessions. 👋🏻
I've written this about trust between leaders and teams, and why there's often a trap you can fall into. Don't trust your team? Don't trust your leadership? Might be worth a read...
public.digital/pd-insights/...
public.digital/pd-insights/...
The Trust Trap: How Leaders and Teams Can Rebuild Trustpublic digitalpublic digital
Struggling with trust issues at work? Learn how leaders and teams can escape the Trust Trap and rebuild trust for a healthier, more productive workplace culture.
public.digital
January 10, 2025 at 9:10 AM
I've written this about trust between leaders and teams, and why there's often a trap you can fall into. Don't trust your team? Don't trust your leadership? Might be worth a read...
public.digital/pd-insights/...
public.digital/pd-insights/...
The impact of AI: Why I have no idea what it'll be, and neither do you! www.youtube.com/watch?v=iBCS... (my talk from last November at @aifortherestofus.live)
The impact of AI: Why I have no idea what it'll be, and neither do you! | Dave Rogers
YouTube video by AI for the rest of us
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January 2, 2025 at 4:41 PM
The impact of AI: Why I have no idea what it'll be, and neither do you! www.youtube.com/watch?v=iBCS... (my talk from last November at @aifortherestofus.live)
Reposted by Dave Rogers
the entire "AGI when?" debate is so funny to me because it's a cult dreamed up by people who seem to lack even the vaguest sense of how actual cognition works, foisted on a public that shouldn't have bought the premise in the first place, leading to a debate that's mostly beside the point
December 26, 2024 at 5:05 PM
the entire "AGI when?" debate is so funny to me because it's a cult dreamed up by people who seem to lack even the vaguest sense of how actual cognition works, foisted on a public that shouldn't have bought the premise in the first place, leading to a debate that's mostly beside the point
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I’ve argued that the Civil Service’s problems are best framed as structural and cultural, rather than a function of individuals.
Cultures are made up of norms that are sustained by language and behaviours.
So what norms does the CS need to tackle to be more effective?
A first stab 🧵
Cultures are made up of norms that are sustained by language and behaviours.
So what norms does the CS need to tackle to be more effective?
A first stab 🧵
December 13, 2024 at 2:48 PM
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Wondered what 'test and learn' means? I've written this to unpack and explain it public.digital/pd-insights/...
Just what is 'Test and Learn'?public digitalpublic digital
A blog explaining the concept of Test and Learn in organisational change
public.digital
December 12, 2024 at 4:30 PM
Wondered what 'test and learn' means? I've written this to unpack and explain it public.digital/pd-insights/...
Reposted by Dave Rogers
The UK parliament has joined Bluesky, with proper verified domains and everything:
• @houseofcommons.parliament.uk
• @houseoflords.parliament.uk
• @ukparliament.parliament.uk
• @commonsspeaker.parliament.uk
• @houseofcommons.parliament.uk
• @houseoflords.parliament.uk
• @ukparliament.parliament.uk
• @commonsspeaker.parliament.uk
December 10, 2024 at 2:52 PM
The UK parliament has joined Bluesky, with proper verified domains and everything:
• @houseofcommons.parliament.uk
• @houseoflords.parliament.uk
• @ukparliament.parliament.uk
• @commonsspeaker.parliament.uk
• @houseofcommons.parliament.uk
• @houseoflords.parliament.uk
• @ukparliament.parliament.uk
• @commonsspeaker.parliament.uk
I've been waiting over 10 years for a government minister to make a speech like this: www.gov.uk/government/s...
December 9, 2024 at 8:44 PM
I've been waiting over 10 years for a government minister to make a speech like this: www.gov.uk/government/s...