Anthony Dhanendran
@dhanendran.co.uk
I’m a product manager and sometime coach
Product and software development, music, cricket - was @phowax on Twitter
https://sixthings.dhanendran.com/about
Product and software development, music, cricket - was @phowax on Twitter
https://sixthings.dhanendran.com/about
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barista: can i take your name
james bond: the name's bond
barista: ok
james bond: james bond
barista: well i've written bond now
james bond: it's ok don't
barista: i can get a new cup
james bond: no it's fine
barista: it's not a problem
james bond: just go with bond
james bond: the name's bond
barista: ok
james bond: james bond
barista: well i've written bond now
james bond: it's ok don't
barista: i can get a new cup
james bond: no it's fine
barista: it's not a problem
james bond: just go with bond
November 11, 2025 at 3:49 PM
barista: can i take your name
james bond: the name's bond
barista: ok
james bond: james bond
barista: well i've written bond now
james bond: it's ok don't
barista: i can get a new cup
james bond: no it's fine
barista: it's not a problem
james bond: just go with bond
james bond: the name's bond
barista: ok
james bond: james bond
barista: well i've written bond now
james bond: it's ok don't
barista: i can get a new cup
james bond: no it's fine
barista: it's not a problem
james bond: just go with bond
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I like this
Make the McGuffin in the new Bond film notionally something to do with quantum computing. Have Q explain the many-worlds hypothesis. "So there might be a universe where, I don't know, you were born in 1921, or died in 2021. Anyway, that's not the point..."
November 11, 2025 at 11:15 AM
I like this
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Michael Prescott's report makes vital points about the importance of being accurate, and also how difficult that is. For instance, he describes himself as having been Political Editor of the Sunday Times for 10 years, which is not what the Guardian reported when he left the job.
November 10, 2025 at 2:31 PM
Michael Prescott's report makes vital points about the importance of being accurate, and also how difficult that is. For instance, he describes himself as having been Political Editor of the Sunday Times for 10 years, which is not what the Guardian reported when he left the job.
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"They're looking for someone with a thick skin and recent experience of flagship BBC news programming."
November 9, 2025 at 7:02 PM
"They're looking for someone with a thick skin and recent experience of flagship BBC news programming."
This is an unpopular position but: having worked with him a bit, I always thought Tim Davie was a highly competent leader and given his commercial instincts, was probably the best person to lead the BBC through its next charter renewal. I think this is very bad news for anyone who values the BBC.
Davie's resignation statement suggests he'd just had enough rather than feeling he had to resign over this particular issue.
November 9, 2025 at 6:27 PM
This is an unpopular position but: having worked with him a bit, I always thought Tim Davie was a highly competent leader and given his commercial instincts, was probably the best person to lead the BBC through its next charter renewal. I think this is very bad news for anyone who values the BBC.
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I can't imagine a job i'd like to do less. Managing an organisation held to a ludicrous standard by roaring idiots on a daily basis, while the main mediums it uses are all in decline and it's starved of resources.
November 9, 2025 at 6:25 PM
I can't imagine a job i'd like to do less. Managing an organisation held to a ludicrous standard by roaring idiots on a daily basis, while the main mediums it uses are all in decline and it's starved of resources.
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Absolutely the greatest thing to happen to a bookish teen with a sense of drama. '“I didn’t want to say immediately it was me,” he said. “With this photo there is a mystery, so you have to make it last.”'
Loving today's news that the mysterious "fedora man" outside the Louvre heist was actually a 15-year-old museum visitor who dresses like a 1940s French detective all the time, just because. apnews.com/article/louv...
Fedora man unmasked: Meet the teen behind the Louvre mystery photo
Fifteen-year-old Pedro Elias Garzon Delvaux has become an internet sensation after an Associated Press photo captured him outside the Louvre on the day of a crown jewels heist.
apnews.com
November 9, 2025 at 4:47 PM
Absolutely the greatest thing to happen to a bookish teen with a sense of drama. '“I didn’t want to say immediately it was me,” he said. “With this photo there is a mystery, so you have to make it last.”'
Stephen has me bang to rights here (I think they're fine, inconsequential, uninteresting, other than The Chain which is excellent). My only point of argument is I think the window is a little larger: a bell curve of about 20-25 years with a 95CI in the ten year period in the middle of that.
1) This is correct 2) IMO, the most reliable tell of how old someone is online is are they part of basically, the one ten-year cohort not to think Fleetwood Mac are a great band.
every generation loves Rumours. it’s fucking Rumours
November 9, 2025 at 3:11 PM
Stephen has me bang to rights here (I think they're fine, inconsequential, uninteresting, other than The Chain which is excellent). My only point of argument is I think the window is a little larger: a bell curve of about 20-25 years with a 95CI in the ten year period in the middle of that.
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Loving today's news that the mysterious "fedora man" outside the Louvre heist was actually a 15-year-old museum visitor who dresses like a 1940s French detective all the time, just because. apnews.com/article/louv...
Fedora man unmasked: Meet the teen behind the Louvre mystery photo
Fifteen-year-old Pedro Elias Garzon Delvaux has become an internet sensation after an Associated Press photo captured him outside the Louvre on the day of a crown jewels heist.
apnews.com
November 9, 2025 at 12:16 PM
Loving today's news that the mysterious "fedora man" outside the Louvre heist was actually a 15-year-old museum visitor who dresses like a 1940s French detective all the time, just because. apnews.com/article/louv...
FT piece on return of retro foods is really good, but the photography is particularly brilliant. I didn't clock at first that these were new pictures, so perfectly have they been cooked, styled and edited: on.ft.com/47IHdB1 (there are lots more great pics, but I think this is a fair use compromise)
November 8, 2025 at 1:25 PM
FT piece on return of retro foods is really good, but the photography is particularly brilliant. I didn't clock at first that these were new pictures, so perfectly have they been cooked, styled and edited: on.ft.com/47IHdB1 (there are lots more great pics, but I think this is a fair use compromise)
That wordmark (the "ADAM" bit) is infuriating. Incredibly cheap "will this do"-ism from the design team (back when record labels still had design teams). The first A doesn't have symmetry with either the other A or the M (and therefore the whole first line) which makes the whole thing unbalanced.
November 8, 2025 at 1:12 PM
That wordmark (the "ADAM" bit) is infuriating. Incredibly cheap "will this do"-ism from the design team (back when record labels still had design teams). The first A doesn't have symmetry with either the other A or the M (and therefore the whole first line) which makes the whole thing unbalanced.
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I made a “how do you do, fellow kids?” joke to someone in their mid 20s who, it turns out, was too young to have heard of that meme.
So “how do you do, fellow kids?” is now an example of “how do you do, fellow kids?”
So “how do you do, fellow kids?” is now an example of “how do you do, fellow kids?”
November 7, 2025 at 5:28 PM
I made a “how do you do, fellow kids?” joke to someone in their mid 20s who, it turns out, was too young to have heard of that meme.
So “how do you do, fellow kids?” is now an example of “how do you do, fellow kids?”
So “how do you do, fellow kids?” is now an example of “how do you do, fellow kids?”
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One of the funniest things about getting older is watching people my age succumb to nostalgia about these terrible films.
God its so insane anakin admits to slaughtering a bunch of kids and it’s just a non factor for padme
November 8, 2025 at 9:59 AM
One of the funniest things about getting older is watching people my age succumb to nostalgia about these terrible films.
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Here’s a linguistic quirk:
Last night on the TV10 on BBC1, it was the final; yet just now on the TV6 it was the finale.
Do they mean different things? Which do you prefer?
Last night on the TV10 on BBC1, it was the final; yet just now on the TV6 it was the finale.
Do they mean different things? Which do you prefer?
November 7, 2025 at 6:06 PM
Here’s a linguistic quirk:
Last night on the TV10 on BBC1, it was the final; yet just now on the TV6 it was the finale.
Do they mean different things? Which do you prefer?
Last night on the TV10 on BBC1, it was the final; yet just now on the TV6 it was the finale.
Do they mean different things? Which do you prefer?
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There are things it is a sign of having too much time on your hands if you have opinions on, or indeed if you know enough to have formed opinions on, and “the youth parliament” is one of them in my view.
November 7, 2025 at 1:49 PM
There are things it is a sign of having too much time on your hands if you have opinions on, or indeed if you know enough to have formed opinions on, and “the youth parliament” is one of them in my view.
Not often that BBC headline writers get to sneak a gag in: you can practically see the grin on the writer's face for this one
November 7, 2025 at 2:12 PM
Not often that BBC headline writers get to sneak a gag in: you can practically see the grin on the writer's face for this one
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There is absolutely nothing wrong with you. It only shows your intelligence and ability to appreciate nuance. History is not the study of heroes and villains. (Although both of these feature in it.)
This debate always makes me worry there’s something a bit wrong with me in that I don’t think the past is something you should draw pride or shame from. I have benefited from the British empire more than most Brits, but ultimately I am *not* my maternal great-great-great-grandfather!
On binary questions about Britain's colonial past, the median is Neither/Don't Know. (There are more constructive conversations than this which can unlock 75% common ground: teach it all, including the complexity and controversy)
November 7, 2025 at 12:54 PM
There is absolutely nothing wrong with you. It only shows your intelligence and ability to appreciate nuance. History is not the study of heroes and villains. (Although both of these feature in it.)
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This debate always makes me worry there’s something a bit wrong with me in that I don’t think the past is something you should draw pride or shame from. I have benefited from the British empire more than most Brits, but ultimately I am *not* my maternal great-great-great-grandfather!
On binary questions about Britain's colonial past, the median is Neither/Don't Know. (There are more constructive conversations than this which can unlock 75% common ground: teach it all, including the complexity and controversy)
November 7, 2025 at 12:50 PM
This debate always makes me worry there’s something a bit wrong with me in that I don’t think the past is something you should draw pride or shame from. I have benefited from the British empire more than most Brits, but ultimately I am *not* my maternal great-great-great-grandfather!
I went to see this last weekend. It has now been extended and is well worth a look IMO (it's a 75-minute documentary presented on three screens in a disused Westminster office). The theme is Vietnam and the 1970s attacks on US college campuses. Free but you need to book; runs to Nov 30
Select tickets – Naeem Mohaiemen: THROUGH A MIRROR, DARKLY – Albany House, 94-98 Petty France, London
Naeem Mohaiemen: THROUGH A MIRROR, DARKLY – Albany House, 94-98 Petty France, London, Multiple dates and times - Naeem Mohaiemen's new three-channel film explores memorialisation through milestone mom...
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November 7, 2025 at 12:06 PM
I went to see this last weekend. It has now been extended and is well worth a look IMO (it's a 75-minute documentary presented on three screens in a disused Westminster office). The theme is Vietnam and the 1970s attacks on US college campuses. Free but you need to book; runs to Nov 30
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A visual metaphor for the moment.
incredible photo that's definitely worth at least 1,000 words from Andrew Harnik of Getty
November 6, 2025 at 10:14 PM
A visual metaphor for the moment.
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In the mad world in which opposing swastika graffiti makes you a Zionist.
November 6, 2025 at 10:07 PM
In the mad world in which opposing swastika graffiti makes you a Zionist.
As usual in big finance news, the only person worth reading on the subject of Elon Musk’s “pay” deal is Matt Levine, whose Bloomberg email newsletter inexplicably continues to be free and which is therefore the world’s best-value newsletter
November 6, 2025 at 10:09 PM
As usual in big finance news, the only person worth reading on the subject of Elon Musk’s “pay” deal is Matt Levine, whose Bloomberg email newsletter inexplicably continues to be free and which is therefore the world’s best-value newsletter
The full story. Amazing stuff.
November 6, 2025 at 9:32 PM
The full story. Amazing stuff.