Alastair Parvin
@alastairparvin.bsky.social
Designer. Working on better ways to design, plan, build and own places. Director Open Systems Lab. WikiHouse, Plan✕, Fairhold
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This is going to be good. Mini talks about The Mother of All Topics. lu.ma/mm4dg8fy?tk=...
Land Talks #1: Flywheels, Cabins, Brushstrokes & More! · Luma
🗺️ Where Fresh Thinking Meets Britain’s Oldest Bottleneck
Land is key to economic growth and equality of opportunity, yet in Britain we’ve done almost nothing…
lu.ma
April 30, 2025 at 7:59 AM
This is going to be good. Mini talks about The Mother of All Topics. lu.ma/mm4dg8fy?tk=...
This is going to be good. Mini talks about The Mother of All Topics. lu.ma/mm4dg8fy?tk=...
Land Talks #1: Flywheels, Cabins, Brushstrokes & More! · Luma
🗺️ Where Fresh Thinking Meets Britain’s Oldest Bottleneck
Land is key to economic growth and equality of opportunity, yet in Britain we’ve done almost nothing…
lu.ma
April 30, 2025 at 7:59 AM
This is going to be good. Mini talks about The Mother of All Topics. lu.ma/mm4dg8fy?tk=...
Why procurement matters
(this is superb journalism)
Post Office paid £600m to continue using Horizon www.bbc.com/news/article...
(this is superb journalism)
Post Office paid £600m to continue using Horizon www.bbc.com/news/article...
Why the Post Office paid £600m to stay shackled to the faulty Horizon system
Not owning crucial code has meant it has been unable to replace the system that led to a scandal.
www.bbc.com
April 25, 2025 at 7:01 AM
Why procurement matters
(this is superb journalism)
Post Office paid £600m to continue using Horizon www.bbc.com/news/article...
(this is superb journalism)
Post Office paid £600m to continue using Horizon www.bbc.com/news/article...
📣 Job!
We’re looking for someone who wants to grow a thing: help local authorities to adopt digital planning tools & services that make planning simpler, for everyone.
Come and join a brilliant team, working on making stuff better, at scale.
www.opensystemslab.io/jobs/plan-ad...
We’re looking for someone who wants to grow a thing: help local authorities to adopt digital planning tools & services that make planning simpler, for everyone.
Come and join a brilliant team, working on making stuff better, at scale.
www.opensystemslab.io/jobs/plan-ad...
We are looking for a Plan✕ Adoption Lead
4 or 5 days per week, flexible / Anywhere UK (remote with occasional visits)
www.opensystemslab.io
April 17, 2025 at 3:52 PM
📣 Job!
We’re looking for someone who wants to grow a thing: help local authorities to adopt digital planning tools & services that make planning simpler, for everyone.
Come and join a brilliant team, working on making stuff better, at scale.
www.opensystemslab.io/jobs/plan-ad...
We’re looking for someone who wants to grow a thing: help local authorities to adopt digital planning tools & services that make planning simpler, for everyone.
Come and join a brilliant team, working on making stuff better, at scale.
www.opensystemslab.io/jobs/plan-ad...
Reposted by Alastair Parvin
“The individual preference for solitude, scaled up across society and exercised repeatedly over time, is rewiring America’s civic and psychic identity” (The graph below is extraordinary, even accepting a Covid bump. Another systemic challenge, no silver bullet) www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...
January 13, 2025 at 12:49 AM
“The individual preference for solitude, scaled up across society and exercised repeatedly over time, is rewiring America’s civic and psychic identity” (The graph below is extraordinary, even accepting a Covid bump. Another systemic challenge, no silver bullet) www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...