‘I was born in Belfast between the mountain and the gantries’
November 28, 2025 at 9:47 PM
‘I was born in Belfast between the mountain and the gantries’
Classy drive from Lando, classy dedication of the win to a classy Brazilian driver: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gil_de_...
Gil de Ferran - Wikipedia
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November 9, 2025 at 7:50 PM
Classy drive from Lando, classy dedication of the win to a classy Brazilian driver: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gil_de_...
Bought a 2nd hand book about 1930s motor racing. Found pencilled amendments to the times for the first full Donington Grand Prix in 1937, so followed the inscription to find the previous owner: quite a life en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roberta...
November 3, 2025 at 7:11 PM
Bought a 2nd hand book about 1930s motor racing. Found pencilled amendments to the times for the first full Donington Grand Prix in 1937, so followed the inscription to find the previous owner: quite a life en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roberta...
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Where are the public sector reformers? Can you help us find them?
At @kinship.works, we thought we'd try to map the different public sector reform 'tribes' & where to find them (orgs, events, networks/communities, online spaces, newsletters/publications/podcasts etc) - but we need your help!
At @kinship.works, we thought we'd try to map the different public sector reform 'tribes' & where to find them (orgs, events, networks/communities, online spaces, newsletters/publications/podcasts etc) - but we need your help!
October 30, 2025 at 4:06 PM
Where are the public sector reformers? Can you help us find them?
At @kinship.works, we thought we'd try to map the different public sector reform 'tribes' & where to find them (orgs, events, networks/communities, online spaces, newsletters/publications/podcasts etc) - but we need your help!
At @kinship.works, we thought we'd try to map the different public sector reform 'tribes' & where to find them (orgs, events, networks/communities, online spaces, newsletters/publications/podcasts etc) - but we need your help!
‘At the end of the day, he ran back into the office and shouted, "PEOPLE HAVE NO IDEA HOW CARS WORK, YOU GUYS."’
I got so annoyed by the tweet that sparked this thread that I wrote about it
www.leahreich.com/maybe-stop-b...
www.leahreich.com/maybe-stop-b...
October 23, 2025 at 9:52 PM
‘At the end of the day, he ran back into the office and shouted, "PEOPLE HAVE NO IDEA HOW CARS WORK, YOU GUYS."’
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The 5 Stages of Tech Debt, a 🧵
(Based on a true story)
(Based on a true story)
October 20, 2025 at 1:07 PM
The 5 Stages of Tech Debt, a 🧵
(Based on a true story)
(Based on a true story)
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Something that not enough people know about SQLite is that it's in the public domain because it's a product of government. General Dynamics made it on contract with the U.S. Navy.
When government software is affirmatively placed in the public domain, and the code is public, good things can happen!
When government software is affirmatively placed in the public domain, and the code is public, good things can happen!
October 20, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Something that not enough people know about SQLite is that it's in the public domain because it's a product of government. General Dynamics made it on contract with the U.S. Navy.
When government software is affirmatively placed in the public domain, and the code is public, good things can happen!
When government software is affirmatively placed in the public domain, and the code is public, good things can happen!
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October 20, 2025 at 9:24 AM
Rare example of an academic report written as clearly as an early GDS blog post.
(And ‘Jeff Bezos doesn’t come around your house for a workshop every time you want to buy a book from Amazon’ is a great line.)
(And ‘Jeff Bezos doesn’t come around your house for a workshop every time you want to buy a book from Amazon’ is a great line.)
[We need more of this] Who would pay for a cross-cutting service in a government structured around departmental silos? Lessons in the politics of digital transformation www.ucl.ac.uk/bartlett/pub...
Scaling Digital Infrastructure in a Siloed State
Authored by Hannah White and David Eaves
www.ucl.ac.uk
October 16, 2025 at 7:14 AM
Rare example of an academic report written as clearly as an early GDS blog post.
(And ‘Jeff Bezos doesn’t come around your house for a workshop every time you want to buy a book from Amazon’ is a great line.)
(And ‘Jeff Bezos doesn’t come around your house for a workshop every time you want to buy a book from Amazon’ is a great line.)
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One for the GDS gang. These T’s & C’s need reviewing.
Not least the section “Governing Law” which has an obvious issue when you read the Welsh version ;)
One for the GDS gang. These T’s & C’s need reviewing.
Not least the section “Governing Law” which has an obvious issue when you read the Welsh version ;)
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October 14, 2025 at 8:52 AM
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One for the GDS gang. These T’s & C’s need reviewing.
Not least the section “Governing Law” which has an obvious issue when you read the Welsh version ;)
One for the GDS gang. These T’s & C’s need reviewing.
Not least the section “Governing Law” which has an obvious issue when you read the Welsh version ;)
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Passmore Edwards funded institutions for me.
October 12, 2025 at 9:20 PM
Passmore Edwards funded institutions for me.
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Data standards for the spreadsheet infrastructure. Platforms can come later.
October 10, 2025 at 3:25 PM
Data standards for the spreadsheet infrastructure. Platforms can come later.
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We're recruiting for a Bilingual Content Designer (Welsh and English) on our team, please spread the word to anyone who might be interested! www.jobtrain.co.uk/justicedigit...
Bilingual Content Designer (Welsh and English) :National
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October 6, 2025 at 10:03 AM
We're recruiting for a Bilingual Content Designer (Welsh and English) on our team, please spread the word to anyone who might be interested! www.jobtrain.co.uk/justicedigit...
Of all the things I hoped would cause riots before it was allowed to occur… who has allowed Paddington to close their M&S food hall without advance warning? It wasn’t great but the alternatives are so much worse. #firstworldproblems
October 7, 2025 at 6:33 PM
Of all the things I hoped would cause riots before it was allowed to occur… who has allowed Paddington to close their M&S food hall without advance warning? It wasn’t great but the alternatives are so much worse. #firstworldproblems
My daughter is ten. Today she came back from school and told me that their class had elected a digital director.
October 3, 2025 at 5:05 PM
My daughter is ten. Today she came back from school and told me that their class had elected a digital director.
“There is no person behind the language produced by a chatbot. It’s a dilution of billions of people, like adding water to sugar until the sweetness dissolves. Writing, & lots of art and other things humans do, can give you a bit of a taste of the someone behind it. With AI that sugar is rinsed out”
mail.cyberneticforests.com/human-litera...
AI has accidentally caused some excellent writing about the experience of being a person.
#reading-list
AI has accidentally caused some excellent writing about the experience of being a person.
#reading-list
Human Literacy
Something I Can Tell Students Now That I Am Not Teaching
You and I probably both keep hearing that students should be working toward AI literacy. That you should know what to type into prompt windo...
mail.cyberneticforests.com
August 29, 2025 at 7:22 AM
“There is no person behind the language produced by a chatbot. It’s a dilution of billions of people, like adding water to sugar until the sweetness dissolves. Writing, & lots of art and other things humans do, can give you a bit of a taste of the someone behind it. With AI that sugar is rinsed out”
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Book review, by me: Numbers and Nerves: Information, emotion and meaning in a world of data
A fascinating collection of chapters on how people understand or fail to understand numbers
www.effortmark.co.uk/book-review-...
A fascinating collection of chapters on how people understand or fail to understand numbers
www.effortmark.co.uk/book-review-...
Book review: Numbers and Nerves: Information, emotion and meaning in a world of data - Effortmark
Caroline recommends the book Numbers and Nerves as a way of understanding and overcoming our difficulty in grasping big numbers
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August 19, 2025 at 9:07 AM
Book review, by me: Numbers and Nerves: Information, emotion and meaning in a world of data
A fascinating collection of chapters on how people understand or fail to understand numbers
www.effortmark.co.uk/book-review-...
A fascinating collection of chapters on how people understand or fail to understand numbers
www.effortmark.co.uk/book-review-...
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Good Services are only as strong as their weakest link
Services are impacted by everything our organisation does and how it operates. If something we're doing from a way we evaluate performance to how we fund services doesn't work, it will impact the end user
Get this poster on good.services/shop
Services are impacted by everything our organisation does and how it operates. If something we're doing from a way we evaluate performance to how we fund services doesn't work, it will impact the end user
Get this poster on good.services/shop
July 31, 2025 at 6:50 PM
Good Services are only as strong as their weakest link
Services are impacted by everything our organisation does and how it operates. If something we're doing from a way we evaluate performance to how we fund services doesn't work, it will impact the end user
Get this poster on good.services/shop
Services are impacted by everything our organisation does and how it operates. If something we're doing from a way we evaluate performance to how we fund services doesn't work, it will impact the end user
Get this poster on good.services/shop
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I spent seven years writing a book on this and she just… said it in three succinct paragraphs to politico.
Stand by this: www.politico.com/newsletters/...
July 31, 2025 at 11:21 AM
I spent seven years writing a book on this and she just… said it in three succinct paragraphs to politico.
Now at the stage in my career where I feel like writing the ‘there are only 7 plots in literature’ book, but for digital projects.
July 10, 2025 at 8:27 PM
Now at the stage in my career where I feel like writing the ‘there are only 7 plots in literature’ book, but for digital projects.
He died over 60 years ago, so he couldn’t have foreseen AI…
June 19, 2025 at 7:10 PM
He died over 60 years ago, so he couldn’t have foreseen AI…
This is good. open.substack.com/pub/cutlefis...
TBM 362: How (And Why) We Help
While it's easy to dismiss the standard consulting approach as formulaic or unlikely to spark deep systemic change, I believe it is also what makes it politically viable, repeatable, and relatively lo...
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June 16, 2025 at 12:39 PM
This is good. open.substack.com/pub/cutlefis...
That old adage from the early 70s that says that Ferrari can’t win in sports cars and F1 at the same time… looking like it might be true right now.
June 15, 2025 at 9:15 PM
That old adage from the early 70s that says that Ferrari can’t win in sports cars and F1 at the same time… looking like it might be true right now.
25 years ago, I was on the newsdesk of a big local daily newspaper when the News Ed took a phone call, beckoned me over, handed me the receiver and mouthed ‘find out who it is and whether there’s a story’.
I’ve come to realise that answering those two questions is all that matters in most scenarios
I’ve come to realise that answering those two questions is all that matters in most scenarios
June 11, 2025 at 4:58 PM
25 years ago, I was on the newsdesk of a big local daily newspaper when the News Ed took a phone call, beckoned me over, handed me the receiver and mouthed ‘find out who it is and whether there’s a story’.
I’ve come to realise that answering those two questions is all that matters in most scenarios
I’ve come to realise that answering those two questions is all that matters in most scenarios
Lando may not have won but ‘I did that once. On Mario Kart’ deserves an award of its own.
Somewhere, Dan Ticktum is sitting thinking that he once got more than 10s for something similar.
Somewhere, Dan Ticktum is sitting thinking that he once got more than 10s for something similar.
June 1, 2025 at 2:53 PM
Lando may not have won but ‘I did that once. On Mario Kart’ deserves an award of its own.
Somewhere, Dan Ticktum is sitting thinking that he once got more than 10s for something similar.
Somewhere, Dan Ticktum is sitting thinking that he once got more than 10s for something similar.