Holly Davis
projectdavis.bsky.social
Holly Davis
@projectdavis.bsky.social
head of delivery. food critic. coffee snob. new here.
Does anyone have the skills to reverse the effect of HDR on a couple of family pictures 🤦
August 4, 2025 at 4:03 PM
@jamiearnold.com is the kind of leader I want to grow into — someone who leads from the heart, builds trust, and keeps people focused on the change they want to create. Read / listen to our latest interview for Ship Happens to find out more

sometimesshiphappens.substack.com/p/leading-wi...
Leading with Outcomes: A Conversation with Jamie Arnold
In this edition of Ship Happens, we sit down with Jamie Arnold — agile delivery expert, founding team member of GOV.UK, and consultant to some of the UK’s most impactful digital services.
sometimesshiphappens.substack.com
May 16, 2025 at 8:55 AM
I can't decide what outfit to wear to a wedding (dress code is beach smart / casual 🤷🏼‍♂️)

Help me pick!
May 15, 2025 at 10:04 PM
What a sad sight (for so many reasons but also BAKED GOODS)

M&S tipping whole trays of baked goods into a bin bag 😭
April 3, 2025 at 10:29 PM
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ChatGPT consumes so much water and energy each week that it could power entire countries for YEARS and folk act like you told them to kill their selves cause you want them to write their own emails and not to steal art. 😂
April 3, 2025 at 12:46 PM
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Since I posted this last night we're now at 71 sign ups. Hope springs eternal 🍃🌼
February 24, 2025 at 12:30 PM
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I wrote about my brother Charlie’s final 48 hours, and his increasingly desperate attempts to track down an emergency supply of medication from the NHS. It’s an upsetting read but one I’m proud of. He’d be delighted to have made the @financialtimes.com magazine front cover: on.ft.com/434zZqn
February 23, 2025 at 9:10 AM
Just finished Big Boys 😭
February 16, 2025 at 8:56 PM
The latest episode of Ship Happens is out where Chris and I talk about some defining moments in our careers to date

sometimesshiphappens.substack.com/p/defining-m...
Defining Moments: The Career Lessons That Stick
Some moments in your career shape you in ways you don’t fully appreciate at the time.
sometimesshiphappens.substack.com
February 13, 2025 at 12:05 PM
Can anyone recommend any lean certifications and/or training providers that are useful?
February 1, 2025 at 2:58 PM
Solo date day

Treatment followed by tea and cake 🥰
February 1, 2025 at 2:56 PM
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Why don't I publish on Substack, you may ask?

It's because Substack is a shithole

Christ Best, the co-founder, is praising Elon Musk for “advancing freedom of speech” and Mark Zuckerberg for allowing users to call gay people “mentally ill” or women “objects”

read.substack.com/p/the-fight-...
January 29, 2025 at 6:44 PM
Just crashed into my bin. Hello, Tuesday 😅
January 28, 2025 at 8:03 AM
Trying to locate all my pensions and it's causing me massive anxiety

Does a system exist where you can put in your NI number and it retrieves them all for you?
January 27, 2025 at 8:43 PM
@curzoncinemas.bsky.social I lost a giftcard, found it and then went to use it yesterday only to be told it expired at the end of 2024 😭

Why do they expire?!
January 27, 2025 at 2:51 PM
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Wow. Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde fearlessly calls out Trump and Vance to their faces. This is heroic.

(posting in 3 parts due to Bluesky's 1 minute limit)
January 21, 2025 at 7:02 PM
Survived first day back at work but feel like I could already go to sleep 💤😅
January 13, 2025 at 6:28 PM
So sad to be leaving Mauritius, completely fell in love with it
January 10, 2025 at 5:29 PM
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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/...
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
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Am I correct to think these sort of rule changes would count as hate speech in the UK and so not be admissible?
Meta literally created a LGBTQ exception for calling someone mentally ill as an insult. You can't do it for any other group except LGBTQ people.
January 8, 2025 at 9:49 PM
I deleted Instagram on NYE as a bit of a digital detox, looks like I might not be going back
January 9, 2025 at 12:01 PM
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#Weeknotes 440, featuring product handbook, delivery predictions, agile project management, user expectations, product waste, mimetic isomorphism, explore-exploit trade off and standards in the decision stack.

rogerswannell.com/weeknotes/we...
rogerswannell.com
January 3, 2025 at 6:37 PM
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There's been recent focus on hiring designers from big-name tech companies (lnkd.in/eEjxq8EQ). Their skills are impressive, no doubt.

But in today’s climate of cost-saving, organisations need designers with the hard-earned experience of a transformation.

www.katherinewastell.com/blog/designi...
Designing on a cold, rainy night in Stoke — Katherine Wastell
Over the years in the teams I’ve led and supported, I’ve observed a unique skill-set in the designers with transformation experience. They’ve learnt how to do design in challenging, high-pressure envi...
www.katherinewastell.com
January 3, 2025 at 3:30 PM
That'll do nicely 😎
January 3, 2025 at 2:11 PM
To understand what lies ahead for the delivery management profession, we asked a group of delivery management professionals to share their insights and predictions—and here’s what they told us.

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Predictions for Delivery Management in 2025
We asked some of the delivery community to share their predictions for 2025 and here are the key themes that emerged
open.substack.com
January 2, 2025 at 3:29 PM