steve
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workplace bez. doing product & strategy bits thru https://boringmagi.cc. more about me at https://visitmy.website/about
That would charge my car 1,000 times, meaning I could drive around 120,000 miles. I could drive between Land’s End and John O’Groats EV charging stations 143 times.
December 29, 2025 at 6:56 PM
That would charge my car 1,000 times, meaning I could drive around 120,000 miles. I could drive between Land’s End and John O’Groats EV charging stations 143 times.
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Remember:
When Tylenol was poisoned *by an outsider* and killed people, the company recalled all their products & redesigned them.
When Intel’s Pentium had a bug so obscure it affected 1 in _9 billion_ long division calculations, they recalled their chips.
ChatGPT was made deadly *by its team*.
When Tylenol was poisoned *by an outsider* and killed people, the company recalled all their products & redesigned them.
When Intel’s Pentium had a bug so obscure it affected 1 in _9 billion_ long division calculations, they recalled their chips.
ChatGPT was made deadly *by its team*.
i don’t see how any of the benefits of chatgpt and other consumer-facing LLMs can possibly outweigh their incredible ability to induce suicides
Adam Raine’s life hurtled toward tragedy soon after he began talking with ChatGPT about homework. Analysis of his ChatGPT account shows how the chatbot became a confidant as he planned to end his life.
December 28, 2025 at 6:21 PM
Remember:
When Tylenol was poisoned *by an outsider* and killed people, the company recalled all their products & redesigned them.
When Intel’s Pentium had a bug so obscure it affected 1 in _9 billion_ long division calculations, they recalled their chips.
ChatGPT was made deadly *by its team*.
When Tylenol was poisoned *by an outsider* and killed people, the company recalled all their products & redesigned them.
When Intel’s Pentium had a bug so obscure it affected 1 in _9 billion_ long division calculations, they recalled their chips.
ChatGPT was made deadly *by its team*.
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Good enough wins because of what you are able to treat as externalities
December 29, 2025 at 6:14 PM
Good enough wins because of what you are able to treat as externalities
gonna have to use betwixtmas to sort out my tax affairs and financial planning, aren’t i?
oh, joy of joys! 🫠
oh, joy of joys! 🫠
December 29, 2025 at 3:08 PM
gonna have to use betwixtmas to sort out my tax affairs and financial planning, aren’t i?
oh, joy of joys! 🫠
oh, joy of joys! 🫠
got a swede in the veg box last week and, you know what, swede is nice
December 27, 2025 at 7:46 PM
got a swede in the veg box last week and, you know what, swede is nice
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Love Actually is one long HR training video
December 25, 2025 at 12:19 AM
Love Actually is one long HR training video
Going to send an email to my contacts at Number 10 stressing that finding the opposite to word ‘placard’ is the only exemplar AI project this country— nay, humanity needs.
I see various people posting this up. Here’s me from 2001 talking about AI. Dunno how accurate it is. I hope it isn’t. youtu.be/6mvUqM2Ty5c?...
Conference "A.I." from the Armando Iannucci Show
YouTube video by Simon Kidd
youtu.be
December 24, 2025 at 7:13 PM
Going to send an email to my contacts at Number 10 stressing that finding the opposite to word ‘placard’ is the only exemplar AI project this country— nay, humanity needs.
It’s the last weeknote of 2025, so naturally I’ve forced in two references to The Muppet Christmas Carol. digital-land.github.io/extract-alph...
December 23, 2025 at 5:49 PM
It’s the last weeknote of 2025, so naturally I’ve forced in two references to The Muppet Christmas Carol. digital-land.github.io/extract-alph...
dusted off the xbox and decided to play some games today. obviously i spent half the day installing the necessary updates, but finally got around to playing this in the evening – which is quite fun! www.theguardian.com/games/2022/a...
A midlife crisis in space: the Alters is a sci-fi comedy starring hapless clones
Featuring an astronaut trapped on a space station with only his alternate selves for company, 11 Bit Studios’ next game walks the line between comedy and commentary
www.theguardian.com
December 22, 2025 at 9:37 PM
dusted off the xbox and decided to play some games today. obviously i spent half the day installing the necessary updates, but finally got around to playing this in the evening – which is quite fun! www.theguardian.com/games/2022/a...
the m25 westbound between cobham and the junction for the m40 can just do one.
December 21, 2025 at 9:00 PM
the m25 westbound between cobham and the junction for the m40 can just do one.
This ain’t everything that’s been flying around my mind over the last week, but it’s the main bits. #Weeknotes before I go to do a present exchange with my parents. visitmy.website/2025/12/21/t...
The Boring Festive Party 2: Weeknotes S21E09
The beautiful thing about discovery and alpha is learning you had the wrong idea and that you need to change your mind.
visitmy.website
December 21, 2025 at 9:07 AM
This ain’t everything that’s been flying around my mind over the last week, but it’s the main bits. #Weeknotes before I go to do a present exchange with my parents. visitmy.website/2025/12/21/t...
Good example of an automation/AI failure mode.
Waymo has halted service in San Francisco after numerous videos & images showed its autonomous cars snarling traffic during the blackout.
With traffic lights down, Waymos across the city stopped dead in their tracks at intersections.
missionlocal.org/2025/12/sf-w...
With traffic lights down, Waymos across the city stopped dead in their tracks at intersections.
missionlocal.org/2025/12/sf-w...
Waymo halts service during massive S.F. blackout after causing traffic jams
Waymo stopped its service across San Francisco on Saturday after numerous autonomous vehicles caused traffic jams in the city.
missionlocal.org
December 21, 2025 at 6:17 AM
Good example of an automation/AI failure mode.
sad that i won’t see any more assemblages in his window on the way to the pet shop or chip shop.
Strange world evoked by surreal assemblages of NDP Fraser insidecroydon.com/2025/12/19/s... #Croydon #Art #NDPFraser @c20society.bsky.social @kentowl.bsky.social
Strange world evoked by surreal assemblages of NDP Fraser
There was a one-day-only, not-to-be-missed art exhibition in a house on Portland Road. KEN TOWL made sure he didn’t miss it I went to Portland Road the other Saturday, to see what was behind …
insidecroydon.com
December 19, 2025 at 2:18 PM
sad that i won’t see any more assemblages in his window on the way to the pet shop or chip shop.
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I do lots of hands-on work with teams adopting AI and there is something interesting about what can actually be measured. Most "work" is not pure play task-and-finish tasks, but co-operation and communication, which is much harder to measure. Getting things "done" not the same as doing them
faster
faster
December 18, 2025 at 6:03 PM
I do lots of hands-on work with teams adopting AI and there is something interesting about what can actually be measured. Most "work" is not pure play task-and-finish tasks, but co-operation and communication, which is much harder to measure. Getting things "done" not the same as doing them
faster
faster
don’t think i’ve ever been so involved as i am now in writing words to go into papers, submissions, briefings, etc. and there is only so much about user-centred software development and deployment that you can plain-english.
December 18, 2025 at 4:52 PM
don’t think i’ve ever been so involved as i am now in writing words to go into papers, submissions, briefings, etc. and there is only so much about user-centred software development and deployment that you can plain-english.
conservatives: the average sick days per spreadsheet has skyrocketed this year, and all because of bloody mental health!
techbros: we have created AGI
cognitive scientists: you fucked up a perfectly good spreadsheet is what you did. look at it. it's got anxiety
cognitive scientists: you fucked up a perfectly good spreadsheet is what you did. look at it. it's got anxiety
December 18, 2025 at 5:51 AM
conservatives: the average sick days per spreadsheet has skyrocketed this year, and all because of bloody mental health!
Once again considering whether I should launch a startup providing good, well-priced technology for underserved parts of the public sector. Boring stuff done well. There’s a gap in the market, a market ripe for disruption.
Only I know just how hard it is to sell into that market.
Only I know just how hard it is to sell into that market.
December 17, 2025 at 2:53 PM
Once again considering whether I should launch a startup providing good, well-priced technology for underserved parts of the public sector. Boring stuff done well. There’s a gap in the market, a market ripe for disruption.
Only I know just how hard it is to sell into that market.
Only I know just how hard it is to sell into that market.
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What if AI is not a general purpose technology but is a *generally applied* technology (applied in contexts where it both is and isn't useful) and hence is now an ambient factor, something that gets forced into everything, whether it's needed or not.
"AI appears to be a foundational general-purpose technology — akin to electricity or the steam engine — we should anticipate that its use will continue to broaden across all aspects of human endeavor... helping to tackle some of humanity’s greatest challenges." /1
arxiv.org/pdf/2511.19468
arxiv.org/pdf/2511.19468
arxiv.org
December 17, 2025 at 2:46 PM
What if AI is not a general purpose technology but is a *generally applied* technology (applied in contexts where it both is and isn't useful) and hence is now an ambient factor, something that gets forced into everything, whether it's needed or not.
less than 48 hours until the boring magic festive party, cannot wait
December 16, 2025 at 9:05 PM
less than 48 hours until the boring magic festive party, cannot wait
you know those adverts where elderly people say they have ‘peace of mind’ knowing their family will be able to afford the funeral costs? well, what if that’s a thing for dogs?
dragons, i’m looking for £200,000 for a 50% stake in the company
dragons, i’m looking for £200,000 for a 50% stake in the company
December 16, 2025 at 5:41 PM
you know those adverts where elderly people say they have ‘peace of mind’ knowing their family will be able to afford the funeral costs? well, what if that’s a thing for dogs?
dragons, i’m looking for £200,000 for a 50% stake in the company
dragons, i’m looking for £200,000 for a 50% stake in the company
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Inspired by attending @govcampcymru.bsky.social , me, @niacampbell.bsky.social and @monikasw.bsky.social have been working on this little website to help promote working in the open and digital resources in Wales…
cymruddigidol.github.io
cymruddigidol.github.io
Welcome to Cymru Ddigidol
An unofficial community project to share digital resources in Wales.
cymruddigidol.github.io
December 14, 2025 at 3:05 PM
Inspired by attending @govcampcymru.bsky.social , me, @niacampbell.bsky.social and @monikasw.bsky.social have been working on this little website to help promote working in the open and digital resources in Wales…
cymruddigidol.github.io
cymruddigidol.github.io
A good thing!
Personal opinion but product leads and heads should be all over the economic model and business case for their thing. Make the benefits work.
Personal opinion but product leads and heads should be all over the economic model and business case for their thing. Make the benefits work.
FAO business case nerds: government are finally getting round to publishing business cases.
This has been a long time coming - I remember working on ideas around this over three years ago.
So well done to the government for actually getting on with it.
www.gov.uk/government/c...
This has been a long time coming - I remember working on ideas around this over three years ago.
So well done to the government for actually getting on with it.
www.gov.uk/government/c...
Business case publications: collection
This is a collection page for major project and programme business cases.
www.gov.uk
December 15, 2025 at 8:50 PM
A good thing!
Personal opinion but product leads and heads should be all over the economic model and business case for their thing. Make the benefits work.
Personal opinion but product leads and heads should be all over the economic model and business case for their thing. Make the benefits work.
Just realised I’ve got to start writing this year’s round-up, so here’s all the good stuff I read about product management, digital government, artificial intelligence, placemaking, and other good bits last year.
Reading List Picks of 2024
Things I read about product management, digital government, artificial intelligence, placemaking and other things in 2024.
visitmy.website
December 15, 2025 at 11:41 AM
Just realised I’ve got to start writing this year’s round-up, so here’s all the good stuff I read about product management, digital government, artificial intelligence, placemaking, and other good bits last year.
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a weeknote, pondering the similarities of interfaces for data and teams, along with what they afford.
mikegallagher.org/posts/APIs-a...
mikegallagher.org/posts/APIs-a...
Mike Gallagher: APIs all the way down
Weeknote, w/c 8 December 2025
mikegallagher.org
December 14, 2025 at 2:49 PM
a weeknote, pondering the similarities of interfaces for data and teams, along with what they afford.
mikegallagher.org/posts/APIs-a...
mikegallagher.org/posts/APIs-a...