Dave

Dave

🔗 Some links and stuff

I sent out a newsletter today, which featured some links that I’ve pasted below for posterity. However I’ve realised that I’ve written a few pieces on LinkedIn etc that I haven’t also published here, so will sort that out in…

📖 Countering the AI hype

This is a re-publish of a thing that went on LinkedIn, my newsletter, and the Digital Leaders newsletter. I’ve backdated the published date on this post to reflect this. Summary: all this tech called ‘AI’ is genuinely exciting. But the…

📅 Daily note for 26 January 2024

Remember my course! It might be really helpful for you or a colleague! Excellent podcast about what Iran is up to these days. Giles thinks learning materials in organisations ought to be better quality, and of course he is right.…

Daily note for 22 January 2024

I am running a 6 week online course about making a success of digital in your organisation. You can find out more and book on the SensibleTech website. Neil Lawrence’s GovCamp write up (Medium, meh). AI, data, and public services…

Daily note for 19 January 2024

A minor innovation in these daily notes – pulling out the occasional quote from some of the links, and then using a horizontal line to provide some separation. Also using the lines to make it clear when a multiple-paragraph comment…

Daily note for 18 January 2023

In a conversation today I got to reference the chicken and pig analogy around project managers, which is something I haven’t done in ages. I was differentiating between those project mangers without domain knowledge who coordinate, document, follow up on…