Dave

Delighted to see another local gov blog launching today! https://warwickdc.localgov.blog/ Some lovely stuff in here: https://waxy.org/2023/07/vote-on-the-tiny-awards/ Maddening but brilliant, like a reverse Tetris: https://vividfax.itch.io/fudge

Another newsletter went out today: https://www.davebriggs.email/p/daveslist-volume-3-issue-4 “Teaching agility, not Agile™” https://medium.com/@rchatley/teaching-agility-not-agile-a69ed6644682 Ooooooh: “Open Working 101” https://medium.com/we-are-cast/open-working-101-f8fa10385061 Daughter was telling me this morning about dog and cat based ASMR videos, and I said I really don’t think that was what TBL had in mind when he invented the web and she said dad, you’re so old. … Keep reading

It was our son’s graduation yesterday. So proud! But also, how did that happen? I’m so old! On Saturday we watched the new Indiana Jones film. Very silly of course but it did capture some of the fun of the originals, which I was just mad keen on when I was a kid. I used … Keep reading

Said this a few time this week – you can do amazing work with a good team, good culture, plenty of enthusiasm and terrible tech. With great tech and rubbish everything else, not so much. Have made it onto Bluesky, just in time for it to die probably. But if you are there, come say … Keep reading

Another newsletter went out this morning: https://daveslist.substack.com/p/daves-list-vol-3-issue-3 ClassicPress is WordPress like it used to be https://www.classicpress.net/ For years I lived in Evernote. This by Harry McCracken captures some of what made it great https://www.technologizer.com/2023/07/09/for-your-eyes-only-my-unedited-2013-time-magazine-story-about-evernote/ I knew vaguely of Vivian Stanshall, but I definitely know more having read this: https://www.theguardian.com/music/2023/jul/12/on-best-behaviour-he-was-a-joy-the-lost-archive-of-english-pop-eccentric-vivian-stanshall I like this! “Build your own … Keep reading