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An online notebook
Some bits and pieces I have been reading lately. The relentless Jeff Bezos – Stratechery What is clear, though, is that any attempt to understand the relentlessness of the company redirects to their founder, Jeff Bezos, who announced plans to…
So, I got an unexpected refund from the Student Loan Company (bonus!) recently and spent it on one of the new MacBook Airs. It’s a beautiful machine. Apple seem to have fixed the keyboard issues they were having a little…
A new year, a new attempt to return to semi-regular blogging. I’m trying to post little things often, rather than getting trapped into writing long posts that never get finished or published. You may have noticed I posted a video…
As part of the fun and games that is homeschooling, my daughter started off begging and borrowing computer time from me and her mum. It wasn’t ideal so I casted around for a better solution, so she could have her…
This is a great talk from Janet Hughes, which I found via Stefan’s Strategic Reading blog.
Last Wednesday, my chum Nick Hill and I ran a rather silly virtual event – the ‘digital dream yurt’. It’s an informal get together where people involve in digital and change in public service can get together on a Zoom…
I find this stuff, so you don’t have to etc etc Keep, Fix, Enhance, Swap, Replace: Five options for public service reform – Eddie Copeland Of course, everyone knows that in the real world, options are limited by time, money…
As mentioned in this post, I have started to find some time to read a bit more, and to bookmark useful stuff. Here’s what I have found in recent days (if I am honest, less than I would have expected…
A short reflection on the year, and some thoughts on what I need to be doing better in this new year (and decade!). The last year has been pretty good, I think. It’s certainly gone by quickly. Work has been…
I’ve not posted one of these for three weeks, which perhaps is something I should apologise for – although I am hardly inundated with demands for one. The bonus is that in covering three weeks in one note, I actually…
Reflections Ah, LocalGovCamp. It went well, I think, despite (perhaps because of) the fact that I missed the social bit the night before due to a spot of, ah, gastric issues. This meant I turned up fresh as a daisy…
I may publish these on different days, but will always title them as the Friday of the week they cover. Reflections It’s LocalGovCamp this week, 10 years after the first. A rather different event than that one – it’s a…
Inspired by Annie, here goes. Format open to change as things progress. Reflections Mood has been a little low this week. Am getting over a cold – nothing lethal – which has left me a bit tired and meh. In…
I’m three months into my new job and that seems a good time to reflect on how things are going. I’ll save the meat of that for another post, because this one is about how I am working within my…
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We first talked about updating the service standard around a year ago. Since then, we’ve talked to hundreds of people in central and local government. It’s still a work in progress, but we think we’re getting close to a final…
Probably the most important aspect of the new tools announced today is that they are based on the Lightning Design System, and so form part of the entire landscape of tools used to build Salesforce CRM applications. In earlier generations…
Resource. If you stop and think about it, it’s a terrible way to speak about people. A resource is something you take and use. Applied to people, it carries dismissive and devaluing undertones. Original:
Write, plan, collaborate, and get organized. Notion is all you need — in one tool. Original:
…the world’s oldest blockchain predates Bitcoin by 13 years and it’s been hiding in plain sight, printed weekly in the classified section of one of the world’s most widely circulated newspapers: The New York Times. Original: