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Register revision
https://www.flickr.com/photos/psd/23676705565/ Last week the FCO, in partnership with the Data team at GDS, launched the first official ‘register’ for country names. This is a big achievement and is a significant step in building up the reality of ‘data as infrastructure’ in the UK. A year ago though I wouldn’t really have understood why this was…
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Methods in our madness
Back in the summer of 2014 I struggled through the procurement process and after one aborted attempt to use the original ‘Digital Services Framework’ ended up letting a contract via ‘GCloud’. What I was looking for was a small, multidisciplinary team that we could ‘in-source’ for a few weeks to build an Alpha prototype for…
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Head of Innovation
I was reading this interview with John Pullinger this afternoon. John is the National Statistician and as such the boss of my bosses, bosses, boss. I thought it did a good job at getting across how seriously the organisation is taking our ‘digital transformation’ but also how much there is to do and the scale…
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The Hard Thing About the Hard Thing About Hard Things
I’ve just finished ‘The Hard Thing About Hard Things’ by Ben Horowitz. Now Horowitz has had an amazing career first as a startup founder and CEO and probably more prominently as a venture capitalist with his long term business associate Marc Andreessen. They have been early investors in Facebook, Foursquare, GitHub, Pinterest, and Twitter amongst…
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