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What’s next

So once again I am looking for work. Rather than dwell on the negative reasons as to why I am searching again I am going to take the opportunity to reset my professional expectations a bit in a way that I flirted with 18 months ago but didn’t follow through with. First things first I…
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Fatal Five: Twitter vs Mastodon vs Bluesky vs Threads vs…LinkedIn?!

Twitter I joined Twitter in July 2007 though my addiction didn’t really take hold until January 2008. As I’ve said before it has mainly been a force for good in my life despite what it has become – it has given me friends around the world, massively influenced my career, provided me perspectives I wouldn’t…
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Minimal Viable Unconference

Yesterday Debbie, Steve and I hosted our second Product for the People unconference in Cardiff. The aim of these events is to bring product people (and people interested in product) from across the broadest definition of public service together in a safe space to learn, share and support each other. We had people from central…
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Let it Grow – the new GOV.UK strategy
Republished from Notion noteGDS has blogged about the new strategy for GOV.UKand it has certainly got some tongues wagging. It has identified nine areas of focus for the next couple of years and at least two or three of them were inevitably going to controversial with the wider digital gov community here in the UK –…
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Halt and Catch Feelings

I’ve just re-watched all four seasons of ‘Halt and Catch Fire’. If you are reading this post there is every chance you’ve at least heard of this underrated gem of ‘premium television’. If you aren’t aware of it, it is the story of the early days of personal computing / the internet / gaming /…