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Entrepreneur, Investor, Consultant. Services: Fractional CTO, Digital transformation, Project rescue. Startups or incumbents. Generalist.

Manchester, England
Joined May 2007
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Due to multiple community requests and overwhelming demand we've just brought online our newest Polkadot Validator. Say hello to WEATHERPROOF ☔️ Here for every Web3 storm and bear market (you see what we did with the name there). Available at all good staking clients now!
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Kudos to @facebook for giving us a very real demonstration of why the move to a decentralised Web 3 is necessary and, indeed, inevitable.
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Guardian Business Live feed inadvertently makes the toilet paper crisis even worse. #covid19 #toiletpaper #Guardian
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Too many organisations still think they can be good at internet-era ways of working while still outsourcing all their tech delivery. An internet-era CTO will hire developers. I’ve written a bit about why on the @publicdigitalhq blog public.digital/2019/10/24/wh… – at Hackney, London
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What a great set of talks! Thanks @uxspot @firegrass @LornaKen (and Edd) and to everyone who joined us this evening🙏. See you next month! #theuxcrunch #uxcrunch @TechCircus_
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Data is not seen as a priority by government, the importance of investing in quality data is not well understood, and there is a culture of tolerating and working around poor data. Find out more in this video and read our latest report: socsi.in/NAO_report_SMb6a
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Eventual Consistency
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"We will ensure that perpetrators can no longer hide in plain sight and bring #DomesticAbuse out of the shadows once and for all" @DavidGauke spoke at #WAPOL19 on the Government’s draft #DomesticAbuseBill. See what he said 👇🏽 gov.uk/government/speeches/w… @WomensAid
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The machine learning services the Customer eXperience Platform team have put in place to review and auto-categorise customer contact is having massive positive impacts for our contact centre teams. #tfgmproud
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Tickets selling fast for this - it’s going to be a brilliant event. Come and help us join up services across DWP, local gov and charities for the benefit of #Mancunians @ManCityCouncil @Valtech @MongoDB @jdrumgoole @pippapeasland @kitterati @ThatGirlVim – at Leeds, England
#HackTheNorth - why come? "Find out first-hand about the type of problems we look to solve every day in DWP Digital." @dtanham , Speaker Chair. Read the full blog: bit.ly/2Dpt7cr #Hackathon #TechEvents #ManchesterEvents #SoftwareEngineer
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[NEW REPORT] The hidden obstacles to government digital transformation instituteforgovernment.org.u…
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My St Jude’s under 8’s team are raffling this Australian shirt, signed by Billy Slater,Cooper Cronk,Cameron Smith and Johnathon Thurston. Numbers are £5 each and all money raised goes to the Australia 🇦🇺🏉 fund. Fantastic prize. Anyone wanting any raffle numbers let me know,
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● Cohabitation Agreements ● Pre-nups ● Children Law ● Divorce ● Religious Marriage complications Described as an “outstanding” Family Lawyer, find out how Nichola Bright and the Family Law team can help you today. ow.ly/NbQo30lQyuX
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An estimated 160,000 children in England are currently living in households where domestic abuse is taking place. We've teamed up with @WCRS_LDN to launch a new cinema advert shining a light on the hidden victims of domestic abuse: children. womensaid.org.uk/what-we-do/… #160kchildren
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Work on behalf of users, not by their request. When they bring you ideas for features, dig for the problems they’re trying to solve. Few users are experts at designing software, but most of them are very good at sharing where it hurts and why. xitter.gq/CodeWisdom/status/9721…
"A primary cause of complexity is that software vendors uncritically adopt almost any feature that users want."- Niklaus Wirth
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The owning team is all doing an escape room offsite and nobody brought a laptop. We’ll be posting clues in a moment so you can help us get out.
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'Next time you ask ‘why doesn’t she leave?’ – remember this picture' - by @pollyn1 for @theipaper inews.co.uk/opinion/comment/…
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"This Is Not Fascism" Nassim Taleb Warns "There's A Global Riot Against Psuedo-Experts" zerohedge.com/news/2017-02-0…
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Keep talking shit on Twitter and we might just leave it down forever.
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