Easily-bored information designer
Reading, UK
Joined January 2009
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Not just a required weekly dose f sanity, also a small insight on how liminal parts of Austin Texas are responding to climate extremes. Prepper dreams of edgeland wine fieldnotes.christopherbrown.…
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Interesting if true
What ever happened to that Spectator article about Marcus Rashford?
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So much this. In fact any APIs or services from Microsoft, Google, Facebook or anyone else who doesn’t have open, transparent and robust governance in place. Don’t generally see this in risk assessment models either. Stupid and irresponsible.
I'm keep seeing new products pop up built entirely on Notion. This feels like a recipe for disaster 😬
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How organisations are changing.. The next “next” generation | by swardley | May, 2021 | Medium swardley.medium.com/how-orga…
A long slow complex and nuanced breakup in my 20s was soundtracked by Blood on the Tracks, an album I owned and liked but suddenly spoke directly to my pain and confusion. Happy 80th, Bob
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My dad was a reporter for Panorama making films about segregation, brought back LPs including The Times They Are A Changing. Shook me. The Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll and Ballad of Hollis Brown defined my politics for life. I was 11. Thanks, Bob.
Ken Garland taught me undergrad graphic design, later tried to make me a better teacher. Despite these signal failures we became friends, my children adored him, great company in pub or at dinner. A designer who thought about the purposes and process and tools of design. RIP
Last night’s virtual book club was Piranesi by Susanna Clarke which those who actually finished it (about 80%) couldn’t deconstruct well but were glad to have read. Good discussion.
Last month’s virtual book club was ‘The Beekeeper of Aleppo’ which I *hated* and nobody else much cared for. Over-processed.
Wow. I worked at IPS (now CIPS) for most of 1980s and this what we lobbied for. Derailed by urgent need to inject some sanity into then-pending European Public Procurement rules. You know how that worked out.
Whoot whoot! Procurement legislation has made it the Queen's Speech in the UK. Key points below. Full details (p74) here: assets.publishing.service.go…
V short summary of corporate responses to ‘build back better’ from @swardley. Take this as gospel and start planning for consequences in transport, architecture, employment, town planning, education, and climate adaptation.
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If you are an academic working with verbal graphic language read this thread, salivate, and support the project.
(1/n) Social science research often relies on scans of documents such as statistical tables, newspapers, firm level reports, etc. #EconTwitter
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Margaret Atwood, smart and on-point as ever, on a song and album I have cherished for, it appears, 40 years: ‘It has never been more pertinent’ theguardian.com/music/2021/a…
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Read ‘The sunken land begins to rise again’ by @mjohnharrison which I found startlingly real and insidiously invasive. Which I suppose is a recommendation.
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Watched the ‘restored’ version of the 1954 Cukor/Garland Star is Born. Brilliant filmmaking, best of the 5 versions (Gaga No 2 I think).
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Supports my experience and belief that getting information to and encouraging participation by people outside power structures is good for everyone. Not a major surprise, TBH
Does information [and deliberation] break the political resource curse? Experimental evidence from Mozambique
[PDF] buff.ly/3sOi3ea #DemoPart
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If you’re talking design, community and co-creation you need to know what @TessyBritton has been up to in East London. tessybritton.medium.com/invi… for the start of a deep dive into ‘Every One Every Day’.