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Bruegel’s Children’s Games (1560) has some lovely detail if you look closely. There’s a new tech leader in the NHS which means whatever he thinks about design, UCD or designers will probably trickle down at some point. I am listening...
Clearing the checkpoint for white guys in their 20s (apparently)
Blog post: https://www.davidrevoy.com/article1157/summer-witchcraft
Hello from New Orleans, where of course it is hot: the kind of weather that makes everthinig move in slow motion. Or maybe it just makes me move in slow motion? Either way I’m a few days overdue for a mid-year update to Supporters. I’ve...
I have no idea what the odds were on getting THE SAME "Lucky Day" book — on a San Francisco Public Library book that currently has a hold/waitlist of 80+ people on it, but if this doesn't count as a genuinely lucky moment for me, I'll...
I am sitting on the pier, fuelled by an espresso, just having completed volume 2 of Solvej Balle’s story On the Calculation of Volume. Volume 3 is sitting next to me ready to be cracked open as I wait for a friend to arrive from the...
my whole life i have taken the wrong stuff seriously and the right stuff not seriously enough and when i have taken the right stuff seriously it has been "too seriously" because it has been taken unseriously by everyone else, so now, so...
This was an email from a few weeks ago. I showed to to someone else and asked them to read it out. They did the same thing as me. ‘Long delays, big plans’. That’s branding right there.
Today I was chatting with Irina and Trilly about implementing the skills framework for product managers at NHS England. Irina had a great idea: she pointed out that the framework didn’t emphasise experimentation enough. There’s a lot of...
I love getting likes, shares, and all that. I also enjoy charting things. Thus, I charted some data from my fediverse instance that is also a blog. As well as being a bit of the fediverse, this account is also a single-user #WordPress...
Count Binface, in announcing he will run in the farcical Clacton by-election against Nigel Farage, makes a compelling pitch to voters on the BBC's Today programme:→ YouTube
First performed in La Jolla Playhouse (San Diego) on 28 May 2024, and later that year at the Citadel Theatre (Edmonton) on 9 December, The Ballad of Johnny and June is currently on an extensive tour of the UK. This Johnny Cash musical...
A couple of weeks ago I decided to read John Green’s book, Everything is Tuberculosis, in part as research for the novel I am writing about a tuberculosis outbreak. Initially I considered buying it, but remembered the weak state of my...
What have you recently finished reading? I’ve finally been getting through some books that’d been sort of paused for a while, so I finished up Charlotte Booth’s Lost Voices of the Nile and Stephanie Burgis’ Wooing the Witch Queen at...
Today's visitor in EKSN: A brand new Cirrus SR22 (reg. OY-ACM).