Collecting
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Cycles: 20260113-20260118
Cycles: my no-pressure weeknotes. Flashes of inspiration.
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Cycles: 20250925-20260112
Cycles: my no-pressure weeknotes. Leaves turn over.
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The Blueprint for System Change | Ash Sarkar Meets Extinction Rebellion Founder Roger Hallam
An absolute surprise banger of a strategy and design podcast. So many sparks of ideas and quotes:
When you're developing a strategy you have to do some sub optimal things to get to a better place
Shut up and listen
- Remote enables a diverse audience
- The power of listening
- Nonviolent Communication
- Present something » move to a breakout space » do something… but NO q&a
- Building solidarity with people (in-person) by embodied ‘doing’
- Create a pathway to action – The Steps Collective
- Breakout groups FTW: create empowerment by enabling everyone gets time to speak – Liberating Structures
- A social conditioning that other people are disposable (similar topic in a recent Trashfuture
- First pancake theory: accepting that your first try at something is going to be crap
- Growth comes from working through the hard stuff
- Sortition
- Delegate conferences aren’t designed to foster deeper connection or change - Reminds me of a conversation with James Lang when curating Research by the Sea
Props to Tom Scott for the recommendation.
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QR and 2FA Codes
Life is a series of QR and 2FA (two factor authentication) codes.
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Hakkeyoi!
Up early to start watching to totally-legit livestream of the 2026 sumo basho. Hakkeyoi!
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Required reading indeed
Starting day 1 of 02026 with a BIG coffee and the optional.is 02025 omnibus written by @briansuda@mastodon.social https://optional.is/required/2026/01/01/omnibus-02025/ required reading indeed! Feed your brain during this year by signing up to their RRS feed!
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Build community centres, not data centres!
Build community centres, not data centres!
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Future value in a Design History
Reading Benjy Stanton’s notes on working in the open https://www.benjystanton.co.uk/blog/govcamp-cymru-2025-working-in-the-open/ reminded me of design histories so now rewatching Paul Robert Lloyd’s UX London’s talk https://vimeo.com/841887944. I’m thinking this might be a potential solution for a challenge in my team.
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Ep.370: Deep Work in the Age of AI
In this episode, Cal dives deep into the study and argues that when it comes to efforts that require deep work, AI can sometimes make things worse.
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Cycles: 20250616-20250924
Cycles: my new, no-pressure weeknotes. The seasons reverse.