Collecting

1. Antiseptic Leona

   I support Antiseptic Leona!

2. My future self and me

   I’m really excited for this afternoon’s Waitrose Online shaping session hosted by the brilliant Jason Mesut. I’m finding the time to write this at his online writing club. I’ve missed opportunities like these to have an accountabilibuddy for writing. The seal has been broken!

   

3. Unstuck with story glue

   This week I volunteered to give an update at Waitrose Online’s Design Deli, our weekly sharing of work in progress. Instead of a chain of ‘and then’ I decided to dig out my notes from Ben Sauer’s Practical Strategic Storytelling workshop and add some story glue for a more compelling story. If you’re looking to raise your storytelling game or your team’s, I highly recommend getting in touch with Ben! https://bensauer.net/workshop/

4. Bored of it

   MY GOD MAKE IT STOP! Paul perfectly expresses the increasing frustration caused by the monotonous creep of AI gobshite.

5. Happy World Emoji Day

   Happy World Emoji Day… oh wait because the date on the calendar emoji is 17th July… HA! 😀🌍📆

6. I deleted my Facebook account

   I finally reached a milestone of Big Tech Exorcism™ today. Reading about Fuckerberg’s gigawatt effort to accelerate climate collapse gave me the final shove to delete my Facebook account. This house is clean!

   

7. Jason Mesut on Shaping Design, Giving Back, and Being an Ex-DJ

   In this very first episode of the UX Fika podcast, I sit down with the brilliant Jason Mesut – a creative coach, a strategic consultant, a community connector, and a shaper of designers.

8. Cennydd Bowles on Prototyping the Future, Ethics in Design, and Lessons from Chess

   In this episode of the UX Fika podcast, I talk to Cennydd Bowles, technology ethicist, author of Future Ethics, and recently a Fulbright Scholar. Cennydd advises companies like Google, Mozilla, and the BBC on how to build more responsible, ethical, and inclusive technologies – and in this conversation, which just like the rest of season 1 is from 2021, we unpack how and why that work is more urgent than ever.

9. Cynefin at 21 with Dave Snowden

   In this episode Being Human, we have a return visit of one of our most popular guests, Dave Snowden. Dave is by far my favourite Welsh National Treasure. He’s a philosopher-cum-management thinker and developer of the Cynefin framework, a decision making framework that has transformed the way people work and think from the military generals to software developers to humble business coaches like me.

10. Pushed over The Edge

    Spare a thought for those living in a multiverse where every piece of memory storage device comes pre-installed with a copy of U2’s album ‘Songs of Innocence’.