2016-07-14 (Thursday)
Links
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A Sense of Where You Are — Elegant Tools — Medium
Tom Broxton very good on gathering evidence about how long the designing and building of digital things actually take, so you can convince people your pessimistic-sounding estimates are accurate.
Tweets
@rooreynolds I don’t really understand what I’m supposed to be doing. Got that “too old” feeling again.
@mrstth @hondanhon @tomstuart First job is to make a League Table of Better so we can measure everything according to the Better KPIs.
@tomstuart Gradually all depts will be merged with the Department of Business, because that’s what it all boils down to, as we all know.
That nice Tom Broxton is good on looking at how long design/build processes take, and why: medium.com/elegant-tools/…
@tomcoates Surely there’s more to it than that?! I’ve paid £millions for a new personal brand! I guess £millions isn’t what it once was.
@tomcoates Am I going to have to get someone in to re-imagine my personal brand?
@genmon A slow, calm-voiced live news commentary, with diversions during quiet periods to the weather, cakes, etc, would be lovely.
@genmon You can’t reduce these complex decisions to a simple in/out question Matt! What about people who want 6.3mm?
@philgyford To think, a month ago I almost had an opinion about whether Apple should replace the headphone jack on the next iPhone! Silly.
On the plus side, all tech news has seemed utterly trivial and dull to me for the past few weeks. Probably as it should be.
Liked tweets
For my US friends wondering what England looks like now, it’s a bit like this. (h/t @MrDarrenGarrett)
Hi @iotwatch! For an exhibition @ Dutch Design Wk we are looking for ‘dead things’. care to help us on our search?
