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
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@rooreynolds I don’t really understand what I’m supposed to be doing. Got that “too old” feeling again.
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@mrstth @hondanhon @tomstuart First job is to make a League Table of Better so we can measure everything according to the Better KPIs.
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@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.
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That nice Tom Broxton is good on looking at how long design/build processes take, and why: medium.com/elegant-tools/…
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@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.
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@tomcoates Am I going to have to get someone in to re-imagine my personal brand?
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@genmon A slow, calm-voiced live news commentary, with diversions during quiet periods to the weather, cakes, etc, would be lovely.
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@genmon You can’t reduce these complex decisions to a simple in/out question Matt! What about people who want 6.3mm?
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@philgyford To think, a month ago I almost had an opinion about whether Apple should replace the headphone jack on the next iPhone! Silly.
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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
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For my US friends wondering what England looks like now, it’s a bit like this. (h/t @MrDarrenGarrett)
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Hi @iotwatch! For an exhibition @ Dutch Design Wk we are looking for ‘dead things’. care to help us on our search?