Projects need an emotional heart at the start because that’s what people can remember and feel when they get lost or confused later on. KPI’s can guide but not save a project. The invitation by leadership with a shared desire to do something that matters

I missed Facilitation Week but one practical piece of advice is to never buy any glue stick but branded Pritt Sticks for glueing paper.

What annoys me about local newspaper is stories where something is headlined (mystery of empty shop) with no apparent effort by journalist to ask anyone what is happening. The mystery is only due to their lack of effort.

British invaded Washington DC and burnt down the White House Briton invited to Washington Post and burns it down

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In early 80’s musician confusion, mention of Godley and Creme as ex-10cc members but misheard as XTC members

Helpful programme on games and scoring points www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...? Just finishing The Score and have adapted a workshop around some of its ideas

SuperBowl and the accession of Puerto Rico as a state?

Another meeting and had to recommend The Entangled Activist by Anthea Lawson on the need to take a break from your passions before they break your heart. Holding things too close to yourself burns you out. How to find companions, people or systems, that hold your work for you while you rest?

Dear Keir You've been given an unbelievable opportunity to reset this government and remember (a) you're Labour and (b) what Human Rights are. Please take it. Yours in forlorn hope A voter

‘We’ll make it into a Macchiato for free’ for coffee shops that serve espresso with variable to terrible crema

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Tiny Experiments www.amazon.co.uk/gp/aw/d/B0D5... on Kindle Daily Deal. Some interesting things on innovation and maintaining a sense of agency.

Ring Superbowl advert appears to be based on The Circle ideals of "Secrets are lies, sharing is caring, privacy is theft". That a corporation must have full access to your individual private spaces so as to share a controlled sense of communal care.

We Can games adapted and used on Saturday at Stroud event in ZIP file www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/3n5tk... Includes one page rules, board and cards in PDF format. Finding agency and capacity to build communal capabilities.

Nailmaker memories of: Corus selling steel to Chinese manufacturers cheaper than to us in UK Basic problem that British Steel was worse quality than other country’s steel for many decades

We’ve been warning about this since the start.

Bar streaming www.bbc.co.uk/news/article.... There’s lot in this article for pro and anti sides. Is living vicariously thru streaming bad? Could pubs monetise their sense of soci as l presence?

We Can game (one page rules, board and cards) for generating a sense of personal capacity and building a sense of communal capability. FREE download of PDFs www.dropbox.com/scl/fo/58wg6... Pictures from event yesterday we used it at. #CommunityAction #Agency

Watching One Life www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis... on Kindertransport and Nicholas Winton; reminded of Woodcraft poster from that period

Ed Milliband returning as Labour leader has a Churchillian-feel of politician is very good in some ways, utterly screwed things up at critical moments previously, was very right about important things when people laughed at him and could return now with useful serious intent

Levelling up DuoLingo and wnd of Levelling Up session was repeatedly typing the word Italiano into sentences. My 1237 day streak is fundamentally meaningless in language acquisition terms.

McSweeney resigning just piles humiliation onto Starmer’s leadership

Lean Agile Scotland returns to Edinburgh in October (29-30th) Call for Sessions is now open: leanagile.scot/call-sessions Conference theme: The Age of Disruption - leanagile.scot/age-disrupti...

Who knew today would be so full of snort laughing news

Britain’s Stephen Miller is gone…

Reading Peak Human and Golden Age of Netherlands is an example. Dutch Empire is discussed. It’s unlike other colonial powers as it’s about network effect not land acquisition (still vicious, cruel and inhumane).

Meanwhile in Stand Up Meetings. Agile buzzness

I mean, come on…

Laughed out loud at something today that I know I shouldn’t have

“Large language models such as ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and Llama—along with other forms of “general-purpose AI”—can also respond with assured-sounding answers that contain errors (hallucinations) or that tell us what we want to hear (sycophancy).” www.yalejreg.com/nc/ai-taxi-d...

Used to be ruled by families who thought they were appointed by God. Executing them helped

The pressure of being a media event, being at the core of a DisneyPlus series, being forced to perform by the value of a narrative. Storytelling is powerful and it can break people.

Sharing 2025 memories and 2026 hopes at Stroud Valleys Woodcraft Folk AGM (Annual General/Gathering Meeting) and playing We Can game about personal capacities and communal capabilities

In a Siri pronunciation argument as I ask for The Cars and it keeps trying to play The Corrs. Asking for Cars worked tho.

Encasing community hall heating controls in resin would seem more effective than the lengthy warning sign about the heat pump system

Playing ‘We Can’ game at Woodcraft Folk AGM. Sharing what we can do personally and communally

Adaption of ABCD We Can game for Stroud Valleys Woodcraft Folk AGM today. Getting people to actively sense their capacities to help and to matter together

Stroud Valleys Woodcraft Group annual gathering and AGM today New poster to explain some of the ritual parts of local camp to people: like wide game, pea fair, merry moot

www.theguardian.com/australia-ne... The impacts of locking under 16 yos from their social media networks are now beginning to bite for those young people who relied on them for social connection

This is like a mix of Terminator and the Robert Palmer Addicted to Love video

I love the Olympics

Wedged between cats looking for their suppers

Late 80’s next gen’ space shuttle idea from NASA. All quite #ForAllMankind (is this design they used? I can’t remember)

2018 design fiction acuity-design.medium.com/too-fast-too... on using gamers to take over self-driving cars at critical moments

Everyone has their breaking point, I guess! (A rather spectacular goof from The Spectator...)

Feel like I'm going mad.

Listening to Cameron Crowe autobiography and browsing a secondhand vinyl shop is a dangerous mix - about 4 artists he mentions in depth but I've never heard with LPs in there

“You’ve lost that loving feeling” as phrase for product/project managers to use to recover original sense of purpose and emotion felt and shared by team at start. The need to explicitly set a heart at the start to anchor feelings when things get complicated or lost

Dealing with the parental ageing issue of memory loss where forgetfulness becomes denial that a thing happened or ever existed at all. A hardened protective sense of self-identity that walls off what is forgotten.