Is your system accountable to Newton, Darwin or Octavia Butler? www.holdfastprojects.com/accountable-...

Great list of working in the open examples by @gilestur.bsky.social . Challenge for product and comms teams: in an quanty era of metrics, how do we *prove* the value to orgs of working in the open?

Recommended: Estimating digital carbon emissions workshop www.holdfastprojects.com/greenweb - by @mrchrisadams.bsky.social‬ and Katrin Fritsch of Green Web Foundation - helpful on measuring emissions of digital services, and energising!

Animals! Thoughtful discussion! This will be good

the AIs don't know what their carbon emissions are www.holdfastprojects.com/chat-carbon-... , so does the first AI co to publish its emissions get a reputational boost?

If you're a UK-based technologist who's had enough of extractive platform capitalism and wants to act in solidarity to build something better, please fill in this survey and share with others www.careful.industries/blog/2025-4-...

find yourself a confident team like this and let it rip (I still chuckle too!)

You can put a carbon.txt file on your website so your org's sustainability disclosures are discoverable, says carbontxt.org. Er I think mine works www.holdfastprojects.com/carbon-text

This work from FF studio 👏 Any org who provides grants/gives away money, take a look Applicable EVERYWHERE Supportive for users, good for orgs www.ff.studio/projects/gra... Big up Debs Durojaiye @abscond.org who worked on it Supported by @annagoss.co @eliotf.bsky.social @rodm.bsky.social

we've written up some work exploring what grants might look like if power between grantseeker:grantmaker got slightly reshuffled, and if the technology UK gov used to give out £46bn of grants was an enabler rather than a constraint. grab a brew, enjoy www.ff.studio/projects/gra...

last working day to top up ISAs and SIPPs this tax year, and several bonuses available for top ups and transfers

Enforcing standards, better coordination and some market shaping can break vendor lock-in and improve local gov case management (social care, fostering etc) - a hard problem but necessary

Change is hard. But possible.

decided to share my essay on The Fugitive since St. Patrick's Day aka Dr. Richard Kimble Day is nigh www.patreon.com/posts/fugiti...

There's a deadline coming up for state pension top ups: 5th April 2025 buttondown.com/checksies/ar... - @annagoss.co and i wrote about the deadlines to fill national insurance gaps that are older than 6 years. Could be useful for freelancers.

Yes, wind farms sometimes make less energy during big storms www.holdfastprojects.com/feather_curt... (and even so we should still decarbonise our energy)

Weird, that $500bn stargate ai infra project www.theverge.com/2025/1/21/24... is being built in a town that lent its name to a collective fallacy en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abilene...

"all simian strolls in parker jackets" - good line

great piece by @abscond.org on making Co-op membership matter more. In the same 2017ish era my take was: detach membership from Co-op-customer transactions and federate it www.holdfastprojects.com/radical-co-o...

Nick Sprinz's latest newsletter is about designing optimistic infrastructure mailchi.mp/ustwo/optimi... - featuring brilliant ideas from @debcha.bsky.social @sarahtgold.bsky.social tgold.bsky.social @soniaturcotte.bsky.social @rangetherapy.bsky.social @amymcnichol.bsky.social

Great writeup of a fund for Sport England by great designer-researcher @soniaturcotte.bsky.social - it was a privilege to work with such a good team and I learned a lot

3 reasons to start by rewriting the words www.holdfastprojects.com/start-with-w... , feat @tomski.com @benunsworth.bsky.social @escmum.bsky.social

You can now pre-order the I Thought About That A Lot book! ithoughtaboutthatalot.com/shop It includes 23 essays that we’ve published on ithoughtaboutthatalot.com between 2020 and 2023. As well as 3 that will be part of this year's advent calendar.

Introduce yourself with some jobs you have done apart from what you do now. Pheasant plucker Dresser royal opera house London’s worst ship broker

A quick way freelancers can guestimate their carbon emissions - www.holdfastprojects.com/freelancer-e...

good website, good fire, the best people

love the honesty. would be interesting to explore team shapes inside organisational shapes (the next larger context)

in the future, your boss is an generative ai version of yourself, 25% more energetic and leadery than your tired meat and bones