The best end-of-year list. Thanks @tomwhitwell.bsky.social medium.com/@tomwhitwell...

awesome to see @katiejwells.bsky.social research mentioned in @tomwhitwell.bsky.social's annual '52 things i learned,' terrible to see that AI is being used to selectively offer lower wages to nurses with more difficult financial straits medium.com/@tomwhitwell...

The yearly list of '52 Things I Learned This Year' has become an annual treat, and this year's selection by @tomwhitwell.bsky.social contains some typically-great facts; this year I was most struck by shrinking Americans and the possibility of a shrimp uprising: medium.com/@tomwhitwell...

Tom always seems to come up with a list of interesting and optimistic things e.g. "London is safer today, with fewer murders, than at any time since I moved here almost 30 years ago."

I just published 52 things I learned in 2025 medium.com/@tomwhitwell...

This graph is misleading. It shows the number of tokens processed by OpenRouter per day and per model, not consumer usage. Students usually wouldn't be using OpenRouter, they'd be using the LLM provider's website directly and the telemetry would not be captured by OpenRouter. see openrouter.ai

SO pleased to see this review of the Workshop System www.youtube.com/watch?v=ABbW...

Pay what you like for a Music Thing Workshop System - inspired by Teenage Engineering www.musicthing.co.uk/NYP/

If you're interested in the Music Thing Workshop System, you might enjoy this email list: workshopsystem.substack.com/p/workshop-n...

Genuinely wondering why this weird short clip of me pulling out the pins on the back of a Workshop System box seems to interest / connect with people www.instagram.com/p/DJtrmH2tq-1/

Loving this clip of S8FJOU just playing a tiny 8mu midi controller. www.instagram.com/p/DJzQNqhtDLN/

Lovely to see a Music Thing Workshop System (the little black box on the drum on the left) out in the world, in such an interesting creative environment

COME and WORK WITH US building NHS DATA INFRASTRUCTURE that WORKS

The onboarding flow in The Substance is exemplary

Shoutout to the thousand people spending Christmas Day reading this year's 52 Things list: medium.com/@tomwhitwell...

5 day residency in Cornwall creating and album in a week in a workshop led by Tom Whitwell. Two free positions are available based on need and not writing ability. Exploring graphic and text scores, improvisation, modular synths, and other sound-making devices. MTM Workshop! dyski.co/Tom-Whitwell...

Nice piece about me and what I've been up to in Sound on Sound this month - January Edition www.soundonsound.com/people/modul...

Love this - every day up to Christmas, one community member is posting a new utility code snippet for the Workshop System's own Computer. Was also great to check the Music Thing "shed" last week!

Heres a quick vid of the Music Thing Workshop System in first squelchy action. looking forward to finding out more and getting to grips with this. Thanks @tomwhitwell.bsky.social for a great instrument. It was a fun build too.

Synth Advent Calendar For Music Thing Workshop System: Create custom compute algorithm pairs for Christmas sonicstate.com/news/2024/12... @tomwhitwell.bsky.social

This from @tomwhitwell.bsky.social the Gentleman Synthesist is always a Xmas treat

It’s that time of year again! Thanks, Tom 😉

Music Thing Workshop System synth complete and it looks and sounds amazing. So much to play with in a tiny box. I love it. Another great thingy from @tomwhitwell.bsky.social

52 Things I Learned in 2024 from: 🔥 @drsimevans.carbonbrief.org 🔥 @mollylempriere.carbonbrief.org 🔥 @bheater.bsky.social 🔥 @boyanslat.bsky.social 🔥 @johnhawks.bsky.social 🔥 @jillbarshay.bsky.social 🔥 @jmcnik.bsky.social 🔥 @craigmod.com 🔥 @benjedwards.com medium.com/@tomwhitwell...

"52 Things I Learned in 2024 from: 🔥 @bengoldacre.bsky.social 🔥 @astralcodexten.com.web.brid.gy 🔥 @peter-yeung.bsky.social‬ 🔥 @ianwalker.bsky.social 🔥 @mollysnyder.bsky.social 🔥 @mattfromlondon.bsky.social 🔥 @dansaladino.bsky.social 🔥 @thesephist.com medium.com/@tomwhitwell...

Started the build of @tomwhitwell.bsky.social Workshop System today. Really looking forward to playing with this beauty.

This list by @tomwhitwell.bsky.social is fantastic, a brilliant read. No.25 reminds us of the famous photo of Amartya Sen on a bike and links to capabilities. No.35 we fully appreciate as teachers! 🤣 Will think about this when marking mock exams in January. #EconSky open.spotify.com/episode/2r9f...

“Between the 1920s and 1950s, millions of ‘enemies of the people’ — often educated elites — were sent to prison camps in the Soviet Union. Today, the areas around those camps are more prosperous and productive than similar areas.” freepolicybriefs.org/wp-content/u... Via @tomwhitwell.bsky.social ⬇️⬇️⬇️

medium.com/@tomwhitwell... 52 of the “many learnings” in 2024 from @tomwhitwell.bsky.social

It’s the most wonderful time of the year. @tomwhitwell.bsky.social’s annual treat is as thought-provoking, funny and flat out interesting as ever medium.com/@tomwhitwell...

Number 50 on @tomwhitwell.bsky.social's list of 52 things (don't just say 'hello' in Chat) made me exhale at an existential level. This behaviour has been making my left eye twitch since 2017. I thought I was alone and/or unreasonable.

In 2024, around 10% of Anguilla’s GDP will come from fees for its .ai domain name. One of the 52 things @tomwhitwell.bsky.social learnt in 2024... medium.com/@tomwhitwell...

Brilliant as always - @tomwhitwell.bsky.social’s annual list of 52 things he learned this year: medium.com/@tomwhitwell...

I always love @tomwhitwell.bsky.social's 52 Things I Learned lists - here's 2024: medium.com/@tomwhitwell...

Required yearly reading and always super interesting - @tomwhitwell.bsky.social’s list of things he learned in 2024. Eg “In 2024, around 10% of Anguilla’s GDP will come from fees for its .ai domain name.” medium.com/@tomwhitwell...

This is always excellent. Looking forward to giving it a read this week. You might also want to follow @tomwhitwell.bsky.social

Workshop System, by Music Thing modular Co. www.thonk.co.uk/shop/worksho... I just ordered. I can't wait for the delivery.

Tom Whitwell's 52 Things I Learned is one of my favorite things to read every year. It's also fun to look back through the last decade. medium.com/@tomwhitwell...