Hi everyone, I wrote about the state of case management software in social care and local authorities. In short; it is a hard nut to crack and one that can be cracked with commitment, coordination and central goverment involvement. words.ff.studio/localgov-soc...

Just paid my internet tithe and donated to Wikipedia. You should too. 👍

Fuck yes someone at the very heart of government saying this so thoughtfully and clear throated. What’s this funny tingling feeling… is it hope and pride? More of that. 💪 www.gov.uk/government/s...

Am I nervous or hungry? I’m 40 and still find that one tricky.

Surround yourself with colleagues who will tell you mid-meeting, "Don't do that; it makes you look like a tw*t". **chefkiss**

Via the medium of emoji, can those in the know respond to the Cabinet Secretary appointment. Many thanks.

What is clear is how closely MPs have studied this legislation. There is genuine collaboration on possible amendments, engagement with the smallest detail and deep consultation with constituents. If only it could always be like this!

"I’m very proud of the way these events create a space for producty people to come together and that we encourage a broad church of participants from different sectors and spaces." **chef kiss** digitalbydefault.com/2024/11/29/2...

Massive shout out to @jukes.ie and @debblanch44.bsky.social for running Product for the People yesterday. It felt very real-talk, open and honest. There was a good spread of "generations" in the room too. Its lovely to have a space that engenders collective sprit and has a bit of hope. A+

I bloody love Roy Keane.

Details, graft and the-little-things-which-point-to-larger-things give me lots of hope. @soniaturcotte.bsky.social has written a delicious blog post about how we landed equity, climate and witty report titles in the Sport England Pilot Fund work we did. 👌 soniaturcotte.com/writing/spor...

I'm hiring >> 🔐Head of Cyber Security at the🎬 British Film Institute (BFI) 💵 circa £85K. A brand new role in an organisation that is taking cyber seriously. Please share! Apply by Mon 9 Dec, hear back by Christmas, interviews in Jan. bfijobsandopportunities.bfi.org.uk/tlive_webrec...

I never got around to my FF Studio aggrandising blog post. But dont trust me, I'm clearly biased. @rodm.bsky.social wrote something and that is even better. "Find yourself teams like this and let it rip." ❤️ www.holdfastprojects.com/sport-england

Post a non-religious photo you think of as holy

10 minutes to the next bus so may as well post about something non-controversial. Assisted dying. :) It’s very clear that a PMB is entirely the wrong approach for this. I support the aims of the legislation but aims are meaningless without a concrete plan to achieve them. 🧵

PSA to all the centrist dads The new Father John Misty album just dropped. As you were.

Love seeing @rufflemuffin.bsky.social push this forward.

I've drafted a newsletter/blog/reckon about how good FF Studio is becoming, and today, I'm drafting why I think that. It feels a bit self agrandising, but I'm also a bit proud. And also think we could help lots of people and organisations. I suppose all blogging/promotion can feel like that?

PSA @jo-scho.bsky.social is spectacularly competent, helpful and fun to be around As you were.

I have a spare few hours in central London this afternoon - what gallery or thing should I be doing?

This should be an interview question for anyone in any digital / service / radical design role.

Also not to say the words are not high leverage especially early. Just that there’s a way to do it that is a wedge in to the next layer, and there’s a way to do it that relieves the pressure that you want and need for actual change.

Shout out to everyone who helped me through the last five odd years. Especially @annagoss.co 💪

Going through a professional knee-bend. I think. More focused than I have been in a while. Long may it continue.

We turned something very dull about passing a legally compliant process into something spicy about market consolidation. Always here at your service. Tell your friends, bosses and people with hard tech and design problems they need solving.

With all this chat about long-term growth (and it being 1.5%) I keep thinking of 2nd half of Donut Economics (which is amazing). If this is a new normal for post-victorian Britain and GDP kind of ignores climate "costs"... shall we talk about... sustainable policies rather than growth?

This thread 😍

More of this kind of thing: "Only larger suppliers can compete on price like this, shrinking the SME sector. Driving market consolidation rather than growth" 👏👏👏 www.dxw.com/2024/10/4-id...

@mattstibbs.bsky.social @e17chrisfleming.bsky.social this is *chef kiss* public.digital/pd-insights/... I would love to hear your thoughts on making the following possible... "is inoculated from political change and cabinet reshuffles."

Some blogposts I wrote about the public sector were chosen as required reading for a seminar on the Yale Law course. I just spoke during the seminar with about 20 super-smart law students and professors. We covered politics, design and technology and I'm absolutely buzzing with excitement.

A v cool day at FF Studio including the return of Pepsi, a visit from my mum, and a talk by @abscond.org. Tonight @eliotf.bsky.social is guesting at a Yale seminar. Brain full, heart full

this thread 😍

If step one of breaking vendor lockin is introducing a vendor monopoly (Palantir), I _think_ I'm cool with it. So long as step two onward focuses on creating functioning policies, services, operations and technical systems that can, in turn, break that vendor monopoly.

Feels like www.gov.uk/government/c... should get some traffic today.

Goddamn I enjoy @abscond.org's shtick.

I'm absolutely loving the "get the corporate governance grip'd" approach to this government. Has every new government done this, or is this one particularly focused? apply-for-public-appointment.service.gov.uk/roles?titleS...

I attended the Biobank summit in Dec '23, and asked this. Surely it's more urgent than ever to address the infrastructure + patient promise and experience updates needed to recover from this (even if Biobank's leadership try to claim, again, that it's not a breach).

I've written up what we mean when we say 'Be Bold'. public.digital/pd-insights/...

Without modernising procurement and tackling vendor lock-in, there is no future for a large-scale collection of public sector platforms. One more time for those at the back - the technology stack is still toxic, and needs detoxifying. daverog.com/series-toxic...

Hello, hivemind - I remember from back in the day that you could capitalise the spend on your project once it was in Beta. Does anyone remember this, or ideally, have the treasury guidance that says as much?

Last year, we ran a project with a simple goal: shut our mouths and be helpful. ​ ​The first one doesn't come naturally to me, but a year later, we're still working with the client, and we reckon more has gone well than gone wrong. www.ff.studio/projects/spo...

"Able and willing to build belief and momentum" is the capability no one tells you they need, but everyone needs. For a short period, Digital became a byword for it. Digital Transformation captured it but lacked humility. Technology ignores it. Service Design almost gets there, but not quite.

Okay, so I'm thinking of going for this Bluesky thing. Does anyone have any tips for reducing the negative aspects of social media (e.g., addictive, ego-ish, performative, etc.) in the long run?

I spend most of my time oscillating between "be the adult in the room" and "I think the adults should do better, and I'm not sure joining them will help".

Last last thing I promise. I have no idea what the new business model is. What happens post "grow a big agency and build in a margin per person, scale wins" - but...

Lastly, I just finished www.goodreads.com/book/show/37..., and it is worth your brain. Even though it should have been 40% shorter.

While I'm here. This by @soniaturcotte.bsky.social is ❤️ Fuck yes for a feeling of local internet community. What an absolute vibe. soniaturcotte.com/writing/coll...

Sometimes, the default social embed image is just perfect. We wrote a newsletter about how we've survived long enough to have another go at our website. buttondown.com/ff-studio/ar... or just try the new website www.ff.studio

I'm going to this on Saturday. I'm not sure what to expect. But only going to events where you know what to expect is dull. Come along! www.designswarm.com/papercamp-3/

I ate an underwhelming cronut yesterday - AMA