Well this is lovely - Haruki Murakami and Harry Styles in conversation about running (News+ link) apple.news/ABXj0KVisTzK...
04.03.2026 08:43
👍 0
🔁 0
💬 0
📌 0
Well this is lovely - Haruki Murakami and Harry Styles in conversation about running (News+ link) apple.news/ABXj0KVisTzK...
Lovely post on Flickr's URL structures unsung.aresluna.org/unsung-heroe... - I absolutely adored how Flickr was built and worked hard to emulate it. Cal Henderson ran a brilliant workshop sharing more of their engineering process for scaling, which became essential for managing growth at Netmums
Yes! Hence the need to keep experimenting and sharing our learnings, which will help ground our understanding further.
Tracey Wilson writes about how Department for Business and Trade are working on improving our published content in a world of AI summaries. digitaltrade.blog.gov.uk/2026/03/03/c...
Re-posting for morning readers 👇
More pondering on AI as I wrangle with what it means for public servants... Here's where I've got to so far: There is a useful path to take between hype and doom. It's time to keep experimenting and learning as nobody knows what the future will bring. jasonkitcat.com/2026/03/02/s...
A nice piece of work: Towards a science of AI agent reliability
AI 'reliability lags capability, and that reliability will remain a barrier to deployment unless researchers and developers focus effort on improving reliability as a separate dimension from accuracy'
www.normaltech.ai/p/new-paper-...
I fear many do not understand that AI search does not provide results in the way standard searches do. Broken mental models alert🚨 theshamblog.com/an-ai-agent-...
We can’t be sure an AI “ClawBot” did post a nasty blog post when their code was rejected, but an ArsTechnica journalist did use AI hallucinated quotes when reporting the story….
Totally agree this is a big risk. I was in a session with big consultants showing me how agents would do all sorts of clever things with our suppliers & stakeholders. Yet they were assuming they wouldn’t also be pointing agents at our services. Spam and race conditions beckon…
It's so easy to fall into a "build it and they will come" mindset when creating digital products & services. We work to overcome this with our wonderful Engagement & Strategic Adoption team, here are reflections on how we've boosted adoption of our CRM tool digitaltrade.blog.gov.uk/2026/02/17/d...
Oh behave!! 😆
Humble-brag there Simon!
Nostalgia alert - illustrated catalogue of Walkman models (not just Sony ones) walkman.land via @densediscovery.bsky.social
We have long championed the importance of monitoring & evaluation in digital teams, so we're delighted to have succeeded in getting 'digital evaluator' added as a role in the UK Govt Digital & Data framework digitaltrade.blog.gov.uk/2026/02/12/a...
Every quarter we encourage our DDaT teams to pause & take part in a Firebreak week. It's a way to encourage us to work on challenges in new ways, with a different mix of colleagues. I think it's a core ingredient to sustaining and encouraging innovation digitaltrade.blog.gov.uk/2026/02/09/h...
I'm going to share a very good story about the internet. I won't tell it well because I apparently have the flu, but I think we all need a good story about the internet.
It starts in 2021, when I took a sabbatical and got a little workspace to write a design book.
We've recently launched DBT Assist, our generative AI tool for helping colleagues with their work. It's a tool powered by working in the open: Using the Redbox code from i.AI we learnt and iterated, sharing our learnings for others to hopefully build on too digitaltrade.blog.gov.uk/2026/02/04/f...
I’m so incredibly proud of our team at Dept Business & Trade who won well deserved recognition as Women in Tech’s Best Public Sector Employer 2025. In this post we share practical insight into how we beat the sector for recruiting & retaining brilliant women digitaltrade.blog.gov.uk/2026/01/27/e...
With about 8,000 colleagues working in more than 100 countries around the world for Department for Business and Trade, finding the right person to talk to can be a blocker to collaboration. Read more about how we've been iterating our People Finder digitaltrade.blog.gov.uk/2025/12/08/a...
In the lead up to Small Business Saturday, we're sharing more about our work at DBT launching an Export Support AI chatbot on business.gov.uk and learning from our users, read more from Kai Hellström on our blog digitaltrade.blog.gov.uk/2025/11/27/l...
Push through on Ted Lasso, it has so much heart.
Fabulous: Shrinking, Ted Lasso, Silo, Morning Show, For All Mankind, Bad Sisters, Sunny. Didn’t like Loot or Big Door Prize
Yes it's all in progress and will re-open.
Our brilliant Head of Content Design Andrea Leary writes how increasing use of AI bots to find businesses answers is driving some of Dept Business & Trade's thinking for content design, relevance and accuracy. Read the post digitaltrade.blog.gov.uk/2025/11/11/h...
Really interesting read, thanks for sharing
Our Data & AI teams are on a roll with great work and brilliant blog posts. Read about how we built our first public AI feature for Dept Business & Trade on business.gov.uk here digitaltrade.blog.gov.uk/2025/10/21/l...
Matching companies across data sets is something we need to do very often in DBT, as do many other parts of government. Recently we released the Matchbox component as an open source shared piece of work. Read more digitaltrade.blog.gov.uk/2025/10/08/b...
