Mat Johnson

s19e11: Your Model is Naive and it’s Not The Territory 0.0 Context Setting Friday, May 30, at the Code for America Summit in a hotel in Washington, D.C. I am in, fittingly, a hallway. I am also jetlagged. There...

@danhon.com 's back, and thank you Dan, this chimes hard in NHS land - newsletter.danhon.com/archive/s19e...

Reckoning: Part 1 — The Landscape - Infrequently Noted It would be tragic if public sector services adopted the JavaScript-heavy stacks that frontend influencers have popularised. Right?

@adactio.com (adactio.com/links/21359) leads to an INCREDIBLY good read from Alex Russell at infrequently.org/2024/08/the-... - an "investigation into JavaScript-first frontend culture and how it broke US public services". GOV in the UK looks good in comparison, but we are so far from immune.

I've only just spotted the autocorrect. "Unproduct" 😬

Expertise versus experience: which one is the best? - Lagom Strategy Lagom is a team of proper experts.  50% of our team have PhDs to prove it. And we have a playbook full of expert user research, delivery, and service design activities that our Drs (and non-Drs) can d...

I'm suddenly finding posts that I relate to, and it's nice because I need them right now. One from @lagomstrategy.bsky.social - www.lagomstrategy.net/expertise-ve...

The UnProduct Person Tom recently wrote a great post about the need for product people to do a better job of communicating the ‘negative space’ - the trade offs that were made in ideas on the path to the ones you bet big ...

This is something that chimed with me a lot. @jukes.ie with "unproductive" people... digitalbydefault.com/2024/05/19/t...

A framework for thinking about team memory, joining up and serendipity in hybrid organisations Last week, I gave a keynote talk at Agile Manchester, based on a previous blog post. The talk was more detailed and had a new framing; this post summarises what I shared.

New blog post after my keynote at Agile Manchester last week

A framework for thinking about team memory, joining up and serendipity in hybrid organisations

emilywebber.co.uk/a-framework-...

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oh god oh god oh god oh god oh god oh god seriously?

DO NOT BUY HISENSE TV'S LOL (Or at least keep them offline) holy fucking shit!!!!!!!!!! I've had this in my drafts to finish writing up for a few weeks but today I made another discovery that has pushed me to finally write it up lol. My PC had a few hiccups ...

cohost.org/ghoulnoise/p... THIS via @danhon.com

Just... the horror

@timpaul.co.uk this is [expletive] great. The last section chimes hard - "well rather than simplify, let's have another layer in the lasagne!"

""Good, fast, cheap - pick two" they say. Let's automate to make things better, not just faster and cheaper." - @timpaul.co.uk on Automation and the Jevons paradox www.timpaul.co.uk/posts/automa...

NERD! But also, this is such a good experiment of where value can be gained from algos as opposed to snake oil. So good 👍

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This weeny nugget from @danhon.com is just huge: "It’s not the streak, it’s getting back into the habit."

A lot of things about the way we make products / services / life / compassion / capital / etc is encapsulated.

(from the latest Things That Caught My Attention)

Omg don't lol 😂

Personally as a measure of state-of-play for right now... bang on. Thanks yet again for that brain @richardjpope.bsky.social

Small badass new painting by Gerhard Richter on display on a posh gallery wall

The new Gerhard Richter show at David Zwirner is on fire: www.davidzwirner.com/exhibitions/...

It's been a slog that's for sure 😁

This is wonderfully analogue 🔥

Transformation and Strategy Fortnight Note #34… Rollercoaster (1st — 15th March 2024)

Brin’s done a weeknote: medium.com/@theredmount...

Always post when no-one is looking: my weeknotes for the past week: demotive.com/posts/2024/0...

Thanks for the unconscious encouragement @gilestur.bsky.social 👍

I need to read this 2 more times. Thanks Giles and I hope you are well ❤️

Services Week Remote Session: NHS 111 online As part of Services Week 2020, Mat Johnson, Designer at NHS Digital, talked about how he and his team developed the NHS 111 online service.

An oldie (and willful self promo lol), but grappling with those same ideas of "seamless" vs "seamful" in a very very adjacent space: www.youtube.com/watch?v=iCZW...

Oh hey @harrytrimble.bsky.social sorry I missed you! 🥁

I can't even remember the acronym for the couple of seconds required to make this gag

PSBSMS sounds like a terrible diagnosis

Why we should radically change how we do change — Public Digital

We’ve just published the Radical How, a report commissioned by our friends Nesta

The Radical How makes a case for governments boldly changing how they work, based on some of the best work done on major change in governments.

public.digital/2024/02/21/w...

#Government #PublicSector #HorizonScandal

Shitty ai being integrated into everything despite it being ass is like nepotism with a bunch of tech billionaires insisting we have to work with and take seriously their idiot robot son

I have tried not to overthink, overwrite, or actually reread this.

First notes in a long time: demotive.com/posts/2024/0...

Some early sun shining through some skinny trees

More of this please please please