@adrianhoward.com
Drinks less coffee than people expect. Enjoys helping people solve problems in the messy cross-disciplinary spaces where strategy, research, & delivery overlap. Does 1-1 coaching with senior practitioners & leaders. adrianhoward.com | quietstars.com
Friendly reminder: We're about to enter that period where the USA folk have ambled over to daylight savings before everybody else — those with calendars events pinned to USA time zones take note :-)
Heh
Photo of tha Blackstreet album "Another Level" on CD sitting on a wooden table.
March's #MonthlyAlbum
Monzo doing www.theguardian.com/money/2026/m... some anti-user data research and content design
Sighing at another American author talking about "Africa" and "Europe" as if they were countries.
Another day, another skillfully hidden hallucination.
Currently being reminded why I wrote adrianhoward.com/posts/bad-pe...
I’ll be watching this all day! 😹😹😻
The rental failed it's 5 year electrics test — and resolving said failure involved the whole junction box getting replaced + some pulling of wires :-)
Two weeks until the next #BalancedTeam in the Ether — a regular free online discussion on effective cross-disciplinary work!
Previously we've covered everything from framework fatigue to making room for play!
Sound fun? Tickets & info > www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/balanced-t...
Photo of a pale book with the title the agile comms handbook. How to clearly, creatively work in the open By Giles Turnbull
This book is excellent
So clear and relevant. Easy to read (which is a big compliment as a dyslexic person).
Bonus is it's in a font size which doesn't make me feel I need to squint or hold the page next to my face
Well… the house has electricity today… so progress!
In today’s episode of #FixTheForms, a terrific blog post from Tracey Wilson on identifying ownership of content.
Absolutely all of this applies even more to forms, although in my experience identifying the ownership of forms is even harder.
love this: ai/dr
Good morning, Bluesky. Y'all wanna think about "Spirited Away" a whole lot?
www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ye0...
This is my shocked face: 😐
Look, I love science fiction & desperately want many of its concepts & ideas to be real (but, y'know, w/ the sociotechnical concerns attended to because I Actually love sci-fi). But some people want sci-fi to be real so bad that they ignore obviously over-hyped bullshit
A great horned owl in a nest in a eucalyptus tree
Went to check out the owl nest that is less than a block from my house. Omg, there WAS an owl in it! 😃
a microsoft word comment that begins, ominously, deservedly, "Now, let's talk about em dashes..."
my copyeditor holding my hand and looking me in the eyes like she's staging an intervention:
More. Coffee.
A Long-tailed Tit dangles awkwardly from one foot on a thin branch, its tiny body swinging below, clinging on for dear life, just like the rest of us on a Monday.
Still clinging to the weekend. No current plans to let go.
#MondayMotivation
Monday. Coffee.
ELIZA wants to know and how do you feel about is it ok to go to war in Iran
I prefer to save talking till I know what I’m talking about.
Once more begging folk looking at a 9% drop in <whatever> in February compared to January — please remember how many days there are in the month.
(amazing how many times this comes up when folk hand roll their dashboards & analytics :-)
broke: citing work from 2027
woke: citing work from 1987
BESPOKE: citing work from 1887
Louisa S. Cook's Geometrical psychology, or, The Science of Representation: An Abstract of the Theories and Diagrams of B. W. Betts @publicdomainrev.bsky.social
publicdomainreview.org/collection/g...
Retrospective done. Day done. Week done. Done.
Time for sushi & beer.
Hope you're week went week. Have a good weekend y'all!
Less than three weeks until the next #BalancedTeam in the Ether — a regular free online discussion on effective cross-disciplinary work!
Previously we've covered everything from async work to managing inexperienced managers!
Sound fun? Free tickets & info at www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/balanced-t...
You may find @cstross.bsky.social's "Accelerando" a fun fiction read around this topic if you've not come across it before.
(and not to get all "death of the author" about it — I do find the number of folk who seem to read the book as an optimistic vision of the future _wildly_ amusing :)
So the Telegraph is taking this well
