Those who choose not to heal
Every year, NASA offers a lesson in organisational leadership which goes against the grain of everything leaders are told to do.
All posts filed under: Musings
Because everyone is entitled to my opinion.
Lawrence Jones proved it: in business, awards are for losers.
Convicted rapist Lawrence Jones used business awards to cover up his crimes. They're proof that business awards need to end once and for all.
The things I learned under the bluest sky
9 11 + 22
Is it me you’re looking for?
People are asking me to join this app or that social media thing, so here is where I am, and where I am not.
On Snowballs, Napoleons, and sharks
A new podcast series has reminded me how open source community meetups saved so many people, including me, from business networking hell.
On unexpected unemployment
“Getting rid of public policy people when you’re claiming to do ‘real free speech’ is the stupidest move ever.” Audrey Herblin-Stoop, ex-Twitter France public policy
Good editors and how to spot them
If you’ve been reading my book, and it hasn’t made you lose the will to live, you can thank Owen Gregory for that.
The week the open web won
No, I didn't destroy the Online Safety Bill with this blog. I did something even better.
Data is political. Ask a Glaswegian.
COP26 has brought a groundbreaking technical innovation to town, for two weeks.
Postcard from a Challenger Kid
Sometimes age verification is an insult.
On data rights, immigration, privilege, power, and the shit life throws at you
A personal memoir on what it feels like when your everyday life becomes a battleground over data rights, immigration, privilege, and power.
Political Geography and the Internet: the view from 1999
Here's what we trainee diplomats were getting to grips with at the turn of the millennium.