There have been months of roadworks. A complex junction has been remodelled to be friendlier to pedestrians and cyclists. The traffic has been rerouted this weekend, though there is still a lot of work to do to turn the old carriageway into the pleasant space envisaged by TfL’s artist (and nor do the fluffy white clouds and blue sky appear to be fully functioning yet).
Denial is mainly about fear, the fear of knowing and the fear of not knowing.
It can be easy to confuse leadership with charisma. Charisma may for some leaders be some part of how they do leadership. But for most leaders, most of the time, it’s about keeping the plates spinning.
The belief that there always solutions to problems is the curse of the modern age.
Free speech is a complex molecule. You can’t just pile up individual atoms of free speech and hope they’ll crystallize into it.
The only way anybody ever learns to write well is by trying to write well. This usually begins by reading good writing by other people, and writing very badly by yourself, for a long time.
Making digital work in government will mostly involve things that have nothing to do with technology.
The politics of technology is politics, but it’s never just politics.
What have we to say to the inhabitants of Finland four thousand generations into the future, and how on earth might we expect them to understand us?
A lot of time and energy has gone into thinking about how text-based information should be structured and organised at the technical level. That’s not a bad thing, but risks giving too little attention to the fact that a vital reason for storing information is to be able to find it and use it – and to connect it with related information.