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In doing it, you find out why you did it …yes, continuing with the words of Tony Wilson from the last instalment. Because, this Friday morning on the...
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The (small p) politics of (big p) place Earlier this year, I shared the stage with Andy Burnham, then Mayor of Greater Manchester, and now (very likely) our...
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Sussex Day; a very modern ancient tradition You may not be aware that the 16th June each year is Sussex Day. Celebrated across the length of this ancient...
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Attention please Mr Stephen P. Anderson, fellow Cardstock wrangler, writes a mean newsletter. They are always full to the brim with things. This was his...
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A machine for walking I have rented a machine to do my walking for me. I can walk, of course, and choose to do so often. Sometimes I walk because my work...
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A brief bonus newsletter on apple varieties, and their similarities to technology communities.
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Estates of the Nation Today I’m wanted to talk about two estates. One is the housing estate where we live. The other is an industrial estate where I ended...
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The future/present/past of design It has been a wonderful start to the year, but as I said on the first STEPS Collective of the year on Friday, I can’t...
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The Creative Quartet On the 7th June 2012, the first pack of Artefact Cards was sold from a freshly-minted Shopify site, built by someone who only vaguely...
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Letter from a Steward, by John V Willshire, for Hardeep Kaur's social moonshot 'Age of the Steward'.
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Organise, don’t agonise I was reading Leah Reich’s excellent newsletter, Meets Most, this morning. And this phrase, from Anand Giridharadas’ reflections on...
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Well hi there. How’re you? Nice summer? </smoltolk> Let’s just crack on with it shall we…? Cognitive Debt Yes, Cognitive Debt has become a repeating theme...
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What’s my ideal LLM? Part three. Congratulations for getting this far. (If you’ve been sent this, part 2 is here.) Your reward, if we can call it that, is...
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Cogitating on Cognitive Debt And so, part 2. I’m continuing from the last newsletter with a bridge between the Latourian turn of things (“complex assemblies...
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Show The Thing, Change The Thing This appears to be the 250th newsletter I’ve written. Sometimes you approach a significant number and you tense up a little....
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Creating the space for citizenship I’m going to talk about a new card that made its way on to the board last Friday. It says “creating the space for...
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You’re nowt but a policy bateleur Nick wanted to know about this card. N.B. - I hope Nick wanted all that follows, rather than just wondering why I have...
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I only know what I think if I write it down… I was grabbed by this quote in the excellent interview Paul Graham Raven did with Cameron Tonkinwise (first part...
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Teachable, Wearable Futures Good morning It is a crisp and sunny morning here in Sussex, which despite everything brings a drop of optimism to start the day...
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A lively start to the year …and like that, January is almost over. I know, right?!! Me too!! But with that comes lots of things I could review, tell you...