The realisation that this kind of office furniture is almost exactly the same as the isolation room desks for the kids sent out of class in Educating Yorkshire.

Ella Bruccoleri’s Mary Bennet would make an excellent Business Analyst.

When you have a meeting to share project findings with another digital team

Like everyone does, I often have to google the words other people use at work. Today was the first time I discovered they'd just *made it up*. Its not a real word! Which I love and appreciate, language never stops, but is a helpful reminder that the people are literally making things up as they go.

A lot of people talking about bringing your true self to work, but my true self describes designs for time out messages as ✨cute!✨

Every damn time

Me and my imposter syndrome sat in the office among my colleagues.

All this time I’ve been wondering if there was a single legitimate reason for smart glasses to have video recording (beyond harassing women), and yesterday realised there is one. As dashcams for cyclists because people won’t GET OUT OF THE BIKE LANE.

Is it appropriate to add Mercury being in retrograde to a risk log? Asking for a friend.

Re unexpected use cases, I use this football fixtures search on google solely to check when town is going to be full of United or City mens team fans so I can avoid them

In today’s unexpected AI repercussion, my hairdresser told me customers are now starting to come in with reference photos of ‘people’ with hair colouring that is basically impossible.

Get yourself to Bada Bing in the Northern Quarter!

I can't explain why, but the Pret acai bowl feels inherent gothic.

They absolutely knew I didn't want the definition of thesaurus. Come on mate.

My ultimate suggestion is a footstool that looks like a massive teacake.

Was on a @theschoolofgood.bsky.social course this week where they referenced this page from the 1944 FBI Simple Sabotage Field manual and I’ve been thinking about it ever since. www.cia.gov/static/5c875...

Me at the top of a Crazy 8s session

I am a huge advocate for working from home, but it does mean when your team get some great news at the end of the day your celebration is walking to the supermarket to recycle your soft plastics.

Helpful reminder this week in a conversation with a smart, cultural, 23 year old graduate friend who admitted she didn’t really understand what I did. Started telling her about digital products etc, when she asked “yeah, but what is the civil service?”

So nice to bump into you on the stairs! Thanks for saying hi

My aim in going to #ukgc26 was to understand if to do my job well, I needed to be like all the people I see on here being super knowledgeable about the civil service & making big change.

What I learned is no one knows everything and change takes time & patience. And that was really, really helpful.

Classic PM phrase #19: “Would it be useful to you if I said you’re not allowed?”

I need you all to know that by attending #ukgc26 I’m missing a wassailing event I’d like to have gone to. Tale as old as time.

Product Management.

Isn’t it weird how everyone else’s presentations are boring and overlong, but your own are fascinating and effervescent

Multi disciplinary teams 💫

As another festive season of parties and gatherings approaches, thoughts and prayers to all the PMs trying to explain what they do to Auntie (not actual Auntie) Barbara or some bloke called Steve clutching a multipack can of Fosters.

Rory choosing Yale over Harvard is very much 'strong ideas, lightly held'. Using evidence (pros and cons list written in Luke's) to inform the decision. It's just good stuff.

When they’re asking you to update the project scope on Confluence

4 stickers laid out on a wooden table. They say: 1. Stop focusing on shiny tech / Llai o sglein, mwy o synnwyr 2. Test and learn, don't guess and launch 3. Profi a dysgu, nid dyfalu ac i ffwrdd a hi 4. Plans don't change things, people do

Our stickers have arrived in time for @govcampcymru.bsky.social on Friday!

Who's going? 🙌