True. There is persuasion and then there is outright bullshit to manipulate and coerce.

Democracy only works in a world of well intentioned politicians who are true to their word. So currently its utterly malfunctioning.

Dog on the train seat beside me. A black coloured Dachshund called Dexter

Train friend 🐶 ❤️

How to Make Sense of Any Mess by Abby Covert on the tablet next to my cup of cappuccino

I bought this book the week I started at the NHS. Only just getting to reading it. A Paul Downey recommendation.

In a hotel tonight in London. 24 minutes from order to delivery. Fresh Amatriciana with pecorino and a glass bottle of Coke.

So it was his fault the ships weren’t getting through but just incase there was any doubt….. He probably wants to claim it’s part of the plan now.

I don’t know as much as I’d like but every snippet I’ve seen shows me this is a real leader. How they think, they talk/communicate and behave.

Just me with a constant feeling of being overwhelmed? I want to eliminate any unnecessary ‘noise’. Might crowd source a list. 1. Any ‘news’ said at me by a person in a suit on TV/YouTube/Etc.

Photo of the OHNO BOOK serious guide to irreverent type design.

Really enjoying the OHNO guide to Type Design.

Oh eck! Get well soon sir.

I thought it might be something like that. It's jolly nice bud.

Stop scrolling & post two characters who bring you happiness.

Planning Data

I think @joelanman.bsky.social is working on it? 👋🏻 intrigued. Having worked on planning.data.gov.uk

Interested to see whats happening over at data.gov.uk 👀

The treadmill got faster A return to weeknotes prompted by the rapid mainstream adoption of AI, using writing as a way to process its impact on work and practice

Back week-noting: paulsmith.site/weeknotes/20...

I always forget about Sunday trading laws and end up stood outside a shop in the cold.

Vibe coding is: being three hours into debugging something that took twenty minutes to build.

oh nice. I will give them a try, they never used to deliver but they do now! Thanks!

Sounds nice actually. Pre-ground that one?

Yes; love monmouth. Are they still primarily v60 style coffee?

Can anybody recommend a place to buy good wholebean coffee? Ideally next day delivery. Medium-Dark and Dark roasted are my faves.

I used Hey until the unpleasant goings-on and rumours about some of their conduct put me off. I do like the thought that has gone into some of their products though.

Walmart: ChatGPT checkout converted 3x worse than website After testing 200,000 items in ChatGPT, Walmart found sharply lower conversions and will use its own integrated shopping experience.

In Walmart test, traditional online shopping beat agentic commerce bigtime.

Kanban as it should be. Not as it has been. A refreshing take on cards, columns, and kanban.

Basecamp do have some incredibly good interaction designers. www.fizzy.do is really jolly nice and well thought out. Remember Trello? That but better and modern. No AI (phew!). Free and self hosting is possible too.

Love this post! I’m venturing back to social media. I missed posts like this and reading all the clever folks I learned so much from in the twitter glory days. Hope you’re well Tim!

Monzo’s loan/credit repayment design patterns are so sneakily evil and deceptive. I’m almost impressed. I get they’re seeking profit, I don’t begrudge them that, they’ve made a nice service/product but the very carefully crafted friction to a user reducing the interest payable is quite something.

a man is sitting in a bathtub looking at a laptop ALT: a man is sitting in a bathtub looking at a laptop

I’ll start: -50

Rate your 2025 out of 10 (1 being a festering pile of bullhonky, 10 being happy-happy-joy-joy)

Full Fibre is here. Image of a happy man sat in front of a computer.

The email I've been waiting over 20 years for. Openreach have rolled out their 'full fibre' to where I live. It's too little, too late. Profiteering sods have held me and this country back for decades. Addicted to metered copper lines they've had their knee on the throat of a vital service.

NX, pnpm, React, Webpack, Typescript, NPM, Node, Styled components, Storybooks, Jest, Git Hooks........ Off to the sea-bed you go.