Belts, language, cardigans and dancing
I've done another interview with a former Interesting speaker. A brilliant set of recommendations and ideas from Sophie. Find her at Wardrobe Strategy and on instagram
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Notes and Links
Notes and links - 22nd February
oh.... my god?? actual chart from learn.microsoft.com/en-us/traini... btw — GlaireDaggers🍉🏳️⚧️🎄 (@glairedaggers.bsky.social) 2026-02-16T23:07:39.184Z Now is a good time to shut up about AI (Incidentally, 'now is a good time to shut up about...' would make a good ongoing
Life
Girls, boys, art, pleasure
I don't like much, really, do I?
Decisions
Ira Glass on good taste and falling short
Life
Library love
Every year I get a statement like this from the British Library / Public Lending Right programme. I'm clearly not going to get rich from library users but it's the most life-affirming indication that the books are getting into people's hands. It's
Marketing
Don't say brand
One of my most irritating habits is to make sure people say 'brand' as little as possible. It's such a baggy and mis-used term that when you get 5 people in a room talking about 'brand' you can certain they all mean something
Me droning on
If you can't get enough of my tedious opinions here are a couple of podcasts you can listen to: me on Do Radio (If I remember correctly, typically irritating contrariness about technology featuring radio, RSS and Tamara Shopsin) me on That Business of Meaning (you can read along
Principles
Principles from Edward Povey
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Notes and Links
Notes and links - 15th of February
In Defense of Fakes An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on MeScott Shambaugh helps maintain the excellent and venerable matplotlib Python charting library, including taking on the thankless task of triaging and reviewing incoming pull requests. A GitHub account called @crabby-rathbun …Simon Willison’s WeblogSimon WillisonThe Financialisation of
Communicating
Ira Glass on the building blocks of storytelling
The London Review of TikToks
London Review of TikToks
@theromeshshow Are we being trained? 👀 Screenwriter and producer Jack Thorne on TV writing and keeping the audience. Watch #TheRomeshRanganathanShow now 📺 on YouTube. #jackthorne #romeshranganthan #podcastclips #tv #tvwriting #netflix ♬ original sound - The Romesh Ranganathan Show - The Romesh Ranganathan Show @drrachelbarr How to stay sane in an insane world 🧠 check out @well.
Design
Kevin Systrom on product thinking
@clearmatrix.io 📸 The Origin of Instagram: Built on Simplicity and Timing. Before Instagram became a global phenomenon, it started with a simple idea: what if photo-sharing could be fast, beautiful, and social? Kevin Systrom, a Stanford grad and ex-Googler, had built a check-in app called Burbn, but