steve

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workplace bez. doing product & strategy bits thru https://boringmagi.cc. more about me at https://visitmy.website/about

A compilation of ragga jungle and a Jackie Mittoo compilation
An invitation to an ‘Executive AI terrarium workshop'
A loan shelf in the Libby app showing two books: The Living Mountain and Emergent Strategy.
Hands clasping meme. Legora and Uber Eats are the hands clasping on Jude Law. Both have used the actor in adverts to promote their products as sexy or desirable.
Playing with the Teenage Engineering EP-40
People are particularly prone when using off-the-shelf Al to produce insights without understanding the inherent risks. There are companies developing specialist Al tools who take care over accuracy, reliability and trustworthy outputs. But most enterprise LLMs, like Copilot, are generic - they can't guide you, and they don't let you configure many settings. (In fact, Copilot's terms state it's provided for entertainment purposes only.)
No hype, no fluff. AI as normal technology.
A jammy, unfiltered Tavel rosé. It was bloody amazing!
Light shines through red glass onto the pier boards.
A man setting up a rod on a pier.
6.27% of appointments verified by 31 December 2025. Companies House identity verification statistics. Data from https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/companies-house-management-information-identity-verification-statistics
Franklin from GTA 5 sat alongside a motorcycle
You wouldn’t download a haircut
Z1/2 long Distance 25.72 km Pace 5:16 /km Time 2h15m
"I then thought, 'You just live your life. You've got to come and see that whale'."
A petition on the UK Government and Parliament Petitions website: Ban the Civil Service from using slide transitions in presentations We urge the UK government to ban the use of slide transitions in civil service presentations for their distracting nature. Never in the history of man has it been appropriate to ‘uncover’ or ‘fade out’ a slide, less so when you’re trying to share important information. Microsoft should be forced to make ‘None’ the default slide transition across all government slide decks.
making marmalade
A meme's transgression of the borders of stable meaning is the guarantee of its circulation.
Maverick West Sussex Trail 2026 Distance 22.22 km Elev Gain 436 m Time 2h 7m
Newcastle-under-Lyme Borough Council proposed 4 unitary councils. These would comprise the current areas of: Unitary Authority 1: Newcastle-under-Lyme Unitary Authority 2: Cannock Chase, South Staffordshire, and Stafford Unitary Authority 3: Staffordshire Moorlands, and Stoke-on-Trent Unitary Authority 4: East Staffordshire, Lichfield and Tamworth.
"The bourgeoisie ascending on both sides of the Atlantic was a class made of ink and newsprint. Aristocracies across Europe were small; they could be bound by common culture and marriages. The bourgeoisie was large, heterogenous, and not able to form kin connections at scale; they required the “many replications” of print to cohere a class identity. Why then would the bourgeoisie allow, much less encourage, their subordinates to also be literate? Because they needed literate and numerate labor from some and hoped to rule others with a Gramscian hegemony transmitted by literacy." (The Baffler Magazine, We Used to Read Things in This Country)
Kindred £396.50 for 7 nights Average rental £1,189.50+ for 7 nights My Kindred invite code MAL.RIC
Two people running across Brooklyn Bridge
John Wilson’s painting, ‘The Incident’.
A box of Link Samahan ayurvedic tea.
With the founders gone, what should the Cabinet Office tell GDS to prioritise next: enforce harder, collaborate more, or professionalise/diffuse capability across departments? You can read those as three different theories of change: • Enforce harder: stability through standards and compliance; scale via mandates. • Collaborate more: stability through trust and co-ownership; scale via coalition. • Professionalise/diffuse: stability through embedded capability; scale via professions and routines.
Tony Soprano eating steak, smiling
It's ok to... GDS feel the way you feel talk about how you're feeling ask for feedback have days off have off days go outside during work switch off at the end of the day not constantly check chat and emails have screen breaks say you're not comfortable with something raise your concerns be you change your mind say no have other things going on forget things have a meeting not have a meeting turn off notifications block time out to think and reflect approach tasks your own way work flexibly turn your camera off take time off if you're not well make mistakes say you don't understand ask for help put yourself first love what you do
The most gigantic king oyster mushroom you ever did see
"So many hundred Hands in this Mill; so many hundred horse Steam Power. It is known, to the force of a single pound weight, what the engine will do; but, not all the calculators of the National Debt can tell me the capacity for good or evil, for love or hatred, for patriotism or discontent, for the decomposition of virtue into vice, or the reverse, at any single moment in the soul of one of these its quiet servants, with the composed faces and the regulated actions." (Charles Dickens, Hard Times)
Not only did Trump — who has proclaimed himself “the president of peace” — return to the White House pledging to keep his country out of foreign conflicts, but his recent national security strategy ridiculed the “decades of fruitless ‘nation-building’ wars” of previous administrations. Yet Trump has now committed the US to establish Venezuela, a country two and a half times the size of Germany with a population of around 28mn, as a temporary protectorate.
A delicious autumnal woodland in East Sussex, the home of Winnie the Pooh.
A roadmap showing us delivering a service to a deadline for the Prime Minister
A tray of root trainers full of compost with broad bean sprouts popping through the top of the soil.
A beginner’s guide to permaculture.
Yo dawg, I heard you like crisp sandwiches so I made bread out of crisps so you can put crisps between your crisps while you eat your crisps