Weeknote 14-03-25
Principles for data and being human. Organisational resilience. And a long rambling section on approaches for Open working & Infrastructure.
Tom Watson
Weeknote 07-03-2025
Lot's of planning and organising for next week. Messing about with some new tools.
18F mirror site
Have you heard of 18F? Probably not unless you are in the tech/public sector world. They are(were) a digital services agency INSIDE of the US government.
European Alternatives
With most organisations using cloud services and as any tech infrastructure in the USA becomes increasingly risky, it's important to really think about alternatives. This site lists a whole range of services from things like website hosting, to domain registrars, VPNs, browsers and more.
Weeknote 28-2-2025
Picture of the sea, some stuff on governance, a couple of blogs and some interesting things!
Observations, signals and structures that liberate.
This post brings together some things I've been thinking about and using with groups who are working in collaborative structures or system change.
Maps as conversations
Exploring our citizen led neighbourhood mapping at Data For Action
Weeknote 21-02-25
Writing about Retros, sharing the Question Bank, lots of thinking about closure and endings. Some really interesting things I saw this week.
Lessons learned from working together
Data for Action worked with ClientEarth for around 18 months. We recently held a retrospective to explore what we all learned about the work. This document looks to summarise the lessons we can learn from.
Weeknote 14-02-25
Learning from a retro, vibes based consultancy, maps as conversations, letting go and just doing the work.