Weeknote 34
The garden of ideas, self permission slips, llms.txt generator, open recommendations, Organisational Resilience, tech resilience, modes of thinking. It's been a busy but good week!
Tom Watson
Weeknote 33
A fair bit of travelling, a fair bit of building. Creating a tiny boring tool, a nice end to a project, and sometimes just listening.
Is the best way to actually make AI work in an organisation to focus on constraints?
Pondering on how we actually need to focus on constraints when everything and anything is possible
Weeknote 32
First weeknote of the new year. A bit on my epic christmas trip to scandinavia, closing down Data for Action, open for new projects and collaborations, building an llms.txt generator and prototyping the context passport idea.
The end of Data For Action
Reflections on building a different kind of consultancy- one that chose uncertainty over certainty, conversations over transactions, and approach over outputs.
Weeknote 31
Final weeknote of the year...ok a week and a half note. Thinking about the future, taking care of the past, and an absolute bumper load of interesting things.
Signing off for the year.
My Memory - A startup idea for 2026
One of a number of ideas I'm thinking about ahead of 2026. The personal context passport lets people carry a portable, user-owned profile they can share on their terms - from low-stakes convenience (travel, fitness) and evolving into granular, time-limited permissions for high-stakes public services
Predictions for 2026 (or: What I'm Actually Thinking About)
The Predictions for 2026 that no-one asked for. Some of them are real, some are more just hope, most of them are firmly tongue in cheek.
Also I set out 8 ideas I'm thinking about when it comes to tech and AI infrastructure.
Weeknote 30
Meeting people off the internet, kicking off a new project, doing some building, thinking out loud on the North East and Public Interest AI, running through bogs
Weeknote 29
A bumper two weeknote.
Which LLM and How do you decide, Open Recommendations, Vibe Coding tips, Mapping my Swims, interesting things.