# Tomcw.xyz
> Writing about open infrastructure, data, technology, learning and a better world. From Tom C W.
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## Pages
- [About this site](https://tomcw.xyz/about.md) - Hello! I’m Tom. This is my corner of the internet — a place to share my writing, my work, and the things that catch my eye. I’m an advisor, technologist and builder working at the intersection of data, AI and social impact. I’m based in the North East of England and I run The Good Ship — a consulta…
- [Interesting Things](https://tomcw.xyz/interesting-links.md) - Every week I publish a weeknote that includes a short list of interesting things I have stumbled across. This page collects every one of those links in one place, grouped by month. 479 links extracted from 42 weeknotes. Last updated 21 September 2026. September 2026 * Gensyn | Introducing open-1b:…
- [Running](https://tomcw.xyz/running.md)
- [weeknote](https://tomcw.xyz/weeknote.md)
- [Work](https://tomcw.xyz/work.md) - My work sits at the intersection of data, technology, strategy and design — always in service of social purpose. I help organisations ask better questions, make sense of complexity, and build the tools and infrastructure they need to act on what they learn. I’m a trained coach, advisor and occasion…

## Posts
- [Weeknote 62](https://tomcw.xyz/weeknote/weeknote-62.md) - Co-ops are vibe, running a RELAY, meeting new people, doing diagrams, usual waffle.
- [Weeknote 61](https://tomcw.xyz/weeknote/weeknote-61.md) - Back to school officially. Distributed inference across AI or doing AI differently. Some really nice running, organisational resilience concepts. The programme really does work. Discussing bids, paying attention to what matters.
- [Weeknote 60](https://tomcw.xyz/weeknote-60.md) - Back from a break, back to school, backing off from things, paying attention.
- [Boring is beautiful?](https://tomcw.xyz/boring-is-beautiful.md) - Sharing the tiny boring and privacy focused tools I use for myself in a Set.
- [A TechFreedom startup stack?](https://tomcw.xyz/a-techfreedom-startup-stack.md) - What would a TechFreedom tech stack look like if you were starting from scratch? A question I was asked, and one which actually tested my thinking around what is the best approach here. Fundamentally it comes down to how much of a pain in the arse are you willing to put up with!
- [Recap May - July](https://tomcw.xyz/recap-may-july.md) - My somewhat regular round up of all the posts and weeknotes and things I’ve been up to, for those of you who said you might like such a thing. the first TechFreedom cohort finished, The Slow Post happened, the Organisational Resilience programme came to an end, FIELD STATION emerged
- [Building Soundings: a question-shaped layer over UK open data](https://tomcw.xyz/building-soundings-a-question-shaped-layer-over-uk-open-data.md) - Another blog on the ins and outs of something I've built, what it's all about, and why it might be a useful tool and/or concept. This time: Soundings an MCP server that wraps UK open data behind question-shaped tools.
- [Weeknote 59](https://tomcw.xyz/weeknote/weeknote-59.md) - Reflection as an outcome, question banking, making an 80s style game that pits pits an applicant AI vs an Assessment AI. usual interesting things.
- [Weeknote 58](https://tomcw.xyz/weeknote/weeknote-58.md) - Meeting people old and new, FIELD STATION essays and experiments, questions>data>dashboards, tending to networks.
- [Weeknote 57](https://tomcw.xyz/weeknote/weeknote-57.md) - TL;DR: busy. Lots of client work, some exciting things, starting something new, workshops, building new things even though I said I wouldn’t, late nights with life, nice pastries, decent running, campervan insulation and possibly the greatest mushroom and lentil wraps ever created.
- [Put down the firehose](https://tomcw.xyz/put-down-the-firehose.md) - An exploration of building with local small models and why we probably don't need the firehose approach of frontier models for most things. Frugal AI can be done, if we choose to, and it doesn't need to cost us the quality.
- [Weeknote 56](https://tomcw.xyz/weeknote-56.md) - Some building using local first approaches (including AI) the constraint slows things down, but I think in the long run makes for a better product? Testing more open source models, updating Bearing, working on openorg, soundings, Honestly though this week was mainly just lots of running
- [Weeknote 55](https://tomcw.xyz/weeknote/weeknote-55.md) - This week was focused on two main things: running a mini TechFreedom session at TechNExt and bringing to a close the 6 month Organisational Resilience programme. Actually reflecting, focusing on conditions, joining a forum, dinosaurs in cathedrals.
- [Weeknote 54](https://tomcw.xyz/weeknote/weeknote-54.md) - The Slow Post week. That was the main thing. That should probably be the main thing more. I also wrote a couple of things about Neighbourhoods, Responsible AI, did some building, and some work. But mainly, just go slower.
- [If everything is a neighbourhood, is anything a neighbourhood?](https://tomcw.xyz/if-everything-is-a-neighbourhood-is-anything-a-neighbourhood.md) - If everything is described as a neighbourhood, is anything actually a neighbourhood? Explore the word and the data and why it's so confusing
- [Responsible AI?](https://tomcw.xyz/responsible-ai.md) - A write up from a talk I gave on Responsible AI with links to resources. I started not with AI, but with Food Citizenship.
- [Weeknote 53](https://tomcw.xyz/weeknote/weeknote-53.md) - Remembering to stop and protect my boundaries, writing a mishmash of the history of climbing and AI, having some incredible feedback from two programmes, planning The Field Station, TechFreedom stickers
- [Strap in (and harness up)](https://tomcw.xyz/strap-in-and-harness-up.md) - Is the harness more important that the model? A ramble through climbing history and the AI present and future. Random alright
- [Weeknote 52](https://tomcw.xyz/weeknote/weeknote-52.md) - Silly cartoons, random exlorations of a less open sector via the medium of the physical laws of the universe, a trip to cornwall, work on Bearings, sharing Glade a tool for governance, and a bumper list of interestng things.
- [Round up - March to May](https://tomcw.xyz/round-up-march-to-may.md) - An occasional round up all the posts and weeknotes and things I've been up to that some of you said you might like! A bumper couple of months - TechFreedom went live, a residential happened, The Pastry Index ™ , several new tools, a viral piece on grantmaking infrastructure and what actually counts…
- [There be goblins](https://tomcw.xyz/there-be-goblins.md) - In April, OpenAI published a blog post called Where the goblins came from. Starting with GPT-5.1, their models had developed an unprompted habit of mentioning goblins, gremlins, trolls, and ogres in metaphors. Use of "goblin" in ChatGPT went up 175%. The cause: during training of the Nerdy personal…
- [Weeknote 51](https://tomcw.xyz/weeknote/weeknote-51.md) - Lots of great work, conversations and ideas really filled my cup this week. Plus I had some nice food, which always helps. Lots of interesting links this week.
- [The Constant Gardeners](https://tomcw.xyz/the-constant-gardeners.md) - The flashy new initiatives feel nice, but it's the quiet work that really matters. My musing on the constant gardeners in work and in life, as I ponder my tree peony.
- [Weeknote 50](https://tomcw.xyz/weeknote/weeknote-50.md) - Weeknote 50. Yes 50. Collective resilience, time in norwich, the second TechFreedom session, working on tools, vibes as infrastructure, venues as participants, strava kicking me while I was down.
- [My Stack - going local](https://tomcw.xyz/my-stack-going-local.md) - My yearly dive into my tech stack - the tech I use on a daily basis. Resetting habits, going local, progress not perfection.
- [Weeknote 49](https://tomcw.xyz/weeknote/weeknote-49.md) - A disaster of a week where I got ill.
- [Weeknote 48](https://tomcw.xyz/weeknote/weeknote-48.md) - A few days trail running meant a very busy start to the week. Delivered the first TechFreedom session, shared a few tools, met with new client, some nice chats.
- [Weeknote 47](https://tomcw.xyz/weeknote/weeknote-47.md) - Another shorter week, trip to northern ireland, delivering a workshop on question based approaches to data, meeting new people, prepping for TechFreedom first cohort, making Bearing a tool for choosing AI models.
- [Le weeknote 46](https://tomcw.xyz/weeknote/le-weeknote-46.md) - Took a week off and went to Fontainebleu in France, so this is mainly a diary of climbing and pastries...but I couldn't just leave it there could I...
- [Weeknote 45](https://tomcw.xyz/weeknote/weeknote-45.md) - The importance of reflection, StackMap - a way to umm, map your stack, more work on TechFreedom, testing is good, oh shit moments, and the usual interesting things I've seen this week.
- [Weeknote 44](https://tomcw.xyz/weeknote/weeknote-44.md) - TechFreedom, 20% beefs, the grant application is dead, is everything a skill, catching up with people, getting turned down for things and some actual paid work things...
- [Is This Just a Skill?](https://tomcw.xyz/is-this-just-a-skill.md) - At one point everything was an app, or at least someone said it should be an app. Now I wonder, is everything a SKILL? And what's the difference between a skill and an actual product. I consider this with something I built and then decided...I think this is a skill.
- [The Grant Application Is Dead. What Comes Next?](https://tomcw.xyz/the-grant-application-is-dead-what-comes-next.md) - How federated protocols, local agents, and organisational self-sovereignty could replace the broken funding model. Come down the rabbit hole with me...
- [Weeknote 43](https://tomcw.xyz/weeknote/weeknote-43.md) - Just enough structure. Saying no to neat little bows. A long week, residential, letting go of ideas, and some running
- [The Case for Loose Ends](https://tomcw.xyz/the-case-for-loose-ends.md) - Is our obsession with neat little bows on workshops and projects actually diminishing the impact they have? The long-term impact. The impact we hope they have beyond our involvement?
- [Weeknote 41](https://tomcw.xyz/weeknote/weeknote-41.md) - "Little hand says it's time to rock and roll" A very busy and productive week. Time in airtable, writing docs, getting stuff sorted for TechFreedom. Still managed to write two posts, and go for a good run in the hills. Usual interesting things, including digital kite flying
- [What has the IMD ever done for us?](https://tomcw.xyz/what-has-the-imd-ever-done-for-us.md) - No-one is arguing that the Index of Multiple Deprivation is bad, but does it actually make a difference? A genuine question that's been bugging me for a while, and so, with a bit of apprehension, I wrote about why.
- [Exploring conversational database building](https://tomcw.xyz/exploring-conversational-database-building.md) - Building databases through MCP servers with Airtable and Baserow and why open source alternatives make this stuff work better. Also giving a real example of the TechFreedom lens applied to two specific tools
- [Weeknote 40](https://tomcw.xyz/weeknote/weeknote-40.md) - Hitting my weeknote midlife crisis age… Opening sign ups to TechFreedom, building a a standalone browser extension (and MCP) for my memory, falling behind on a project, finishing the week on a high note, and lots of interesting things, including a blog about seeing an otter in saltaire.
- [Why we created TechFreedom, and why we think it's important](https://tomcw.xyz/why-we-created-techfreedom-and-why-we-think-its-important.md) - Launching TechFreedom a cohort based programme to help you make choices about your tech. Why we created it, why we think it's important, what it's all about and an invite to join us!
- [Who Will Shape AI in the Public Interest](https://tomcw.xyz/linkblog/who-will-shape-ai-in-the-public-interest.md) - The current controversy over the Pentagon’s AI contracts reveals a deeper issue: governments are shaping the AI market through procurement in the wrong ways or not at all, failing to make demands that AI strengthen democracy and improve governance.
- [Weeknote 39](https://tomcw.xyz/weeknote/weeknote-39.md) - A week off, getting my running mojo back, finding some fossils, february cold water dip, getting ready to launch some things, context memory (again), interesting things
- [Weeknote 38](https://tomcw.xyz/weeknote/weeknote-38.md) - Quieter week, some building, some coaching (and why that's probably a more important approach now more than ever), getting ill, building some things, working on tech freedom.
- [Weeknote 37](https://tomcw.xyz/weeknote/weeknote-37.md) - Breadnotes, Tech Freedom, saying no, starting a couple of new bits of work, learning about Ice Breaker One and Free Ice Cream, resilience in practice, redesigning my website.
- [Bridging the Data Gap: A Semantic Translation Layer for UK Poverty Data](https://tomcw.xyz/bridging-the-data-gap-a-semantic-translation-layer-for-uk-poverty-data.md) - Ponderings on how to bridge the data gap. Exploring questions, semantic layers, TRE's and feedback loops.
- [Weeknote 36](https://tomcw.xyz/weeknote/weeknote-36.md) - A busy week of travel. Organisational resilience, poverty data gaps, Just in time digital services, a theory of change in 10 minutes, the f*ck it matrix, american big tech is the biggest risk not on your risk register, and interesting things!
- [The Interface: Building Blocks for Just-in-Time Software](https://tomcw.xyz/building-blocks-for-just-in-time-software.md) - The second of my 8 ideas to explore in 2026 in AI and technology. In this one I'm exploring just in time software, like lego blocks we pull together when we need them.
- [Weeknote 35](https://tomcw.xyz/weeknote/weeknote-35.md) - Another week, another note. Getting stuff done, structuring workshops for information output, llmstxt.socal write up, sharing garden of ideas, meeting several people, LOTS of interesting links.
- [Building LLMs.txt for the social sector](https://tomcw.xyz/building-llms-txt-for-the-social-sector.md) - Another blog on the ins and outs of something I built, what it's all about, and why it might be a useful tool and/or concept. A llms.txt tool designed for specific use cases.
- [The Garden of Ideas](https://tomcw.xyz/the-garden-of-ideas.md) - The Garden Ideas, a simple facilitation tool for individuals and groups. Seeds, soil, seasons, pruning and composting as a way of making intentional choices
- [Building Open Recommendations](https://tomcw.xyz/building-open-recommendations.md) - A full breakdown of how I built Open Recommendations, the inner workings, the choices I made, including provider agnostic AI, strict data structures, deciding whats a recommendation and whats just an observation, RAG, and weighting community feedback.
- [Weeknote 34](https://tomcw.xyz/weeknote/weeknote-34.md) - 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!
- [Weeknote 33](https://tomcw.xyz/weeknote/weeknote-33.md) - 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?](https://tomcw.xyz/is-the-best-way-to-actually-make-ai-work-in-an-organisation-to-focus-on-constraints.md) - Pondering on how we actually need to focus on constraints when everything and anything is possible
- [Weeknote 32](https://tomcw.xyz/weeknote/weeknote-32.md) - 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](https://tomcw.xyz/the-end-of-data-for-action.md) - Reflections on building a different kind of consultancy- one that chose uncertainty over certainty, conversations over transactions, and approach over outputs.
- [Weeknote 31](https://tomcw.xyz/weeknote/weeknote-31.md) - 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](https://tomcw.xyz/my-memory-a-startup-idea-for-2026.md) - 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)](https://tomcw.xyz/predictions-for-2026-or-what-im-actually-thinking-about.md) - 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](https://tomcw.xyz/weeknote/weeknote-30.md) - 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](https://tomcw.xyz/weeknote/weeknote-29.md) - A bumper two weeknote. Which LLM and How do you decide, Open Recommendations, Vibe Coding tips, Mapping my Swims, interesting things.
- [Which LLM? And how do YOU decide?](https://tomcw.xyz/which-llm-and-how-do-you-decide.md) - Thinking out loud on assessing which LLM models to use. Starting to build a framework based on real life applications
- [Weeknote 28](https://tomcw.xyz/weeknote/weeknote-28.md) - Modes of problem solving, the great unsettling, a bit of crap situation, rants about microsoft, some interesting things.
- [Weeknote 27](https://tomcw.xyz/weeknote/weeknote-27.md) - Two weeks with lots of things happening, visits to waterfalls, cakes oh yeah and work and interesting things. Collective resilience definitions, questions as an approach, mushrooms that make music
- [Weeknote 26](https://tomcw.xyz/weeknote/weeknote-26.md) - A double week. Lots of writing, lots of work, productive. Interesting things includes something called Sporesight Fungi as your Futurist - got to be worth a read just to get to that
- [Field Notes: Designing Entropic Systems](https://tomcw.xyz/field-notes-designing-entropic-systems.md) - More on the exploration of what designing with uncertainty and entropy might mean. The Observability Dashboard, The Collective Foundation Model, The Entropic Fund
- [People as Code 4 - Entropic Systems](https://tomcw.xyz/people-as-code-4-entropic-systems.md) - Embracing Entropy as a concept for design. Turning from the theoretical to the practical. Observability, not measurement. Questions as interfaces, data as plural
- [People as Code 3 - Quantum Uncertainty](https://tomcw.xyz/people-as-code-3-quantum-uncertainty.md) - What happens when we stop pretending control is ever possible and design with uncertainty.
- [People as Code 2 - Collapse, rewild, regenerate.](https://tomcw.xyz/people-as-code-collapse.md) - People as Code reflects on how generative AI, built from human data, now mirrors and shapes us. As AI flattens difference and optimises for plausibility over truth, culture risks collapse.
- [Principles of Organisational Resilience - a first draft](https://tomcw.xyz/principles-of-organisational-resilience-a-first-draft.md) - A refresh of The Principles of Organisational Resilience - a new draft
- [Weeknote 25](https://tomcw.xyz/weeknote/weeknote-25.md) - Illness got me this week. Still managed a bit. Principles of Organisational Resilience, mushrooms and interesting things.
- [Weeknote 24](https://tomcw.xyz/weeknote/weeknote-24.md) - A tough week, but a good one. Launching The List, meeting new people, a giant melon sculpture, interesting things.
- [The best leaders focus on effectiveness](https://tomcw.xyz/the-best-leaders-focus-on-effectiveness.md) - The best leaders focus on effectiveness over efficiency.
- [Weeknote 23](https://tomcw.xyz/weeknote/weeknote-23.md) - Starting Vibe club, Transparency, Resilience and some interesting things.
- [Weeknote 22](https://tomcw.xyz/weeknote/weeknote-22.md) - A catch up on my summer and getting back to work. A bumper bunch of interesting things.
- [Weeknote 21](https://tomcw.xyz/weeknote/weeknote-21.md) - Running a race, reflecting on a project gone wrong, what is mapping
- [Weeknote 20](https://tomcw.xyz/weeknote/weeknote-20.md) - A busy week of getting stuff done. Sharing a new tool called Map my Patch, random thoughts on the civil society covenant (and how it's about whether any of it actually turns to action), a call for testers of Open Recommendations, pictures of mountains (obviously) and interesting things
- [Weeknote 19](https://tomcw.xyz/weeknote/weeknote-19.md) - A note about a week. Two trips out in a week, neighbourhood mapping Q&A, couple of tools, interesting things
- [Weeknote 18](https://tomcw.xyz/weeknote/weeknote-18.md) - Another thricenote. Lots of building (digital) things. Pictures of my garden, bread and the forest. A free tool and some interesting things
- [Weeknote #17](https://tomcw.xyz/weeknote/weeknote-17.md) - When is a weeknote not a weeknote? When it's a threeweeknote. A thrice note? Organisational Resilience, Open Recommendations, it's how we use information, sharing ideas and hoping someone funds us to do it, tech and data AI framework, neighbourhood maps part 2. Plus a picture of my tent.
- [Weeknote #16](https://tomcw.xyz/weeknote/weeknote-16.md) - Actually a fortnight note. Getting building Open Recommendations, reusing my own project repository, Open Youth Infrastructure and interesting things.
- [Weeknote #15](https://tomcw.xyz/weeknote/weeknote-15.md) - A good week! Felt like some things are coming together. Opening Up community Call, open working for the win, rss feeds, viral bluesky, plants, and the usual interesting things
- [Weeknote 27-04-2025](https://tomcw.xyz/weeknote/weeknote-27-04-2025.md) - Writing about tech stacks, friends don't let friends use microsoft, open ideas, questions banks and my best race result since 1990 sports day.
- [What stack do I use?](https://tomcw.xyz/what-stack-do-i-use.md) - Prompted by a few other blogs I thought I'd outline "my stack". I've done this a couple of times before but this time feels slightly different.
- [Weeknote 20-04-2025](https://tomcw.xyz/weeknote/weeknote-20-04-2025.md) - A week in scotland with animals of all kinds, and pondering whether what I do has any value, or if I should just shut up and play the hits.
- [Weeknote 11-04-25](https://tomcw.xyz/weeknote/weeknote-11-04-25.md) - Some more working on a tool for learning, not monitoring, a charity board meeting and some crappy funding practice, and interesting things as always.
- [Weeknote 5-4-2025](https://tomcw.xyz/weeknote/weeknote-5-4-2025.md) - Some obligatory mountain pictures, thinking about maps and citizenship, more building on an app and some interesting things about health, reports, infrastructure and more
- [Weeknote 28-3-25](https://tomcw.xyz/weeknote/weeknote-28-3-25.md) - Pushing at the edges, experimenting with a new idea, but mainly its all about the running and the mountains and the lakes.
- [Endings](https://tomcw.xyz/endings.md) - Thinking about endings and beginning. Composting, knowledge, wisdom.
- [Stop designing for efficiency, design for resilience instead](https://tomcw.xyz/stop-designing-for-efficiency-design-for-resilience-instead.md) - Writing about the trap of efficiency and how we need to design for resilience instead.
- [Weeknote 21-03-25](https://tomcw.xyz/weeknote/weeknote-21-03-25.md) - Lots of planning, some exploration of community centred & owned data or 'data as conversations', some rambles on AI & Tech. Some interesting things as well and my March cold water dip.
- [Data as Conversations](https://tomcw.xyz/data-as-conversations.md) - A bit of an exploration on community centred and owned data.
- [Weeknote 14-03-25](https://tomcw.xyz/weeknote/weeknote-14-03-25.md) - Principles for data and being human. Organisational resilience. And a long rambling section on approaches for Open working & Infrastructure.
- [Weeknote 07-03-2025](https://tomcw.xyz/weeknote/weeknote-07-03-2025.md) - Lot's of planning and organising for next week. Messing about with some new tools.
- [18F mirror site](https://tomcw.xyz/linkblog/18f-mirror-site.md) - 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](https://tomcw.xyz/linkblog/european-alternatives.md) - 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](https://tomcw.xyz/weeknote/weeknote-28-2-2025.md) - Picture of the sea, some stuff on governance, a couple of blogs and some interesting things!
- [Observations, signals and structures that liberate.](https://tomcw.xyz/observations-signals-and-structures-that-liberate.md) - 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](https://tomcw.xyz/maps-as-conversations.md) - Exploring our citizen led neighbourhood mapping at Data For Action
- [Weeknote 21-02-25](https://tomcw.xyz/weeknote/weeknote-21-02-25.md) - 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](https://tomcw.xyz/lessons-learned-from-working-together.md) - 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](https://tomcw.xyz/weeknote/weeknote-14-02-25.md) - Learning from a retro, vibes based consultancy, maps as conversations, letting go and just doing the work.
- [Weeknote 07-02-2025](https://tomcw.xyz/weeknote/weeknote-07-02-2025.md) - Bit's on maps, knowledge infrastructure, pictures from my run and a bit of a full list of interesting things
- [Grant Guardian](https://tomcw.xyz/linkblog/grant-guardian.md) - Some thoughts on Grant Guardian and how it might be a boring and maybe effective use of AI
- [Weeknote 31-01-25](https://tomcw.xyz/weeknote/weeknote-31-01-25.md) - A weeknote. Bits on Systems change, focusing on signals, platforms and other things I saw this week
- [Weeknote 24/01/2025](https://tomcw.xyz/weeknote/weeknote-24-01-2025.md) - A weeknote from 24/01/25 What i've done this week, what I've thought about
- [Decisions, learning and resilience](https://tomcw.xyz/decisions-learning-and-resilience.md) - Exploration of decision making, learning and resilience. Includes exploring 4 key tenets of resilience - Anticipate, Prepare, Respond, Adapt. Also links Triple Loop learning to resilience.
- [Openverse](https://tomcw.xyz/linkblog/openverse.md) - I love open resources and infrastructure that helps open things up, and I just saw this. http://openverse.fyi It's a repository of open resources that support organisations with all things people and culture. Think things like onboarding, managing meetings, handbooks and more. The resources are tag…
- [Open Data Editor](https://tomcw.xyz/linkblog/open-data-editor.md) - I've been following the Open Data Editor from Open Knowledge Foundation for a while. It's good to see in public beta. This is a linkblog
- [Write like nobody is watching](https://tomcw.xyz/write-like-nobody-is-watching.md) - A blog about setting up Ghost, using next.js, supabase and vercel to run a blog/website. Also it's just me writing into the wind.
- [AI for better?](https://tomcw.xyz/ai-for-better.md) - Are we in the FastAI era? A discussion on how I use AI and some of the things I consider when I do.
- [Open Ideas — the difficult second album](https://tomcw.xyz/open-ideas-the-difficult-second-album.md) - About 18 months ago (how!?) i ran an experiment when I asked people to post their ideas openly and then I gave one of them £500 to do so. I now put together a way of continuing the idea of openly sharing ideas.
- [Let’s end single use projects](https://tomcw.xyz/lets-end-single-use-projects.md) - So much insight, so much knowledge, lost or locked up in organisations and institutions. Evaluations that are never shared. Projects that…
- [Pebbles and boulders](https://tomcw.xyz/pebbles-not-boulders-677d168c12dba1001b48f355.md) - At the back end of last year I pondered listening to my own advice, and getting myself a coach. And so over the past couple of months I’ve…
- [No one wants to bet the under](https://tomcw.xyz/no-one-wants-to-bet-the-under.md) - In sports betting there is something called over/under, whereby you bet on a number. Betting the under is something that feels boring even though it's more likely. We do the same when it comes to tech.
- [Data for Action — principles refresh](https://tomcw.xyz/data-for-action-principles-refresh.md) - Refreshing our Principles and ways of working.
- [People as Code](https://tomcw.xyz/people-as-code.md) - People as Code imagines a world built like open source, modular, participatory, and transparent, where people help write policy, foundations build platforms, and data becomes a shared resource.
- [Grant funding for digital and data in the UK charity sector -](https://tomcw.xyz/grant-funding-for-digital-and-data-in-the-uk-charity-sector.md) - a year on have things changed and perhaps how they could change for the better
- [On psychological safety](https://tomcw.xyz/on-psychological-safety.md) - Last night, I got caught in the train meltdown. Cue lots of confusion, lots of panicked people. It was something I was able to navigate…
- [Why AI*?](https://tomcw.xyz/why-ai-677d168c12dba1001b48f362.md) - * this should be read as if you are from the North East of England
- [The questions we’re trying to answer](https://tomcw.xyz/the-questions-were-trying-to-answer.md) - As we’re just starting out on a project as part of Joseph Rowntree Foundations Insight Infrastructure work. We’ve written about why we think question-centred approaches are powerful. But what are the questions we’re trying to answer by doing this specific bit of work?
- [The Power of a Question-Centered Approach to Data](https://tomcw.xyz/the-power-of-a-question-centred-approach-to-data.md) - “Imagine if the secret to mastering data lies in our capacity to ask the right questions?
- [Open By Default](https://tomcw.xyz/open-by-default.md) - Riffing on how we use Principles to guide our work, especially Open By Default
- [Is it the CRM?](https://tomcw.xyz/is-it-the-crm.md) - Is the problem really the CRM or which CRM and how it was implemented (or not!)
- [A new direction, a new focus and a new company.](https://tomcw.xyz/a-new-direction-a-new-focus-and-a-new-company.md) - Starting a new company called Data For Action - why and what it's all about
- [An N of 1 — subjective feedback](https://tomcw.xyz/an-n-of-1-subjective-feedback.md) - On my run today I was listening to an excellent podcast about Running (very meta I know). This particular episode focused on using…
- [Open Ideas — what next](https://tomcw.xyz/open-ideas-what-next.md) - Open Ideas 2.0 I think Open Ideas has value. So I’m planning an Open Ideas 2.0. This will focus on connecting people around ideas, opening up potential for action. I think the anonymity of Open Ideas is important and something I want to expand into version 2.0.
- [Open Ideas?](https://tomcw.xyz/open-ideas.md) - Want to spend a day exploring an idea? Share it, and maybe you can have £500
- [Who funds the charity data eco-system in the UK?](https://tomcw.xyz/who-funds-the-charity-data-eco-system-in-the-uk.md) - As part of the work exploring the charity data eco-system I wanted to have a look at who funds what when it comes to data. Here's some data from 2016 - 2021
- [A happy failure](https://tomcw.xyz/running/a-happy-failure.md) - A regular blog as I work my way back to the UTMB. This is the 4th blog post. It's about a DNF but a good one.
- [My journey Back to UTMB — March update and nutrition](https://tomcw.xyz/running/my-journey-back-to-utmb-march-update-and-nutrition.md) - Monthly recap — March 2022
- [My Journey back to UTMB — equipment](https://tomcw.xyz/running/my-journey-back-to-utmb-equipment.md) - This is the third blog post on my journey back to the UTMB. Each month I’ll be focusing on a specific aspect of how I’m preparing - this one focused on equipment
- [My Journey back to UTMB — Building a training plan](https://tomcw.xyz/running/my-journey-back-to-utmb-building-a-training-plan.md) - This is the second blog post on my journey back to the UTMB. Each month I’ll be focusing on a specific aspect of how I’m preparing, this one focused on building a training plan
- [My journey back to UTMB](https://tomcw.xyz/running/my-journey-back-to-utmb-677d168c12dba1001b48f376.md) - In August 2022 I’ll be heading back to the French Alps to take on one of the hardest ultra races I’ve ever tried. I’ll be documenting this…
- [Working towards a more open, equitable data ecosystem for charities](https://tomcw.xyz/working-towards-a-more-open-equitable-data-ecosystem-for-charities.md) - Working towards a more open, equitable data ecosystem for charities: understanding relationships, interactions and where support is needed
- [Things I learned from ultra running](https://tomcw.xyz/running/things-i-learned-from-ultra-running.md) - Reflections on things I learned from ultra running 🏃‍♂️ which are useful in organisations and maybe everyday life
- [Launching the Open Maker Community](https://tomcw.xyz/launching-the-open-maker-community.md) - Open Makers Community: Collectively exploring no-code tools to build and openly share things for social purpose Starting in January, we are going to be hosting some events which we hope are being created in response to what people told us they wanted.
- [#DoItMakeItShareIt](https://tomcw.xyz/doitmakeitshareit.md) - This Friday (26th Feb 2021) was the first official #DoItMakeItShareIt day, so I thought i’d write about how it went and why we did it.
- [When does 1 ≠ 1](https://tomcw.xyz/when-does-1-1.md) - There is a mathematical ‘proof’ that does the rounds every now and again which ‘proves’ that 1 = -1
- [What I use](https://tomcw.xyz/what-i-use-677d168c12dba1001b48f374.md) - I wrote a blog the other day about my first year on my own, and one of the points I made was about spending money on things that make your…
- [Less anchors, more reefs](https://tomcw.xyz/less-anchors-more-reefs.md) - We define our boundaries and expectations by the institution rather than the people and communities, rather than what is possible. So what if we thought less about anchors and more about reefs.
- [One year of Good Ship](https://tomcw.xyz/one-year-of-good-ship.md) - A rambling reflection of one year of freelancing and what I’m doing next
- [Free CRM available to good home! And why we wanted to do it…](https://tomcw.xyz/free-crm-available-to-good-home-and-why-we-wanted-to-do-it.md) - If are thinking about easy ways to gather and store data and want a free CRM to experiment with read on
- [Where does Organisational Resilience finish and Organisational Development begin?](https://tomcw.xyz/where-does-organisational-resilience-finish-and-organisational-development-begin.md) - Over the past 6 months we* have been working with Lloyds Bank Foundation for England and Wales (LBF) to develop an Organisational…
- [Can you build resilience?](https://tomcw.xyz/can-you-build-resilience.md) - Resilience is not the ability to endure
- [Good Data](https://tomcw.xyz/good-data.md) - An approach to thinking about a good data process
- [Climate, tech and charities](https://tomcw.xyz/climate-tech-and-charities-677d168c12dba1001b48f382.md) - A blog on tech, data, climate change and what charities and funders should be thinking about
- [If May was an expedition leader, we’d all be dead on a mountain](https://tomcw.xyz/if-may-was-an-expedition-leader-wed-all-be-dead-on-a-mountain.md) - I spent much of my early working life as an expedition leader, taking people up mountains and down rivers. It was tremendous fun, but also…
- [Fear, Grief and Staying Strong](https://tomcw.xyz/fear-grief-and-staying-strong.md) - Two weeks ago it was my birthday, I turned 37 years old, and never have I felt a bigger sense of panic, confusion and utterly…
- [What running everyday taught me about working better](https://tomcw.xyz/running/what-running-everyday-taught-me-about-working-better-677d168c12dba1001b48f391.md) - It was shrove Tuesday, or better known as Pancake Tuesday 2018. I’ve no idea why, as I’m not particularly religious, but I decided that I…

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