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

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.

Decisions, learning and resilience

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.

Write like nobody is watching

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?

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

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

So much insight, so much knowledge, lost or locked up in organisations and institutions. Evaluations that are never shared. Projects that…

Pebbles and boulders

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

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.