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mattedgar

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Product director at #NHS England, leading #digital in urgent and emergency care. #SocialHousing non-exec. Quit newspapers for new media in 1997. "You can always come back," said my editor, "if this Internet thing doesn't work out." Still too early to say. He/him. Own views

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mattedgar, to random
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Visiting a house...

mattedgar,
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... a very big house...

mattedgar, to random
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No, I don't want a personalised experience

skinnylatte, to ai
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Wrote a post on 'what is generative AI' for public sector employees specifically.

If you are asked by your work or by elected officials to look into 'using AI', this is for you.

https://publicsectorai.tech/posts/what-is-ai/

mattedgar,
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@skinnylatte love the list so far. I wonder about some of these questions from asset based community development:

What will be enhanced?
What will be restored?
What will be replaced?
What might this mutate into?

hazelweakly, to random
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Core competencies are something I think about a lot. I love to dig into what makes companies or ecosystems or social groups tick. Especially when that core competency enables what they do:

McDonald's, for example, is a real estate company that happens to make burgers.

Walmart is a shipping logistics company that also sells things.

What other examples can you think of where the core competency of the company is such that the "thing" a company does falls out naturally as a consequence?

mattedgar,
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@hazelweakly I heard it suggested in a business school lecture that McDonald's core competency is really food safety. A burger business can only scale when it knows how to get low wage staff turning raw meat into fast food without poisoning the customers. Even a handful of cases could be toxic for a global brand. Fix that and everything else follows

skinnylatte, to food
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If you think the comments on news sites are chaotic, you haven’t seen the comments on recipes.

They are full of people being angry at.. ingredients (I don’t like onions! There are too many!), at diets (why isn’t this vegan when it’s a tofu dish?), at mayo (why would you recommend Kewpie mayo, Asian mayo is just a fad, Hellman’s is better)

https://www.ranker.com/list/nyt-cooking-comments/mrennie

mattedgar,
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@skinnylatte The best recipe reviews are like "Carrot cake. I replaced the carrot with grated cabbage. Worst thing I've ever eaten. 0 stars."

mattedgar, to random
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Reading about the reluctance of and Fujitsu insiders to accept flaws in their software. Reminds me of a curious incident early in my time as a telecoms product manager

One of the big tech consultancies offered to analyse our mobile data usage around a new product launch, to show off the potential of their tools and methods

Datasets were supplied and a few weeks later some of their hottest analytical talent made the trip to Leeds to show us what they'd found

mattedgar,
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With a flourish the hotshot analysts revealed findings that surprised us. In fact they ran counter to what we knew from our own, admittedly less sophisticated, analytics tools

A few days later, an embarrassing email: the pre- and post-launch datasets had been transposed

Mistakes happen. But the story doesn't end there

mattedgar,
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The team returned for a second go at the presentation, having corrected the underlying data

But instead of rewriting the storyline of the analysis, they had cherry picked a handful of flimsy signals that continued to support their original conclusions

We all like to think we're following the data, but the desire to not be wrong can really back intelligent people into defending the stupidest things

mattedgar, to random
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This chatbot could have been a <form>

mattedgar,
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It has long been a tenet of good form design that "a form is a conversation", a productive to-and-fro between content designer and user. There's no need to take it literally

mattedgar,
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AI's latest party trick might have made chat interfaces the current hotness. That doesn't mean we want every form to take on the affordances of a chatbot

mattedgar,
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If the information you need from me follows a natural structure, don't make me think. Help me out by asking for it, and letting me enter it, in a structured way

mattedgar, to random
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On a train to London completing the Staff Survey. It's one of the largest workforce surveys in the world, and has been conducted every year since 2003. Even more important this time around because we’re taking part in the survey for the first time as colleagues in the new NHS England, created from the merger of 3 legacy national organisations last year. We need everyone's honest feedback so we can make things better for staff, patients, and carers

mattedgar,
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@hobbitswife There's a list of organisations that took part in 2022. Not sure if all national ALBs participate https://www.nhsstaffsurveys.com/results/local-results/

RuthMalan, to random
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Doing a dive (reading/research) on courage. What have you read on courage (and organizations), that’s been useful to you?

mattedgar,
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@RuthMalan Great topic. How about this one? https://medium.com/public-innovators-network/what-if-boldness-were-an-explicit-value-of-the-civil-service-3df6a3d2d008

mattedgar, to random
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Updating my list of people whose posts I boosted the most in 2023.

It's the 3rd year I've done this on Mastodon, and these are the heroes who have made the list 3 years running

@lisajeffery
@s_wilcox
@rachelcoldicutt
@alisonwarren
@vickytnz
@danhon
@martinjordan
@Edent
@RochelleGold
@EmmaMBearman
@IamKathrynGrace
@ianames

mattedgar,
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Some people whose posts I boosted the most in 2023, who I've now added to my list of must-read accounts for 2024

@ollybenson
@skinnylatte
@mmitchell_ai
@amberfirefly
@annaecook
@timnitGebru
@matthewskelton
@CatherineFlick
@nancybaym
@elizayer
@solderandchaos
@emilymbender
@Mer__edith
@finiteattention
@molly0xfff
@Niloufar
@overholt
@grimalkina
@hadleybeeman
@simon
@joelanman
@juneussell
@kissane
@zephoria

mattedgar, to random
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Uncharacteristically early Boxing Day trip across the Pennines to the National Trust's Quarry Bank, to get boy #1 there in time for his shift as a storyteller, and a good look inside the mill

Close-up of a 19th Century beam engine, black oily machinery in cast and wrought iron. A sign below a large metal wheel reads in all caps, DO NOT START

mattedgar,
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@penguin42 Indeed. Someone pointed out the extra short lampposts in the vicinity

CatherineFlick, to random
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Friends at mastodon.me.uk, if you’re trying to click on Adam Mosseri’s account from Threads and getting an error, it’s because back in the days of yore (when they first announced the possibility of federation) we took a decision to wait and see how they would play with the fediverse before we let them federate with us. Precautionary Principle and all that.

mattedgar,
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@CatherineFlick Thanks for the reminder. There are people posting on there who I'd love to follow on the fediverse, but I respect the mods' decision. Happy to wait and see

mattedgar, to random
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[Strawperson version of old thing] has failed. Now is the time for [vague and unproven new thing]

mattedgar,
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In this LinkedIn post, I will [generalise from my own limited experience]

mattedgar, to wordpress
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Interesting wrinkle: when authoring my latest post I changed my mind about which image to include a couple of times. Only the latest image is included in the published version but the fediverse feed still embeds all 3.

Anyone know where I raise this as an issue?

Screenshot from wordpress activitypub post showing 3 images instead of one

mattedgar, (edited )
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@matt @pfefferle Thanks, issue raised
https://github.com/Automattic/wordpress-activitypub/issues/553

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