This week's best things #94
A digital leadership programme for cultural orgs, customer understanding, AI safety framing, UX failures, digital trust, creative technologist experiments, and a cheese map
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this week's best things
A collection of 92 issues
This week's best things #93
Big tech alternatives, a generative music visualisation of NYC subway trains, cybersecurity risks from AI coding agents, a cinema lab, nano-newsletter economics, a classic pen design, colour recall, and reflections from London.
This week's best things #92
AI and language philosophy, a £15k museum innovation fund, Broadway data tools, X-shaped people, internal comms ideas, AI eroding workplace relationships, the Mary Rose vs Titanic, and a week of procurement, interviews, and pasta.
This week's best things #91
Screen time and digital omnipresence, creative HTML web experiences, hilariously bad Booking.com ads, lessons from a major product launch, when not to use AI, Anthropic's copyright irony, and ten years of digital capability-building in Scottish charities
This week's best things #90
Physical thinking, leadership withdrawal, motivation myths, AI companionship, fixed-term organisations, and feedback tools. Plus worker mobilisations around AI in arts and culture, alternatives to doomscrolling, and the beauty of a Scottish accent.
This week's best things #89
Software design's joyless sameness, screens hollowing out cities, Liberating Structures' new pathfinder, bloated homepages, Meta/YouTube's addiction liability verdict, Spotify's prompted playlists, and the British public's finest storm name suggestions.
This week's best things #88
SLAs for content teams, "deliberately generous" facilitation rules, what digital organisations actually look like, the BoM redesign post-mortem, Meta's encryption retreat, and a bumper UX guidelines roundup.
This week's best things #87
Swedish sun-worshipping, museum visitor research, AI uncertainty, attention economics, the gap between digital and physical worlds, UX patterns, hidden labour interviews, an island without time, and my 2026 reading list to date.
This year's best things (2025)
A round-up of 2025, and a small look forward to 2026.
This week's best things #85
Opaque web filtering, accessibility, algorithmic power, the world's quietest room, crisis leadership, Google's year in search, and the dangers of organisational firefighting.