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ways of thinking

A collection of 49 issues

This week's best things

AI-friendly Hollywood, Artists as strategic hires, questioning funding models, fixing team chat, phones without the internet, Brazil’s data rights experiment, Japan’s ‘system of systems,’ lawyers still trusting ChatGPT, decoding CEO AI hype, digital readiness webinars. Sent from the past.

This week's best things

Digital failure, smoky twirls, AI’s energy diet, alt-phones for t(w)eens, rotating sandwiches, Pocket says goodbye, Airbnb wants to be everything, leadership in 2025, the Who Cares era. I’m back from Aarhus, and I’d love your thoughts on the report.

This week's best things

Every world language in one place, 200 paintings and reframing old content, a 'software poem', AI that’s actually good, Zoomquilt, finding time to prototype, the power of meetings, cooperation as a skill, and a request for summer reading recommendations.

This week's best things

Floppy disks as shelf space, WCAG in plain English, designing for limited English, a moody global radio stream, weather apps hurting UK tourism, and Disney’s churros beating streaming. Plus jobs, a joyful viral harmonica group, and tools to rethink time and knowledge.

What do we actually mean when we say ‘digital’?

In more or less every conversation I have had about digital over the last year (or more), the topic of just how stretched the word 'digital' now is has come up. Here are some thoughts about different ways of talking about all the things we mean when we say 'digital'

This week's best things

Immersive funding, designing a platform for young people, YouTube is 20, new AI stuff from Google Arts & Culture, Microsoft is shutting down Skype, stakeholders, a case study of website carbon reduction, Seb Chan being interviewed, Google's antitrust cases, and PrepperDisk

This week's best things

Serendipity, collaborative digital art, donation UX, the best museum cafes in the UK, crimes of UX, how people are using gen AI in 2025, a digital Ned Kelly experience, and digital fishmongers.

Embracing seasonality - we're not built for 100% all year

Since moving to Sweden 18 months ago, one of the biggest shifts I’ve noticed, compared to life in the UK, is how deeply seasonal life feels here. It feels worth embracing.