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Today has been the Community Summit at #GoogleNext18 ... fabulously enjoyable. For the first time in a long time, I've been an attendee not a speaker - gosh, it was good. Thank you @edd and @sarahnovotny
I realise how much I miss messing with tech at such events. Too much of my life is spent at policy / nation state / industry level ... I miss the dabbling.
I'm always gobsmacked by some of the horror stories I hear from others. I knew "enterprise IT" was often a mess but it's easy to forget how far behind it can really be.
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The most popular option every time - backed on average by just over a quarter - has been to leave without a deal at all - bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politi… ... well, I'd prefer GE followed by Corbyn + Brexit (preferably WTO but EEA docked to EFTA is fine) but that's a bit specialised.
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