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Paul Johnston 🌍 I do NED/advisory/consulting Profile picture
@PaulDJohnston
Aug 29, 2019 • 16 tweets • 4 min read • Read on X
I just published "To fix Climate Change, stop being a techie and start being a human" link.medium.com/wnkAgPB7xZ
This blog is an attempt to explain all those conversations I have whenever someone in tech starts to get involved in the #ClimateCrisis.

Tech people always want to fix things and build apps and websites.

This is an attempt to get you to start from a slightly different point.
This tweet thread replaces this pinned tweet from Oct 2018

And, yes, *THIS IS STILL A HILL WORTH DYING ON*
And I've been interviewed by @QuinnyPig about #ClimateChange too! So listen to it!

Slides from my talk at QCon 2020 on whether Tech people are the goodies of Climate Change (I suggest maybe not)

Also this

And you should figure out how to stop working at companies that are unethical

Oh and if you want to know what you should do to your *house* in terms of climate impact...

If you want to know about startups and a bit about my back story...
And ... serverless

Oh and you can do some things that will matter for reducing your impact on the world
On top of all this the tech world needs to understand that using offsets and simply paying someone else so that they can emit whatever they please is no longer acceptable.

These schemes are all looking like scams without proper data.

And on having ADHD and it being a hidden disability

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Paul Johnston 🌍 I do NED/advisory/consulting Profile picture
Jan 12
@CarrieGrant1 @educationgovuk @AFNCCF We pulled 3 ND kids out of school because the school puts attendance above everything.

One school sent a letter to say we shouldn't do it if it was to avoid prosecution.

The long term mental health of our ND children is our priority, not some nonspecific attendance stats.
@CarrieGrant1 @educationgovuk @AFNCCF That's not even mentioning how we couldn't access CAMHS for one child because we were told that they were overwhelmed.

We were told that unless a child has actually *tried* to kill themselves they wouldn't be put on the waiting list.

Oh and te waiting list for ND assessments...
@CarrieGrant1 @educationgovuk @AFNCCF ... The waiting list for ND assessments (ADHD, ASD and more) is years long for kids so it's a choice between private, which can lead to ongoing financial outlay for years as it has for me as someone with ADHD or simply not getting a timely intervention.

...
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Jun 10, 2023
The last few weeks I have not been sleeping much at night. This often leads to not being able to do a full day of work.

Why? The leader of the church my family and I attended for over a decade (we left 10+ yrs ago) has been in the news over allegations.

mrsglw.wordpress.com/2023/04/05/the…
It's not a straightforward situation to explain either.

The post here gives some context via a timeline.

I know people who have given statements to the safeguarding investigation, and I suspect I know many others who have not said anything publicly.

mrsglw.wordpress.com/2023/05/14/the…
The biggest issue is that this isn't confined to the single church.

There were also summer camps run by a separate but closely linked organisation with the same name run by the same leader.

These were attended by tens of thousands of mainly teenagers for decades.
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Paul Johnston 🌍 I do NED/advisory/consulting Profile picture
Feb 12, 2023
I am 99% certain most people still don't understand serverless.

For context this is one of the best posts on #serverless you will find:

adrianco.medium.com/platform-engin…

Why?

(1/n)
"We wanted AWS to grow its ... functionality, and to continually eat away at the bottom of the thin layer of rapidly evolving Netflix specific ... code that we had built"

This. This is what serverless is all about.

(2/n)
Custom code is a liability for everything *except* delivering your core business deliverables.

In other words, if you can run your business without any custom code (programming language, infrastructure as code, templates, HTML, scripts, everything!) then *do it*.

(3/n)
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Feb 10, 2023
We took the decision to take our 9y/o out of school over a year ago now. We don't do (yet) a formal curriculum at home, partly because she struggles to sit still if it's not something she's interested in.

She does like playing computer games.

So I try to give her good games.
She likes playing Minecraft and Roblox. Roblox is not so good because of some of the games that are on there, but minecraft she has got better at. She just likes making houses and little towns for her and her friends to play in.

She names all the animals.
The one that she has got into recently is Stardew Valley.

I love Stardew Valley. It's one of those "it doesn't really matter how you play it" games. I've played it a lot for "relaxation".

However I got told off by my daughter for playing it wrong.
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Feb 10, 2023
I've got a Scottish grandfather. Everyone other grandparent and parent was born in England. Scotland becoming independent would at least give me another option for citizenship. I have no issue with any of Scotland, Northern Ireland or Wales wanting independence if they so chose.
I've never really understood the arrangement if I'm honest. We are separate nations but... one single entity... somehow?

It all seems very strange to me.

And all this wanting our "sovereignty" back a few years ago? Seems really weird when we've got the arrangement we have.
I don't mind sticking with what we have if everyone is ok with it too. I'm not going to say that we must break up the union. I'm simply saying that the arguments were hypocritical.

Whenever any politician mentions the union I do wonder what they're on about.
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Oct 23, 2022
If I offer an opinion saying that I think that it's a team failure, and not a technology failure, I'm not saying that I think the *people* are "failures". I'm saying that the structures and processes are wrong/bad/insert synonym here for not correct. People are just people.
It's almost always the people that get things wrong. Sometimes it's individuals being absolute ****s and trying either to be nasty and do bad things, but it's generally just people trying to do a good job and getting it wrong.
Creating and managing teams is *hard*. I'm not very good at it. When it's worked for me, I've always had very good people that have worked *with* me who have a good idea where I'm trying to get to, and who are really good at certain aspects of organisation and management.
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