Product and Design Leader. Freelance right now. Made https://t.co/KwnqqMUotj Writing 'Secret Design Skills' https://t.co/PnpSnxfNIB ex Babylon Health, Clearleft.
Nov 8, 2022 • 22 tweets • 4 min read
The Twitter debacle is at least partly explained by Karl Popper's 'Clouds and Clocks' theory. I wish it was more widely understood, so here's more.
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Popper hypothesized that there were two kinds of problem in the world: cloud problems, and clock problems. Let's start with clocks...
May 16, 2020 • 14 tweets • 3 min read
Virtual conferences and meetings are suffering from what you might call ‘The Tiller Effect’ (h/t @scottjenson) THREAD... /1
We keep talking about them as though they are equivalent to in-person events, but they absolutely are not. If we keep thinking that way we will miss new opportunities. Bit of history… /2
Jan 23, 2019 • 25 tweets • 5 min read
My experience in a few product teams in different places recently makes me wonder if we're going through a phase of 'scientism' en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientism (thread…)
2/ Agile+devops seem to be working. Teams are getting better at iteration, orgs getting better at delivery, and coping with uncertainty.
