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My “weeknotes” capture events, thoughts, and other items from the past week, mostly focused on work. Learn more about the weeknotes concept here. March 3 – 9 I am updating the format a little this week, separating out professional notes from personal notes, in case folks are only here for one or the other. This … Continue reading 2025 Weeknote 10 : The worst thing you can do is nothing
10.3.2025 00:362025 Weeknote 10 : The worst thing you can do is nothingIn times like these, you need to laugh even more. Here’s a sampling of the chuckles, chortles, and LOLs I’ve found on Bluesky over the past week. Give these folks a follow for more.
9.3.2025 01:54Bluesky Funnies 2025-03-08[…] For an assortment of my favorite quips, puns, double-entendres, and hilarious off-axis observations over the past week, check out my latest Bluesky funnies collection. […]
3.3.2025 01:02Comment on Bluesky Funnies 2025-03-01 by 2025 Weeknote 09 : Fire on the horizon – Digital PolityFebruary 24 – March 2 My “weeknotes” capture events, thoughts, and other items from the past week, mostly focused on work. Learn more about the weeknotes concept here. Achievement Unlocked: One Year of Weeknotes I just realized at the last second, before publishing, that this release marks a complete year of publishing weeknotes every single … Continue reading 2025 Weeknote 09 : Fire on the horizon
3.3.2025 01:022025 Weeknote 09 : Fire on the horizonIn times like these, you need to laugh even more. Here’s a sampling of the chuckles, chortles, and LOLs I’ve found on Bluesky over the past week. Give these folks a follow for more.
1.3.2025 14:00Bluesky Funnies 2025-03-01[…] Meanwhile, for an assortment of my favorite quips, puns, double-entendres, and hilarious off-axis observations over the past week, check out my latest Bluesky funnies collection. […]
24.2.2025 01:04Comment on Bluesky Funnies 2025-02-22 by 2025 Weeknote 08 : 5 things I did this week – Digital PolityFebruary 17 – 23 My “weeknotes” capture events, thoughts, and other items from the past week, mostly focused on work. Learn more about the weeknotes concept here. My report for Elon Musk I guess we’re all sending weekly 5-accomplishment reports to Elon now, huh? And I’m sure he doesn’t want full-blown weeknotes, so I’ll keep … Continue reading 2025 Weeknote 08 : 5 things I did this week
24.2.2025 01:042025 Weeknote 08 : 5 things I did this weekIn times like these, you need to laugh even more. Here’s a sampling of the chuckles, chortles, and LOLs I’ve found on Bluesky over the past week. Give these folks a follow for more.
22.2.2025 13:30Bluesky Funnies 2025-02-22A couple weeks back it dawned on me the DOGE raids on federal offices could easily be replicated at State and local levels. You wouldn’t even need “Big Balls” to do it personally—Trump could send in the FBI or anyone else with a loose grasp of Constitutional law and start demanding access, control, or wholesale … Continue reading Should local government tech teams prepare for an unwelcome DOGE visit?
16.2.2025 17:38Should local government tech teams prepare for an unwelcome DOGE visit?[…] For an assortment of my favorite quips, puns, double-entendres, and hilarious off-axis observations over the past week, check out my latest Bluesky funnies collection. […]
16.2.2025 16:47Comment on Bluesky Funnies 2025-02-15 by 2025 Weeknote 07 : A victory amidst defeats – Digital PolityFebruary 10 – 16 My “weeknotes” capture events, thoughts, and other items from the past week, mostly focused on work. Learn more about the weeknotes concept here. This week in #weeknotes Winning the talent war. We had a surprise (but not surprising) resignation this week that suddenly opened up a role. The resignation hit on … Continue reading 2025 Weeknote 07 : A victory amidst defeats
16.2.2025 16:462025 Weeknote 07 : A victory amidst defeatsOver the past week here’s a sampling of the chuckles, chortles, and LOLs I’ve found on Bluesky over the past week. Give these folks a follow for more.
15.2.2025 15:00Bluesky Funnies 2025-02-15February 2 – 9 My “weeknotes” capture events, thoughts, and other items from the past week, mostly focused on work. Learn more about the weeknotes concept here. The Calendar™ Back from vacation, it was another wall-to-wall week at work. The calendar had almost no daylight peeking through (until a cancellation on Friday morning, which then … Continue reading 2025 Weeknote 06 : Flood the zone
9.2.2025 17:422025 Weeknote 06 : Flood the zoneOver the past week here’s a sampling of the chuckles, chortles, and LOLs I’ve found on Bluesky over the past week. Give these folks a follow for more. This next one is for the Bluesky connoisseurs out there… BONUS: One headline from The Onion this week
8.2.2025 15:00Bluesky Funnies 2025-02-08January 27 – February 2 My “weeknotes” capture events, thoughts, and other items from the past week, mostly focused on work. Learn more about the weeknotes concept here. Before we get into the weeknote proper, I just wanted to share my new post over the GX Foundry blog, focused on how a recent report from … Continue reading 2025 Weeknote 05 : A supposedly fun thing I’ll never do again
2.2.2025 18:042025 Weeknote 05 : A supposedly fun thing I’ll never do again[…] United States Digital Service this week was just awful. I posted about it on LinkedIn, but I also posted a longer essay here on the blog. I’ve never worked at USDS, but I did visit briefly last spring through an introduction by […]
26.1.2025 04:14Comment on Can the Trump 2.0 era deliver us from ineffective government bureaucracies? by 2025 Weeknote 04 : Lacklove and manless in Moloch! – Digital...[…] BlueSky funnies (I love the “tuesday is two mondays” one) […]
15.12.2024 17:13Comment on Bluesky Funnies 2024-12-14 by Week notes: 9 – 15 December 2024 | Neil Williams[…] has joined the chat | Richard McLean mentioned me and his notes are fab so here’s a reciprocal | John, a CDO in Ohio called my recent blog post a ‘tour de force’ (while pointing out its British… | here’s one from the ever-brilliant Catherine […]
27.10.2024 18:57Comment on 2024 Weeknote 41 : A river runs through it by Month notes: 30 September – 27 October 2024 | Neil Williams[…] the paradox of certainty [article]Not sure when this piece was originally posted, but it came to my attention this week and it’s a blockbuster for those of us trying to make a difference in a leadership role. It’s also deeply relevant to human-centered design (HCD), UX research, and other practices we need to employ when building solutions for real users in real life. Naturally, it comes from Michael Brennan at Civilla, an organization we’ve come to love in the last year, after following them and then taking a tour in July. […]
29.9.2024 21:28Comment on 2024 Weeknote 29 : Apparently ‘CrowdStrike’ is a verb by 2024 Weeknote 39 : More UX, less AI – Digital Polity<!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>Yep. I called it. <strong><a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cp0843v200lo" rel="nofollow ugc">It's a trend</a></strong>. And it might change the election.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph -->
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