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George Kean Proudfoot @pojmasta.bsky.social · 1h

So is there a bunch of policy not happening around either squashing the rent seeking, or enabling more productive SMEs being able to scale and outcompete them?

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George Kean Proudfoot @pojmasta.bsky.social · 1h

Any links to good papers for an amateur to check out? Would definitely be interested in anything around digital/tech methods and approaches that actually drive productivity. But enough of a nerd for anything that has actual work/process observation

George Kean Proudfoot @pojmasta.bsky.social · 3d

Given the productivity puzzle has now been a thing for decades, is anyone doing deep empirical work on it - e.g. ID'ing cohorts of high/low productivity firms in the UK and then digging into differences and drivers in their operations, ways of working, strategies etc. via proper observation?

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George Kean Proudfoot @pojmasta.bsky.social · 9d

This is a pretty classic way to test demand for a feature before you decide to build it… I’d say fair play doing this rather than shoehorning it in 🤷‍♂️

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Let the Right Hon In @danhon.com · 11d

It's Throw a Decorative Gourd at a Nazi Season, Motherfuckers

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Liam Thorp @liamthorp.bsky.social · 13d

Very good stuff from Sadiq Khan at the Labour Irish society event. He said there are two reasons he loves coming to Labour Conference.

“One is the reception at the Labour Party Irish Society reception.

“The second is to get away from all the Sharia Law in London”

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James Plunkett @jamestplunkett.bsky.social · 18d

I know public sector digital work is hard, but the user experience of GP at Hand is just inexcusably bad. A tiny example (one of hundreds) - an email they sent me today: it tells me to click a link and it doesn’t include any link…

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Conor @ernekid.bsky.social · 18d

This pair look like the villains in a movie where the hero is a dog.

Gavan Reilly @gavreilly.com · 18d

Steen claims the political consensus has never been so out of kilter with the grassroots desire for an alternative voice

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George Kean Proudfoot @pojmasta.bsky.social · 18d

Big crowd for Weave London this morning… on actually making AI work for product teams 🤓 @loomery.bsky.social

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George Kean Proudfoot @pojmasta.bsky.social · 25d

It’s genuinely baffling how iOS search is still this bad

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George Kean Proudfoot @pojmasta.bsky.social · Sep 8

Prosperity and inequality in mature knowledge economies academic.oup.com/ser/advance-...

George Kean Proudfoot @pojmasta.bsky.social · Sep 8

Epidemiology models explain rumour spreading during France’s Great Fear of 1789 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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George Kean Proudfoot @pojmasta.bsky.social · Sep 8

Interesting papers I've spotted: a running thread

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George Kean Proudfoot @pojmasta.bsky.social · Sep 5

Some layers of irony there, given the Lib Dem's 'Gails Strategy' www.spectator.co.uk/article/lib-...

Lib Dems double down on Gail's strategy

To Sir Ed Davey’s Liberal Democrats. The fun-loving party made headlines during the general election campaign after its party leader was pictured on paddleboards, waterslides and even a bungee jump du...

www.spectator.co.uk

George Kean Proudfoot @pojmasta.bsky.social · Sep 3

BE UMPROMPTABLE

George Kean Proudfoot @pojmasta.bsky.social · Sep 1

Where is the bundle of policy for hybrid work being here for the long term?
Town centres: incentivise retro-fit of empty property to co-working spaces
Transport: local micro-mobility, no peak fares, good wifi on trains
Education: teach distributed collab, hybrid internships
+..?
@abundancepod.com 🤷‍♂️

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George Kean Proudfoot @pojmasta.bsky.social · Aug 28

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Matthew Holehouse @matthewholehouse.bsky.social · Aug 28

Anduril campaign in Westminster tube. The agency got the “securonomics is back” memo

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George Kean Proudfoot @pojmasta.bsky.social · Aug 27

Yeh I think you're right. It's on the bonfire of "co-opted by the LinkedIn drones beyond any safe usage" at this point.

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George Kean Proudfoot @pojmasta.bsky.social · Aug 27

I’d always interpreted it (maybe generously) as a neo-Popperian thing: ‘strong’ means opinions that drive a lot of specific claims about reality, and the ‘loosely held’ is the commitment to falsifiability. But yeh, the two ways you knife it are probably the way lots of people are using it (badly)

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Billy Carpenter @billycarpy.bsky.social · Aug 17

29 fouls and 49 clearances. The beautiful game is back

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George Kean Proudfoot @pojmasta.bsky.social · Aug 15

Aircon poetry bsky.app/profile/john...

America Xanadu @johnxuandou.bsky.social · Aug 13

This is one of the most beautiful things I have witnessed, the craft here is impeccable.

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George Kean Proudfoot @pojmasta.bsky.social · Aug 14

It's 2045. Your kids first home is a flat in a converted data centre, retro-fitted for humans now after lying empty for 18 years post AI bubble burst

George Kean Proudfoot @pojmasta.bsky.social · Aug 13

Every time I hear about 'using synthetic data' or similar, I wonder the same... LLMs creating data to train other LLMs must get you into some weird territory?

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George Kean Proudfoot @pojmasta.bsky.social · Aug 12

Pitched a bunch of things like this to Sky almost a decade ago... they have almost certainly all been floating around in their 'innovation lab' or similar since then to no avail 🥲

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George Kean Proudfoot @pojmasta.bsky.social · Aug 12

The plastic analogy feels like a really strong one - incredible technology that *could* become very important in lots of places if employed with care... but becomes so cheap, common and over-applied across the whole economy that it damages the wider environment, obliterates prior craft skills...

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