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# Neil Williams

If I remember correctly

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- [The summer of 26 | weeknotes 16 August 2026](https://neilojwilliams.net/the-summer-of-26-weeknotes-16-august-2026/) - These notes are a tool I use for reflecting, remembering (to counter my SDAM), networking within my profession, and public accountability. Read more here. Let's catch up. Since 5 July... That stuff that was happening all happened. We came 3rd at football, got a new PM and extra No 10, and heatwave after heatwave after | Mango madness, Stacey matrix, Fredkin paradox.
- [Four horsemen of the bureaucratic apocalypse](https://neilojwilliams.net/four-horsemen-of-the-bureaucratic-apocalypse/) - I don't make a habit of listening to Rory Sutherland, let alone quoting him, but TikTok showed me one particular clip that chimed louder than usual. "The two chief preoccupations of large organisations are cost-cutting and regulatory paranoia. So what you have is organisations where finance, compliance, procurement, and HR are the four horsemen of | I don't make a habit of listening to Rory Sutherland, let alone quoting him, but TikTok showed me one particular clip that chimed louder than usual. "The two chief preoccupations of large organisations are cost-cutting and regulatory paranoia. So what you have is organisations where finance, compliance, procurement, and HR are the four horsemen of
- [The month with the stuff going on | weeknotes 5 July 2026](https://neilojwilliams.net/the-month-with-the-stuff-going-on-weeknotes-5-july-2026/) - These semi-regular notes are a tool I use for reflecting, remembering (to counter my SDAM), networking within my profession, and public accountability. Read more here. I like when there’s stuff going on. World Cup. Burnham coup. Love Island (sorry). Record heatwaves. Things happening. I don't mean all the terrible stuff, just the neutral-tinted haps of | Hydration breaks, hidden labour, confessions on a gym floor.
- [A more effective person](https://neilojwilliams.net/a-more-effective-person/) - "Becoming a ‘better writer’ requires sharpening your judgment like a lawyer, understanding human behaviour like a psychologist, cultivating your timing like a comedian, and opening your heart like a poet. Which means, among other things, that by learning to write more effective sentences, you’re learning to be a more effective person." From What we talk | "Becoming a ‘better writer’ requires sharpening your judgment like a lawyer, understanding human behaviour like a psychologist, cultivating your timing like a comedian, and opening your heart like a poet. Which means, among other things, that by learning to write more effective sentences, you’re learning to be a more effective person." From What we talk
- [The week at SXSW London | review and session notes (weeknotes 7 June 2026)](https://neilojwilliams.net/the-week-at-sxsw-london-weeknotes-7-june-2026/) - In theory, SXSW London’s fusion of tech, film and culture is right up my Venn diagram. In reality, it hasn’t yet delivered on that potential. But it’s getting better, some sessions I went to this year had useful takeaways (👇 see notes below), and I might pitch to speak at it next year rather than | Observations on the 2nd edition of SXSW London, and useful takeways from 12 conference sessions.
- [Not so you get a high score](https://neilojwilliams.net/high-score/) - "The crux is to keep always in mind that the reason you fill up a car with petrol is not so that you can get a high score on the fuel gauge. Your degree has, I hope, tanked you up with what you need to roar out of the garage and off into the wide | "The crux is to keep always in mind that the reason you fill up a car with petrol is not so that you can get a high score on the fuel gauge. Your degree has, I hope, tanked you up with what you need to roar out of the garage and off into the wide
- [The decade of no booze | weeknotes 31 May 2026](https://neilojwilliams.net/the-decade-of-no-booze-weeknotes-31-june-2026/) - These notes are a tool I use for reflecting, remembering (to counter my SDAM), networking within my profession, and public accountability. Read more here. Hello sexpot. A killer use case for AI A thought occurred to me. Given CoPilot (and the like) can now see all of a company’s interpersonal beef and back channel bullshit | Interesting conf, Thorpe park party, happiness.
- [Notes on Designed for Digital by Jeanne Ross et al](https://neilojwilliams.net/notes-on-designed-for-digital-by-jeanne-ross-et-al/) - I speed-read this book a couple of Sundays ago and took a few notes. Popping them here in case they're useful to anyone. I wasn't wowed at the time but some of the book’s language and framing has grown on me, as alternative ways to get concepts across that sometimes fall flat. The main takeaway | Digitized ≠ digital.
- [The month with Guillermo | weeknotes 11 May 2026](https://neilojwilliams.net/the-month-with-guillermo-weeknotes-11-may-2026/) - I write these notes to reflect, remember (because I don't), compare scars with fellow digital pros, and for public accountability. Read more here. “Artificial Intelligence is the marketing name, what they're really unleashing is the opposite: natural stupidity” - Guillermo Del Toro during his In Conversation event at BFI Southbank. I quite like that. We’re | Slow like brisket, viddy well, natural stupidity.
- [The weeks with the woodpecker | weeknotes 10 April 2026](https://neilojwilliams.net/the-weeks-with-the-woodpecker-weeknotes-10-april-2026/) - I write these notes to reflect, remember (because I don't), compare scars with fellow digital pros, and for public accountability. Read more here. Hello. This one covers 16 March to 10 April, which has been pleasantly soundtracked by a woodpecker in a little undestroyed patch of The Great North Wood opposite my house. So nice! | Possibly pivotal, boy kibble, what happens in the room is the show.
- [The year I'll turn 50 | weeknotes 20 Jan 2026](https://neilojwilliams.net/the-year-i-turn-50-weeknotes-20-jan-2026/) - I write these notes to reflect, remember (because I don't), compare scars with fellow digital pros, and for public accountability. Read more here. This is it. The year I’ll turn 50. Turns out I'm doing better than Michael Jackson, who by 50 was wearing a condom catheter to bed according to the Death of MJ | Condom catheter, staving off the SAD, new productivity system.
- [The month the mist cleared | weeknotes 15 Mar 2026](https://neilojwilliams.net/the-month-the-mist-cleared-weeknotes-15-mar-2026/) - I write these notes to reflect, remember (because I don't), compare scars with fellow digital pros, and for public accountability. Read more here. Hello you. Time for another update from the inner sanctum of the 4th greatest cinema in the world and (whether you want it or not) my late-forties life. This bumper edition covers | Diagnostic DDaT paper, nostalgic booze tea, “AI is a bubble or everything else is”.
- [The paper remembers, and there may be healing in sentences](https://neilojwilliams.net/the-page-remembers-and-there-may-be-healing-in-sentences/) - "That is why I began to write. Because I can hear him in the house. Because time has fallen apart. Because I found a pack of paper on the shelf. Because I’m trying to remember. Because the paper remembers. And there may be healing in sentences. I've seated myself by the window. In front of | "That is why I began to write. Because I can hear him in the house. Because time has fallen apart. Because I found a pack of paper on the shelf. Because I’m trying to remember. Because the paper remembers. And there may be healing in sentences. I've seated myself by the window. In front of
- [Alignment theatre](https://neilojwilliams.net/alignment-theatre/) - This John Cutler post on LinkedIn hit a nerve. It's a short post, so I'm pasting it all here to save you the click: Remember...this isn't the strategy (though it might look like some people believe it is the strategy). It is high level signaling, at best. "Concise, high-level themes that can be delivered in | This John Cutler post on LinkedIn hit a nerve. It's a short post, so I'm pasting it all here to save you the click: Remember...this isn't the strategy (though it might look like some people believe it is the strategy). It is high level signaling, at best. "Concise, high-level themes that can be delivered in
- [The week I turned 4 | weeknotes 16 Feb 2026](https://neilojwilliams.net/the-week-i-turned-4-weeknotes-16-feb-2026/) - I write these notes to reflect, remember (cos I don't), compare scars with digital pros, and for public accountability. Read more here. 🎂 It's my 4th anniversary at the BFI. It was exciting then, it's exciting now, it hasn't been consistently exciting all along, but what is? Perhaps nothing, as these relatable lines from Darwin’s | Very stomachy, something big is happening, analogue transformation.
- [The fortnight I got a robot tattoo | weeknotes 6 Feb 2026](https://neilojwilliams.net/the-fortnight-i-got-a-robot-tattoo-weeknotes-6-feb-2026/) - I write these notes to reflect, remember (because I don't), compare scars with fellow digital pros, and for public accountability. Read more here. Alternative titles for this post include “the fortnight my wife's debut feature got released in the States” or “the fortnight my old boss Mandelson got his comeuppance” but these are my weeknotes, | Introverted T-800, 3 Horizons, 7 Keys.
- [The Neillys. My unsolicited list of best films, TV, games, gigs, books and music of 2025](https://neilojwilliams.net/the-neillys-my-unsolicited-list-of-best-films-tv-games-gigs-books-and-music-of-2025/) - Opinions are like arseholes - you show me yours and I'll show you mine. Something like that, anyway. You definitely didn’t ask but here are my best-ofs from the 168 films, 110 TV shows, 37 albums, 28 live shows, 19 video games, 18 books and 7 podcasts I imbibed in 2025. It’s not a competition | Sharing my pick of the culture I consumed this year.
- [Monthnotes: December 2025](https://neilojwilliams.net/monthnotes-december-2025/) - These notes are a tool I use for reflecting, remembering (to counter my SDAM), networking within my profession, and public accountability. Read more here. Gleðileg jól. I'm just back from 3 nights and 2 dark days in glorious Iceland (more on that below), now thawing myself out by a crackling Netflix fireplace and having a | Yule Lads, getting execs to care about cyber, admin nights.
- [Monthnotes: November 2025](https://neilojwilliams.net/monthnotes-november-2025/) - These notes are a tool I use for reflecting, remembering (to counter my SDAM), networking within my profession, and public accountability. Read more here. Wotcha. I’m three Pret Christmas sandwiches in, the tree’s just gone up and I'm looking forward to a festive break. But we’re not there yet. Here's what I got up to | Six-seven planning, a good number two, job bags.
- [A sports car through a swamp](https://neilojwilliams.net/a-sports-car-through-a-swamp/) - Capturing a snippet from this: Everything I Got Wrong About Product (So You Don’t Have To) by Paul Brown. All of it is excellent but this bit resonated with me in particular: "I used to think a great strategy could overcome anything — dependencies, politics, slow decision-making, unclear priorities be damned — but strategy is | Capturing a snippet from this: Everything I Got Wrong About Product (So You Don’t Have To) by Paul Brown. All of it is excellent but this bit resonated with me in particular: "I used to think a great strategy could overcome anything — dependencies, politics, slow decision-making, unclear priorities be damned — but strategy is
- [Autumnotes: October 2025](https://neilojwilliams.net/autumnotes-october-2025/) - These notes are a tool I use for reflecting, remembering (to counter my SDAM), networking within my profession, and public accountability. Read more here. Work, work, work Films, films, films Working for the BFI in October is all about the London Film Festival. So half of my October was a whirlwind of film galas and | LFF, rebooted remit, forearm of infinity and mortality.
- [Autumnotes: September 2025](https://neilojwilliams.net/autumnotes-september-2025/) - These notes are a tool I use for reflecting, remembering (to counter my SDAM), networking within my profession, and public accountability. Read more here. Hey you. Doing monthly notes at the moment. Still preoccupied by work stuff I mostly can’t talk about, which is taking away some of the time, motivation and content for more | Product-centric thinking, visibly over 25, spit roasted by the bins.
- [Film or movie](https://neilojwilliams.net/film-or-movie/) - I rarely say 'movie' and mostly say 'film' - but I quite like this take on the distinction from director Alan Parker (from his book Will Write And Direct For Food) The difference between a ‘movie’ and a ‘film' is that one is scared to death of boring you for a second and the latter | I rarely say 'movie' and mostly say 'film' - but I quite like this take on the distinction from director Alan Parker (from his book Will Write And Direct For Food) The difference between a ‘movie’ and a ‘film' is that one is scared to death of boring you for a second and the latter
- [Month notes: August 2025](https://neilojwilliams.net/month-notes-august-2025/) - These notes are a tool I use for reflecting, remembering (to counter my SDAM), networking within my profession, and public accountability. Read more here. Hey! I haven't weeknoted in a while. My routine’s been in tatters with two teens at home and an unusually porous perimeter between work and life over the summer. I took | Found my fearless, back-to-back face-to-face one-to-ones, make people good.
- [Experiments in roadmapping at GOV.UK [repost from mindtheproduct.com]](https://neilojwilliams.net/archive-experiments-in-roadmapping-at-gov-uk/) - [This is a backup copy of a post I wrote for the Mind The Product website in 2014, when I was Product Lead for GOV.UK at GDS in the Cabinet Office. Duplicated here in case it's ever deleted from there]. Roadmaps can be a powerful tool to communicate the vision for a product’s development, unite | [This is a backup copy of a post I wrote for the Mind The Product website in 2014, when I was Product Lead for GOV.UK at GDS in the Cabinet Office. Duplicated here in case it's ever deleted from there]. Roadmaps can be a powerful tool to communicate the vision for a product’s development, unite
- [The choice we make to not have a choice](https://neilojwilliams.net/the-choice-we-make-to-not-have-a-choice/) - I'm reading a book about algorithms called Filterworld at the moment, and keep sending myself bits from it. Here's one of those bits. "Today we have more cultural options available to us than ever and they are accessible on demand. We are free to choose anything. Yet the choice we often make is to not | I'm reading a book about algorithms called Filterworld at the moment, and keep sending myself bits from it. Here's one of those bits. "Today we have more cultural options available to us than ever and they are accessible on demand. We are free to choose anything. Yet the choice we often make is to not
- [Fortnight notes: 14 - 26 July 2025](https://neilojwilliams.net/fortnight-notes-14-26-july/) - These notes are a tool I use for reflecting, remembering (to counter my SDAM), networking within my profession, and public accountability. Read more here. What went down in Neilly land these past 2 weeks, I pretend once again to hear you ask. Well… Work, work, work 🎧 My podcast interview came out. 👨🏻‍🏫 A bunch | Design leadership, lean value, not just the digital bits.
- [Fortnight notes: 2 - 15 June 2025](https://neilojwilliams.net/fortnight-notes-2-15-june/) - These notes are a tool I use for reflecting, remembering (to counter my SDAM), networking within my profession, and public accountability. Read more here. Hello! Happy hot fathering Sunday. Do dah do do. Work, work, work Did my talk at the BFI all-staff demystifying “digital-first”. Chuffed with how it went and I got some nice feedback. | Celluloid treats, not-so beautiful collisions, Gordon dancing.
- [Fortnight notes: 16 - 29 June 2025](https://neilojwilliams.net/fortnight-notes-16-29-june/) - These notes are a tool I use for reflecting, remembering (to counter my SDAM), networking within my profession, and public accountability. Read more here. Hello. Today's fortnightly note was typed on the Eurostar while on a quick (and marvelous!) Belgian jaunt with boy 2. More on that later. Work, work, work We blogged again. Here's | You say Petito, hedonic adaptation, based on a mug.
- [Fortnight notes: 30 June - 13 July 2025](https://neilojwilliams.net/fortnight-notes-30-june-13-july/) - These notes are a tool I use for reflecting, remembering (to counter my SDAM), networking within my profession, and public accountability. Read more here. I feel like I'm just getting through it at the moment. In the Daniel Bedingfield sense. Reacting and coping, one upcoming meeting, parental task or incoming problem at a time. But | Daniel Bhuddafield, a quantification of surprise, déformation professionnelle.
- [At the speed of culture](https://neilojwilliams.net/at-the-speed-of-culture/) - From this Guardian piece on how AI is changing filmmaking: “I’m trying to prove a point,” says Mallal. “Which is that you can make really good stuff at a high level – but fast, at the speed of culture. Hollywood, especially, moves incredibly slowly.” The pro-AI arguments I'm familiar with have mostly been around lowering | From this Guardian piece on how AI is changing filmmaking: “I’m trying to prove a point,” says Mallal. “Which is that you can make really good stuff at a high level – but fast, at the speed of culture. Hollywood, especially, moves incredibly slowly.” The pro-AI arguments I'm familiar with have mostly been around lowering
- [Me on a pod](https://neilojwilliams.net/me-on-a-pod/) - I had the pleasure of being interviewed by Ash Mann for his excellent Digital Works podcast recently. You can listen to that here. Or just the bits that you fancy, from these timestamps: 0:00 Introducing Neil Williams 1:38 From Farmer's son to Digital: Neil's Journey 5:18 Government Digital Service Experience 10:31 BFI Role and Digital | I had the pleasure of being interviewed by Ash Mann for his excellent Digital Works podcast recently. You can listen to that here. Or just the bits that you fancy, from these timestamps: 0:00 Introducing Neil Williams 1:38 From Farmer's son to Digital: Neil's Journey 5:18 Government Digital Service Experience 10:31 BFI Role and Digital
- [No innovation until everything works](https://neilojwilliams.net/no-innovation-until-everything-works/) - I'm always digging this up to use in slides, but now Twitter's kaput it's harder to find. Ben's resurrected it at a new URL and this is me just saving that here for myself, basically. And righting the wrong of it not already being in my scrapbook. | I'm always digging this up to use in slides, but now Twitter's kaput it's harder to find. Ben's resurrected it at a new URL and this is me just saving that here for myself, basically. And righting the wrong of it not already being in my scrapbook.
- [Digital is the mortar](https://neilojwilliams.net/digital-is-the-mortar/) - Ben wrote an epic post here, full of clear wisdom and lightbulb moments. This isn't a reductive distillation of his post, just scrapbooking a neat metaphor as aide memoire for re-use: "Digital isn’t a brick in the [policy] wall [of government]; it’s the mortar that binds the whole thing together." Square brackets mine - swap | Ben wrote an epic post here, full of clear wisdom and lightbulb moments. This isn't a reductive distillation of his post, just scrapbooking a neat metaphor as aide memoire for re-use: "Digital isn’t a brick in the [policy] wall [of government]; it’s the mortar that binds the whole thing together." Square brackets mine - swap
- [The unglamorous layer](https://neilojwilliams.net/the-unglamorous-layer/) - Saving and amplifying these excellent few paragraphs Lynn Roberts posted on LinkedIn (I've abridged it a bit but the whole original post is word perfect): There’s always a temptation to focus on the extremes – the AI revolution or the broken CRM that needs replacing – instead of the more pedestrian truth in the middle. | Saving and amplifying these excellent few paragraphs Lynn Roberts posted on LinkedIn (I've abridged it a bit but the whole original post is word perfect): There’s always a temptation to focus on the extremes – the AI revolution or the broken CRM that needs replacing – instead of the more pedestrian truth in the middle.
- [Fortnight notes: 18 May - 1 June 2025](https://neilojwilliams.net/fortnight-notes-18-may-1-june-2025/) - These notes are a tool I use for reflecting, remembering (because I can't), networking and public accountability. Read more here. June? JUNE! 🤯 Work, work, work I’ll be speaking at the BFI’s all-staff event next week so I’ve spent some time* prepping for that. It’s a tight 10 mins on what becoming a “digital-first” org | These notes are a tool I use for reflecting, remembering (because I can't), networking and public accountability. Read more here. June? JUNE! 🤯 Work, work, work I’ll be speaking at the BFI’s all-staff event next week so I’ve spent some time* prepping for that. It’s a tight 10 mins on what becoming a “digital-first” org
- [Fortnight notes: 6 - 18 May 2025](https://neilojwilliams.net/week-notes-6-17-may-2025/) - These notes are a tool I use for reflecting, remembering (because I can't), networking and public accountability. Read more here. Coming atcha from Michael’s caff after a week that flew by faster than Tom Cruise on a biplane wing. The caff’s brimming with bunting and local pride because Crystal Palace are in the final tonight | Proper BFI blogging, Tom Cruise proximity, what the hell just happened?
- [Fortnight notes: 22 April - 5 May 2025](https://neilojwilliams.net/week-notes-22-april-5-may-2025/) - These notes are a tool I use for reflecting, remembering (because I can't), networking and public accountability. Read more here. I love this run of bank holidays in April and May, don’t you? Work, work, work Still cyber-incident heavy as the team works out the best option to recover the BFI shop/a BFI shop. Jia | Cyber crimewave, W planning framework, Polygon live, cordyceps.
- [A digital mindset but an analogue infrastructure](https://neilojwilliams.net/a-digital-mindset-but-an-analogue-infrastructure/) - "The biggest challenge we see is managing the gap between the high expectations of leaders and the reality of their existing tech infrastructure. We often work with organisations that have relied on the same IT systems for 20-30 years – systems understood by only a few people in the business who are probably nearing retirement! – while current leadership | "The biggest challenge we see is managing the gap between the high expectations of leaders and the reality of their existing tech infrastructure. We often work with organisations that have relied on the same IT systems for 20-30 years – systems understood by only a few people in the business who are probably nearing retirement! – while current leadership
- [Fortnight and a bit notes: 7 - 21 April 2025](https://neilojwilliams.net/fortnight-and-a-bit-notes-7-21-april-2025/) - These notes are a tool I use for reflecting, remembering (because I can't), networking and public accountability. Read more here. A perfunctory post cos there's Bank Holiday biz to attend to. But to keep my weeknote streak… Work, work, work It's been intense and intensive dealing with the cyber attack on the BFI Shop website. | Bad actors, spilt milk, bulky waste.
- [Fortnight notes: 24 March - 6 April 2025](https://neilojwilliams.net/fortnight-notes-24-march-6-april-2025/) - These notes are a tool I use for reflecting, remembering (because I can't), networking and public accountability. Read more here. I’ll never understand chips for breakfast. (I’m in Michael’s caff, Joel’s at the BRIT, it’s weeknote time, you know the drill). 🔨 This is not a drill You know how they say in cyber circles | Not a drill, separated at birth, intellectually stimulating.
- [Week notes: 17 - 23 March 2025](https://neilojwilliams.net/week-notes-17-23-march-2025/) - These notes are a tool I use for reflecting, remembering (because I can't), networking and public accountability. Read more here. Work stuff first. Mission: Impossible There's a complex story I’m puzzling over how best to tell. That’s the main thing I’m doing at the moment (and for the next couple of weeks). It’s partly a | Service-orientation narrative, Cruise news, small parts.
- [Fortnight notes: 17 Feb - 2 March 2025](https://neilojwilliams.net/weeknotes-17-feb-2-march-2025/) - These notes are a tool I use for reflecting, remembering (because I can't), networking and public accountability. Read more here. My recent accomplishments FAO the dark maga douchebag or anyone who’s interested... Work, work, work I couldn’t be prouder of the work coming out of all my teams right now. I only wish I could | Broad but shallow, Kotter’s dual operating model, holacracy.
- [Fortnight notes: 3 - 16 March 2025](https://neilojwilliams.net/week-notes-3-16-march-2025/) - These notes are a tool I use for reflecting, remembering (because I can't), networking and public accountability. Read more here. One of the best things I read* this fortnight was the theory we’re now living in the timeline where Biff found the sports almanac in Back to the Future II and everything turned to shit. | Biff timeline, I am reality, mode push.
- [Fuck you! Oh god I'm so shit. Ok, what?](https://neilojwilliams.net/fuck-you-oh-god-im-so-shit-ok-what/) - I was at Mark Kermode’s live stage show MK3D last Monday (his 100th show). Mark's lifelong friend and frequent guest Jason Isaacs had this to say, describing the 3 stages of rapid emotional response he feels as an actor whenever a director approaches him after a scene to give him notes: “Fuck you! Oh god I'm | I was at Mark Kermode’s live stage show MK3D last Monday (his 100th show). Mark's lifelong friend and frequent guest Jason Isaacs had this to say, describing the 3 stages of rapid emotional response he feels as an actor whenever a director approaches him after a scene to give him notes: “Fuck you! Oh god I'm
- [Week notes: 3 - 9 Feb 2025](https://neilojwilliams.net/weeknotes-3-9-feb-2025/) - These notes are a tool I use for reflecting, remembering (because I can't), networking and public accountability. Read more here. You know the start of apocalypse films when the TV news in the background runs reports of an approaching meteor and/or megalomaniac politician and/or evil tech boss? That’s just life now. Three for three. Maybe | Approaching meteor, AI & cyber days, heirloom tomatoes.
- [Week notes: 10 - 16 Feb 2025](https://neilojwilliams.net/weeknotes-10-16-feb-2025/) - These notes are a tool I use for reflecting, remembering (because I can't), networking and public accountability. Read more here. This week featured: an Exec Board; my Digital Transformation Advisory Board (focusing on BFI Player); an external meeting on AI; misc lesser meetings; more AI reading and ruminating; and I wrote the leadership intro to | Communiqué, advisory board, moving mad on AI.
- [Cronx merch: the definitive guide [repost from croydon.digital]](https://neilojwilliams.net/cronx-merch-the-definitive-guide-repost-from-croydon-digital/) - NOTE: This post was originally published on Croydon.Digital in November 2019. The site is closing down so I’m reposting selected posts I wrote for the site, as Chief Digital officer for Croydon Council from Oct 2018 to Jan 2022. For context and other posts, see archived snapshots here. Local pride isn’t unique to Croydon, but it does | We round up the very best Croydon-branded fashion, mugs, prints and more.
- [Croydon’s digital strategy – an update [repost from croydon.digital]](https://neilojwilliams.net/croydons-digital-strategy-an-update-repost-from-croydon-digital/) - NOTE: This post was originally published on Croydon.Digital in December 2021. The site is closing down so I’m reposting selected posts I wrote for the site, as Chief Digital officer for Croydon Council from Oct 2018 to Jan 2022. For context and other posts, see archived snapshots here. It’s been a while since we created Croydon’s first digital | A review of digital progress in Croydon and a goodbye from the first (but by no means last!) CDO.
- [Croydon is digital and we’re #notmessingaround [repost from croydon.digital]](https://neilojwilliams.net/croydon-is-digital-and-were-notmessingaround-reost-from-croydon-digital/) - NOTE: This post was originally published on Croydon.Digital in December 2018. The site is closing down so I’m reposting selected posts I wrote for the site, as Chief Digital officer for Croydon Council from Oct 2018 to Jan 2022. For context and other posts, see archived snapshots here. Welcome to Croydon Digital – a new corner of the web | Introducing Croydon Digital, a blog for and by the digital changemakers of Croydon.
- [About the Croydon Digital Service [repost from croydon.digital]](https://neilojwilliams.net/about-the-croydon-digital-service-repost-from-croydon-digital/) - NOTE: This post was originally published on Croydon.Digital in January 2019. The site is closing down so I’m reposting selected posts I wrote for the site, as Chief Digital officer for Croydon Council from Oct 2018 to Jan 2022. For context and other posts, see archived snapshots here. In my first post on this blog I announced the new | The new team in the council, leading the digital transformation of the council's services, and the digital enhancement of our borough.
- [A year of #notmessingaround [repost from croydon.digital]](https://neilojwilliams.net/a-year-of-notmessingaround-repost-from-croydon-digital/) - NOTE: This post was originally published on Croydon.Digital in November 2019. The site is closing down so I'm reposting selected posts I wrote for the site, as Chief Digital officer for Croydon Council from Oct 2018 to Jan 2022. For context and other posts, see archived snapshots here. It’s just over a year since I | Reflections on a year of ambitious digital delivery since Croydon Council hired its first CDO.
- [One thing from Hollybush Stores](https://neilojwilliams.net/one-thing-from-hollybush-stores/) - It’s time to wrench myself out of a 3-month hiatus and hammer out another blog post in my series of buying one thing from every shop on the Crystal Palace Triangle. You saw it coming, you’d be nuts to miss it, everything hinges on it, screw other plans, it’s time to drill into… The shop | Thing seventeen in the mission to buy one thing from every shop on the Crystal Palace triangle.
- [My position on AI](https://neilojwilliams.net/my-position-on-ai/) - I spent a few hours this week reading around AI and formulating my thoughts into coherent sentences. This is what I've got so far. I'd love to know what you think. Am I right? Am I being naive, or just sceptical enough? What am I missing? A bit of context and a disclaimer: my remit | I spent a few hours this week reading around AI and formulating my thoughts into coherent sentences. This is what I've got so far. I'd love to know what you think. Am I right? Am I being naive, or just sceptical enough? What am I missing? A bit of context and a disclaimer: my remit
- [Fortnight notes: 20 January to 2 February 2025](https://neilojwilliams.net/fortnight-notes-20-january-to-2-february-2025/) - These notes are a tool I use for reflecting, remembering (because I can't), networking and public accountability. Read more here. “Do you think it's better than living?” “No.” A little exchange there between my wife and me this morning about my spending it writing weeknotes. Although actually, sitting down to write this today feels like a | Breakfast in the morning, fab away day, now it’s dark.
- [Write it down](https://neilojwilliams.net/write-it-down/) - "Whenever someone asks me to do something that I think seems ill-conceived in some way, I ask them to write it down. That’s it." From Mark Boulton, here. | "Whenever someone asks me to do something that I think seems ill-conceived in some way, I ask them to write it down. That’s it." From Mark Boulton, here.
- [Fortnight notes: 6 - 19 January 2025](https://neilojwilliams.net/fortnight-notes-6-19-january-2025/) - These notes are a tool I use for reflecting, remembering (because I can't), networking and public accountability. Read more here. Hello. It's term time so I’m back to drafting these notes in Michael’s caff, over breakfast instead of lunch now that Joel’s joined an older group at BRIT Kids. Joy’s gone north to her mum’s. Dylan's | Failure to GovCamp, cyber hiring, stickers to the rescue.
- [Paleolithic, medieval, godlike](https://neilojwilliams.net/paleolithic-medieval-godlike/) - I only just came across this. Or did I hear it before and forget? I never know. The point is - this is good and true innit? “The real problem of humanity is the following: We have Paleolithic emotions, medieval institutions and godlike technology." - Edward O. Wilson, American sociobiologist, speaking in 2009. Came up | I only just came across this. Or did I hear it before and forget? I never know. The point is - this is good and true innit? “The real problem of humanity is the following: We have Paleolithic emotions, medieval institutions and godlike technology." - Edward O. Wilson, American sociobiologist, speaking in 2009. Came up
- [That's the work](https://neilojwilliams.net/thats-the-work/) - Another classic mic drop from Tom "definition of digital" Loosemore, writing here: "Trying to help an organisation change? Coming up with the "right" answer is the easy bit, be that strategy, org design or whatnot. Taking the organisation with you.That's the work." | Another classic mic drop from Tom "definition of digital" Loosemore, writing here: "Trying to help an organisation change? Coming up with the "right" answer is the easy bit, be that strategy, org design or whatnot. Taking the organisation with you.That's the work."
- [The Neillys. My unsolicited list of films, TV and games of 2024](https://neilojwilliams.net/the-neillys-my-unsolicited-list-of-films-tv-and-games-of-2024/) - This year I watched 243 films and 112 one-off TV shows or series. That’s 355 titles, a rate of 0.97 a day. 155 were new releases or previews, 107 were older releases I saw for the first time this year, and 93 I’d seen before. I saw 56 in the cinema, 34 on BFI Player, | My pick of the best and worst films, TV shows, games, books, podcasts and music I consumed this year.
- [Festive fortnight notes 23 December 2024 - 5 January 2025](https://neilojwilliams.net/festive-fortnight-notes-23-dec-5-jan/) - In the christmassy magical time, I: 🎭 Saw The Importance of Being Earnest at the NT, on boxing day. Camp fun with Ncuti, Sharon and Hugh. 🚘 Drove the length of the country in thick fog. 🏡 Stayed in a nice airbnb near some chickens (pictured) and the dreaded mother-in-law (not pictured). 🚘 Drove back | Going out, staying in, nothing about work.
- [Good things with downsides](https://neilojwilliams.net/good-things-with-downsides/) - From Russell's StampFans newsletter. I want to remember it so I'm putting it here. The most useful thing I've realised of late has been 'you can't not have problems'. It's very liberating when making decisions. [...] You're going to have problems, you just have to decide which ones you're going to put up with/embrace. RELATED: | From Russell's StampFans newsletter. I want to remember it so I'm putting it here. The most useful thing I've realised of late has been 'you can't not have problems'. It's very liberating when making decisions. [...] You're going to have problems, you just have to decide which ones you're going to put up with/embrace. RELATED:
- [End of the year note: 2024 themes and 2025 dreams](https://neilojwilliams.net/end-of-the-year-note-2024-themes-and-2025-dreams/) - Of interest mainly to future me and probably not even that, this was my 2024, in 45 bulletpoints. Blogging I weeknoted consistently with no gaps I wrote about buying one thing from 12 shops on the Crystal Palace triangle …and Nettie helped me out by submitting this one I scrapbooked 28 snippets of inspiration I | Obligatory round-up, reflections and resolutions.
- [A digital centre for the rest of us?](https://neilojwilliams.net/a-digital-centre-for-the-rest-of-us/) - Looks like I chose the wrong week to quit weeknoting. 14 years ago Martha Lane Fox wrote a paper about which I wrote a blog post off the back of which Tom bought me a pizza. Which led to 8 blissful years at GDS doing the best work of my life with the best people, | My wishlist for the new digital centre of government.
- [Week notes: 16 - 22 December 2024](https://neilojwilliams.net/week-notes-16-22-december-2024/) - A last note of 2024 covering my final 4 workdays and start of the hols. 🎅 Work work work I ended my BFI year with a 6-hour one to one with (my boss and CEO) Ben. Spent some of the preceding days prepping for that, thinking by typing, and revisiting various previous typed thoughts diagnosing | All day one-to-one, Overton window, apanthropy.
- [Week notes: 9 - 15 December 2024](https://neilojwilliams.net/week-notes-9-15-december-2024/) - Busy innit? Work work work My main task this week was shortlisting applications to find the BFI’s new Head of Cyber Security. We’re in a buyer's market judging by their number and quality. I’m excited and look forward to meeting the chosen few. I wrote some interview Qs so we can send them to candidates | Cyber shortlist, IRL Donut, “two Mondays in a trench coat".
- [Better by next Friday](https://neilojwilliams.net/better-by-next-friday/) - "In the digital age, you don’t have to work out precisely what you need to build at the start, and then start building it. You can start with something small and try it out. Test it on people. Fix the problems. Change the design. Test it again. Throw it away and start again cheaply, if | "In the digital age, you don’t have to work out precisely what you need to build at the start, and then start building it. You can start with something small and try it out. Test it on people. Fix the problems. Change the design. Test it again. Throw it away and start again cheaply, if
- [Week notes: 1 - 8 December 2024](https://neilojwilliams.net/week-notes-1-8-december-2024/) - Greetings from the end of the Windrush Line as it’s now called, where a house (that is nothing like mine) just won the RIBA House of the Year Award. (Shoutout to The London Minute which is proving to be a good daily skim read). Greetings also, I guess, from the comfortable tepid bath of managed | Defining digital-first, themes and dreams, blame for the success of U2.
- [Week notes: 25 - 30 November 2024](https://neilojwilliams.net/week-notes-25-30-november-2024/) - I worked a 3.75 day week. My nice planned Monday off got somewhat messed up by spending half of it on a coach cos of the flooded railways coming back from Falmouth, but the National Express service was dead good (I’m a convert!) and I got a whole work-related book read on the journey. I | BFI tech jobs, she’s got her NOKRs, Dave’s ding dong.
- [One thing from Sweet Child of Mine ](https://neilojwilliams.net/one-thing-from-sweet-child-of-mine/) - Yep, I am still persisting with this series ...and you will recall you committed to reading every word, so we're in this together until the bitter end (aka Sainsburys). It's time to decide on another sweet SE19 shop to pick and mix things up… The shop Sweet Child of Mine. This boutique sweet shop and | I'm on a mission to buy one thing from every shop on the Crystal Palace Triangle. This is thing thirteen.
- [Week notes: 18 - 24 November 2024](https://neilojwilliams.net/week-notes-18-24-november-2024/) - Alright my luvvers? Writing this one on the way to and from Falmouth where Dylan and I came for a squiz at the university and its Games Academy (on a tip-off from BFI’s video games lead, Anna Mansi). It's gorgeous here, an idyllic student town by the Cornish seaside. I'd love to study here! Whether | Falmouth trip, Apple HQ, turn up for the books.
- [One thing from Crystal Eye Centre](https://neilojwilliams.net/one-thing-from-crystal-eye-centre/) - Crystal Eye Centre were first out the gate to say “come see us!” when I started this series of buying one thing from every shop on the Crystal Palace triangle, a year ago today. They also said I don’t have to buy anything but excuse me I think you’ll find I do, it’s all clearly | Thing sixteen in the mission to buy one thing from every shop on the Crystal Palace triangle.
- [A bit more post-modernism](https://neilojwilliams.net/a-bit-more-post-modernism/) - I just got to the bit of Richard Pope's excellent Platformland book where he says: "Public service design needs a bit less minimalism and a bit more post-modernism". Simplicity mixed with transparency and showing more of the inner workings. I like that idea a lot. (I also like postmodernism a lot, in general). | I just got to the bit of Richard Pope's excellent Platformland book where he says: "Public service design needs a bit less minimalism and a bit more post-modernism". Simplicity mixed with transparency and showing more of the inner workings. I like that idea a lot. (I also like postmodernism a lot, in general).
- [Week notes: 11 - 17 November 2024](https://neilojwilliams.net/week-notes-11-17-november-2024/) - Welcome to another note, sponsored (little do they know) by Michael's caff near the BRIT School where Joel does his filmmaking class, and where a customer just ordered a slap-up breakfast as a reward for having “already made 500K in stocks and shares and finished work for the day”. Which would be more believable if | Exemplary delivery, ABBAtars, BlueSky taking off.
- [Week notes: 4 - 10 November 2024](https://neilojwilliams.net/week-notes-4-10-november-2024/) - I write these notes to help me reflect, remember, network, get feedback and be accountable. Read more on why I write week notes here. That awful thing happened, over there. Have we hit rock bottom yet, is that the silver lining, I dunno. Or will we just keep spiralling downwards with worse and worse nationalist | Election and lurgy, semi-compelling screensavers, succeed with Susan.
- [Week notes: 28 October - 3 November 2024 ](https://neilojwilliams.net/week-notes-28-october-3-november-2024/) - I write these notes to help me reflect, remember, network, get feedback and be accountable. Read more on why I write week notes here. It's half term. I took half off (the big half), but worked Wednesday and Thursday. Work, work, work I presented the BFI Player deep dive report to our Finance Committee, with | Deep dive, Avebury, Taskmaster Live.
- [Month notes: 30 September - 27 October 2024 ](https://neilojwilliams.net/month-notes-30-september-27-october-2024/) - These notes are a tool I use for reflecting, remembering (to counter my SDAM), networking within my profession, and public accountability. Read more here. It's been a while so this one's long but wait DON’T GO! It has headings, you can skip and cherry-pick easily. New specs, new me Perhaps only of interest to myself: I now need glasses | LFF, kayfabe, Stockdale Paradox, weighing the pig.
- [Week notes: 23- 29 September 2024](https://neilojwilliams.net/week-notes-23-29-september-2024/) - A reminder, these weeknotes are a tool I use for reflecting, remembering stuff (to counter my SDAM), networking with others in the digital profession, and public accountability. I write them mainly for my own benefit. But I put them online because I believe in working in the open, and I reflect and write better when | Blogiversary, firebreak, Thursday I'm in love.
- [One thing from La Amazonas](https://neilojwilliams.net/one-thing-from-la-amazonas/) - Guest post by Nettie Williams (no relation) as part of my ongoing series. The shop choice is well-timed - today is World Vegetarian Day. Neil’s got a lot on partly because he’s promised to review all the shops on the Triangle. Pressure! Franchise it out, I suggested. And now here I am, in between jobs, | We're buying one thing from every shop on the Crystal Palace Triangle. This is thing fifteen.
- [Week notes: 17- 22 September 2024](https://neilojwilliams.net/week-notes-17-22-september-2024/) - I'm mixing things up, let's start with the links. Then end with a bonus one. 🔎 Found, interesting 🧐 This headteacher’s message from Dylan’s new school is flipping great about mobile phones, mental models and morality. (But I’d be less into a phone ban, if that’s where he’s heading). The web we never lost (via | L’esprit de l’escalier, happy day, tried my best.
- [Week notes: 9 - 16 September 2024. A spicy treat!](https://neilojwilliams.net/week-notes-9-16-september-2024-a-spicy-treat/) - 2024 | Week notes: 9 – 16 September 2024. A spicy treat! | Birthday, no actual donuts, autumn lurgy. |
- [It lasts longer](https://neilojwilliams.net/it-lasts-longer/) - Via Karen X. Cheng, via Russell's newsletter: “Seek respect, not attention, it lasts longer” | Via Karen X. Cheng, via Russell's newsletter: “Seek respect, not attention, it lasts longer”
- [Week notes: 2 - 8 September 2024](https://neilojwilliams.net/week-notes-2-8-september-2024/) - The way I write these notes is not dissimilar to The Weave. Sometimes it all comes together, to the amazement of English professors everywhere. Other times it’s random stuff and unsubstantiated boasts about how great and right I am. Which will it be this week? Life has its Epsom Downs (...is what I always wanna | Very mindful, very demure, somewhat seething.
- [Rest of the week notes: 27 August - 1 September 2024](https://neilojwilliams.net/rest-of-the-week-notes-27-august-1-september-2024/) - My 6 days off (11 counting weekends and the bank hol) have passed far too quickly. There's a distinct Back to School vibe in the air. But September and October are the best of months, so bring it on! I'm also looking forward to less guilt and fewer logistical challenges when the kids are back | Garden toil, stinky door, air frying everything.
- [ A job ad of note, for (my) future ref](https://neilojwilliams.net/a-job-ad-of-note-for-my-future-ref/) - I spotted this job ad on LinkedIn recently which I’ve zero intention of applying for (happy where I am, not passionate about pets or travel, not likely to be the right salary or challenge) and is in any case probably closed now. But I felt compelled to save it for future ref - because it | I spotted this job ad on LinkedIn recently which I’ve zero intention of applying for (happy where I am, not passionate about pets or travel, not likely to be the right salary or challenge) and is in any case probably closed now. But I felt compelled to save it for future ref - because it
- [Week and a bit notes: 19 - 26 August 2024](https://neilojwilliams.net/week-and-a-bit-notes-19-26-august-2024/) - Chronologically, but in reverse order of importance, I expended another 8 days of my life doing this stuff… FTLOF After posting last week's notes, I went to a fantasy genre convention at the ExCel centre and got my photo taken with the actors who play the Cullens from Twilight (sans R-Patz) and Brad and Janet | BG3, GCSEs, FrightFest, rawdogging.
- [Week notes: 12- 18  August 2024](https://neilojwilliams.net/week-notes-12-18-august-2024/) - Hey, friends! I’m between holidays right now. I worked this week, will do another 3 days next week then I’m off until September - and it'll be crunchy leaf season before you know it. Work Mostly catching up and keeping things (not least my brain) ticking over between leave. The most satisfying bit was getting | Between holidays, nobody wants software, Alien Romulus.
- [Where we'll fix the problems](https://neilojwilliams.net/where-well-fix-the-problems/) - This whole article is brilliant by Jane Ruffino, but this bit leapt out at me for scrapbooking: I can make the software as usable as possible, but I also need to remember that it’s not in the software where we’ll fix the problems that cause the software to exist in the first place. It's spot | This whole article is brilliant by Jane Ruffino, but this bit leapt out at me for scrapbooking: I can make the software as usable as possible, but I also need to remember that it’s not in the software where we’ll fix the problems that cause the software to exist in the first place. It's spot
- [Week notes: 5 - 11  August 2024](https://neilojwilliams.net/week-notes-5-11-august-2024/) - Hi, you! I’m back from 4 nights at the Edinburgh Fringe. We had the best possible time, for an ideal span of time, and are now loving being home (as standard after a holiday). Backdrop Given the week’s racist riots masquerading as legit protests it was blissful but guilt-inducing to be in a multicultural arts | Bye bye Twitter, Edinburgh Fringe report, pricey pipework.
- [One thing from D Solos](https://neilojwilliams.net/one-thing-from-d-solos/) - Hello, you look nice today. Thing fourteen in my series of buying one thing from every shop on the Crystal Palace triangle is from my all-time favourite shop in SE19, and frankly my favourite clothes shop anywhere... The shop D Solos . An independent men's and women's fashion boutique “for those who are always looking forward" | I'm on a mission to buy one thing from every shop on the Crystal Palace Triangle. This is thing fourteen.
- [All the other people one has been](https://neilojwilliams.net/all-the-other-people/) - This is good, from Emma Straub in a short post where she remembers she once loved smoking. "Sometimes it’s nice to remember all the other people one has been. Especially when settling into hard-core middle-age. I love being this me, but I loved being that me, too." I think I overwrite my sense of self | This is good, from Emma Straub in a short post where she remembers she once loved smoking. "Sometimes it’s nice to remember all the other people one has been. Especially when settling into hard-core middle-age. I love being this me, but I loved being that me, too." I think I overwrite my sense of self
- [Week notes: 28 July - 4 August 2024](https://neilojwilliams.net/week-notes-28-july-4-august-2024/) - Week notes: 28 July – 4 August 2024 | Regular chickens, south facing, saucy!
- [The things we learned from 2000-2015](https://neilojwilliams.net/the-things-we-learned-from-2000-2015/) - I like what Jason says here: "Tech is a mature industry, and most of what is interesting these days has to do with bringing the things we learned from 2000-2015 about how to use software into places that have not yet modernized." It wasn't the point of his post (he was talking about the diminishing | I like what Jason says here: "Tech is a mature industry, and most of what is interesting these days has to do with bringing the things we learned from 2000-2015 about how to use software into places that have not yet modernized." It wasn't the point of his post (he was talking about the diminishing
- [Week notes: 21 - 27 July 2024](https://neilojwilliams.net/week-notes-21-28-july-2024/) - Hey hey. I am in Tiverton, where I began. Down for my mum's birthday and a break from our screens and routines. Popped to nearby Exeter too, so Dylan can scout locations for a music video shoot for his upcoming A-level media studies - he's thinking of doing Exeter by Idles. I worked Monday to | Tiverton, RAS Syndrome, class animus.
- [Week notes: 15 - 20 July 2024](https://neilojwilliams.net/week-notes-15-20-july-2024/) - Blue screen blues “The horror, the horror” - George Kurtz, CEO of CrowdStrike yesterday. Not content with eating the world, software just ate itself and made history by causing the biggest global outage ever seen. Someone better fetch Alanis because there's irony upon irony here: that one of the very things designed and trusted to | CrowdStrike horrors, allegorical bangers, blogroll.
- [Week notes: 8 - 14 July 2024](https://neilojwilliams.net/week-notes-8-14-july-2024/) - What a horribly violent week with crossbow murders, suitcases of human remains, and that counter-productive assasination attempt on Trump. I'm not here to talk about any of that, but it'd be odd not to acknowledge it, if only to set this post in context for future readers (hi, me!) On the flipside, it's also been | FrightFest, GDS joins DSIT, digital penetration.
- [Barely touched](https://neilojwilliams.net/barely-touched/) - This amused me. And set new slide goals. Spotted randomly on LinkedIn, here. Sounds like the talk is well worth watching, when the video gets posted on the event's site. | This amused me. And set new slide goals. Spotted randomly on LinkedIn, here. Sounds like the talk is well worth watching, when the video gets posted on the event's site.
- [Fortnight notes: 24 June - 7 July 2024](https://neilojwilliams.net/fortnight-notes-24-june-7-july-2024/) - Did you miss me? I skipped weeknoting last weekend because I needed to work. So here are two weeks' worth of neutral-tinted haps and such (but it's not longer, don't worry!) Work I’m usually with Keir on work-life balance but pulling a rare weekend shift was the only way I could hold dozens of docs | Weekend shift, landslide, BFI Girl Summer.
- [Week notes: 17-23 June 2024](https://neilojwilliams.net/week-notes-17-23-june-2024/) - We weren't even bothered about Taskmaster Live Experience tickets… but apparently I “won” a ballot (into which all newsletter subscribers were enrolled) for early access. If that's just a marketing ploy it worked cos all 4 of us are now booked to go in November. Might be awks! But good to do things with these | Marketing ploy, sand on a car park, radical ideas and maximum energy.
- [One thing from Iceland](https://neilojwilliams.net/one-thing-from-iceland/) - Look. Nobody's excited but it's in the rules, I've got to do it at some point! (And the irony is, I’ve recently bought so many more interesting things from so many of CP’s more interesting shops, but neglected to take pictures). But - I'm committed to buying one thing from every shop on the Crystal | I’m buying one thing from every shop on the Crystal Palace Triangle. This is thing twelve.
- [Week notes: 10-16 June 2024](https://neilojwilliams.net/week-notes-10-16-june-2024/) - I’ve been poorly with a cold, feeling rained-on, but ploughed on regardless cos I've got too much to dooTISHOO. Work, work, work I spent about a third of this week on that same issue that's been dominating of late, but turned some attention back onto prep for running our first digital advisory board, and getting | Huge if true, are we the baddies, father’s day.
- [Pool of attention](https://neilojwilliams.net/pool-of-attention/) - "Organisations are engines for turning human attention into outcomes." Sam Spurlin of The Ready (source) Probably worth just pasting Sam's LinkedIn post in full: One of the simplest definitions/metaphors of organizations I like to play with is, "Organizations are engines for turning human attention into outcomes." The best organizations are able to magnify and direct | "Organisations are engines for turning human attention into outcomes." Sam Spurlin of The Ready (source) Probably worth just pasting Sam's LinkedIn post in full: One of the simplest definitions/metaphors of organizations I like to play with is, "Organizations are engines for turning human attention into outcomes." The best organizations are able to magnify and direct
- [Week notes: 3 - 9 June 2024](https://neilojwilliams.net/week-notes-3-9-june-2024/) - “Bloody hell, how much water do you drink in a day?!” exclaimed a colleague this week while I downed a pint of water on a Teams call. I remember Dave being similarly bemused by my sudden on-screen water guzzling in Croydon. I do drink a lot of water (and coffee, perhaps there's a link!) and | What you got, too much perspective, recombobulation.
- [I want AI](https://neilojwilliams.net/i-want-ai/) - "I want AI to do my laundry and dishes so that I can do art and writing, not for AI to do my art and writing so that I can do my laundry and dishes". Joanna Maciejewska [source] | "I want AI to do my laundry and dishes so that I can do art and writing, not for AI to do my art and writing so that I can do my laundry and dishes". Joanna Maciejewska [source]
- [Week notes: 27 May - 2 June 2024](https://neilojwilliams.net/week-notes-27-may-2-june-2024/) - “Tell me about work without telling me about work”. I did a 3-day week (took Friday off) which included a discussion with important people about an important thing that mostly went fine but I got feedback from the boss to do more nemawashi in future (he didn’t use that word, but that). Fine. Otherwise I | Do more nemawashi, macabre limit, joyless spend.
- [How you feel on Sunday night](https://neilojwilliams.net/how-you-feel-on-sunday-night/) - Saw this on LinkedIn: The original quote comes from a tweet from Bill Marklein: "Culture is how employees' hearts and stomachs feel about Monday morning on Sunday night." Bill Marklein | Saw this on LinkedIn: The original quote comes from a tweet from Bill Marklein: "Culture is how employees' hearts and stomachs feel about Monday morning on Sunday night." Bill Marklein
- [Leadership advice](https://neilojwilliams.net/leadership-advice/) - "Prioritise. Delegate. Say thank you." Emma Gawen, (via Ben Terrett) | "Prioritise. Delegate. Say thank you." Emma Gawen, (via Ben Terrett)
- [Blog like nobody is reading](https://neilojwilliams.net/nobody-is-reading/) - This was from a couple of weeks back but it's stayed with me. Useful. Putting it here for future ref. "Don’t fear the publish button – dance like nobody is watching and blog like nobody is reading…because usually they aren’t." Matt Jukes | This was from a couple of weeks back but it's stayed with me. Useful. Putting it here for future ref. "Don’t fear the publish button – dance like nobody is watching and blog like nobody is reading…because usually they aren’t." Matt Jukes
- [Like more stuff](https://neilojwilliams.net/like-more-stuff/) - "big secret to happiness is just liking stuff. finding more stuff to like. finding ways to like stuff you didn’t before. recognizing what it feels like to like something and doubling down on that. what feels frivolous is actually the whole ballgame" Tweet by Lauren Wilford (there's more in the thread) | "big secret to happiness is just liking stuff. finding more stuff to like. finding ways to like stuff you didn’t before. recognizing what it feels like to like something and doubling down on that. what feels frivolous is actually the whole ballgame" Tweet by Lauren Wilford (there's more in the thread)
- [Part of the work](https://neilojwilliams.net/part-of-the-work/) - 'Talking about the work is a part of the work" How to communicate the value of your work to the right people, Nia Campbell | 'Talking about the work is a part of the work" How to communicate the value of your work to the right people, Nia Campbell
- [Foreword to Content Design second edition](https://neilojwilliams.net/foreword-to-content-design-second-edition/) - The second edition of Content Design was published yesterday, by Sarah Richards and Rachel Edwards of Content Design London. I was honoured to be asked to write the new Foreword - reproduced below. But don't just read this, go buy the book! No one person invented content design. It came about through the efforts of | The second edition of Content Design was published yesterday, by Sarah Richards and Rachel Edwards of Content Design London. I was honoured to be asked to write the new Foreword - reproduced below. But don't just read this, go buy the book! No one person invented content design. It came about through the efforts of
- [Week notes: 20 - 26 May 2024](https://neilojwilliams.net/week-notes-20-26-may-2024/) - I'm not a civil servant any more but the BFI is an ALB of DCMS, so pre-election comms rules apply. That officially kicks in from the dissolution of parliament on 30th until the genny lec - so I’ll be saying less about work here in June. Work, work, work A few final facts while I | Genny lec, TV apps, Big Yinema, Miller made it epic.
- [One thing from The Picture Palace](https://neilojwilliams.net/one-thing-from-the-picture-palace/) - It’s been a few weeks since thing 10, from The Bookseller Crow. So here’s the 11th post in my increasingly regrettable commitment to buying one thing from every shop on the Crystal Palace triangle and writing about them all here! The shop This time it’s The Picture Palace, a long-standing bespoke picture framers opposite Sainsbury’s | I’m buying one thing from every shop on the Crystal Palace Triangle. This is thing eleven.
- [Week notes: 13 - 19 May 2024](https://neilojwilliams.net/week-notes-13-19-may-2024/) - Let’s start in the middle, with Wednesday. I went to the Buckingham Palace garden party for the creative industries and Interesting 2024 - both brilliant firsts but a bit much in combination, racking up 17,500 steps and more sun and social interaction than I can handle in one day! But all good stuff for the | Buckingham Palace garden party, Interesting 2024, OKR advocacy, good luck being dead.
- [Week notes: 6 - 12 May 2024](https://neilojwilliams.net/week-notes-6-12-may-2024/) - Hi there, favourite unique visitor! Hope you've been enjoying this sunny spell. A highlight of my week was a walk over Charing Cross bridge with a glistening Thames and skyline, listening to ItsNotREEAALLLLLLL on repeat. London in the sun is 😍. Work, work, work I’ve got Farrah from dxw helping me out for a few days | It's not real, careless feedback, Eurovision on FFW.
- [Week notes: 8 - 14 April 2024](https://neilojwilliams.net/week-notes-8-14-april-2024/) - Some BFI weeks I pinch myself. Others, I feel the bumps of dysfunction a little more keenly. All orgs have them, and I’m optimistic for next week when we'll tackle some of ours head-on in a 3-day leadership retreat! This post resonated: “Companies are filled with (often competing) narratives about what is broken, why, and | Problem narratives, 12 Angry Men, traybake of disappointment, arts/Batmen ranked.
- [Week notes: 15 - 21 April 2024](https://neilojwilliams.net/week-notes-15-21-april-2024/) - I hope this blog post e-meets you well. Work There were 3 days of in-person workshops and I deemed them good. Day one was with wider leadership and I’m here to tell you the BFI is in marvellous hands. Days two and three were exec-only, walking through the 24/5 roadmap of roadmaps, spotting the big | Marvellous hands, BFI doesn’t pivot, Fringe excitement, cholesterol.
- [Week notes: 22 - 28 April 2024](https://neilojwilliams.net/week-notes-22-28-april-2024/) - A glitch in the matrix in Michael’s caff near the BRIT: I’m not the only laptop user! And not a CPFC fan or construction worker in sight. Crushed avocados on the menu soon then. Work, work, work A meeting-heavy week. Many moving parts. Feeling the dearth of project/delivery managers to track cross-organisational stuff I’m responsible | Risk talk, IT, assisting assistants, family do.
- [Week notes: 29 April - 5 May 2024](https://neilojwilliams.net/week-notes-29-april-5-may-2024/) - The pic is a USB-C cable I bought off Amazon, not knowing it had this daft name! Life’s digital conveniences are amazing but the name of this thing also struck me as mightily ironic, given our enslavement to these bloody charging cables, enshittification and the broken promise that automation will lighten our workloads. I'd literally just | Jevons paradox, Bugle intro, blog voice.
- [One thing from The Bookseller Crow](https://neilojwilliams.net/one-thing-from-the-bookseller-crow/) - Q: How do you know if SE19-dwellers have a local indie bookshop? A: Don't worry, they'll tell you! A local bookshop one of the things you look for, isn’t it, when choosing a dream place to live. A shorthand for village vibes - along with good pubs, schools and cafés. Top of the B-roll shot | I’m buying one thing from every shop on the Crystal Palace Triangle. This is thing ten.
- [One thing from The Walkthrough ](https://neilojwilliams.net/one-thing-from-the-walkthrough/) - Hello! Been a while since I posted one of these shop profiles, so it’s time for a quick refill. The shop The Walkthrough. Formerly Roots & Cycles, subsuming The Store Cupboard, trading as The Walkthrough since 2020. It’s well-named, as the store acts as a popular shortcut between parts of the weekly food market and | I’m buying one thing from every shop on the Crystal Palace Triangle. This is the ninth thing.
- [One of these checkboxes lies](https://neilojwilliams.net/one-of-these-checkboxes-always-lies/) - How anti is this anti-pattern? Yes, this is real. No, I can't fathom it either. It's from an online petition by Save the Children, spotted by former colleague of mine Tricia Dever (see her post here on LinkedIn). It's one of the worst examples I've seen in a while. It reminded me of this parody | An especially dark example of a dark pattern.
- [My (extra)ordinary tech story](https://neilojwilliams.net/my-extraordinary-tech-story/) - I did an interview over on (Extra)ordinary Tech Stories about how I got into tech. Not a career path I could have planned or predicted when growing up on a farm in Tiverton, Devon! It was fun interview to do. There's stuff at the beginning you'll be all too familiar with from this blog, but | I did an interview over on (Extra)ordinary Tech Stories about how I got into tech. Not a career path I could have planned or predicted when growing up on a farm in Tiverton, Devon! It was fun interview to do. There's stuff at the beginning you'll be all too familiar with from this blog, but
- [Week notes: 1- 7 April 2024](https://neilojwilliams.net/week-notes-1-7-april-2024/) - I see your two 4-day weeks in a row, and I raise you another 3-day week. (I'm taking a couple of days off next week to do stuff with the kids). Which means work is pretty compressed rn, ngl. But life is good. I'm happy, I think. "A veneer of caring" I had an interview with recruiters | "A veneer of caring", SLT grooming, exaptation, exactly 60 coffee beans.
- [He got away with it](https://neilojwilliams.net/he-got-away-with-it/) - "O.J. Simpson was wonderfully stiff in both Capricorn One and The Towering Inferno. I directed him in the Naked Gun movies. Although he actually improved with each film, his acting remained a lot like his murdering - he got away with it, but no one really believed him" David Zucker, Surely You Can't Be Serious: | "O.J. Simpson was wonderfully stiff in both Capricorn One and The Towering Inferno. I directed him in the Naked Gun movies. Although he actually improved with each film, his acting remained a lot like his murdering - he got away with it, but no one really believed him" David Zucker, Surely You Can't Be Serious:
- [One thing from Crystal Palace Antiques & Modern](https://neilojwilliams.net/one-thing-from-crystal-palace-antiques-modern/) - I’d re-furnish half the house with stuff from here if I had my way. None of it would suit, everything would clash in a Channel 4 hoarders-style maximalist mess. Precisely why I must be stopped! Hello, this is shop eight in my mission to buy one thing from every shop on the Crystal Palace Triangle | I’m buying one thing from every shop on the Crystal Palace Triangle. This is the eighth thing.
- [Week notes: 25 - 31 March 2024](https://neilojwilliams.net/week-notes-25-31-march-2024/) - Hare to chick out my beak notes are ewe? Lambtastic. 🐇🐣🐔🐑 [Easter tumbleweed] So this was one of those weeks (they happen often!) when I’m pinching myself this is my actual job. First, I watched Bring the Drama’s finale, and was proud as hell it was shot at BFI Southbank. Next day, we had our all-staff | Britain's biggest PowerPoint, cooperate-compete dynamic, 100% pork egg.
- [One thing from every shop on the Crystal Palace triangle ](https://neilojwilliams.net/one-thing-from-every-shop-on-the-crystal-palace-triangle/) - This post kicks off a series. The plan is: I'll visit every shop on the Crystal Palace triangle, buy one item, write something (reasonably) interesting about it, which you will (sometimes) read. Deal? OK fine but why? Because, in no particular order: Russell's DO book made me do it; it's a fun side quest in | A man, a plan, a triangle - elgnairtanalpanama.
- [A digital broken thing](https://neilojwilliams.net/a-digital-broken-thing/) - Pasting this into my scrapblog for amplification and future retrieval! Lifted from David Durant's addition to the localgov shared platforms discourse. (The challenge ofc might be whether people who own the broken thing agree their whole thing is broken - but still, I like this. Pithy!) | Pasting this into my scrapblog for amplification and future retrieval! Lifted from David Durant's addition to the localgov shared platforms discourse. (The challenge ofc might be whether people who own the broken thing agree their whole thing is broken - but still, I like this. Pithy!)
- [FOMO is not a strategy](https://neilojwilliams.net/fomo-is-not-a-strategy/) - This is brilliant, from Rachel Coldicutt. A slide for an upcoming talk she's giving on AI. So succinctly and perfectly put! Hoping she shares the whole talk. Meanwhile, my go-to posts on this topic are both from Dave Rogers: Why hype technology is killing innovation AI: from hype to pragmatism | This is brilliant, from Rachel Coldicutt. A slide for an upcoming talk she's giving on AI. So succinctly and perfectly put! Hoping she shares the whole talk. Meanwhile, my go-to posts on this topic are both from Dave Rogers: Why hype technology is killing innovation AI: from hype to pragmatism
- [What we are capable of](https://neilojwilliams.net/what-we-are-capable-of/) - "What exactly is the point," a stream interviewer once asked Mínervudóttir-Chan, "of an android? Why go to such trouble to make them so human, when making humans is almost free?" Mínervudóttir-Chan had answered, "The great and terrible thing about humankind is simply this: we will always do what we are capable of." Ray Nayler, The | "What exactly is the point," a stream interviewer once asked Mínervudóttir-Chan, "of an android? Why go to such trouble to make them so human, when making humans is almost free?" Mínervudóttir-Chan had answered, "The great and terrible thing about humankind is simply this: we will always do what we are capable of." Ray Nayler, The
- [Week notes: 18 - 24 March 2024](https://neilojwilliams.net/week-notes-18-24-march-2024/) - A tradesman in Michael’s caff (near Joel's saturday class, where I'm drafting this) just ordered a bacon and egg baguette “but with the bread taken out, just the baguette” cos he’s body sculpting. Builders have changed. Hope he knows his building regs better than his boulangerie. Work, work, work A lighter meeting schedule meant I | Baguette with no bread, accidental 3/3/3, cool jobs, elastic band handgun.
- [One thing from The Vaults Collective](https://neilojwilliams.net/one-thing-from-the-vaults-collective/) - Oh hi again. I’m still buying one thing from every shop on the Crystal Palace triangle and writing about them here for the joy of it. This is the seventh thing now, and it's so plant-based it's an actual plant. Peak Crystal Palace! (Also - now's when I'm beginning to realise I've bitten off way | I'm buying one thing from every shop on the Crystal Palace Triangle. This is the seventh thing.
- [Be the bridge](https://neilojwilliams.net/be-the-bridge/) - "There’s a Welsh saying, ‘A fo ben, bid bont.’ If you want to lead, be the bridge. Take the load, make connections, point the way. But let the people walk forward themselves." Via Steve Messer I like this, in a 'create the conditions' way - make paths of least resistance, find ways around the obstacles | "There’s a Welsh saying, ‘A fo ben, bid bont.’ If you want to lead, be the bridge. Take the load, make connections, point the way. But let the people walk forward themselves." Via Steve Messer I like this, in a 'create the conditions' way - make paths of least resistance, find ways around the obstacles
- [Hold it lightly](https://neilojwilliams.net/hold-it-lightly/) - "Keep going, but also hold it lightly. Know how to let go and accept the progress you’re making (or not). Strike a balance between being pragmatic (you can’t achieve everything today), while still being optimistic (the bigger picture is still worth caring deeply about)." Ben Holliday (paraphrased) | "Keep going, but also hold it lightly. Know how to let go and accept the progress you’re making (or not). Strike a balance between being pragmatic (you can’t achieve everything today), while still being optimistic (the bigger picture is still worth caring deeply about)." Ben Holliday (paraphrased)
- [Week notes: 11 - 17 March 2024](https://neilojwilliams.net/week-notes-11-17-march-2024/) - Cyberpunk 2077 is calling me so let's crack on and keep it brief! Work, work, work Had Monday off and everything's nuts so 4 days rattled by. Super productively though I must say (maybe 82% of 18-29 year olds are onto something?) Tuesday featured our fortnightly Exec Board, and I worked into the evening on | Drift compatible, BFI birthdays, agile GCSE revision.
- [Week notes: 3 - 10 March 2024](https://neilojwilliams.net/week-notes-3-10-march-2024/) - Hello! It’s the weekend of the 7 Keys world premiere at SXSW - so exciting! Joy is in Austin with her lead actors, producers and editor. I have mild FOMO but I’m having a nice time at home with the boys (including our own Texas barbecue feast and film night). Plus I’ve got some me-time | Put upon, spreadsheet omniscience, completely unhinged, “it's afraid!”
- [One thing from London Carboot Online - The Shop](https://neilojwilliams.net/one-thing-from-london-carboot-online-the-shop/) - Oh, hi. I’m buying one thing from every shop on the Crystal Palace triangle and writing about them here for the joy of it. This is the third thing from the third shop. It's a timely reminder that one person's junk is another person's treasure, and we can't take any of it with us. Merry | I’m buying one thing from every shop on the Crystal Palace triangle. This is the third thing.
- [Glacial or relentless?](https://neilojwilliams.net/glacial-or-relentless/) - The pace of change feels glacial to those trying to effect the change in an organisation, but relentless to those affected by it. James Duncan, according to Jeremy Gould | The pace of change feels glacial to those trying to effect the change in an organisation, but relentless to those affected by it. James Duncan, according to Jeremy Gould
- [Week notes: 26 February - 2 March 2024](https://neilojwilliams.net/week-notes-26-february-2-march-2024/) - Wrote this one as I went along (Craig David style) cos my weekend was too packed for blogging. I did some work on… Monday My day started and ended with superb chats with two brilliant BFI Governors who both boss it at household-name tech companies for their day jobs: Jay first thing and Laura last | Craig David, risk logs vs real problems, unavoidable pricks.
- [Week notes: 19 - 25 February 2024](https://neilojwilliams.net/week-notes-19-25-february-2024/) - I swear yesterday was Monday. But no, another week's gone in a flash and I'm back in Michael's caff/juggling family weekend stuff while cranking out another one of these! (By choice obvs, still loving those web log gains 💪). On bad blog posts and learning out loud There was a truly terrible blog post by | Good governance, running lines, “my bumhole came out of my nose”.
- [Week notes: 12 - 18 February 2024](https://neilojwilliams.net/week-notes-12-18-february-2024/) - Welly, welly, well. Another jam-packed week! Writing this one on trains to and from Nottingham. Where to start? Where we left off… Things that happened When Airbnbs attack! We defied death by carbon monoxide poisoning last Sunday evening. The alarm went off in our Airbnb (in Lancs) and we got the heck out fast. ☠️ Luckily | Carbon monoxide alarm, bothering Villeneuve, cat cafe and board games.
- [One thing (for Christopher Nolan's  BFI award event) from Simon Carter](https://neilojwilliams.net/one-thing-for-christopher-nolans-bfi-award-event-from-simon-carter/) - Visionary, award-winning director Christopher Nolan is being given a Fellowship Award by the BFI. I work for the BFI. I am going to the event. The dress code is “cocktail”. HELP! Recap: I’m buying one thing from every shop on the Crystal Palace Triangle and writing about them all here for the joy of it. | I’m buying one thing from every shop on the Crystal Palace Triangle. This is the sixth thing.
- [Week notes: 5 - 11 February 2024](https://neilojwilliams.net/week-notes-5-11-february-2024/) - Writing this in unassuming airbnb in Nelson, which we’ve come to for reasons. It’s Saturday morning (as I start drafting) and the kids and I are all on laptops at the dining table. Joel: making pixel art for a game idea. Dylan: playing The Binding of Isaac. Me: this. Work, work, work Ended the week | Mostly intentional, drowning in post-its, 7 Keys at SXSW, Raynaud.
- [My canned reply to cold sales emails](https://neilojwilliams.net/my-canned-reply-to-cold-sales-emails/) - Sharing in case useful to copy. I have this on a text file on my desktop. A boilerplate for a better inbox and a better world, one salesperson at a time. Thanks - I have seen this and your previous message(s) and you don't need to keep sending more. I will keep your email on | Boileplate for a better inbox and a better world, one salesperson at a time.
- [One thing from Do South before it closes on Friday 😲](https://neilojwilliams.net/one-thing-from-do-south-before-it-closes-on-friday-😲/) - Dashing this one off because Keith let me know (thanks Keith) that Do South, an icon at one of the pointy ends of the Crystal Palace Triangle, is closing down for good this coming Friday. Recap: I'm buying one thing from every shop on the Crystal Palace triangle and writing about them all here, for | I’m buying one thing from every shop on the Crystal Palace triangle. This is the fifth thing.
- [Central and obvious](https://neilojwilliams.net/central-and-obvious/) - "Only legacy organizations use the word “digital.” In start-ups and in Silicon Valley it doesn’t need to be said because it’s so central and so obvious. At CNN we also want to move as quickly as possible to a point where it becomes redundant." Mark Thompson. One great line of many from this piece by | "Only legacy organizations use the word “digital.” In start-ups and in Silicon Valley it doesn’t need to be said because it’s so central and so obvious. At CNN we also want to move as quickly as possible to a point where it becomes redundant." Mark Thompson. One great line of many from this piece by
- [Week notes: 29 January - 4 February 2024](https://neilojwilliams.net/week-notes-29-january-4-february-2024/) - This week felt like a day and now it's Feb. But on my Stendig calendar the even-numbered months have white text on a black background and I slightly prefer those to the inverse, so fine. Work, work, work I’m 3 days away from my 2-year BFI anniversary and I'm feeling buoyed and motivated, doing my | Hard to please, good service designers are verbs, Kano model, me at 21.
- [Week notes: 22 -28 January 2024](https://neilojwilliams.net/week-notes-22-28-january-2024/) - It's a cold sunny Saturday as I start to write this. I’m back in Michael’s caff (not cafe) near the BRIT School, with marmite on white toast and a coffee I had to insist they don't put sugar in. Enjoying the routine after last week’s Govcamp. Our Sunday board games sesh with Ben and Randeep | Swanky do, glimpses of design sprint brilliance, a page per thing.
- [Week notes: 15 -21 January 2024](https://neilojwilliams.net/week-notes-15-21-january-2024/) - I'm writing this intro while taking a little breather in a quiet corner at UKGovCampXL. I've been in a whirlwind of overlapping chat for 5+ hours with like-minded folks, which has been brilliant and exhausting! So glad I came! So ready to leave! More on that later 👇 But first, highlights of my week… A | GOVCAMP! A million pounds. Boom time. Scooby.
- [One thing (for David Lynch’s quinoa) from Planta Health Shop](https://neilojwilliams.net/one-thing-for-david-lynchs-quinoa-from-planta-health-shop/) - David Lynch has this surreal little film of himself methodically making quinoa and broccoli. Have you ever seen it? I watched it for the first time recently as a chaser after revisiting Mulholland Drive. I'm in the market for healthy eats post-Christmas, so I decided to make quinoa the David Lynch way. I added the | I’m buying one thing from every shop on the Crystal Palace triangle. This is the fourth thing.
- [Week notes: 8-14 January 2024](https://neilojwilliams.net/week-notes-8-14-january-2024/) - Feels like January alright. Brain fog ✅, freezing temperatures ✅, healthy food ✅ and a fast on-ramp to deliver all the things planned for Q4 ✅. It took me a few days to shake off my post-Christmas doziness but I'm ending the week happy and elated. 2024 let's go! Highlights of my week Joel turned | No more pre-teens, new BFI chair, transgressive viewing.
- [Can you rewatch your memories?](https://neilojwilliams.net/memory-and-cinema/) - I really enjoyed this piece from Mark Kermode on Christopher Nolan. I don’t quite need to resort to Memento-style polaroids and tattoos to know what I did yesterday, but I’m not far off on account of the aphantasia and SDAM. So this paragraph of Mark's stood out for me - because I do not recognise | I really enjoyed this piece from Mark Kermode on Christopher Nolan. I don’t quite need to resort to Memento-style polaroids and tattoos to know what I did yesterday, but I’m not far off on account of the aphantasia and SDAM. So this paragraph of Mark's stood out for me - because I do not recognise
- [Splashy instantiation](https://neilojwilliams.net/splashy-instantiation/) - "Apple seems poised to potentially fall into the same trap [as Meta], with Vision Pro a splashy instantiation of a mixed reality future we’ve all seen promised before but have no real interest in actually collectively buying into." Darrell Etherington in TechCrunch Personally I like how Apple are positioning their device as "spatial computing" (as | "Apple seems poised to potentially fall into the same trap [as Meta], with Vision Pro a splashy instantiation of a mixed reality future we’ve all seen promised before but have no real interest in actually collectively buying into." Darrell Etherington in TechCrunch Personally I like how Apple are positioning their device as "spatial computing" (as
- [Humans all the way](https://neilojwilliams.net/humans-all-the-way/) - "People think that AI is going to replace a lot of jobs because everyone thinks that everyone else's job is easy. The desire to remove humans from the equation is based on ignorance. Even with the wildest of innovations, people still matter." Dan Ni & Stephen Flanders in TLDR, in reference to this | "People think that AI is going to replace a lot of jobs because everyone thinks that everyone else's job is easy. The desire to remove humans from the equation is based on ignorance. Even with the wildest of innovations, people still matter." Dan Ni & Stephen Flanders in TLDR, in reference to this
- [Gov tech procurement](https://neilojwilliams.net/gov-tech-procurement/) - |
- [Violins, mines and bikes: 3 metaphors for change](https://neilojwilliams.net/radical-change-is-like-improvised-violin-gold-mines-and-riding-a-bike/) - Insanity is doing the same thing and expecting a different result. Also, good metaphors for internet-era transformation are like buses. So, here are 3 metaphors that coincidentally came along this week about doing things differently to achieve radical change. Violins 👉 The Value of Discomfort: Creativity, Exploration and Unlearning Your Way to Transcendence (video) My excellent friend | A video and a couple of articles I really liked this week, with similar themes.
- [The Guardian needs an Australia filter](https://neilojwilliams.net/the-guardian-needs-an-australia-filter/) - Once in a while, news from The Guardian's Australian edition creeps into the UK mobile app without warning. You'll be half way through an article and be like: "Oh, this happened in Australia". Surprise! I'd love there to be a filter. But then again, once in a while you also get a gem like this: | Australian content hidden among your UK news can be surprising!
- [The photos everyone sends me from the Isle of Wight](https://neilojwilliams.net/i-love-that-people-send-me-the-same-photo-when-they-visit-the-isle-of-wight/) - At the risk of going all Dave Gorman on you, there are many Neil Williamses. In Cowes, on the Isle of Wight, there is a Neil Williams who is an art photographer. I know this because every time friends or family go there, they send me this exact same couple of shots: A friend WhatsApped | At the risk of going all Dave Gorman on you...
- [One thing from Maltpress Trading](https://neilojwilliams.net/one-thing-from-maltpress-trading/) - Oh hi. I’m buying one thing from every shop on the Crystal Palace triangle and writing about them here for the joy of it. This is the first thing from the first shop. It’s suitably festive 🎄 The shop Maltpress Trading. A curiosity shop so curious it doesn't (yet) have signage over the door, since | I’m buying one thing from every shop on the Crystal Palace triangle. This is the first thing.
- [Week notes: 1-7 January 2024](https://neilojwilliams.net/week-notes-1-7-january-2024/) - This week was all about the leisure, so let’s do the ents first. Playing, watching, reading, listening 🕹️🎞️ I'm having the best time playing The Wild At Heart (on Nintendo Switch but it's available for everything). I adore this game! Things that are delighting me: Paths blocked by obstacles until you get new abilities (like | Herd-like, porn with strangers, body responses.
- [Two decades of Downing Street door pics](https://neilojwilliams.net/two-decades-of-downing-street-door-pics/) - My very last working hours of 2023 were spent at Number 10, celebrating UK filmmaking. It was a fantastic event - and an opportunity to get a more recent Downing Street door pic, 20 years (more or less to the day) since my first. I thought it’d be fun to post all such photos and | Remembering what I can about visits to Downing Street in the past 20 years.
- [Festive fortnight notes: 18-31 December 2023](https://neilojwilliams.net/festive-fortnight-notes-18-31-december-2023/) - Hello! Last notes of the year, covering two more of my 4,000 weeks. Contrary to Twixtmas banalities I know exactly what day it is and when my bins are being collected, and resent the tendency of adverts and radio DJs to reduce us all to such pull-string phrases! See also audience clap-alongs, under any circumstances. | Steady on, a winter stroll, complications.
- [Films, games and TV of 2023](https://neilojwilliams.net/my-top-films-games-and-tv-of-2023/) - Every night I log what I've watched and played in a Google doc. It's not a sophisticated system, but it's quick! Here's this year's tally. 260 films: 85 new releases or previews, 101 new to me, and 74 rewatches 43 TV shows: 22 new this year, 9 new to me, and 12 rewatches 37 video | My pick of the 260 films, 43 TV shows and 37 games I saw and played this year.
- [One thing from Blowing Dandelion](https://neilojwilliams.net/one-thing-from-blowing-dandelion/) - Oh, hi. I’m buying one thing from every shop on the Crystal Palace triangle and writing about them here for the joy of it. This is the second thing from the second shop. It's Wonka-related 🎩 “We must hurry! We've so much time and so little to see…” The shop Dandy Blowing lion. Wait a | I’m buying one thing from every shop on the Crystal Palace triangle. This is the second thing.
- [Week notes: 11-17 December 2023](https://neilojwilliams.net/week-notes-11-17-december-2023/) - We meet again! I'm shaking up the format this week, with a chronological account written as I went along cos (spoiler alert) my folks are visiting this weekend. Dear diary… Sunday eve: a fun double feature After I posted last week's note, my wife and I had about as much fun as you can have | Don’t dream it be it, you don't “get” anyone to do anything, thinking by typing.
- [Week notes: 4-10 December 2023](https://neilojwilliams.net/week-notes-4-10-december-2023/) - Ho, ho, ho. Check out my baubles. From left to right a sentinel from Phantasm, a strung-up Gizmo, a Pret Christmas sarnie and a pile of Amazon parcels (the true spirit of internet-era Christmas)🌲📦 As I write, it must be a match day because the caff near the BRIT school where I usually knock this | Massive samosas, fund-related software, "Ding Dong Merrily AI".
- [Raised expectations and pre-internet organisations](https://neilojwilliams.net/raised-expectations-and-pre-internet-organisations/) - “Our founding belief is that the technology changes of the last 30 years – including the internet, smartphones, and AI – have so radically changed people’s lives that organisations have to continuously adapt to meet ever-rising expectations. Organisations founded long before the internet was created often face the greatest cultural and business challenges in redesigning | “Our founding belief is that the technology changes of the last 30 years – including the internet, smartphones, and AI – have so radically changed people’s lives that organisations have to continuously adapt to meet ever-rising expectations. Organisations founded long before the internet was created often face the greatest cultural and business challenges in redesigning
- [Week notes: 27 November - 3 December 2023](https://neilojwilliams.net/week-notes-27-november-3-december-2023/) - Brr! Have you been at the controls? I’ve got 3 advent calendars on the go now: Pact Coffee, Cadburys Heroes and I thought about that a lot. The coffee is strong, but ITATAL is stronger, coming straight out the gates on 1st December with this post bristling with justified anger about the kind of performative | Passive buffs, stress-performance paradox, AI is like an American Bully XL.
- [Week notes: 20-26 November 2023](https://neilojwilliams.net/week-notes-20-26-november-2023/) - Hello, hope you did something nice for your Black Friday celebrations. Perhaps you bought everyone the gift of film with a discounted BFI Player subscription. (The new Android app I mentioned last week is live now, with lots more continuous improvement in the works). Dashing this week's note off a day early so I can | Craving "a normal working week”, re-engaging with UKGovcamp, don't call me Shirley.
- [Something is amiss](https://neilojwilliams.net/something-is-amiss/) - "Something is amiss between men and women" Line from gripping crime procedural The Night of the 12th (streaming exclusively on BFI Player right now). I've thought about this line often since seeing the film earlier this year. | "Something is amiss between men and women" Line from gripping crime procedural The Night of the 12th (streaming exclusively on BFI Player right now). I've thought about this line often since seeing the film earlier this year.
- [Week notes: 13-19 November 2023](https://neilojwilliams.net/week-notes-13-19-november-2023/) - My week A better, happier one than the last. (Aside from the unspeakable horrors humans are inflicting on one another). Like yours, my week began with head-scratching David Cameron news. Who’d have thunk it? When we built “reshuffle mode” in GOV.UK’s admin interface we never predicted it would see this much use. There’s also an “end | End current government, "twat" on the radio, finding the “so what”.
- [Scrambles!](https://neilojwilliams.net/scrambles/) - Scrambles these 4 invite codes for BlueSky. It’s nicer than the other place, so see you there? (Will strikethrough when they’re gone). bsky-social-koakk-kt3ve bsky-social-kohlt-qiwow bsky-social-vc6oi-nc2dk bsky-social-to6j3-3iuse All gone | Scrambles these 4 invite codes for BlueSky. It’s nicer than the other place, so see you there? (Will strikethrough when they’re gone). bsky-social-koakk-kt3ve bsky-social-kohlt-qiwow bsky-social-vc6oi-nc2dk bsky-social-to6j3-3iuse All gone
- [Culture is read-only](https://neilojwilliams.net/culture-is-read-only/) - "Culture is like a shadow. You cannot change it, but it changes all the time. Culture is read-only." Niels Pflaeging (source) | Great quote about organisational culture.
- [Enough programme boards](https://neilojwilliams.net/enough-programme-boards/) - "No large failing government programme has hit the rocks because it didn’t have enough programme boards." Andrew Greenway, via Tom Loosemore here | "No large failing government programme has hit the rocks because it didn’t have enough programme boards." Andrew Greenway, via Tom Loosemore here
- [No AI](https://neilojwilliams.net/no-ai/) - "No AI before you've fixed your IA." Matt Edgar, via James Higgot on BlueSky | "No AI before you've fixed your IA." Matt Edgar, via James Higgot on BlueSky
- [Month notes: October 2023](https://neilojwilliams.net/life-log-october-2023/) - Autumn is the absolute best. The conkers. The crunchy leaves. The colours. The crisp sunny days (storm Babet aside). Sunglasses and a scarf with no brolly, that's the ultimate. I’ve been making the most of the days before the dirt ‘desire path’ around my local recreation ground (pictured above) - a legacy from lockdowns, which | LFF, rollercoasters, board games and big beacons.
- [Week notes: 1-12 November 2023](https://neilojwilliams.net/week-notes-1-12-november-2023/) - Hello, you. I'm writing this from a proper greasy spoon in Selhurst while Joel does his weekly film class at The BRIT School. The coffee is instant and cheap, but I like it. They were surprised I didn't want sugar, let alone that I got a laptop out. Blog introspection This blogging lark seems to be | Nothing doesn’t go in here, imposter syndrome, choosing to work in pre-internet organisations.
- [It's OK to get emotional on the purps](https://neilojwilliams.net/its-ok-to-get-a-bit-emotional-on-the-purps/) - Like many people schooled at GDS, I'm spending my subsequent career trying to recreate the best of its culture and methods wherever I go. But, of course, that's based on the 2018 version, frozen in time from when I left. While recently extolling the merits of firebreaks the way we did them on GOV.UK, it | Nostalgic feels and useful bits from a learning trip to GDS.
- [Month notes: September 2023](https://neilojwilliams.net/life-log-september-2023/) - I’d been flirting with starting a blog throughout September, so I wrote some notes in a Google doc. For practice (and to not waste those notes) here’s a retrospective roundup of my September. I turned 47. We had a holiday in the funky cottage we like, with the hot tub and views over Pendle hill. | Glasgow retreat, new ink, cranking my Playdate.
- [Can unsee, but still haunted](https://neilojwilliams.net/can-unsee-but-still-haunted/) - (Not for the squeamish. You have been warned!) A major benefit of having no pictures in my head is my high threshold for the horrific. I unsee things the moment they're not in my retinas, and Iove watching shocking stuff as a result. But the thought of this scene - of a guy's bumhole ripped | Tales of regret for bonfire night. (Not for the squeamish, you have been warned).
- [On starting this](https://neilojwilliams.net/on-starting-this-24-october-2023/) - I've been feeling the need to do some kind of weeknotey thing for a while. So I've started this. I'm not sure yet what it is yet, where I’ll put it1 or how often. I'll play around and find out. A swirl of thoughts and influences have brought me to the point of at least | I've been feeling the need to do some kind of weeknotey thing for a while. So I've started this.

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