Esteban Olmedo

Hearing that this could turn into the next Horizon type scandal.

With AI, it feels a lot like folks are back at this stage + animations galore.

President Trump / Camacho be like… lnkd.in/p/eU8Keg2t

Mince pies available at my local Sainsbury's. The friendly baker said they arrived before the Halloween stock!🎄🥧

More or less 52% vs 48% again. If anyone has interesting analysis on the parallels, I’d be fascinated to read.

Interesting points. Also, fish again! 😀

Darren Jones got himself an animated logo for his social media, and I have so many questions about the siginificance behind the design.

Interesting insights into what shaped the settlement. lnkd.in/p/ew84W42N

Bravo 👏 Credit: lnkd.in/p/eMx3acgZ

Sigh! Meta earned $83.276 billion (just last year). They've beeing doing this shit for more than a decade! The Careless People from Meta would say this was good business, etc. 🤢

Has anyone made a petition for No.10 North to have a dog? If not, I can get one going ASAP.

Important. Our values and principles are what matters - even if people like Farage seek to destroy them, manipulate them for personal gain or benefit from them when it suits him. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Enjoying this very much! So good. www.goodreads.com/en/book/show...

Working with the NHS atm. Their User research repo is 👌. Bravo to the folk who set it up, manage it, and contribute to it. More of this across gov please.

Wasted lunch! The verify you’re a director of a company is probably the worst gov service I have come across. I’m sure it has nothing to do with the team who developed it and more to do the usual suspects. And yeah, IDV is tricky but bloody hell! Could probably do a whole thesis on the thing.

There's a deep lesson here for folks creating services and products.

@ames.world’s handy work 😊

1 week to go to Agile Manchester. DM me for a last minute discount: agilemanchester.net/programme-2026

I'm hopeful that social media taught regulators not to wait 2 decades to act. The less positive side of me worries that the hype around AI will encourage them to look away under the guise that any regulation "stifles innovation". www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Ministers are exploring triggering the break clause in Palantir's NHS contract. Foxglove are looking for folks to ‘sign’ an open letter calling on Wes Streeting to get Palantir out of the NHS. www.foxglove.org.uk/campaigns/we...

The 5-year-old keeps telling us off for dropping our T's when saying 'what'. 🫣

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The parallels between this and how many orgs design products / services! The whole outputs vs outcomes is arguably systemic. It’s ok though, on the front of it, the show goes on and perceived success is achieved.

'I was looking after some goats... I gave the goat a dose of tea, in 2 mins it was all over, tea did the trick, she had 3 kids' ❤️😀

JFC! The right already stripped abortion rights from millions of women. Contraception is next. Project 2025 made the agenda clear. This was never about saving babies. It’s about control, pushing women back into submission and forcing more births. 1/2

‘I should punch Grant Shapps’ 😆

Ha! web-rewind.com/2013

Heard of a scenario where a director level person responsible for transformation type work asked how the team go from user feedback to deploying (absolute basics). And he was completely shocked to hear that’s ’how long things take’. This particular director is an ex-consultant from the big ones.

Is there a word for the following? When folk share inspirational posts about how to do product / design / dev well. But completely miss that they're doing the very thing the article says not to do.

A Service Designer showed me how he very quickly got Co-pilot to create a product overview video based on a word doc he put together. It wasn't perfect, but it did the job.

The 'I' and 'now' does the heavy lifting in that sentence. I've had a few discussions with immigrants, and kids of immigrants who say this sort of shit. There's a lot to pick apart. And yet so much of it ends up circling back to selfsihness and self-grandure.

Nothing that there are a couple of weeks left for people to apply for a digital job that could be make or break for the NHS Director General for Technology, Digital and Data Department of Health and Social Care Here’s a screenshot as I’m pretty sure no one clicks past the ‘I’m not a robot’ page.

Managed to keep away from Liquid Glass this far. Then accepted an update at 5am in the morning after my kid woke me.

A bet: at some point, most of us will work with at least one person who was once a primary or secondary school teacher. Arguably more likely to happen in gov.

‘But in the 2020s, not validating ideas is amateurish.’

Bet ChatGPT could make me believe I understand this after a few exchanges. 😅

"By 2025, Brexit had reduced UK GDP by 6% to 8%, with the impact accumulating gradually over time. We estimate that investment was reduced by between 12% and 18%, employment by 3% to 4% and productivity by 3% to 4%" Read the Stanford report: siepr.stanford.edu/publications...

Wowzers! In the office today and I hadn't realised we were at the stage where folk take laptops into the loo while on calls (facing the urinals with cam off)! 🤯

Hands up if you have an AI team in your org who are knocking on everyone's door looking for problems that hopefully* AI can help 'solve'? ✋