Adrian Howard
@adrianhoward.com
Drinks less coffee than people expect. Enjoys helping people solve problems in the messy cross-disciplinary spaces where strategy, research, & delivery overlap. Does coaching with senior practitioners & leaders.
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Three people, including a child, drowned in the Channel today.
Our politics is so broken that the debate is never about how we stop these deaths and always about how we can come up with harsher policies that make more deaths inevitable.
Our politics is so broken that the debate is never about how we stop these deaths and always about how we can come up with harsher policies that make more deaths inevitable.
September 28, 2026 at 3:45 PM
Three people, including a child, drowned in the Channel today.
Our politics is so broken that the debate is never about how we stop these deaths and always about how we can come up with harsher policies that make more deaths inevitable.
Our politics is so broken that the debate is never about how we stop these deaths and always about how we can come up with harsher policies that make more deaths inevitable.
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Seriously, just do not use muse
Meta Muse appears to read your Apple messages and upload them to the cloud even if you explicitly tell it not to:
appleinsider.com/articles/26/...
appleinsider.com/articles/26/...
appleinsider.com
September 29, 2026 at 12:44 AM
Seriously, just do not use muse
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Just had my flu jab at Tesco and it was shockingly quick, painless and otherwise not an issue.
Consider this your annual reminder to book a flu jab 💉
Many companies will pay for it, either directly by issuing vouchers or through health insurance like Bupa.
Consider this your annual reminder to book a flu jab 💉
Many companies will pay for it, either directly by issuing vouchers or through health insurance like Bupa.
September 28, 2026 at 11:27 AM
Just had my flu jab at Tesco and it was shockingly quick, painless and otherwise not an issue.
Consider this your annual reminder to book a flu jab 💉
Many companies will pay for it, either directly by issuing vouchers or through health insurance like Bupa.
Consider this your annual reminder to book a flu jab 💉
Many companies will pay for it, either directly by issuing vouchers or through health insurance like Bupa.
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This is how I remember the order of Henry VIII’s wives.
September 28, 2026 at 3:32 AM
This is how I remember the order of Henry VIII’s wives.
The small pleasure of being very hungry and eating a messy wrap over the sink.
September 27, 2026 at 1:02 PM
The small pleasure of being very hungry and eating a messy wrap over the sink.
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Nope it's still a creepy camera.
“Everyone hates cameras in smart glasses. But if the camera is contained in a charm you wear around your neck, it shifts the agency. Suddenly, you’re not recording people. It’s just a cute little animated avatar looking out on the world.”
‘Charming and disarming’ … how Meta’s technology-packed Muse harnesses the power of cuteness
The tech giant has launched a cute ‘little guy’ that can answer emails, book travel or do your weekly food shop
www.theguardian.com
September 27, 2026 at 5:12 AM
Nope it's still a creepy camera.
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I don't know, maybe all those non-"straight white dude" people won their awards because their books were actually really fucking good, how about that as a hypothesis
September 22, 2026 at 4:27 PM
I don't know, maybe all those non-"straight white dude" people won their awards because their books were actually really fucking good, how about that as a hypothesis
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If anyone would like to see a short video of a deer fawn asking you to follow it to Narnia, this is your lucky day.
September 23, 2026 at 6:56 AM
If anyone would like to see a short video of a deer fawn asking you to follow it to Narnia, this is your lucky day.
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It's Sickle Cell Awareness Month and we still urgently need more Black blood donors to help treat patients with this devastating condition.
Together with Janet Daby MP, I've written to the government to outline further steps that can be taken to address the ongoing shortfall.
Together with Janet Daby MP, I've written to the government to outline further steps that can be taken to address the ongoing shortfall.
September 22, 2026 at 4:22 PM
It's Sickle Cell Awareness Month and we still urgently need more Black blood donors to help treat patients with this devastating condition.
Together with Janet Daby MP, I've written to the government to outline further steps that can be taken to address the ongoing shortfall.
Together with Janet Daby MP, I've written to the government to outline further steps that can be taken to address the ongoing shortfall.
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Now wishing that I attended LDX3 New York in addition to London this year so that I could have attended @skamille.themanagerswrath.com’s talk in person. Great read!
The Manager’s Path in the Age of AI
This week, I gave a talk at LDX3 New York. When they asked me to speak and asked me for a topic, I said that it was probably time I finally…
skamille.medium.com
September 21, 2026 at 4:01 PM
Now wishing that I attended LDX3 New York in addition to London this year so that I could have attended @skamille.themanagerswrath.com’s talk in person. Great read!
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Old enough to remember when the internet was, like
70% this
70% this
September 22, 2026 at 12:35 AM
Old enough to remember when the internet was, like
70% this
70% this
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A world where a twist ending is repurposed as a video title. where a thing's climax has been removed, leaving an advertisment for the gap where it used to be. such things are commonplace in. the twilight zone
September 20, 2026 at 12:22 PM
A world where a twist ending is repurposed as a video title. where a thing's climax has been removed, leaving an advertisment for the gap where it used to be. such things are commonplace in. the twilight zone
There was an update for my text editor of choice (Sublime Text) this morning.
It consisted of bug fixes and improvements.
No random "AI" feature. No bizarre UI changes. No upsells to the next subscription tier.
Just bug fixes and improvements.
It's… odd… how rare that feels these days.
It consisted of bug fixes and improvements.
No random "AI" feature. No bizarre UI changes. No upsells to the next subscription tier.
Just bug fixes and improvements.
It's… odd… how rare that feels these days.
September 21, 2026 at 8:40 AM
There was an update for my text editor of choice (Sublime Text) this morning.
It consisted of bug fixes and improvements.
No random "AI" feature. No bizarre UI changes. No upsells to the next subscription tier.
Just bug fixes and improvements.
It's… odd… how rare that feels these days.
It consisted of bug fixes and improvements.
No random "AI" feature. No bizarre UI changes. No upsells to the next subscription tier.
Just bug fixes and improvements.
It's… odd… how rare that feels these days.
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Every intro to sociology class I teach gets this image.
September 20, 2026 at 6:20 PM
Every intro to sociology class I teach gets this image.
Looking at the github issue comments on an open source project that's been hit by macOS 27 reworking the guts of menubar apps is reminding me why I don't spend much of my time on OSS projects any more.
September 20, 2026 at 12:42 PM
Looking at the github issue comments on an open source project that's been hit by macOS 27 reworking the guts of menubar apps is reminding me why I don't spend much of my time on OSS projects any more.
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e-books and audiobooks as well as physical copies. Whatever it is, it’s very, very bad.
September 20, 2026 at 7:58 AM
e-books and audiobooks as well as physical copies. Whatever it is, it’s very, very bad.
I'm impressed. macOS 27 made the icon for the Preview app even worse.
September 19, 2026 at 6:38 PM
I'm impressed. macOS 27 made the icon for the Preview app even worse.
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Regardless of what you believe about genre divisions, it's a tool for getting the book/story you've written into the hands of people who like it.
Which is kind of what we want, as both readers and writers, right?
Which is kind of what we want, as both readers and writers, right?
September 18, 2026 at 1:08 PM
Regardless of what you believe about genre divisions, it's a tool for getting the book/story you've written into the hands of people who like it.
Which is kind of what we want, as both readers and writers, right?
Which is kind of what we want, as both readers and writers, right?
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It will be the subject of a book out this fall, edited by @glennf.com, examining it from every angle. Which reminds me I need to write the introduction about how I FEEL about it all
www.kickstarter.com/projects/gle...
www.kickstarter.com/projects/gle...
That One Matt Bors Comic
A book about how “we should improve society somewhat” conquered the discourse
www.kickstarter.com
September 13, 2026 at 11:57 PM
It will be the subject of a book out this fall, edited by @glennf.com, examining it from every angle. Which reminds me I need to write the introduction about how I FEEL about it all
www.kickstarter.com/projects/gle...
www.kickstarter.com/projects/gle...