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Jason Kitcat @jasonkitcat.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

More pondering on AI as I wrangle with what it means for public servants... Here's where I've got to so far: There is a useful path to take between hype and doom. It's time to keep experimenting and learning as nobody knows what the future will bring. jasonkitcat.com/2026/03/02/s...

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Some thoughts on AI

“Anyone who tries to tell us they know the future is simply trying to own it.” — Margaret Heffernan in her introduction to Uncharted Take a deep breath. Nobody knows what is going to happen with AI…

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Ben Sauer @bensauer.net · 23/01/2026

Outcomes over outputs...

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Ben Sauer @bensauer.net · 17/01/2026

It Takes Two is such great thing to do together with a kid.

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Ben Sauer @bensauer.net · 10/01/2026

Randy Newman’s “Political Science”, on repeat.

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Ben Sauer @bensauer.net · 03/12/2025

in my talks I say they are two high-level categories here: 1. Conversational interface and 2. A material for automation (which will run things behind the scenes, like plumbing or a database)

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Ben Sauer @bensauer.net · 14/11/2025

I still can’t get over her being the voice of reason on Curb. Can‘t life imitate art for once?

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Ben Sauer @bensauer.net · 12/10/2025

You’re in Freejack territory there sir!

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Ben Sauer @bensauer.net · 12/10/2025

This is why Germans are more concerned about how their personal data is used.

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Ben Sauer @bensauer.net · 09/10/2025

WTF is the point of supplier portals like SAP Ariba, if you have to enter the same information every time for each client? Anyone know?

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Ben Sauer @bensauer.net · 25/09/2025

Putting an idea out there that just occurred to me while chatting about 'The Thick of It' with @tomdkerwin.bsky.social - I think the UK needs a 'Silicon Valley' type satire. A British startup trying to be ambitious, but hampered by insecurities and class differences.

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Gavin Freeguard @gavinfreeguard.com · 23/09/2025

There's still time to sign up for tomorrow's @transformgovtalks.bsky.social (MoJ/online) with: - @moiranics.bsky.social/Holly Marquez (Cab Office) on Why Planning for AI Disasters Unlocks Breakthrough Innovation - @bensauer.net on Always Be Creating Clarity: Daily habits for strategic storytelling

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TransformGov Talks : September 2025 · Luma

Dr Moira Nicolson, Lead Behavioural Scientist (Cabinet Office) and Honorary Research Fellow (UCL) plus Holly Marquez, Senior Behavioural Scientist, (Cabinet…

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Ben Sauer @bensauer.net · 13/08/2025

Conference organiser to me recently: “all the workshops with AI in the title are sold out. Everything else… meh.”

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Ben Sauer @bensauer.net · 05/08/2025

Slow, sarcastic clap for rac.co.uk . Classic roach motel move: can’t cancel the service without calling them. So much self-serve is possible online, but not that. Almost like you can never leave… cc/ @deceptive.design

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Akbar Shahid Ahmed @akbarshahidahmed.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

NEW— "A lot of children have passed the point of no return...The gut lining has started to auto-digest & will no longer [absorb] water or nutrition. Death is imminent for 1000s" An American doctor who just returned from Gaza on where US-Israeli policy is taking us: www.huffpost.com/entry/gaza-s...

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‘Past The Point Of No Return’: Doctor Describes How Starvation In Gaza Is Driving Mass Death

"In August and September, there are probably still going to be ... large numbers of deaths because children have already passed the tipping point," Mark Brauner, who volunteered in Gaza last month, to...

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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

The comments suggest "Sendetastenverunsicherung"

Hey Germans, please come up with a word that means "the fear of typing `return` vs `shift-return` because you don't know which inserts newline and which sends the message"

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Ben Sauer @bensauer.net · 02/07/2025

hey GDS/UK GOV folks. I just verified my ID for companies house. That process... was not fun. Got lost multiple times, ended up on help pages that didn't link me to the right place.

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Ben Sauer @bensauer.net · 01/05/2025

OK folks, help needed. Search engines and AI are coming up blank. Who said something like... "great works are great not because they are free of flaws, but because they have mastered their own perspective" ? I thought this was Virginia Woolf but can't find it....

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Ben Sauer @bensauer.net · 24/04/2025

Cursor just rickrolled me when I asked for some "HTML with an example youtube video embedded". 🤷

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Ben Sauer @bensauer.net · 11/04/2025

This is the story of my time at a well-funded yet disastrous startup

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Ben Sauer @bensauer.net · 25/03/2025

And so I've distilled down the most valuable lessons into this one-day workshop. So now I'm launching an edition of it that anyone can join... starting in Brighton on 2nd May. bensauer.net/workshop/ (only a few spaces; ultra-early bird price ends soon)

Practical Strategic Storytelling - workshop flyer

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Ben Sauer @bensauer.net · 25/03/2025

My original theory was that people who struggle to tell a compelling story about their idea have it in them already; they just need a few practical methods and habits to reframe boring facts into irresistible ideas.

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Ben Sauer @bensauer.net · 25/03/2025

When I started researching what people were teaching about storytelling, I found it was waaaayyy too theory heavy (Hero's Journey, etc). My challenge in 'Death by Screens' was to make things as practical as possible - use the lessons as quickly as possible.

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Ben Sauer @bensauer.net · 25/03/2025

"Confirmed 10/10 - our highest rated workshop." Philipp Sackl-O’Neill: Organiser, PUSH And completely oversubscribed at UX London and PUSH, for two days straight.

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Ben Sauer @bensauer.net · 25/03/2025

I've been running my 'Practical Strategic Storytelling' workshop at conferences and for orgs like Monzo for a while now, and the response has been unexpected...

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Ben Sauer @bensauer.net · 27/02/2025

So close... just 3 days and 10% to go! Watch the trailer, and immediately throw some cash at @daviddylanthomas.bsky.social's brilliant movie idea (zombies that only eat white people...)

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Ben Sauer @bensauer.net · 24/02/2025

Pony up people! This is such a great project

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Ben Sauer @bensauer.net · 13/02/2025

Been working in Bangalore a lot last 2 years, a city that feels like this endless Dozer builder mentality made real. Not co-incidentally the SF of India. Desperately needs repair, can't stop building.

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Ben Sauer @bensauer.net · 13/02/2025

Synecdoche, New York vibes watching this. Can't. Stop. Making. All. The. Things.

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Ben Sauer @bensauer.net · 12/02/2025

America is becoming one *giant* Chesterton's Fence, isn't it?

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Ben Sauer @bensauer.net · 04/02/2025

entirely possible I wrote about it. Voice is well suited to hands-free contexts, like driving and cooking.

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Ben Sauer @bensauer.net · 04/02/2025

Huh. I have the worst memory, not sure what this refers to! I used to do a lot of task / appointment stuff with Siri, but not for a while.

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Ben Sauer @bensauer.net · 03/02/2025

Make America Taste Great Again! bsky.app/profile/davi...

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Maggie Appleton @maggieappleton.com · 31/01/2025

Finally got this prototype to work after 1000 years of debugging. Sweet release 🥲 The idea is I dump a bunch of unstructured notes on a topic in, feed that into gpt-4o-mini, ask it to label sections with a set of types – claim, evidence, assumption, etc. – and display them as coloured highlights

A text editor with sentences highlighted in different colors. Below the text editor is a set of buttons that allows you to label the text as claims, evidence, assumptions, and other types of argument structures. Below that is a debugging info section where you can see some visible JSON.

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Ben Sauer @bensauer.net · 23/01/2025

Soooo... what's Madame Web like, DDT?

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Ben Sauer @bensauer.net · 22/01/2025

Hey. You. Yes you. Do you know what 'deadcatting' is? You should! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_ca...

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Dead cat strategy - Wikipedia

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Ben Sauer @bensauer.net · 14/01/2025

Are you on the production crew of 'Silo'?

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Ben Sauer @bensauer.net · 13/01/2025

^ (placeholder question while I think!)

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Ben Sauer @bensauer.net · 13/01/2025

How might we implant a mind-virus that grows inside the company and creates behaviours that result in the perfect balance of survival in the marketplace with pro-environmental, pro-social, and pro-user behaviours?

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Ben Sauer @bensauer.net · 10/01/2025

Realising that ChatGPT's appeal is not just intelligence. It's providing a cleaned-up version of the web that's been missing for years. No crappy search results. No guessing which one's right. No cookie / mailing list popups or distracting ads. It's a return to what the web used to be.

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Ben Sauer @bensauer.net · 07/01/2025

I just wrote "forgetababble" instead of "forgettable", and I think that's a much better description of what I was trying to describe. Forgetababble: When someone goes into so much detail, you don't remember a thing they've said.

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David Dylan Thomas @daviddylanthomas.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

Beneath a quiet park in Philly lie the bodies of hundreds of enslaved people (true). What if, one night, they all came back from the dead as zombies but only ate white people? That's the premise of my new film, White Meat. Will you help make it a reality? whitemeatmovie.com

Movie poster with the title White Meat in reddish orange letters over a Black power fist bursting out of the ground as if it belonged to the undead rising from the earth with trees and buildings in the background

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Ben Sauer @bensauer.net · 18/12/2024

Follow up on this one... you CAN reset your network settings by following this option, but as the full flow isn't shown, it makes it look like you should wipe it.

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Ben Sauer @bensauer.net · 17/12/2024

Soooo.... to fix my phone <> laptop hotspot, Gemini is recommending that I... *checks notes*.... wipe my phone. 🫣

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Ben Sauer @bensauer.net · 16/12/2024

This is very good - subtle distinction between interacting with "AI as person" and "AI as computer." I've been arguing in recent talks that there's also a serious confusion generally between AI as mode of interaction (voice and chat), and AI as material (the intelligent plumbing behind the scenes)

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Ben Sauer @bensauer.net · 06/12/2024

Yeah that question needs some work.

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Ben Sauer @bensauer.net · 29/11/2024

Folks, I'm trying really hard to take the train instead of flying to Berlin next week. Don't mind working on a train for a whole day. But the booking process is a shitshow, the changovers are risky, the middlemen are slow + unhelpful, and the rail operators unreliable, then inflexible. 😱

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