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Mat Johnson

@demotive.bsky.social
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I’m a designer who loves working in healthcare. Increasingly frantic arm waving. My dog is my best friend, but I'm not sure he agress with this statement. demotive.com

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Mat Johnson @demotive.bsky.social · 31/05/2025
@danhon.com 's back, and thank you Dan, this chimes hard in NHS land - newsletter.danhon.com/archive/s19e...
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s19e11: Your Model is Naive and it’s Not The Territory
0.0 Context Setting Friday, May 30, at the Code for America Summit in a hotel in Washington, D.C. I am in, fittingly, a hallway. I am also jetlagged. There...
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Mat Johnson @demotive.bsky.social · 22/08/2024
@adactio.com (adactio.com/links/21359) leads to an INCREDIBLY good read from Alex Russell at infrequently.org/2024/08/the-... - an "investigation into JavaScript-first frontend culture and how it broke US public services". GOV in the UK looks good in comparison, but we are so far from immune.
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Reckoning: Part 1 — The Landscape - Infrequently Noted
It would be tragic if public sector services adopted the JavaScript-heavy stacks that frontend influencers have popularised. Right?
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Mat Johnson @demotive.bsky.social · 25/05/2024
I'm suddenly finding posts that I relate to, and it's nice because I need them right now. One from @lagomstrategy.bsky.social - www.lagomstrategy.net/expertise-ve...
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Expertise versus experience: which one is the best? - Lagom Strategy
Lagom is a team of proper experts.  50% of our team have PhDs to prove it. And we have a playbook full of expert user research, delivery, and service design activities that our Drs (and non-Drs) can d...
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Mat Johnson @demotive.bsky.social · 25/05/2024
This is something that chimed with me a lot. @jukes.ie with "unproductive" people... digitalbydefault.com/2024/05/19/t...
digitalbydefault.com
The UnProduct Person
Tom recently wrote a great post about the need for product people to do a better job of communicating the ‘negative space’ - the trade offs that were made in ideas on the path to the ones you bet big ...
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Emily Webber @ewebber.bsky.social · 24/05/2024
New blog post after my keynote at Agile Manchester last week A framework for thinking about team memory, joining up and serendipity in hybrid organisations emilywebber.co.uk/a-framework-...
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A framework for thinking about team memory, joining up and serendipity in hybrid organisations
Last week, I gave a keynote talk at Agile Manchester, based on a previous blog post. The talk was more detailed and had a new framing; this post summarises what I shared.
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Mat Johnson @demotive.bsky.social · 30/04/2024
cohost.org/ghoulnoise/p... THIS via @danhon.com Just... the horror
cohost.org
DO NOT BUY HISENSE TV'S LOL (Or at least keep them offline)
holy fucking shit!!!!!!!!!! I've had this in my drafts to finish writing up for a few weeks but today I made another discovery that has pushed me to finally write it up lol. My PC had a few hiccups ...
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Tom Loosemore @tomski.com · 29/04/2024
""Good, fast, cheap - pick two" they say. Let's automate to make things better, not just faster and cheaper." - @timpaul.co.uk on Automation and the Jevons paradox www.timpaul.co.uk/posts/automa...
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Tim Paul | Automation and the Jevons paradox
Portfolio site for Tim Paul, designer
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Mat Johnson @demotive.bsky.social · 26/03/2024
This weeny nugget from @danhon.com is just huge: "It’s not the streak, it’s getting back into the habit." A lot of things about the way we make products / services / life / compassion / capital / etc is encapsulated. (from the latest Things That Caught My Attention)
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Mat Johnson @demotive.bsky.social · 23/03/2024
The new Gerhard Richter show at David Zwirner is on fire: www.davidzwirner.com/exhibitions/...
Small badass new painting by Gerhard Richter on display on a posh gallery wall
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Mat Johnson @demotive.bsky.social · 19/03/2024
Brin’s done a weeknote: medium.com/@theredmount...
medium.com
Transformation and Strategy Fortnight Note #34… Rollercoaster
(1st — 15th March 2024)
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Mat Johnson @demotive.bsky.social · 16/03/2024
Always post when no-one is looking: my weeknotes for the past week: demotive.com/posts/2024/0... Thanks for the unconscious encouragement @gilestur.bsky.social 👍
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Public Digital @publicdigital.bsky.social · 21/02/2024
We’ve just published the Radical How, a report commissioned by our friends Nesta The Radical How makes a case for governments boldly changing how they work, based on some of the best work done on major change in governments. public.digital/2024/02/21/w... #Government #PublicSector #HorizonScandal
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Why we should radically change how we do change — Public Digital
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Rose Schmits @roseschmits.bsky.social · 16/02/2024
Shitty ai being integrated into everything despite it being ass is like nepotism with a bunch of tech billionaires insisting we have to work with and take seriously their idiot robot son
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Mat Johnson @demotive.bsky.social · 16/02/2024
I have tried not to overthink, overwrite, or actually reread this. First notes in a long time: demotive.com/posts/2024/0...
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Mat Johnson @demotive.bsky.social · 16/02/2024
More of this please please please
Some early sun shining through some skinny trees
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Mat Johnson @demotive.bsky.social · 15/02/2024
In other exciting news, Brin (are you on here?) mentioned the thing I'm working on (translation: having my mind blasted out of my ears by) in a weeknote, so maybe... just maybe I should start weeknoting again. medium.com/@theredmount...
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Mat Johnson @demotive.bsky.social · 15/02/2024
When I get paid I am finally going to properly subscribe to @danhon.com because this newsletter poops all over fuddy MIT Review newsletters sorry. Current one is a classic: newsletter.danhon.com/archive/s17e...
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Mat Johnson @demotive.bsky.social · 09/02/2024
p.s. I have coined "cul-de-sac singularity" and just want to pop it here
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Mat Johnson @demotive.bsky.social · 09/02/2024
Minor update to demotive.com my sporadic at best presence on the web.
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Mat Johnson @demotive.bsky.social · 05/02/2024
Have I already reposted this? Basically hard agree. There's a point not _that_ far in the future where Shiny Feature will simply be undeliverable due to the lack of attention to the plumbing.
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Mat Johnson @demotive.bsky.social · 05/02/2024
2024 and I blasted my inbox with the annual “unsubscribe” from everything. Back down to two, which are dead good: @danhon.bsky.social with “things that caught my attention”: newsletter.danhon.com @undermanager.bsky.social with “afternoon slow”: buttondown.email/russell These are both really good
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Tom Loosemore @tomski.com · 01/02/2024
"The business model is often the design constraint now" - Erika Hall. Sign up to @danhon.bsky.social's (10 year old) newsletter for more stuff like this that makes you think. newsletter.danhon.com
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Things That Caught My Attention
Things That Caught My Attention is a newsletter about the internet and life that I’ve been writing since January 2014. I’ve been writing online since 1998. I write about a lot: artificial intellig...
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Mat Johnson @demotive.bsky.social · 12/01/2024
@jacintamellejam.bsky.social hello!
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Mat Johnson @demotive.bsky.social · 26/12/2023
Happy Unsubscribe From All The Bloody Emails Day 🎁
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Mat Johnson @demotive.bsky.social · 18/12/2023
Watched a couple of Yes Ministers to relax and I don't know if it's end of year running on empty, but oh god it's infinity
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Mat Johnson @demotive.bsky.social · 16/12/2023
It was really lovely to reconnect with this old friend, a few hours before my panic attack at the annual car service.
An old growth oak tree on Barnes Common
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Mat Johnson @demotive.bsky.social · 20/11/2023
@benjystanton.bsky.social I have just found your style guide page and I am digging it! www.benjystanton.co.uk/style-guide/
benjystanton.co.uk
Style guide
Notes about my site's build, typography, colours and components.
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Mat Johnson @demotive.bsky.social · 30/10/2023
The biggest thing I miss about Twi.. X, is an M John Harrison tweet. There's a deeply pretentious Powerpoint in my head about his writing seen through the lens of design systems - atom, molecule, component etc
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Mat Johnson @demotive.bsky.social · 30/10/2023
There's a metaphor for something here... An evergreen tree growing in or on an older chestnut (I think)
A tree growing from another tree
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Mat Johnson @demotive.bsky.social · 30/10/2023
If it's not mayhem in here just yet, I will try posting things. I popped a little slideshow on my site about things I find interesting (spoiler: I look down a lot): demotive.com/posts/2023/1... Largely sparked off by the “share” portion of “Do Interesting”: thedobook.co/products/do-...
A photo of a copy of "Do Interesting", a book by Russell Davies, on a desktop.
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Mat Johnson @demotive.bsky.social · 27/10/2023
Perhaps this is one piece of the cozy web I am ever so slowly building back up into
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Mat Johnson @demotive.bsky.social · 27/10/2023
Hello. Here’s hoping this goes better than the last time around...
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