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Eliot Fineberg

@eliotf.bsky.social
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I find LinkedIn a bit inhumane, so lets try this place.

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Eliot Fineberg @eliotf.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
Hi everyone, I wrote about the state of case management software in social care and local authorities. In short; it is a hard nut to crack and one that can be cracked with commitment, coordination and central goverment involvement. words.ff.studio/localgov-soc...
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Local gov care case management - a perfect storm of cost, coordination and vendor lock-in - FF Studio
Social care is the beating heart of how adults and children across the UK receive essential health and well-being support every day. But without
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Eliot Fineberg @eliotf.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
Just paid my internet tithe and donated to Wikipedia. You should too. 👍
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Eliot Fineberg @eliotf.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
Fuck yes someone at the very heart of government saying this so thoughtfully and clear throated. What’s this funny tingling feeling… is it hope and pride? More of that. 💪 www.gov.uk/government/s...
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Reform of the state has to deliver for people
Speech on reforming the public sector delivered by the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, Pat McFadden at University College London, Stratford.
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Eliot Fineberg @eliotf.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
Am I nervous or hungry? I’m 40 and still find that one tricky.
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Eliot Fineberg @eliotf.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
Surround yourself with colleagues who will tell you mid-meeting, "Don't do that; it makes you look like a tw*t". **chefkiss**
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Eliot Fineberg @eliotf.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
Via the medium of emoji, can those in the know respond to the Cabinet Secretary appointment. Many thanks.
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Jessica Elgot @jessicaelgot.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
What is clear is how closely MPs have studied this legislation. There is genuine collaboration on possible amendments, engagement with the smallest detail and deep consultation with constituents. If only it could always be like this!
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Eliot Fineberg @eliotf.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
"I’m very proud of the way these events create a space for producty people to come together and that we encourage a broad church of participants from different sectors and spaces." **chef kiss** digitalbydefault.com/2024/11/29/2...
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[2024] Week 48 – Product for the People 6
Yesterday Debbie and I hosted the sixth edition of the Product for the People gatherings (third Musketeer Steve was recovering from his adventures in Tokyo). Thanks to the generosity of Ben W (form…
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Eliot Fineberg @eliotf.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
Massive shout out to @jukes.ie and @debblanch44.bsky.social for running Product for the People yesterday. It felt very real-talk, open and honest. There was a good spread of "generations" in the room too. Its lovely to have a space that engenders collective sprit and has a bit of hope. A+
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Eliot Fineberg @eliotf.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
I bloody love Roy Keane.
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Eliot Fineberg @eliotf.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
Details, graft and the-little-things-which-point-to-larger-things give me lots of hope. @soniaturcotte.bsky.social has written a delicious blog post about how we landed equity, climate and witty report titles in the Sport England Pilot Fund work we did. 👌 soniaturcotte.com/writing/spor...
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A future that moves - sonia turcotte
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Neil Williams @neillyneil.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
I'm hiring >> 🔐Head of Cyber Security at the🎬 British Film Institute (BFI) 💵 circa £85K. A brand new role in an organisation that is taking cyber seriously. Please share! Apply by Mon 9 Dec, hear back by Christmas, interviews in Jan. bfijobsandopportunities.bfi.org.uk/tlive_webrec...
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Job profile
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Eliot Fineberg @eliotf.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
I never got around to my FF Studio aggrandising blog post. But dont trust me, I'm clearly biased. @rodm.bsky.social wrote something and that is even better. "Find yourself teams like this and let it rip." ❤️ www.holdfastprojects.com/sport-england
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Forms are temporary, class is permanent - Sport England - Rod McLaren: Words that work
21 October 2024 In autumn 2023 I worked in a team at FF Studio to design and build a tactical, invite-only fund for Sport England in 12 weeks. “We
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Eliot Fineberg @eliotf.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
Post a non-religious photo you think of as holy
Eric Cantona scores iconic chip versus Sunderland
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Mark O’Neill 🐻 @radiobeartime.com · 23/11/2024
10 minutes to the next bus so may as well post about something non-controversial. Assisted dying. :) It’s very clear that a PMB is entirely the wrong approach for this. I support the aims of the legislation but aims are meaningless without a concrete plan to achieve them. 🧵
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Eliot Fineberg @eliotf.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
PSA to all the centrist dads The new Father John Misty album just dropped. As you were.
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Eliot Fineberg @eliotf.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
Love seeing @rufflemuffin.bsky.social push this forward.
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Eliot Fineberg @eliotf.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
I've drafted a newsletter/blog/reckon about how good FF Studio is becoming, and today, I'm drafting why I think that. It feels a bit self agrandising, but I'm also a bit proud. And also think we could help lots of people and organisations. I suppose all blogging/promotion can feel like that?
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Eliot Fineberg @eliotf.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
PSA @jo-scho.bsky.social is spectacularly competent, helpful and fun to be around As you were.
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Eliot Fineberg @eliotf.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
I have a spare few hours in central London this afternoon - what gallery or thing should I be doing?
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Eliot Fineberg @eliotf.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
This should be an interview question for anyone in any digital / service / radical design role.
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Dave Guarino @allafarce.bsky.social · 12/11/2024
Also not to say the words are not high leverage especially early. Just that there’s a way to do it that is a wedge in to the next layer, and there’s a way to do it that relieves the pressure that you want and need for actual change.
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Eliot Fineberg @eliotf.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
Shout out to everyone who helped me through the last five odd years. Especially @annagoss.co 💪
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Eliot Fineberg @eliotf.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
Going through a professional knee-bend. I think. More focused than I have been in a while. Long may it continue.
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Eliot Fineberg @eliotf.bsky.social · 01/11/2024
We turned something very dull about passing a legally compliant process into something spicy about market consolidation. Always here at your service. Tell your friends, bosses and people with hard tech and design problems they need solving.
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Eliot Fineberg @eliotf.bsky.social · 31/10/2024
With all this chat about long-term growth (and it being 1.5%) I keep thinking of 2nd half of Donut Economics (which is amazing). If this is a new normal for post-victorian Britain and GDP kind of ignores climate "costs"... shall we talk about... sustainable policies rather than growth?
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Eliot Fineberg @eliotf.bsky.social · 29/10/2024
This thread 😍
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Eliot Fineberg @eliotf.bsky.social · 25/10/2024
More of this kind of thing: "Only larger suppliers can compete on price like this, shrinking the SME sector. Driving market consolidation rather than growth" 👏👏👏 www.dxw.com/2024/10/4-id...
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4 ideas for the digital centre of government
Harry and Molly share their vision for the future of digital public services
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Eliot Fineberg @eliotf.bsky.social · 24/10/2024
@mattstibbs.bsky.social @e17chrisfleming.bsky.social this is *chef kiss* public.digital/pd-insights/... I would love to hear your thoughts on making the following possible... "is inoculated from political change and cabinet reshuffles."
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Eliot Fineberg @eliotf.bsky.social · 22/10/2024
Some blogposts I wrote about the public sector were chosen as required reading for a seminar on the Yale Law course. I just spoke during the seminar with about 20 super-smart law students and professors. We covered politics, design and technology and I'm absolutely buzzing with excitement.
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Anna Goss @annagoss.co · 22/10/2024
A v cool day at FF Studio including the return of Pepsi, a visit from my mum, and a talk by @abscond.org. Tonight @eliotf.bsky.social is guesting at a Yale seminar. Brain full, heart full
Four people sat around in a small office looking at one fella dressed in black with his hands in the air presenting on a laptop The nicest black dog in the world lying on a white dog bed slightly covered in dog fur
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Eliot Fineberg @eliotf.bsky.social · 22/10/2024
this thread 😍
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Eliot Fineberg @eliotf.bsky.social · 21/10/2024
If step one of breaking vendor lockin is introducing a vendor monopoly (Palantir), I _think_ I'm cool with it. So long as step two onward focuses on creating functioning policies, services, operations and technical systems that can, in turn, break that vendor monopoly.
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Eliot Fineberg @eliotf.bsky.social · 21/10/2024
Feels like www.gov.uk/government/c... should get some traffic today.
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Eliot Fineberg @eliotf.bsky.social · 18/10/2024
Goddamn I enjoy @abscond.org's shtick.
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Eliot Fineberg @eliotf.bsky.social · 18/10/2024
I'm absolutely loving the "get the corporate governance grip'd" approach to this government. Has every new government done this, or is this one particularly focused? apply-for-public-appointment.service.gov.uk/roles?titleS...
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Search results – Apply for a public appointment – GOV.UK GOV.UK
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Sarah Gold 🇵🇸 ✊🏼 🕊️ @sarahtgold.bsky.social · 17/10/2024
I attended the Biobank summit in Dec '23, and asked this. Surely it's more urgent than ever to address the infrastructure + patient promise and experience updates needed to recover from this (even if Biobank's leadership try to claim, again, that it's not a breach).
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Tom Loosemore @tomski.com · 16/10/2024
I've written up what we mean when we say 'Be Bold'. public.digital/pd-insights/...
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What we mean when we say “Be Bold” — Public Digitalpublic digitalpublic digital
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Eliot Fineberg @eliotf.bsky.social · 15/10/2024
Without modernising procurement and tackling vendor lock-in, there is no future for a large-scale collection of public sector platforms. One more time for those at the back - the technology stack is still toxic, and needs detoxifying. daverog.com/series-toxic...
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Series: Toxic Technology
Toxic technologySymptoms of toxic technologyLegacy technology: the good, the bad and the toxicMistrust makes technology toxicCulture eats technology for breakfastThe toxic production lineThe false …
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Eliot Fineberg @eliotf.bsky.social · 15/10/2024
Hello, hivemind - I remember from back in the day that you could capitalise the spend on your project once it was in Beta. Does anyone remember this, or ideally, have the treasury guidance that says as much?
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Eliot Fineberg @eliotf.bsky.social · 10/10/2024
Last year, we ran a project with a simple goal: shut our mouths and be helpful. ​ ​The first one doesn't come naturally to me, but a year later, we're still working with the client, and we reckon more has gone well than gone wrong. www.ff.studio/projects/spo...
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FF Studio - Sport England
A presentation about the future isn’t enough. To create the conditions for 21st century services you need to build little versions of that future now.
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Eliot Fineberg @eliotf.bsky.social · 07/10/2024
"Able and willing to build belief and momentum" is the capability no one tells you they need, but everyone needs. For a short period, Digital became a byword for it. Digital Transformation captured it but lacked humility. Technology ignores it. Service Design almost gets there, but not quite.
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Eliot Fineberg @eliotf.bsky.social · 02/10/2024
Okay, so I'm thinking of going for this Bluesky thing. Does anyone have any tips for reducing the negative aspects of social media (e.g., addictive, ego-ish, performative, etc.) in the long run?
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Eliot Fineberg @eliotf.bsky.social · 01/10/2024
I spend most of my time oscillating between "be the adult in the room" and "I think the adults should do better, and I'm not sure joining them will help".
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Eliot Fineberg @eliotf.bsky.social · 25/09/2024
Last last thing I promise. I have no idea what the new business model is. What happens post "grow a big agency and build in a margin per person, scale wins" - but...
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Eliot Fineberg @eliotf.bsky.social · 25/09/2024
Lastly, I just finished www.goodreads.com/book/show/37..., and it is worth your brain. Even though it should have been 40% shorter.
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Ten Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media Accounts R…
Jaron Lanier, the world-famous Silicon Valley scientist…
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Eliot Fineberg @eliotf.bsky.social · 25/09/2024
While I'm here. This by @soniaturcotte.bsky.social is ❤️ Fuck yes for a feeling of local internet community. What an absolute vibe. soniaturcotte.com/writing/coll...
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Collecting ∞ Connecting - sonia turcotte
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Eliot Fineberg @eliotf.bsky.social · 25/09/2024
Sometimes, the default social embed image is just perfect. We wrote a newsletter about how we've survived long enough to have another go at our website. buttondown.com/ff-studio/ar... or just try the new website www.ff.studio
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We survived Liz Truss, made a website, still here
Hi, 42 subscribers. Apparently we last sent an email in December 2023. We also hear that in this economy, to be alive is to be successful. We're still alive....
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Eliot Fineberg @eliotf.bsky.social · 18/09/2024
I'm going to this on Saturday. I'm not sure what to expect. But only going to events where you know what to expect is dull. Come along! www.designswarm.com/papercamp-3/
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Papercamp 3 – designswarm
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Eliot Fineberg @eliotf.bsky.social · 12/09/2024
I ate an underwhelming cronut yesterday - AMA
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