Eliot Fineberg @eliotf.bsky.social · 15/03/2026these are so great. thank you for writing them. :) 112
Eliot Fineberg @eliotf.bsky.social · 12/11/2025p sure i made a "Campaign For Compute Disarmament" laptop sticker a few years ago - never published it - :) 100
Eliot Fineberg @eliotf.bsky.social · 12/11/2025youtu.be/RS5i1S8FXno?...youtu.beDaemon: Bot-mediated Reality | Daniel SuarezYouTube video by The Long Now Foundation 110
Eliot Fineberg @eliotf.bsky.social · 31/03/2025Hi 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...words.ff.studioLocal gov care case management - a perfect storm of cost, coordination and vendor lock-in - FF StudioSocial care is the beating heart of how adults and children across the UK receive essential health and well-being support every day. But without 051
Eliot Fineberg @eliotf.bsky.social · 12/12/2024Just paid my internet tithe and donated to Wikipedia. You should too. 👍 1132
Eliot Fineberg @eliotf.bsky.social · 10/12/2024There are only two business models. Bundling and Unbundling. 120
Eliot Fineberg @eliotf.bsky.social · 10/12/2024Fuck 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...gov.ukReform of the state has to deliver for peopleSpeech on reforming the public sector delivered by the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, Pat McFadden at University College London, Stratford. 070
Eliot Fineberg @eliotf.bsky.social · 10/12/2024Am I nervous or hungry? I’m 40 and still find that one tricky. 010
Eliot Fineberg @eliotf.bsky.social · 03/12/2024Surround yourself with colleagues who will tell you mid-meeting, "Don't do that; it makes you look like a tw*t". **chefkiss** 040
Eliot Fineberg @eliotf.bsky.social · 02/12/2024Via the medium of emoji, can those in the know respond to the Cabinet Secretary appointment. Many thanks. 010
Eliot Fineberg @eliotf.bsky.social · 01/12/2024Gisela Stuart speaks pretty clearly about making the flow in and out of the cs much better, so hopefully even if Cab Sec is a miss there can be a more healthy inflow and outflow of skills and mentality www.youtube.com/live/Zm2cvD3... 010
Eliot Fineberg @eliotf.bsky.social · 01/12/2024Yeah, just read that and enjoyed it. All eyes on who gets Cabinet Secretary and how much reforming energy they have. 100
Eliot Fineberg @eliotf.bsky.social · 30/11/2024Ive been using Roam for 4 years now. I’ve had a very similar feeling of it fitting my brain. 020
Reposted by Eliot FinebergJessica Elgot @jessicaelgot.bsky.social · 29/11/2024What 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! 8556
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...digitalbydefault.com[2024] Week 48 – Product for the People 6Yesterday 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… 020
Eliot Fineberg @eliotf.bsky.social · 29/11/2024Massive 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+ 051
Eliot Fineberg @eliotf.bsky.social · 29/11/2024The case study of how public transport suddenly worked brilliantly during Glasgow COP is a fantastic example of this. 040
Eliot Fineberg @eliotf.bsky.social · 28/11/2024The whistleblower in this is heartbreaking. I’d bet on 100s similar without the courage to go public in every department. I’m not convinced finance is the main problem, a deficit of political capital and courage is. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...bbc.co.ukBBC One - BBC Wales Investigates, What's Killing Our Rivers?Wyre Davies investigates the dangers of pollutants to the rivers of Wales. 000
Eliot Fineberg @eliotf.bsky.social · 28/11/2024It’s that broad sense that ends up with Elon, DOGE and tear it all down frustrations. 000
Eliot Fineberg @eliotf.bsky.social · 28/11/2024To paraphrase - someone very skilled and technical recently told me about [department] -´no one with technical skills wants to work there because they won’t be listened to or really get to change anything’ and that they avoid applying for a policy jobs as ‘they want preppy KPMG types’ 110
Eliot Fineberg @eliotf.bsky.social · 27/11/2024Who imprisoned them? Why did they do that? What’s so zero sum about the situation? 000
Eliot Fineberg @eliotf.bsky.social · 27/11/2024Keep activist Ministers in post for extended periods of time, more political appointments, reform the civil service (focus on DGs, skillsets, pay and incentive structures) and offer £££ of core funding grants to thirds sector adjacent organisations with skilled technicians who create public value. 120
Eliot Fineberg @eliotf.bsky.social · 26/11/2024Details, 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...soniaturcotte.comA future that moves - sonia turcotte 020
Reposted by Eliot FinebergNeil Williams @neillyneil.bsky.social · 26/11/2024I'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...bfijobsandopportunities.bfi.org.ukJob profile 25372
Eliot Fineberg @eliotf.bsky.social · 25/11/2024I 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-englandholdfastprojects.comForms are temporary, class is permanent - Sport England - Rod McLaren: Words that work21 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 021
Eliot Fineberg @eliotf.bsky.social · 25/11/2024I think there is similar evidence around why people use Reddit and pseudonyms (videos.theconference.se/lore-oxford-...) (For chatbots I'd want to see the technical proofs around anonymity and data minimisation, naturally :) )videos.theconference.seLore Oxford – Ask me Anything: Social Learning in an...“Through others we become ourselves, we learn, we grow and acquire knowledge”.As society becomes increasingly digital, people become more socially awkward.... 000
Eliot Fineberg @eliotf.bsky.social · 25/11/2024Ha, i was just sending this over :D www.extraordinaryfacility.com/stories/extraordinaryfacility.comVonnegut's Story Shapes | Extraordinary Facility 010
Reposted by Eliot FinebergMark O’Neill 🐻 @radiobeartime.com · 23/11/202410 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. 🧵 142
Eliot Fineberg @eliotf.bsky.social · 23/11/2024I loved it, wanted to play more at GDS and was also slightly blinded by my own local departmental frustrations. 10 years on hopefully better at seeing the wood for the trees. 000
Eliot Fineberg @eliotf.bsky.social · 23/11/2024(I now think it’s a good anti vendor lock in play, but I was angrier back then 😆) 100
Eliot Fineberg @eliotf.bsky.social · 23/11/2024My very harsh joke at the time was pay/notify existed because wider senior CS were ~waves hands~ technically illiterate and CCS couldn’t negotiate for whole of government (or arrange drinks in a brewery). 100
Eliot Fineberg @eliotf.bsky.social · 23/11/2024I wrote and deleted a comment somewhere else, but it follows this… I think there were/are two plays that got collapsed into one. One was/is a tech and service design component problem space. The other was/is a HMT, departmentalism and CCS problem space. 100
Eliot Fineberg @eliotf.bsky.social · 23/11/2024PSA to all the centrist dads The new Father John Misty album just dropped. As you were. 000
Eliot Fineberg @eliotf.bsky.social · 23/11/2024‘Intellectual vapourware’ *chefkiss* You good with words or something? 😆 100
Eliot Fineberg @eliotf.bsky.social · 23/11/2024I don’t mean it as harsh. Honestly it was fab work. I wasn’t in the centre, so from my perspective I didn’t hear those those debates loudly. Also v much my inability to hear it, or that I wasn’t the intended audience. 100
Eliot Fineberg @eliotf.bsky.social · 23/11/2024And also, we *must*. My re-lived pain is nothing compared to persisting the pain of people living it. That what leadership is, it why we have a state. A monopoly of power for a greater good. So let’s keep talk about what the greater good is and if we can get there. 🙂 040
Eliot Fineberg @eliotf.bsky.social · 23/11/2024Feels like point 1 of a ministerial job description. Doesn’t feel too much to ask of someone’s who is appointed by the King. 000
Eliot Fineberg @eliotf.bsky.social · 23/11/2024My broad view is ‘a legal framework and compassionate service designed process is not beyond the whit of us’. Cohorts who consent is one way forward to try and design it. Death happens, so does fraud. Thankfully are all humans. Let’s talk about it every so often and not in a panic. 110
Eliot Fineberg @eliotf.bsky.social · 23/11/2024I see so many parallels with the coalition electoral reform stuff. And fwiw; I agree on taking the opportunity. 110
Eliot Fineberg @eliotf.bsky.social · 23/11/2024❤️ this is such an understatement. I keep my views under wraps as they hurt so much to bring up. 130
Eliot Fineberg @eliotf.bsky.social · 23/11/2024Using this political moment to find a better, more humane, answer is so important. It playing out rushed like a once-in-generation-opportunity is insanity. 140
Eliot Fineberg @eliotf.bsky.social · 23/11/2024My dad campaigned for diginitas, ultimately lost control of himself. We spent all his saving all while I tried to be a carer, father to 2 <5 and a business owner. There is something brutal in spending the money you hoped might pay for your children’s university. 230
Eliot Fineberg @eliotf.bsky.social · 23/11/2024I think weaving palliative/social care into the assisted suicide debate is nessesary, but not sufficient. To make it sufficient we need to weave a wealth tax in too. Who is affected and who is paying? This is *the* debate and one that will effect everyone. 210
