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Esteban Olmedo @estebano.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

With AI, it feels a lot like folks are back at this stage + animations galore.

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Esteban Olmedo @estebano.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Mince pies available at my local Sainsbury's. The friendly baker said they arrived before the Halloween stock!🎄🥧

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Esteban Olmedo @estebano.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

More or less 52% vs 48% again. If anyone has interesting analysis on the parallels, I’d be fascinated to read.

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Esteban Olmedo @estebano.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Interesting points. Also, fish again! 😀

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Esteban Olmedo @estebano.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Darren Jones got himself an animated logo for his social media, and I have so many questions about the siginificance behind the design.

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Esteban Olmedo @estebano.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Bravo 👏 Credit: lnkd.in/p/eMx3acgZ

Billboard with the that reads, ‘there’s a reason we’re not called’ followed by sanitary pads with a label that says sometimes.

The strapline tab the bottom of the ad says, ‘always : no leaks, no worries’.

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Esteban Olmedo @estebano.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Sigh! Meta earned $83.276 billion (just last year). They've beeing doing this shit for more than a decade! The Careless People from Meta would say this was good business, etc. 🤢

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Esteban Olmedo @estebano.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Has anyone made a petition for No.10 North to have a dog? If not, I can get one going ASAP.

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Gemma Clark 🧿🕯️ @gemmaclark.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Resources and help for anyone, and it will be mostly women, affected by the increased risk of domestic abuse associated with football www.nhs.uk/live-well/ge...

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Getting help for domestic violence and abuse

Find out about the signs of domestic violence and abuse, and where to get help. Domestic violence and abuse can happen to anyone, and anyone can be an abuser.

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Esteban Olmedo @estebano.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Important. Our values and principles are what matters - even if people like Farage seek to destroy them, manipulate them for personal gain or benefit from them when it suits him. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Man arrested over social media post threatening to shoot Nigel Farage

Met Police says a man in his 20s was held in south London this week on suspicion of sending threatening communications to an MP.

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Esteban Olmedo @estebano.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

Working with the NHS atm. Their User research repo is 👌. Bravo to the folk who set it up, manage it, and contribute to it. More of this across gov please.

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Esteban Olmedo @estebano.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

Wasted lunch! The verify you’re a director of a company is probably the worst gov service I have come across. I’m sure it has nothing to do with the team who developed it and more to do the usual suspects. And yeah, IDV is tricky but bloody hell! Could probably do a whole thesis on the thing.

Common safari browser saying The connection is not secure webpage with a red padlock icon.

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Esteban Olmedo @estebano.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

There's a deep lesson here for folks creating services and products.

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Mark Dalgarno @markdalgarno.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

1 week to go to Agile Manchester. DM me for a last minute discount: agilemanchester.net/programme-2026

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Programme 2026

Agile Manchester 2026 - practical agile, lean and flow - read our programme now...

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Esteban Olmedo @estebano.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

I'm hopeful that social media taught regulators not to wait 2 decades to act. The less positive side of me worries that the hype around AI will encourage them to look away under the guise that any regulation "stifles innovation". www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Fresh wave of lawsuits filed against OpenAI by Tumbler Ridge victims

The lawsuits, filed in California, accuse OpenAI and Sam Altman of negligence and abetting a mass shooting by failing to flag the suspect's ChatGPT activity.

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Esteban Olmedo @estebano.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

Ministers are exploring triggering the break clause in Palantir's NHS contract. Foxglove are looking for folks to ‘sign’ an open letter calling on Wes Streeting to get Palantir out of the NHS. www.foxglove.org.uk/campaigns/we...

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Wes Streeting: Trigger the break clause and get Palantir out of the NHS - Foxglove

Wes Streeting: trigger the break clause and kick Palantir out of our NHS. ADD YOUR NAME NOW!

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Esteban Olmedo @estebano.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

In just 1.5 hours, the kids and I made 2 games (2 HTML files) suing Claude. Worth a proper write up that I may not get to. But my 2 cents are that the learning objectives are exactly as they should be for now: planning, reasoning, problem solving etc. Not about typos, knowing complex html etc 1/4

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Esteban Olmedo @estebano.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

The 5-year-old keeps telling us off for dropping our T's when saying 'what'. 🫣

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Esteban Olmedo @estebano.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

The parallels between this and how many orgs design products / services! The whole outputs vs outcomes is arguably systemic. It’s ok though, on the front of it, the show goes on and perceived success is achieved.

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Esteban Olmedo @estebano.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

'I was looking after some goats... I gave the goat a dose of tea, in 2 mins it was all over, tea did the trick, she had 3 kids' ❤️😀

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 15/03/2026

JFC! The right already stripped abortion rights from millions of women. Contraception is next. Project 2025 made the agenda clear. This was never about saving babies. It’s about control, pushing women back into submission and forcing more births. 1/2

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Esteban Olmedo @estebano.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

‘I should punch Grant Shapps’ 😆

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Esteban Olmedo @estebano.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

Heard of a scenario where a director level person responsible for transformation type work asked how the team go from user feedback to deploying (absolute basics). And he was completely shocked to hear that’s ’how long things take’. This particular director is an ex-consultant from the big ones.

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Esteban Olmedo @estebano.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

Is there a word for the following? When folk share inspirational posts about how to do product / design / dev well. But completely miss that they're doing the very thing the article says not to do.

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Esteban Olmedo @estebano.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

A Service Designer showed me how he very quickly got Co-pilot to create a product overview video based on a word doc he put together. It wasn't perfect, but it did the job.

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Esteban Olmedo @estebano.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

The 'I' and 'now' does the heavy lifting in that sentence. I've had a few discussions with immigrants, and kids of immigrants who say this sort of shit. There's a lot to pick apart. And yet so much of it ends up circling back to selfsihness and self-grandure.

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Richard Pope @richardpope.org · 26/01/2026

Nothing that there are a couple of weeks left for people to apply for a digital job that could be make or break for the NHS Director General for Technology, Digital and Data Department of Health and Social Care Here’s a screenshot as I’m pretty sure no one clicks past the ‘I’m not a robot’ page.

screenshot of the job page on civil service jobs

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Esteban Olmedo @estebano.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

A bet: at some point, most of us will work with at least one person who was once a primary or secondary school teacher. Arguably more likely to happen in gov.

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Esteban Olmedo @estebano.bsky.social · 13/12/2025

‘But in the 2020s, not validating ideas is amateurish.’

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Esteban Olmedo @estebano.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

Bet ChatGPT could make me believe I understand this after a few exchanges. 😅

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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 25/11/2025

"By 2025, Brexit had reduced UK GDP by 6% to 8%, with the impact accumulating gradually over time. We estimate that investment was reduced by between 12% and 18%, employment by 3% to 4% and productivity by 3% to 4%" Read the Stanford report: siepr.stanford.edu/publications...

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The Economic Impact of Brexit

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Esteban Olmedo @estebano.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

Living this atm and agree with a lot of it. On the cause-remedy point, I think teams often lock themselves into an approach too early because some teams measure tangible progress in the form of screens. There are a number of reasons, e.g. delivery pressure, IxD preference, screen-focused UR, etc.

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Esteban Olmedo @estebano.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

Wowzers! In the office today and I hadn't realised we were at the stage where folk take laptops into the loo while on calls (facing the urinals with cam off)! 🤯

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Esteban Olmedo @estebano.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

Hands up if you have an AI team in your org who are knocking on everyone's door looking for problems that hopefully* AI can help 'solve'? ✋

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Esteban Olmedo @estebano.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

Eeek! The Delivery Manager on LinkedIn kicking off a debate about innocent until proven guilty in the context of Andrew Windsor being stripped of his titles 🫣

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Esteban Olmedo @estebano.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

Just discovered caramelised Jalapenos. 😋

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Esteban Olmedo @estebano.bsky.social · 02/11/2025

Struggling to think about how to teach the scout kids about the 5th of Nov. My memory of being taught it in school is very different to reading about it as an adult! 😅

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Esteban Olmedo @estebano.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

Ha, love this! Free iPad 👶!

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Esteban Olmedo @estebano.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

Anyone know the head of UR at HMPO? Think their post passport renewal survey is broken. I’m on email number 4.

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