iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Kevin McDonagh @kevinmcdonagh.name · 31/05/2026

"given the debt students incur .. failure is minimised to the point of non-existence..there’s no risk-reward.. Students have been converted into consumers.. the product should be provided in a way that’s easy to negotiate" conversation w/ @murrayp.bsky.social archive.ph/cZxdi#select...

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Kevin McDonagh @kevinmcdonagh.name · 28/05/2026

The democratization angle is a rare good upside but my worry is that we are heading to a Kafkaesque place where people can't understand their lawyer's AIs defence and are represented against an indecipherable AI judge.

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Kevin McDonagh @kevinmcdonagh.name · 21/05/2026

Ala Thinking fast and slow, in life I'm constantly trying to juggle the gut versus evidence thing in work. Without discounting data, my biggest mistakes have all been ignoring my gut. Indecision is far more often worse than the wrong decision. www.zmescience.com/medicine/min...

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A Study of 215,000 Chess Moves Reveals When Intuition Beats Slow Thinking

In chess, faster moves are usually better. But what does that actually mean?

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Kevin McDonagh @kevinmcdonagh.name · 19/05/2026

I maintain a map of Scottish art galleries just for myself. Hilariously, at ~13k visits a month and loads of thank-you emails, it gets more traffic than the work initiatives I actually plan. I believe this is called 'market pull' www.scotland.art

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Scotland Art Map - Google My Maps

Scotland's most comprehensive art map

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Kevin McDonagh @kevinmcdonagh.name · 09/05/2026

In the war on man-made slop– still the most pressing threat– algorithms are an ally.. how much of Hollywood.. will retain its allure once AI is ventriloquising it to perfection? .. We will crave instead culture to look and feel weird,opaque,messy - Igor Toronyi-Lalic web.archive.org/web/20260509...

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The art of noise | The Spectator Australia

I’m bullish about AI. All aesthetic snobs should be. In the war on man-made slop – still the most pressing…

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Kevin McDonagh @kevinmcdonagh.name · 07/05/2026

Breathwork & wellbeing practices from McKinsey! lol.

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Kevin McDonagh @kevinmcdonagh.name · 02/05/2026

Btw, there seems to a cert issue with your site. Lord knows I've had this issue plenty because of the many variations you end up making with subdomains.

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Paul Graham @paulgbot.bsky.social · 27/11/2025

Scottish portraitists didn't flatter their sitters. Here are Raeburn (left) and Ramsay (right). Ramsay tended to paint everyone with a underbite, which was particularly hard on the female sitters.

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Kevin McDonagh @kevinmcdonagh.name · 25/04/2026

There's also a not made here / funded here perception bias on US capital. It's far easier to get a roll of the dice within the unique concentration of Tech VCs in silicon valley. Getting the right backing compounds that trust. European funding doesn't have the same social capital.

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Kevin McDonagh @kevinmcdonagh.name · 22/04/2026

This guy made his own RAM. I must share www.youtube.com/watch?v=h6GW...

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Making RAM at Home

YouTube video by Dr.Semiconductor

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Kevin McDonagh @kevinmcdonagh.name · 10/02/2026

That's some demand! I was there at 10am as well and somehow there were 1043 people ahead of me. Well at least theres good support to keep it going.

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Kevin McDonagh @kevinmcdonagh.name · 18/11/2025

"Phewphoria" the feeling of relief when it wasn't your fault - @jpmonette.net via hackernews on the cloudflare outage. I'm much more here for this being word of the year over '6-7;

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Kevin McDonagh @kevinmcdonagh.name · 28/10/2025

Dale Luck from original Amiga dev team shared an original breadboarded prototype at a fair in Germany. I get confused with two breadboards.... this is hackery genius from 40yrs ago www.amiga-news.de/en/news/AN-2...

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Kevin McDonagh @kevinmcdonagh.name · 18/10/2025

If AI had done nothing but unlock the power of Regular Expressions for use by Joe Bloggs using natural language it would have been incredible in just that. It's like a killer feature 30 years in the making for spreadsheets.

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Kevin McDonagh @kevinmcdonagh.name · 04/10/2025

The continued workification of all life! It's a shame, but cvs have always been a point of personal marketing. Perhaps a social expectation of no marketing will develop on Bluesky.

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Kevin McDonagh @kevinmcdonagh.name · 17/09/2025

W/ @megabeth.bsky.social at #TalkUX being like remember when people used to chat on the socials while at a conf and post pics like...

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Kevin McDonagh @kevinmcdonagh.name · 31/08/2025

Regularly prune your news feed inputs. Decide who curates your attention.

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Kevin McDonagh @kevinmcdonagh.name · 22/07/2025

"thousands of people have been thinking deeply for 40 years.. they’ve thought of everything.. and AI comes up with is a demonstration that .. thousands of people failed to do." www.quantamagazine.org/ai-comes-up-...

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AI Comes Up with Bizarre Physics Experiments. But They Work. | Quanta Magazine

Artificial intelligence software is designing novel experimental protocols that improve upon the work of human physicists, although the humans are still “doing a lot of baby-sitting.”

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Kevin McDonagh @kevinmcdonagh.name · 03/07/2025

My UXDX talk encouraging Product teams to take courage through the shame of constantly demoing too early products during customer interviews. If your whole team feel the cringe then product prioritisation becomes obvious, valuable and collaborative for startups youtu.be/MQnUPlBXUdo?...

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Cringe Driven Development (CDD), a Template for Unavoidable Valuable Progress

YouTube video by UXDX

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Kevin McDonagh @kevinmcdonagh.name · 20/06/2025

Andrej Karpathy runs down a summary of current AI Product state we've arrived at just in the past 12 months! 1960 mainframe computing is an apt analogy for how we all timeshare on llms! I'll now prefer 'people spirits' to agents in team chats. www.youtube.com/watch?v=LCEm...

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Andrej Karpathy: Software Is Changing (Again)

YouTube video by Y Combinator

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Kevin McDonagh @kevinmcdonagh.name · 23/05/2025

Media money is fleeing elsewhere, maybe now the web is turning back into a playground www.anildash.com//2025/05/20/...

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MCP is the coming of Web 2.0 2.0 - Anil Dash

A blog about making culture. Since 1999.

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Kevin McDonagh @kevinmcdonagh.name · 22/05/2025

Swung by "Everything is a prototype" book launch as it seemed relevant. Loads of people I kind of knew... mostly Walthamstow! Well done @brendankearns.bsky.social on bringing a satisfying size and shape book together. ♥️ a designy biz book that I don't have to hide uk.bookshop.org/p/books/ever...

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