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Richard Edwards

@richardedwards.me
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Co-director at @outlandish.com, designing + building socially positive tech (eg nookcrm.com for the #communityenergy sector 🥳). Also UX at openux.design

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Richard Edwards @richardedwards.me · 24/09/2026
At the ‘Retrofit, Obviously!’ conference today in London. The emergency briefing’s part around the economic opportunities was the most energising argument I’ve heard in a long time.
Delegates sat in conference room. A screen says National Emergency Briefing.
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Kevin J. Kircher @kevinjkircher.com · 23/09/2026
Read this thread if you're interested in land-use issues related to farming and solar photovoltaics.
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John Smillie @johnsmillie42.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Thread on solar vs. farmland debate: 1/n Enviro writer Bill McKibben: "“If you care about the future of agriculture on this planet,” he added, ​“you should be focused on driving down carbon emissions so we will still be able to grow things.”" www.canarymedia.com/.../lowell-v....
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Richard Edwards @richardedwards.me · 23/09/2026
And yes I posted the same message on LinkedIn but that’s okay because a) I wrote it thinking of you BlueSky 🦋 💙, and b) using LinkedIn makes me die a little.
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Richard Edwards @richardedwards.me · 23/09/2026
In 2 weeks I’ll be joining some wonderful speakers (and trying to be as interesting as them!) at this #cleanenergy event. 👇 Come learn about energy efficiency + transition tech, meet folk & make connections! And it's hybrid, so my face WILL be beamed all over the UK. God help us all! #greentech
eventbrite.co.uk
How Can We Use Good Technology to Scale the Green Energy Sector?
A event showcasing inspirational emerging technologies that are helping us overcome barriers to scale the UK's clean energy sector
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Richard Edwards @richardedwards.me · 10/09/2026
Hi clean energy friends. This October I'll be at... ** How can we use good technology to scale the green energy sector? ** ☀️🍃 It's free, it's hybrid online/in-London and has some great speakers (even if I say so myself!). Maybe see you there? #cleanenergy #communityenergy #tech
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How Can We Use Good Technology to Scale the Green Energy Sector?
A event showcasing inspirational emerging technologies that are helping us overcome barriers to scale the UK's clean energy sector
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Richard Edwards @richardedwards.me · 31/08/2026
One more bump for Friday's great and FREE talk with Fionn! #designfutures, #uxdesign, #systemsdesign 🎯
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Richard Edwards @richardedwards.me · 15/08/2026
Just a few weeks to go! Join us at our next design meetup to talk #designfutures, #uxdesign, #systemsdesign and more, with Studio AndThen's Fionn! 🧙🌞
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#23: Futures Design, with Fionn Tynan O'Mahony | Open UX Design
In our next Open UX Design meetup we’ll be meeting and hearing from Fionn Tynan O'Mahony. Fionn and his colleageus at Studio AndThen design for the long term. They work with governments, the National...
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Richard Edwards @richardedwards.me · 05/08/2026
Arguing is putting it strongly. Also anything X makes me feel 🤢! But I certainly don’t think its a question of arguing for the truth-iness after the fact. The experience is what stays with + influences people. I think some way of factoring that in, *before* disinformation is presented, might help.
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Richard Edwards @richardedwards.me · 05/08/2026
Easily the tiniest, most rewarding change I’ve made to get off US tech is installing Vivaldi AND THEN updating my phone’s default browser settings. 🍎 I can’t yet bring myself to cut Chrome completely, but now random, unimportant links I click open in an ethical browser! 💙 vivaldi.com
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Vivaldi Browser | Powerful, Personal and Private web browser
It’s a web browser. But fun. It comes with a bunch of clever features built-in. It’s super flexible and does not track you. Get the Vivaldi browser for desktop, mobile, and your car!
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Richard Edwards @richardedwards.me · 05/08/2026
Hmm maybe I’m saying then that it would be preferable to have a disclaimer in advance.
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Richard Edwards @richardedwards.me · 05/08/2026
It would be interesting to compare (and I’m sure scientists have) the attitudes of folk who are forewarned they’ll be looking at an AI image. Emotional responses during an experience create stronger memories and understandings, so can’t be easily negated if you’re later told it was AI.
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Richard Edwards @richardedwards.me · 04/08/2026
This Sept join us at Open UX for a REALLY exciting chat about #futuresdesign: designing in complex regulated environments + turning policy ideas into design, with Fionn Tynan O'Mahony 🙌 #uxdesign #uxui
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#23: Futures Design, with Fionn Tynan O'Mahony | Open UX Design
In our next Open UX Design meetup we’ll be meeting and hearing from Fionn Tynan O'Mahony. Fionn and his colleageus at Studio AndThen design for the long term. They work with governments, the National...
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Richard Edwards @richardedwards.me · 04/08/2026
Nice!
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Richard Edwards @richardedwards.me · 03/08/2026
It’s a bunch of people ready to help you with your maths homework.
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Richard Edwards @richardedwards.me · 03/08/2026
“How can I know what I think until I see what I write?” Apols to EM Forster. Or someone. 🙈
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Richard Edwards @richardedwards.me · 03/08/2026
Moving off Google part 2 (and a nice mental hump to get over): deleting all my files on Google Drive and uploading them to Proton ✅ Next stop, the emails 😬😬😬
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Richard Edwards @richardedwards.me · 03/08/2026
Interesting! We get asked about Gantt charts for Nook - typically when a “case” is a potential project (eg when cases relate to assessing potential sites for solar generations). One to check out methinks!
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Richard Edwards @richardedwards.me · 02/08/2026
Love the vibe of this keyboard #accessibility. Also, support your local library!! ✊
A photograph of a black computer keyboard with letter keys in bright yellow and large font.
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Richard Edwards @richardedwards.me · 23/07/2026
This has to be my new favourite argument to people who fret about taxing the hyper rich! 🥳
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Richard Edwards @richardedwards.me · 21/07/2026
Since when did the iPhone Chrome app have sponsored ads in the Discover feed? Did I miss that?? 😱 11 ads in there since yesterday. What?
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Richard Edwards @richardedwards.me · 20/07/2026
So… did you see that ludicrous display last night?
A meme headshot of Moss from the TV show The IT Crowd
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Richard Edwards @richardedwards.me · 14/07/2026
#civictech is ✊✊✊
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Richard Edwards @richardedwards.me · 11/07/2026
Weaning myself off Google services…
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Richard Edwards @richardedwards.me · 09/07/2026
Just wrapped up a very fun game of #CommunityEnergy Data Dilemmas! Thank you to all our adventurous #LondonDataWeek players. 🍌🎲🥳 I’m going to port this into a standalone game/workshop activity for anyone making tech products. Hit me up if you’re interested!
A graphic showing a range of colourful human characters excitedly and thoughtfully looking at some data displays.
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Richard Edwards @richardedwards.me · 07/07/2026
On Thursday I’m hosting THIS game-based workshop for London Data Week: Community Energy Data Dilemmas! 🥳😳 It’s sold out but if you’d like another chance to take part (maybe you work in this field / want an inspirational team activity) DM me. It’d be amazing to run it again. #communityenergy
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Community Energy Data Dilemmas · Luma
Imagine with us radical creative ideas and doomsday scenarios around data, tech and approaches for community energy. Using gameplay and creative activities,…
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Richard Edwards @richardedwards.me · 29/06/2026
☝️I have so many questions 😅
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Richard Edwards @richardedwards.me · 12/06/2026
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Richard Edwards @richardedwards.me · 12/06/2026
Hello fellow Friday folk. Come join me at July’s #LondonDataWeek event: Community Energy Data Dilemmas! 🎉 Come for creative fun, doomsday scenarios and tech discussion aplenty! luma.com/lgswwidv #communityenergy #data #productdesign
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Community Energy Data Dilemmas · Luma
Imagine with us radical creative ideas and doomsday scenarios around data, tech and approaches for community energy. Using gameplay and creative activities,…
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juliamanc.bsky.social @juliamanc.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
It doesn’t make things better today. But #OmarElAkkad is one of the few people brave enough to talk sense about the current abhorrent world situation #Gaza Essential reading - searing account of how we have got here
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Richard Edwards @richardedwards.me · 18/03/2026
At the Connected Places Summit today. Lots of talk about AI, SMEs and data infrastructure. Should be interesting!
A plenary / welcome speaker in front of the Connected Places Summit branding and presentation screen.
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Richard Edwards @richardedwards.me · 16/03/2026
Next week I’ll be chatting to awesome designer Fran Cook about what it means to be a freelance #ux designer PLUS what it’s like to start a collective / studio. Come hang with us on Thursday ☺️ #uxuidesign #uxdesign
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From freelance to studio UX, with Fran Cook, Thu, Mar 26, 2026, 4:00 PM | Meetup
In **[our next Open UX Design meetup](https://community.openux.design/c/events/21-from-freelance-to-studio-ux-with-fran-cook)** we’ll be meeting and hearing from **Fran Coo
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Adam Schwarz @adamjschwarz.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
German Defence Minister Boris Pistorius: “There will be no military participation.. We have a situation which we did not provoke.. This war started without any consultations.. What does Trump expect from a handful of European frigates in Strait of Hormuz that the mighty US Navy can't manage alone?"
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Richard Edwards @richardedwards.me · 14/03/2026
Excuse me for reposting this thread but, frankly, it took me a while to write and I quite like my little rant 🥸☺️ #genAI #AI #uxdesign
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Richard Edwards @richardedwards.me · 12/03/2026
A really good thread! Thank you! I should use this with our clients 😅 🧵
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Richard Edwards @richardedwards.me · 10/03/2026
My US Big Tech iPhone keeps trying to autocorrect “sociocracy” to “sociopath”. Figures 😅
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Richard Edwards @richardedwards.me · 07/03/2026
I'm really rooting for this 👉 TechFreedom, a short course for social purpose orgs who want to understand their tech risks and DO SOMETHING about it. Importantly you leave with a plan for reducing your dependency on US Big Tech 🙌🙌🙌 techfreedom.eu via @dougbelshaw.com @tomcw.xyz #digitalsovereignty
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TechFreedom — A clearer forecast for your organisation's digital future
TechFreedom helps organisations understand their technology dependencies and start making deliberate choices.
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Tom watson @tomcw.xyz · 06/03/2026
Have you heard me banging on about tech sovereignty, adaptability, big tech and resiliency? About how your tech is an organisational cultural choice? If not, how? If you have...well, would you like some more? tomcw.xyz/why-we-creat...
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Why we created TechFreedom, and why we think it's important
Launching TechFreedom a cohort based programme to help you make choices about your tech. Why we created it, why we think it's important, what it's all about and an invite to join us!
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Richard Edwards @richardedwards.me · 28/02/2026
And recap it he does. In a kinda formal, stilted way, that feels like a #genAI summary... 🤖 Suddenly cold sweat washes over me. I’m sitting on the AI train to the future, reading an AI recap of a genAI’d comic of an AI-advocate’s podcast. This is the train to the future! Toot toot! 🚂
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Richard Edwards @richardedwards.me · 28/02/2026
But phew, luckily the huge awks of this moment are brought to an end… by the end of the comic! And so it’s over to the author Jakob, to handily recap what we’ve been reading. 28/
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Richard Edwards @richardedwards.me · 28/02/2026
Woah! Let's not get started on a discussion of conquering and colonialism! Because I don’t want to consider what it means to be colonised when talking about #AI. Let's leave politics out of it, ok? Anyway I bought a ticket to BUILD the future. Not have the future to be DONE to me, ok? 27 /
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Richard Edwards @richardedwards.me · 28/02/2026
And whilst I’m at it, something else is bothering me. Why is it always Alexander the Great in these kind of arguments? Rather than another conqueror like… I don’t know… Genghis Khan? 🥷 26/
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Richard Edwards @richardedwards.me · 28/02/2026
I thought that this was the route to being super-empowered? That's what you promised earlier. So do the masses get the AI-filtered stuff, whilst the direct access goes to those who can afford it? 🤯🤔 25/
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Richard Edwards @richardedwards.me · 28/02/2026
Didn’t we say earlier that one-to-one, direct access to thinkers was for the super-privileged elite? I thought we were accessing education through the lens of genAI? That it was doing the thought for us? 24/
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Richard Edwards @richardedwards.me · 28/02/2026
“Marc prizes direct access to domain practitioners: founders, researchers, experts who actually do the work” Yes! So muscular! So alpha! People! Direct access! Like, one-on-one style! It’s like my very own, one-to-one education! BUT HOLD ON A SECOND!! 🤯 23/
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Richard Edwards @richardedwards.me · 28/02/2026
No time to figure it out! I’ve just got to keep my lunch down and bask in the “tremendous amount of alpha” smashing into my eyes! A term that’s definitely not eewww, btw. I should focus instead on everything I’m benefitting from right now. Like "direct access to experts"! 22/
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Richard Edwards @richardedwards.me · 28/02/2026
BTw... as I push my face into the X content firehose, how am I meant to filter out the massive amount of “wrong” predictions from its 6,000 tweets per second? 21/
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Richard Edwards @richardedwards.me · 28/02/2026
I'm definitely going to do this. Although... maybe ideas in old books are so relevant because of natural filtering? I mean, aren’t there so many ‘good’ old books because… the crap & irrelevant ones fell out of print? No? 20/
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Richard Edwards @richardedwards.me · 28/02/2026
The dumbbell approach. Hey, we made reading tough! Muscular reading. Yes I’m still kicking sand in your face, Newton. Haha what a dweeb. 19/
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Richard Edwards @richardedwards.me · 28/02/2026
God damn. I like all this big, muscular imagery in this newsletter. Dams. Infrastructure. Warriors on horseback. If only everything could be muscular. Like reading. BUT WAIT, IT CAN! 18/
Comic panels. Marc Andrees explains his "barbell strategy" for consuming media (whilst sitting under a floating barbell). He reads old books only. He consumes X content. And he listens to actual practitioners in the field. There's so much "alpha" in that.
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