Categories Society

7 days 30 days All time Recent Popular
'Key learnings'


A a layman, I seem to recall our Public Health doctors saying these things to anyone who would listen close on a year ago.

https://t.co/DxRl3Qa3IA


One for the book.

https://t.co/MHulHu9BHz
New rule: you don't get to ask questions like this without dropping your salary


Look, if you're not working through IT ticket queues or answering pages or shipping apps for free without any health insurance or monetary support, then you're a huge poser and lack real *passion* for tech

You know who works out of passion and not for money? Teachers.

Also, being *passionate* about something doesn't mean you're good at it! And you can be excellent at something while having other interests and motivations.

Because that's really what this is all about. When a tech person asks about passion, they think the amount of passion equals the amount of competence. And *their* passion makes them more competent than other people.

Except that's not true.
Great to see this out. Go and give it a read!


We spoke about the Citizens' Assembly and one of their most exciting plans on the Policy Podcast in

Go and read their reports at

Here are some of the policies they've called for that line up well with @Common_Weal polices (with links to our papers):

[Recommendation 3] A House of Citizens to oversee the Scottish Parliament -

[12] All tax-payer funded documentation to be automatically made publicly available and easily searchable -