Adrian Howard

@adrianh
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Drinks less coffee than people expect. Enjoys helping people solve problems in the messy cross-disciplinary spaces where strategy, research, & delivery overlap. Does 1-1 coaching with senior practitioners & leaders.
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An interesting (to me anyway :-) read from Kim Foale on some observed problems with consensus decision making https://www.anarchistfederation.net/kim-foale-consensus-decision-making-sucks/
Coffee.

Retrospective done. Day done. Week done. Done.

Time for a can of Guinness before I figure out what to make for tea.

Hoping y'all have a chill and peaceful weekend.

My copies of the new Laundry Files TTRPG arrived, and I love the bindings.
The GMs book cover of bureaucratic grieving is fantastic and very true feeling as a statement.
I need to find some players somewhere, so for now they'll sit on the shelf after being read next to my old edition.

(The laundry files are works by @cstross and I would recommend them far and wide)

Spring is here! Spring is here! Life is skittles and life is beer! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yhuMLpdnOjY
Tom Lehrer - Poisoning Pigeons In The Park

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This is about (software/system) architecture :)

https://xkcd.com/3221/

Coffee.
The DWP Timms Review has put out its call for evidence - and it already looks like a stitch up https://www.thecanary.co/uk/analysis/2026/03/19/dwp-review/
The DWP Timms Review has put out its call for evidence - and it already looks like a stitch up

The DWP's PIP review is open for submissions - they're busy getting opinions of stakeholders, so let's show them what disabled people think

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