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Ben #ActNow πŸ”₯🌳🌊
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People+planet-centred Service Designer / Product Manager Service Manual & Service Standard, GDS, DSIT Woke he/him
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I like this from @jukes.ie, spelling out what 'working in the open' means to him. Broadly

✍️ Blog, post on social media, (good) weeknotes
πŸ“ Public roadmap
πŸ“œ Design histories
πŸ‘₯ Meetups
🍿 Open show and tells
πŸ‘©β€πŸ’» Github

digitalbydefault.com/2025/07/08/m... #openworking
[Make things open] Beyond blogging
My recent focus on working in the open has very much been on my personal journey and, as such, primarily blogging with a bit of text based social media action. For the most part though what people …
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🧰 Working out who we need to work up the Service Toolkit as a more joined up experience for users of GDS's various products and services www.gov.uk/service-toolkit

πŸ” Work up review and improvement process, alongside research model, with May's audit as one starting point

3/3 #govdesign
πŸ”— Pulling together Service Manual requirements of a cross-public sector 'collaboration and contribution platform', to see if GDS's Digital Backbone work can help

✍️ Contracting a short term Business Analyst and Content Designer for the Service Manual

2/3 #govdesign
Short week for me, not in tomorrow or Friday, so... #weeknotes from GDS's Service Standard & Service Manual team...

πŸ€§πŸ–οΈ Lots of lurgy and holidays in our little crew, and at homes

🀸 Arranging more refresher training in Agile services

1/3 #govdesign #gds
πŸ™‡ Sorry it's been a while, but here are some #weeknotes, or #quarternotes, from GDS's Service Standard & Service Manual team. We've been...

πŸ‰ Getting the new team together, shaping our roadmap for continuous improvement

1/6 #govdesign #gds
Some #weeknotes from GDS's Service Standard & Manual

πŸ€– Considering potential updates to Service Standard on using AI in services

πŸ‰ Forming the new & growing 'Service transformation standards & guidance' service team, figuring out how we want to work together & what we all do

#govdesign #gds
Bill Gates urging a 'new approach' to climate change, but... have we tried the first one yet? Properly? Keeping fossil fuels in the ground? Or does My Drill Baby Drill just wreck all that...
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I have had a bug, the same one I think, for 3 weeks now. Boring. And this weekend it's dumped me back in bed. Annoying. My partner's away this week, and it's half term. Wish me luck!
'Where will three more years of this decline leave us? And what if the three years turns into something even longer, since there is no one to restrain this president from deciding that a third term is necessary, perhaps for national security reasons?'

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
The tragic change a single year has made in America | Margaret Sullivan
As we approach the anniversary of the 2024 election, we awake to new horrors each day. But we must not give up hope
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πŸͺœ Recruiting participants for research around 'Getting services onto GOV.UK'

🌳 Ongoing work with Defra on what their Greener Services Principles mean for the Service Standard greenerservices.github.io

6/6 #govdesign #gds
Greener Service Principles
greenerservices.github.io
πŸ€– Recruiting research participants for our Using AI in services guidance: www.gov.uk/service-manu...

🧰 Looking to develop the Service Toolkit as a more joined up experience for users of GDS's various products and services www.gov.uk/service-tool...

5/6
πŸ”— Talking to the excitingly named 'Digital Backbone' team about whether their work might enable us to collaborate with and get contributions from the public sector, to inform the Service Standard and Service Manual...🀞

πŸ€– Considering updates & clarifications to the Service Standard around AI use
4/6
πŸ“ Mapping the Service Manual's content workflow, so we can do it properly and make improvements

πŸ” Creating the ongoing research and data insights model needed to inform the Service Manual's continuous improvement

3/6
πŸ› οΈ Trying to get licenses for the tools we need

🀸 Doing refresher training in Agile services

πŸ‘› Bidding to further grow our capacity, to function properly and support expanding scope

2/6
πŸ™‡ Sorry it's been a while, but here are some #weeknotes, or #quarternotes, from GDS's Service Standard & Service Manual team. We've been...

πŸ‰ Getting the new team together, shaping our roadmap for continuous improvement

1/6 #govdesign #gds
Some #weeknotes from GDS's Service Standard & Manual

πŸ€– Considering potential updates to Service Standard on using AI in services

πŸ‰ Forming the new & growing 'Service transformation standards & guidance' service team, figuring out how we want to work together & what we all do

#govdesign #gds
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Once again, trigger discipline of a guy playing a video game in an arcade. These rejects are playing Call of Duty on our streets.
Earlier on Canal Street, as agents attempted to disperse, one who I recognize from the courts pulled out a taser and threatened protester with it. @thecity.nyc
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Breaking News: President Trump wants $230 million from the Justice Department for investigating him, people familiar with the matter say. Any settlement might ultimately be approved by senior department officials who defended him or those in his orbit. nyti.ms/4hmIi5X
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Entire government is an extortion racket.
Breaking News: President Trump wants $230 million from the Justice Department for investigating him, people familiar with the matter say. Any settlement might ultimately be approved by senior department officials who defended him or those in his orbit. nyti.ms/4hmIi5X
I just ran 4k. And played tennis this morning. Golf yesterday. Tennis the day before. Somehow still overweight. Absurd.
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It's odd how hard it can be, actually. Something to do with being public, not showing enough progress, exposed to criticism and comment. It's quite risky. I think lots of colleagues would find it impossible.