Colin Newlyn
@colinnewlyn.bsky.social
Recovering Executive trying to make sense of life and release my inner pirate. 🏴☠️
I write the 'Decrapify Work' and 'No-one's Coming To Save You' newsletters on substack.
Interested in progressive ideas, good trouble, skiing, WHUFC & playing the ukulele
I write the 'Decrapify Work' and 'No-one's Coming To Save You' newsletters on substack.
Interested in progressive ideas, good trouble, skiing, WHUFC & playing the ukulele
This is about the tension of loving the work and people I worked with but hating the organisation and people I worked for - and losing sight of the balance of the two.
A cautionary tale about why you need to connected to your feelings and value your wellbeing.
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A cautionary tale about why you need to connected to your feelings and value your wellbeing.
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Love and hate and work
I distinctly remember loving and hating my job with equal gusto, during a particularly difficult period.
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December 17, 2025 at 11:17 AM
This is about the tension of loving the work and people I worked with but hating the organisation and people I worked for - and losing sight of the balance of the two.
A cautionary tale about why you need to connected to your feelings and value your wellbeing.
open.substack.com/pub/survivin...
A cautionary tale about why you need to connected to your feelings and value your wellbeing.
open.substack.com/pub/survivin...
The middle management sponge , why where complexity sits is key to any org design, the simple principles behind alternatives to hierarchy and how we value speed of response over quality.
The Decrapify Work Newsletter 214
#futureofwork #leadership open.substack.com/pub/decrapif...
The Decrapify Work Newsletter 214
#futureofwork #leadership open.substack.com/pub/decrapif...
Squeezing the toothpaste tube
Complexity and org design
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December 16, 2025 at 10:35 AM
The middle management sponge , why where complexity sits is key to any org design, the simple principles behind alternatives to hierarchy and how we value speed of response over quality.
The Decrapify Work Newsletter 214
#futureofwork #leadership open.substack.com/pub/decrapif...
The Decrapify Work Newsletter 214
#futureofwork #leadership open.substack.com/pub/decrapif...
This is a substack post about how the Corporate world is full of dangers but we mistake it as a benign place and suffer consequently.
This is a draft of the first chapter of my ‘Corporate Survival Guide’ project. To read more, subscribe to 'Surviving Corporate'.
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This is a draft of the first chapter of my ‘Corporate Survival Guide’ project. To read more, subscribe to 'Surviving Corporate'.
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Eaten by Lions
Corporate Survival Guide 1.1
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December 10, 2025 at 9:54 AM
This is a substack post about how the Corporate world is full of dangers but we mistake it as a benign place and suffer consequently.
This is a draft of the first chapter of my ‘Corporate Survival Guide’ project. To read more, subscribe to 'Surviving Corporate'.
open.substack.com/pub/survivin...
This is a draft of the first chapter of my ‘Corporate Survival Guide’ project. To read more, subscribe to 'Surviving Corporate'.
open.substack.com/pub/survivin...
The reasons why our views on the future of work will always be wrong but it's worth having them anyway because that's how we find the good stuff; and why we can hope for a better one (future, that is).
Decrapify Work Newsletter 213
#futureofwork #leadership
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Decrapify Work Newsletter 213
#futureofwork #leadership
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Tomorrow will be different, probably
The pointless yet necessary practice of predicting the future of work
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December 1, 2025 at 12:30 PM
The reasons why our views on the future of work will always be wrong but it's worth having them anyway because that's how we find the good stuff; and why we can hope for a better one (future, that is).
Decrapify Work Newsletter 213
#futureofwork #leadership
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Decrapify Work Newsletter 213
#futureofwork #leadership
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Yeah but he still got to steal all the data.
DOGE was Elon Musk’s grand experiment in running our government like one of his companies: big promises, reckless cuts, and real people left hurting.
Now it’s been quietly shut down eight months early because it never came close to delivering the savings he bragged about.
Now it’s been quietly shut down eight months early because it never came close to delivering the savings he bragged about.
DOGE Disbanded: Elon Musk’s Cost-Cutting Project Quietly Ended
Musk said the initiative would save at least $1 trillion. But its website claims to have reached only $214 billion.
time.com
November 25, 2025 at 9:56 AM
Yeah but he still got to steal all the data.
How to not say no.
Did you ever racially abuse fellow pupils?
It was years ago.
Did you ever racially abuse fellow pupils?
Not in a hurtful way.
Did you ever racially abuse fellow pupils?
Not with intent.
Did you ever racially abuse fellow pupils?
Not genuine abuse.
😮🫣😬😱 ~AA
It was years ago.
Did you ever racially abuse fellow pupils?
Not in a hurtful way.
Did you ever racially abuse fellow pupils?
Not with intent.
Did you ever racially abuse fellow pupils?
Not genuine abuse.
😮🫣😬😱 ~AA
November 24, 2025 at 11:20 PM
How to not say no.
What on earth is wrong with this man?
Everything about this might be the saddest thing I’ve ever seen
November 24, 2025 at 10:49 PM
What on earth is wrong with this man?
In which I discuss Gary Hamel's views on leaders and managers, traits of leaders, the need to change the system and what those changes might be. I give him 7 out of 10. Oh, and why you need to be a pirate! 🏴☠️
Decrapify Work Newsletter 212
#futureofwork #leadership
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Decrapify Work Newsletter 212
#futureofwork #leadership
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Catching Smoke
Some thoughts on leadership
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November 24, 2025 at 10:47 AM
In which I discuss Gary Hamel's views on leaders and managers, traits of leaders, the need to change the system and what those changes might be. I give him 7 out of 10. Oh, and why you need to be a pirate! 🏴☠️
Decrapify Work Newsletter 212
#futureofwork #leadership
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Decrapify Work Newsletter 212
#futureofwork #leadership
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Me too
Every time I see Pollock on the ball I think of the clip of Boris Johnson clobbering the tiny schoolboy.
November 23, 2025 at 6:35 PM
Me too
I just want it on the record that I was fucking furious at Johnson's incompetence and arrogance at the time he fatally delayed lockdowns, I'm still fucking furious and I'm even more furious he's being paid money for his opinions rather than sharing them with his aggressive cell mate.
November 21, 2025 at 5:32 PM
I just want it on the record that I was fucking furious at Johnson's incompetence and arrogance at the time he fatally delayed lockdowns, I'm still fucking furious and I'm even more furious he's being paid money for his opinions rather than sharing them with his aggressive cell mate.
Reposted by Colin Newlyn
Farage et al really mustn't be allowed to walk away from this scandal, and its wider implications:
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Former Reform in Wales leader Nathan Gill jailed for pro-Russian bribery
Nathan Gill, 52, is sentenced to 10 and a half years in prison after admitting taking bribes while an MEP.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 21, 2025 at 4:51 PM
Farage et al really mustn't be allowed to walk away from this scandal, and its wider implications:
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Billionaires shouldn't be able to buy a bigger voice in politics. Add your name to @electoralreform.bsky.social's call to put a cap on how much they can donate in the #ElectionsBill
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Sign now to demand an end to big money in politics
It takes 30 seconds
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November 19, 2025 at 8:13 AM
Billionaires shouldn't be able to buy a bigger voice in politics. Add your name to @electoralreform.bsky.social's call to put a cap on how much they can donate in the #ElectionsBill
action.electoral-reform.org.uk/page/179420/...
action.electoral-reform.org.uk/page/179420/...
What was unacceptable is now the norm as it obliterates guardrails and stomps over everyone; Musk's $1T middle finger to us all; what's coming to tech workers and the rest of us as they turn the screw even harder; why we must come together to fight back
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The Unacceptable Face Of Capitalism
And what to do about it
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November 17, 2025 at 10:03 AM
What was unacceptable is now the norm as it obliterates guardrails and stomps over everyone; Musk's $1T middle finger to us all; what's coming to tech workers and the rest of us as they turn the screw even harder; why we must come together to fight back
open.substack.com/pub/decrapif...
open.substack.com/pub/decrapif...
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Daniel Hannan was born in Peru.
November 2, 2025 at 7:44 PM
Daniel Hannan was born in Peru.
Reposted by Colin Newlyn
Anyway, stoked to see how the political tendency that has spent decades cutting mental health funding, advocating for driverless trains and mocking attempts to ban big knives deals with a train driver and guard’s swift action helping end a mentally ill man’s rampage with a big knife.
November 3, 2025 at 10:41 AM
Anyway, stoked to see how the political tendency that has spent decades cutting mental health funding, advocating for driverless trains and mocking attempts to ban big knives deals with a train driver and guard’s swift action helping end a mentally ill man’s rampage with a big knife.
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This. A thousand times this.
November 2, 2025 at 5:56 PM
This. A thousand times this.
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So a virtually brand new news site can cover this story, which is of national importance, but the BBC and our msm remain silent?They’re not just silent they’re now complicit in a cover up of a foreign intelligence agency penetrating a UK political party. This needs to be spread widely.
NEW: Police knew a Kremlin spy ring recruited former leader of Reform Wales at least 3 years ago.
So why was Nathan Gill not charged till Feb this year?
Pls read part 2 of @thenerve.news special investigation into Nathan Gill. And please share!
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So why was Nathan Gill not charged till Feb this year?
Pls read part 2 of @thenerve.news special investigation into Nathan Gill. And please share!
1/
October 18, 2025 at 9:56 AM
So a virtually brand new news site can cover this story, which is of national importance, but the BBC and our msm remain silent?They’re not just silent they’re now complicit in a cover up of a foreign intelligence agency penetrating a UK political party. This needs to be spread widely.
This is brilliant. Guaranteed to make you smile.
Start your weekend off right by watching a hillbilly make a swirly cake
October 10, 2025 at 10:37 PM
This is brilliant. Guaranteed to make you smile.
Great @quietriotpod.bsky.social with @samfr.bsky.social. However, Sam said that people saying ‘what about Gaza?’ In response to his post is a form of antisemitism and I didn’t understand that. (I think it’s crass and wouldn’t say it. Btw) That’s a problem if the meaning gets blurred and confusing.
October 9, 2025 at 9:36 PM
Great @quietriotpod.bsky.social with @samfr.bsky.social. However, Sam said that people saying ‘what about Gaza?’ In response to his post is a form of antisemitism and I didn’t understand that. (I think it’s crass and wouldn’t say it. Btw) That’s a problem if the meaning gets blurred and confusing.
Small things you can do to improve work, why you can't tweak your way to transformation and the need for starting with brutal honesty.
#futureofwork #leadership #change #decrapifywork
Decrapify YOUR work
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#futureofwork #leadership #change #decrapifywork
Decrapify YOUR work
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Decrapify YOUR work
Self help or self flagellation?
open.substack.com
October 6, 2025 at 10:08 AM
Small things you can do to improve work, why you can't tweak your way to transformation and the need for starting with brutal honesty.
#futureofwork #leadership #change #decrapifywork
Decrapify YOUR work
open.substack.com/pub/decrapif...
#futureofwork #leadership #change #decrapifywork
Decrapify YOUR work
open.substack.com/pub/decrapif...
Excellent work. Hilarious.
A thread of inspirational quotes from two of my idols: Kemi Badenoch and Ange Postecoglou
(uh-oh, I may have gotten some mixed up... or have I??)
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(uh-oh, I may have gotten some mixed up... or have I??)
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October 6, 2025 at 9:50 AM
Excellent work. Hilarious.
They are all deluded. If he wasn't so rich, people would be having him sedated for his own protection.
October 3, 2025 at 2:22 PM
They are all deluded. If he wasn't so rich, people would be having him sedated for his own protection.
This is an excellent book, a stellar bargain for 99p!
Occasional reminder that, if you've been wondering what the big deal is with that 47 borders book that everyone keeps going on about - worried that your cooler friends might work out you haven't read it at all - then it is currently available for just 99p on Kindle:
A History of the World in 47 Borders: The Sunday Times #1 Bestseller eBook : Elledge, Jonn: Amazon.co.uk: Books
A History of the World in 47 Borders: The Sunday Times #1 Bestseller eBook : Elledge, Jonn: Amazon.co.uk: Books
www.amazon.co.uk
October 3, 2025 at 2:18 PM
This is an excellent book, a stellar bargain for 99p!
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We laugh at this shit -- I mean, how can you not? -- but it's serious: these guys want to infuse reactionary thinking into AI and then infuse AI into every nook & cranny of American life. They can't win the argument so they are trying to blunt-force their views onto us with money & power.
September 30, 2025 at 8:33 PM
We laugh at this shit -- I mean, how can you not? -- but it's serious: these guys want to infuse reactionary thinking into AI and then infuse AI into every nook & cranny of American life. They can't win the argument so they are trying to blunt-force their views onto us with money & power.
This ‘radical left’ Nigel - is it in the room with us now? Can you point to it?
Rattled Nigel Farage moans Keir Starmer put him at risk in unhinged Trump-style rant
www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...
www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...
Rattled Farage moans Starmer put him at risk in unhinged Trump-style rant
The Reform leader, who has repeatedly backed absolute free speech complained about the Labour leader’s “language”, and claimed "antifa" and the "radical left" would be coming after him
www.mirror.co.uk
September 30, 2025 at 4:56 PM
This ‘radical left’ Nigel - is it in the room with us now? Can you point to it?