Adrian Howard
@adrianhoward.com
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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Don't Track Tasks. Track Interruptions.
TL;DR: Instead of tracking your time, try tracking the interruptions instead.
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A little ramble on the value of tracking interruptions over tracking time on task. adrianhoward.com/posts/track-...
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Please, feed the pod (it does get hungry)
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December 4, 2025 at 1:25 PM
Please, feed the pod (it does get hungry)
You know you've made successful UI design decisions when you motivate somebody to write their first macOS app to roll some of them back github.com/dannystewart...
GitHub - dannystewart/volumeHUD: Bring back the pre-Tahoe macOS volume and brightness HUDs
Bring back the pre-Tahoe macOS volume and brightness HUDs - dannystewart/volumeHUD
github.com
December 4, 2025 at 2:41 PM
You know you've made successful UI design decisions when you motivate somebody to write their first macOS app to roll some of them back github.com/dannystewart...
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FINALLY.
The bronze statue depicting the eponymous cybernetic star of Paul Verhoeven’s 1987 set-in-Detroit sci-fi satire was installed in Eastern Market on Wednesday, nearly 15 years after someone proposed it in a viral social media post.
Detroit finally has a RoboCop statue - Detroit Metro Times
Nearly 15 years later, Detroit finally has its statue of RoboCop. The bronze statue depicting the eponymous cybernetic star of Paul Verhoeven’s 1987 set-in-Detroit sci-fi satire was installed in East...
www.metrotimes.com
December 4, 2025 at 1:05 PM
FINALLY.
A little ramble on the value of tracking interruptions over tracking time on task. adrianhoward.com/posts/track-...
Don't Track Tasks. Track Interruptions.
TL;DR: Instead of tracking your time, try tracking the interruptions instead.
adrianhoward.com
December 3, 2025 at 2:53 PM
A little ramble on the value of tracking interruptions over tracking time on task. adrianhoward.com/posts/track-...
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Hey if you’re reading for #Nebula (and other) nominations this year, check out my secret twist-y summertime gothic novelette, When He Calls Your Name, at @uncannymagazine.bsky.social and consider it maybe!
www.uncannymagazine.com/article/when...
www.uncannymagazine.com/article/when...
When He Calls Your Name - Uncanny Magazine
There’s nights in the deep end of summer so hot and thick and wet you can feel the dark wrinkling up your fingers like bathwater—and my last night breathing was one of those. 2 a.m. came to ring my be...
www.uncannymagazine.com
December 3, 2025 at 2:44 PM
Hey if you’re reading for #Nebula (and other) nominations this year, check out my secret twist-y summertime gothic novelette, When He Calls Your Name, at @uncannymagazine.bsky.social and consider it maybe!
www.uncannymagazine.com/article/when...
www.uncannymagazine.com/article/when...
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🎉 🎉 🎉 UK & EUROPE COVER REVEAL 🎉 🎉 🎉
The Edge of Space-Time is coming to European readers via UK publisher @canongate.co.uk on 7 May 2026! With a slightly different subtitle 😂
Preorders now open! Please support your local indie. It helps authors so much!
buythebook.online/edge-of-spac... #BookSky
The Edge of Space-Time is coming to European readers via UK publisher @canongate.co.uk on 7 May 2026! With a slightly different subtitle 😂
Preorders now open! Please support your local indie. It helps authors so much!
buythebook.online/edge-of-spac... #BookSky
December 2, 2025 at 3:21 PM
🎉 🎉 🎉 UK & EUROPE COVER REVEAL 🎉 🎉 🎉
The Edge of Space-Time is coming to European readers via UK publisher @canongate.co.uk on 7 May 2026! With a slightly different subtitle 😂
Preorders now open! Please support your local indie. It helps authors so much!
buythebook.online/edge-of-spac... #BookSky
The Edge of Space-Time is coming to European readers via UK publisher @canongate.co.uk on 7 May 2026! With a slightly different subtitle 😂
Preorders now open! Please support your local indie. It helps authors so much!
buythebook.online/edge-of-spac... #BookSky
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All of you are wrong.
British public’s verdict is in: Die Hard is not a Christmas movie
British public’s verdict is in: Die Hard is not a Christmas movie
Survey also reveals Britons’ favourite festive film, views on tear-jerkers and family cinema trips
When Macaulay Culkin recently said he didn’t consider Die Hard to be a Christmas film – wading into one of pop culture’s most heated holiday debates – he was booed by a live audience.
But it looks like the British people are behind the actor, with a survey revealing that Home Alone is the UK’s favourite festive film, while Die Hard has officially been voted not a Christmas movie. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
December 2, 2025 at 12:32 AM
All of you are wrong.
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The crested auklet is so cheeky. 😆
December 2, 2025 at 5:06 AM
The crested auklet is so cheeky. 😆
Disappointed it took until 3pm until I figured out that I was actually ill and should stop trying to do work stuff.
Idiot boy. Listen to the body. It knows shit.
Idiot boy. Listen to the body. It knows shit.
December 1, 2025 at 6:10 PM
Disappointed it took until 3pm until I figured out that I was actually ill and should stop trying to do work stuff.
Idiot boy. Listen to the body. It knows shit.
Idiot boy. Listen to the body. It knows shit.
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My AI anecdote is that I’m writing a story script for a high profile IP project featuring a virtual assistant and received the note: “don’t use the word ‘AI’ in the script because the word is toxic now, plus people will assume it’s giving bad info or evil.”
my “AI is over” anecdote is that my wife was hired over the summer to write scripts for a big tech company explaining how to use their AI tools and after many rounds of revisions, the latest notes said “we’re finding a lot of AI fatigue among our users” and to remove all references to AI
Anecdotally on twitter seeing a big shift the last few days from every AI slop account saying every other creative field is “over” and they’re in control now to now posting about how nobody likes them and it’s not fair and they’ll persevere and real artists respect and uplift eachother
November 30, 2025 at 12:59 AM
My AI anecdote is that I’m writing a story script for a high profile IP project featuring a virtual assistant and received the note: “don’t use the word ‘AI’ in the script because the word is toxic now, plus people will assume it’s giving bad info or evil.”
If you have to write a think piece on the Turing Test (and you don't…). If you have to do it without a passing knowledge of the last 75 years of writing on the topic (again… you really don't…)
Can you at least read the original first? Pretty please? It's not long. www.cs.ox.ac.uk/activities/i...
Can you at least read the original first? Pretty please? It's not long. www.cs.ox.ac.uk/activities/i...
www.cs.ox.ac.uk
December 1, 2025 at 12:03 PM
If you have to write a think piece on the Turing Test (and you don't…). If you have to do it without a passing knowledge of the last 75 years of writing on the topic (again… you really don't…)
Can you at least read the original first? Pretty please? It's not long. www.cs.ox.ac.uk/activities/i...
Can you at least read the original first? Pretty please? It's not long. www.cs.ox.ac.uk/activities/i...
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these are fuckin delightful new icons (more in the thread!)
last week i remembered that macOS lets you set your own icons and that *I* have the power to delegitimize the professionalism of the software that runs on my machine, so here's a thread of the 16 new icons i've made so far
i really forgot how fun it was to just sit down and make art for myself :')
i really forgot how fun it was to just sit down and make art for myself :')
November 30, 2025 at 7:00 PM
these are fuckin delightful new icons (more in the thread!)
I've been pondering a little recently about what the ideal person to collaborate with about organisational change is.
A very, very rough list off the top of my head from my previous experiences:
…
(1/4)
A very, very rough list off the top of my head from my previous experiences:
…
(1/4)
November 30, 2025 at 2:18 PM
I've been pondering a little recently about what the ideal person to collaborate with about organisational change is.
A very, very rough list off the top of my head from my previous experiences:
…
(1/4)
A very, very rough list off the top of my head from my previous experiences:
…
(1/4)
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And now some personal news! My book Occupied Minds is for sale on Amazon!
I hope you’ll check it out. It’s only $2.99!
www.amazon.com/Occupied-Min...
I hope you’ll check it out. It’s only $2.99!
www.amazon.com/Occupied-Min...
October 1, 2025 at 4:21 PM
And now some personal news! My book Occupied Minds is for sale on Amazon!
I hope you’ll check it out. It’s only $2.99!
www.amazon.com/Occupied-Min...
I hope you’ll check it out. It’s only $2.99!
www.amazon.com/Occupied-Min...
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More foxes in . . . interesting . . . sleeping spots . Thank you to @jestraughton.bsky.social for sharing this one ! #FoxOfTheDay
November 30, 2025 at 7:00 AM
More foxes in . . . interesting . . . sleeping spots . Thank you to @jestraughton.bsky.social for sharing this one ! #FoxOfTheDay
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The Doctor is right and correct
Always love to see great talent using their platform for unabashed good.
'F*** Off And Let People Be': David Tennant Doubles Down On Support For Trans People
"People are trying to create division... and it's so f***ing unnecessary."
www.huffingtonpost.co.uk
November 29, 2025 at 12:51 PM
The Doctor is right and correct
They Might Be Giant's "Spiralling Shape" is Cosmic Horror. In this essay I will…
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Em6v...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Em6v...
Spiraling Shape
YouTube video by They Might Be Giants - Topic
www.youtube.com
November 29, 2025 at 10:35 AM
They Might Be Giant's "Spiralling Shape" is Cosmic Horror. In this essay I will…
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Em6v...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Em6v...
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i hope this email finds you well
November 28, 2025 at 6:27 PM
i hope this email finds you well
Retro done. Day done. Week done. Done.
Dinner in the oven. Washing up done. Time to crack open a beer.
Have a good weekend y'all!
Dinner in the oven. Washing up done. Time to crack open a beer.
Have a good weekend y'all!
November 28, 2025 at 7:02 PM
Retro done. Day done. Week done. Done.
Dinner in the oven. Washing up done. Time to crack open a beer.
Have a good weekend y'all!
Dinner in the oven. Washing up done. Time to crack open a beer.
Have a good weekend y'all!
Thanks to everybody who came to last week's #BalancedTeam. We discussed managing roadmap expectations, discovered the German word "Eierlegende Wollmilchsau", and other fun stuff!
The next online meeting is on Jan 22 2026 — do come along! Tickets and more info at www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/balanced-t...
The next online meeting is on Jan 22 2026 — do come along! Tickets and more info at www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/balanced-t...
Balanced Team in the Ether #22
A free online Balanced Team event to discuss all things related to diverse cross-functional multi-disciplinary work!
www.eventbrite.co.uk
November 28, 2025 at 2:25 PM
Thanks to everybody who came to last week's #BalancedTeam. We discussed managing roadmap expectations, discovered the German word "Eierlegende Wollmilchsau", and other fun stuff!
The next online meeting is on Jan 22 2026 — do come along! Tickets and more info at www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/balanced-t...
The next online meeting is on Jan 22 2026 — do come along! Tickets and more info at www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/balanced-t...
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Orgs erroneously believe that the messiness of true human thinking, and inconsistency of moods, needs to be made average to affect their market share.
These errors lead directly to assumptions, to bias, and from there to harmful experiences and outright discrimination."
These errors lead directly to assumptions, to bias, and from there to harmful experiences and outright discrimination."
November 22, 2025 at 11:38 PM
Orgs erroneously believe that the messiness of true human thinking, and inconsistency of moods, needs to be made average to affect their market share.
These errors lead directly to assumptions, to bias, and from there to harmful experiences and outright discrimination."
These errors lead directly to assumptions, to bias, and from there to harmful experiences and outright discrimination."