Ben Sauer
@bensauer.net
Author of https://deathbyscreens.co / Speaker / Product+Design Leader / ex-Clearleft, Babylon Health.
Current mission: helping designers tell better stories about their work. https://bensauer.net
Current mission: helping designers tell better stories about their work. https://bensauer.net
This is why Germans are more concerned about how their personal data is used.
October 12, 2025 at 7:56 AM
This is why Germans are more concerned about how their personal data is used.
WTF is the point of supplier portals like SAP Ariba, if you have to enter the same information every time for each client? Anyone know?
October 9, 2025 at 1:32 PM
WTF is the point of supplier portals like SAP Ariba, if you have to enter the same information every time for each client? Anyone know?
Putting an idea out there that just occurred to me while chatting about 'The Thick of It' with @tomdkerwin.bsky.social - I think the UK needs a 'Silicon Valley' type satire.
A British startup trying to be ambitious, but hampered by insecurities and class differences.
A British startup trying to be ambitious, but hampered by insecurities and class differences.
September 25, 2025 at 11:19 AM
Putting an idea out there that just occurred to me while chatting about 'The Thick of It' with @tomdkerwin.bsky.social - I think the UK needs a 'Silicon Valley' type satire.
A British startup trying to be ambitious, but hampered by insecurities and class differences.
A British startup trying to be ambitious, but hampered by insecurities and class differences.
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There's still time to sign up for tomorrow's
@transformgovtalks.bsky.social (MoJ/online) with:
- @moiranics.bsky.social/Holly Marquez (Cab Office) on Why Planning for AI Disasters Unlocks Breakthrough Innovation
- @bensauer.net on Always Be Creating Clarity: Daily habits for strategic storytelling
@transformgovtalks.bsky.social (MoJ/online) with:
- @moiranics.bsky.social/Holly Marquez (Cab Office) on Why Planning for AI Disasters Unlocks Breakthrough Innovation
- @bensauer.net on Always Be Creating Clarity: Daily habits for strategic storytelling
TransformGov Talks : September 2025 · Luma
Dr Moira Nicolson, Lead Behavioural Scientist (Cabinet Office) and Honorary Research Fellow (UCL) plus Holly Marquez, Senior Behavioural Scientist, (Cabinet…
luma.com
September 23, 2025 at 1:54 PM
There's still time to sign up for tomorrow's
@transformgovtalks.bsky.social (MoJ/online) with:
- @moiranics.bsky.social/Holly Marquez (Cab Office) on Why Planning for AI Disasters Unlocks Breakthrough Innovation
- @bensauer.net on Always Be Creating Clarity: Daily habits for strategic storytelling
@transformgovtalks.bsky.social (MoJ/online) with:
- @moiranics.bsky.social/Holly Marquez (Cab Office) on Why Planning for AI Disasters Unlocks Breakthrough Innovation
- @bensauer.net on Always Be Creating Clarity: Daily habits for strategic storytelling
Slow, sarcastic clap for rac.co.uk . Classic roach motel move: can’t cancel the service without calling them. So much self-serve is possible online, but not that. Almost like you can never leave… cc/ @deceptive.design
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rac.co.uk
August 5, 2025 at 8:35 PM
Slow, sarcastic clap for rac.co.uk . Classic roach motel move: can’t cancel the service without calling them. So much self-serve is possible online, but not that. Almost like you can never leave… cc/ @deceptive.design
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NEW— "A lot of children have passed the point of no return...The gut lining has started to auto-digest & will no longer [absorb] water or nutrition. Death is imminent for 1000s"
An American doctor who just returned from Gaza on where US-Israeli policy is taking us:
www.huffpost.com/entry/gaza-s...
An American doctor who just returned from Gaza on where US-Israeli policy is taking us:
www.huffpost.com/entry/gaza-s...
‘Past The Point Of No Return’: Doctor Describes How Starvation In Gaza Is Driving Mass Death
"In August and September, there are probably still going to be ... large numbers of deaths because children have already passed the tipping point," Mark Brauner, who volunteered in Gaza last month, to...
www.huffpost.com
July 28, 2025 at 5:01 PM
NEW— "A lot of children have passed the point of no return...The gut lining has started to auto-digest & will no longer [absorb] water or nutrition. Death is imminent for 1000s"
An American doctor who just returned from Gaza on where US-Israeli policy is taking us:
www.huffpost.com/entry/gaza-s...
An American doctor who just returned from Gaza on where US-Israeli policy is taking us:
www.huffpost.com/entry/gaza-s...
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The comments suggest "Sendetastenverunsicherung"
July 10, 2025 at 12:08 AM
The comments suggest "Sendetastenverunsicherung"
hey GDS/UK GOV folks. I just verified my ID for companies house. That process... was not fun. Got lost multiple times, ended up on help pages that didn't link me to the right place.
July 2, 2025 at 5:04 PM
hey GDS/UK GOV folks. I just verified my ID for companies house. That process... was not fun. Got lost multiple times, ended up on help pages that didn't link me to the right place.
OK folks, help needed. Search engines and AI are coming up blank.
Who said something like...
"great works are great not because they are free of flaws, but because they have mastered their own perspective" ?
I thought this was Virginia Woolf but can't find it....
Who said something like...
"great works are great not because they are free of flaws, but because they have mastered their own perspective" ?
I thought this was Virginia Woolf but can't find it....
May 1, 2025 at 9:27 AM
OK folks, help needed. Search engines and AI are coming up blank.
Who said something like...
"great works are great not because they are free of flaws, but because they have mastered their own perspective" ?
I thought this was Virginia Woolf but can't find it....
Who said something like...
"great works are great not because they are free of flaws, but because they have mastered their own perspective" ?
I thought this was Virginia Woolf but can't find it....
😘 Canada
April 29, 2025 at 11:09 AM
😘 Canada
Cursor just rickrolled me when I asked for some "HTML with an example youtube video embedded". 🤷
April 24, 2025 at 12:10 PM
Cursor just rickrolled me when I asked for some "HTML with an example youtube video embedded". 🤷
This is the story of my time at a well-funded yet disastrous startup
Twice in my life I've had the incredible good fortune to work on things that had *too much money* and neither of them turned out great. Just as not enough money gets in the way of good quality work, too much money can make it impossible for people to make hard choices.
Ah. Disruption, eh?
Is this what happens when making heat and light and noise is more important than making television? If you’re trying to attract viewers, it’s plainly disastrous not to make anything but spend a fortune. If you’re attracting investment and attention, possibly not a bad spend.
Is this what happens when making heat and light and noise is more important than making television? If you’re trying to attract viewers, it’s plainly disastrous not to make anything but spend a fortune. If you’re attracting investment and attention, possibly not a bad spend.
April 11, 2025 at 8:32 AM
This is the story of my time at a well-funded yet disastrous startup
I've been running my 'Practical Strategic Storytelling' workshop at conferences and for orgs like Monzo for a while now, and the response has been unexpected...
March 25, 2025 at 10:42 AM
I've been running my 'Practical Strategic Storytelling' workshop at conferences and for orgs like Monzo for a while now, and the response has been unexpected...
So close... just 3 days and 10% to go! Watch the trailer, and immediately throw some cash at @daviddylanthomas.bsky.social's brilliant movie idea (zombies that only eat white people...)
February 27, 2025 at 7:34 PM
So close... just 3 days and 10% to go! Watch the trailer, and immediately throw some cash at @daviddylanthomas.bsky.social's brilliant movie idea (zombies that only eat white people...)
Pony up people! This is such a great project
SIX DAYS TO GO! And we're at 62%!!! Let's bring it on home and make sure those Black zombies get fed. www.kickstarter.com/projects/dav...
February 24, 2025 at 7:32 PM
Pony up people! This is such a great project
America is becoming one *giant* Chesterton's Fence, isn't it?
February 12, 2025 at 11:50 AM
America is becoming one *giant* Chesterton's Fence, isn't it?
Make America Taste Great Again! bsky.app/profile/davi...
Beneath a quiet park in Philly lie the bodies of hundreds of enslaved people (true). What if, one night, they all came back from the dead as zombies but only ate white people? That's the premise of my new film, White Meat. Will you help make it a reality? whitemeatmovie.com
February 3, 2025 at 9:29 AM
Make America Taste Great Again! bsky.app/profile/davi...
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Finally got this prototype to work after 1000 years of debugging. Sweet release 🥲
The idea is I dump a bunch of unstructured notes on a topic in, feed that into gpt-4o-mini, ask it to label sections with a set of types – claim, evidence, assumption, etc. – and display them as coloured highlights
The idea is I dump a bunch of unstructured notes on a topic in, feed that into gpt-4o-mini, ask it to label sections with a set of types – claim, evidence, assumption, etc. – and display them as coloured highlights
January 31, 2025 at 11:27 AM
Finally got this prototype to work after 1000 years of debugging. Sweet release 🥲
The idea is I dump a bunch of unstructured notes on a topic in, feed that into gpt-4o-mini, ask it to label sections with a set of types – claim, evidence, assumption, etc. – and display them as coloured highlights
The idea is I dump a bunch of unstructured notes on a topic in, feed that into gpt-4o-mini, ask it to label sections with a set of types – claim, evidence, assumption, etc. – and display them as coloured highlights
Hey. You. Yes you. Do you know what 'deadcatting' is? You should!
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_ca...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_ca...
Dead cat strategy - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
January 22, 2025 at 4:56 PM
Hey. You. Yes you. Do you know what 'deadcatting' is? You should!
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_ca...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_ca...
Realising that ChatGPT's appeal is not just intelligence. It's providing a cleaned-up version of the web that's been missing for years.
No crappy search results. No guessing which one's right. No cookie / mailing list popups or distracting ads.
It's a return to what the web used to be.
No crappy search results. No guessing which one's right. No cookie / mailing list popups or distracting ads.
It's a return to what the web used to be.
January 10, 2025 at 1:28 PM
Realising that ChatGPT's appeal is not just intelligence. It's providing a cleaned-up version of the web that's been missing for years.
No crappy search results. No guessing which one's right. No cookie / mailing list popups or distracting ads.
It's a return to what the web used to be.
No crappy search results. No guessing which one's right. No cookie / mailing list popups or distracting ads.
It's a return to what the web used to be.
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Shameless plug! I made an indie calendar app for people with #adhd .
Check it out here and repost if you like it. www.weelplanner.app
Check it out here and repost if you like it. www.weelplanner.app
Weel Planner | ADHD Calendar App for iOS
No more missed events. Weel is an ADHD calendar that gets how you think. Discover tools to address time blindness, dyscalculia, alarm numbness, and more.
www.weelplanner.app
January 10, 2025 at 9:37 AM
Shameless plug! I made an indie calendar app for people with #adhd .
Check it out here and repost if you like it. www.weelplanner.app
Check it out here and repost if you like it. www.weelplanner.app
I just wrote "forgetababble" instead of "forgettable", and I think that's a much better description of what I was trying to describe.
Forgetababble: When someone goes into so much detail, you don't remember a thing they've said.
Forgetababble: When someone goes into so much detail, you don't remember a thing they've said.
January 7, 2025 at 3:52 PM
I just wrote "forgetababble" instead of "forgettable", and I think that's a much better description of what I was trying to describe.
Forgetababble: When someone goes into so much detail, you don't remember a thing they've said.
Forgetababble: When someone goes into so much detail, you don't remember a thing they've said.
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Beneath a quiet park in Philly lie the bodies of hundreds of enslaved people (true). What if, one night, they all came back from the dead as zombies but only ate white people? That's the premise of my new film, White Meat. Will you help make it a reality? whitemeatmovie.com
December 3, 2024 at 11:13 PM
Beneath a quiet park in Philly lie the bodies of hundreds of enslaved people (true). What if, one night, they all came back from the dead as zombies but only ate white people? That's the premise of my new film, White Meat. Will you help make it a reality? whitemeatmovie.com
Soooo.... to fix my phone <> laptop hotspot, Gemini is recommending that I... *checks notes*.... wipe my phone. 🫣
December 17, 2024 at 2:15 PM
Soooo.... to fix my phone <> laptop hotspot, Gemini is recommending that I... *checks notes*.... wipe my phone. 🫣
This is very good - subtle distinction between interacting with "AI as person" and "AI as computer."
I've been arguing in recent talks that there's also a serious confusion generally between AI as mode of interaction (voice and chat), and AI as material (the intelligent plumbing behind the scenes)
I've been arguing in recent talks that there's also a serious confusion generally between AI as mode of interaction (voice and chat), and AI as material (the intelligent plumbing behind the scenes)
The future of AI is models that generate graphical interfaces. Instead of the linear, low-bandwidth metaphor of conversation, models will represent themselves to us as computers: rich visuals, direct manipulation, and instant feedback.
willwhitney.com/computing-in...
willwhitney.com/computing-in...
Computing inside an AI | Will Whitney
willwhitney.com
December 16, 2024 at 1:44 PM
This is very good - subtle distinction between interacting with "AI as person" and "AI as computer."
I've been arguing in recent talks that there's also a serious confusion generally between AI as mode of interaction (voice and chat), and AI as material (the intelligent plumbing behind the scenes)
I've been arguing in recent talks that there's also a serious confusion generally between AI as mode of interaction (voice and chat), and AI as material (the intelligent plumbing behind the scenes)