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Dave Rogers @daverog.bsky.social · 5d

Technology forms layers in your organisation - over years, these can start to feel like layers of rock in a geological formation. This is slowing down everything you do.

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The deep digital geology that’s slowing your company down — Public Digital

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Dave Rogers @daverog.bsky.social · 22d

Interesting looking sessions at the next @transformgovtalks.bsky.social see you there if you're coming too 👋

transformgovtalks.bsky.social @transformgovtalks.bsky.social · 23d

🚨 6PM, WED 24 September 🚨

Join us at the MoJ or online

* Dr Moira Nicolson & Holly Marquez "Failing Forward: Why Planning for AI Disasters Unlocks Breakthrough Innovation"
* Ben Sauer "Always Be Creating Clarity: Daily habits for strategic storytelling"

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Please share! Thanks 🙏

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…

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Dave Rogers @daverog.bsky.social · 26d

This team was brilliant today. The time they gave to explain their mission and personal stories was generous, and incredibly insightful. Go @adhdpathfinding.org.uk 🙌🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻

Himal Mandalia @himal.bsky.social · 26d

What an absolutely amazing day! Thanks again to @daverog.bsky.social and @publicdigital.bsky.social!

Connecting, workshopping, showing, telling… we’ll share more soon!

For now, our latest weeknote:

medium.com/adhd-pathfin...

Four people standing in front of a poster reading “optimism counts in an era where pessimism prevalent.” Left to right: Man in blue polo, man in shirt and red trousers, women in glasses and print dress, man in yellow t-shirt and glasses.

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Dave Rogers @daverog.bsky.social · 29d

We're looking forward to having you all at @publicdigital.bsky.social and having an opportunity to support your mission 🙌🏻

Himal Mandalia @himal.bsky.social · Sep 9

This Friday will be our first in-person meet as @adhdpathfinding.org.uk! Huge thanks to @daverog.bsky.social and @publicdigital.bsky.social for hosting 🙌

We’ll be running a strategy workshop and doing a show and tell with the PD team.

Learning and working in the open, shaped by lived experience 💙

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Dave Rogers @daverog.bsky.social · Jul 15

We need more of this kind of thing ✊🏻

ADHD Pathfinding @adhdpathfinding.org.uk · Jul 14

ADHD support shouldn’t feel like a maze. But for many it does.

So we’re launching ADHD Pathfinding. A volunteer team with lived experience, exploring how to design more joined up and accessible pathways.

This is about change, not just awareness.

Read why we’re doing this and what comes next.

Introducing ADHD Pathfinding

Exploring more joined up and accessible ADHD care

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Dave Rogers @daverog.bsky.social · Jul 11

🚨 Awesome new technologist role at Public Digital 🚨

Dai Vaughan @daivaughan.uk · Jul 10

Come join my team @publicdigital.bsky.social!

We’re looking for technologists from all kinds of backgrounds to join us and use your hands-on experience to help leading institutions around the world adapt for the digital age.

apply.workable.com/public-digit...

Tech Principal Consultant - Public Digital

Salary: £85,000 - £105,000 (depending on experience)Location: United Kingdom (Hybrid – with regular in-person client meetings. Some travel, including international travel, may be required depending on...

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Himal Mandalia @himal.bsky.social · Jun 24

A proposal for a “Single Front Door” for ADHD. Shaped by my own lived experience, conversations with dozens navigating ADHD journeys and strengthened through generous input from experienced designers, policy thinkers and former civil servants

This isn’t just a blog post. It’s a call to action.

A Single Front Door for ADHD

Rethinking how we access diagnosis, support and care

himalmandalia.medium.com

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Dave Rogers @daverog.bsky.social · Jun 13

Using LLMs for software development can't solve the problem of technical debt, but it feels like it's changing the game share.google/4XDOSKp1OQTs... but I do wonder if it can outpace the ability, with the same technology, to create new technical debt at greater speed

How the GitHub billing team uses the coding agent in GitHub Copilot to continuously burn down technical debt

Tech debt is a big problem that no one has time to solve. GitHub Copilot coding agent can help.

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Tom Loosemore @tomski.com · Apr 7

On the myth that efficiency should be the primary goal of government transformation. foreignpolicy.com/2025/04/07/d...

Efficiency Isn’t Everything

Successful delivery of state services requires judgment, not chainsaws.

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Dave Rogers @daverog.bsky.social · Mar 25

On Friday I'm speaking on a panel at the Institute of Philosophy and the Institute of Commonwealth Studies's event Diplomacy in the Digital Age commonwealth.sas.ac.uk/news-events/... exploring the state of government technology, and the impact this has on this critical domain.

Diplomacy in the Digital Age

The Institute of Philosophy and the Institute of Commonwealth Studies have organised a high-level, invite-only dialogue on Diplomacy in the Digital Age on 28 March 2025.

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Nexer_Digital @nexerdigital.com · Mar 18

#CampDigital - Meet our speakers!

We're delighted to announce that @kwastell.bsky.social and @blangry.bsky.social will join our lineup on 3rd July, with their talk 'Getting things moving in a system that doesn't want to!' 🥳

Grab your tickets today at: tinyurl.com/mw4bcyb9

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Dave Rogers @daverog.bsky.social · Mar 17

I knew it!

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Dave Rogers @daverog.bsky.social · Mar 17

Someone really needs to have a word with whoever is putting up all this 'red tape' in the first place 🙄

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Richard Pope @richardpope.org · Feb 7

I hope one thing digital government practitioners are taking away from attempting to divine what is happening in the US: it should be a mater of public record how digital public services and infrastructure work, when they change and what data they use. No more excuses.

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Dave Rogers @daverog.bsky.social · Feb 6

Found it! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overton...

A railway station platform reads "Overton" as seen from inside a train, through the train window.

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Stefan Czerniawski @pubstr.at · Jan 27

I wrote this on this day ten years ago. It has become a necessary ritual to share it again each year and to remember for those who no longer can.

On not going to Auschwitz

It is thirty years since I didn’t go to Auschwitz. The memory of not going has never left me. In 1985, I was living in Kraków, just 40 miles on the slow stopping train from Oświęcim. I could …

www.privatetactician.com

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Dave Rogers @daverog.bsky.social · Jan 19

It's a bold choice

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Dave Rogers @daverog.bsky.social · Jan 18

That was a very enjoyable #ukgc25 (if slightly exhausting). Brilliant to hear different experiences of leadership, problem solve the spending review, and hear people's understanding of and reactions to 'test & learn'. And see so many brilliant people I haven't in a long time. 🤗

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Dave Rogers @daverog.bsky.social · Jan 18

It's been a while. Back at MOJ towers for #ukgc25

Petty France building , home of UK Ministry of Justice

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Dave Rogers @daverog.bsky.social · Jan 15

See you Saturday if you're off to @ukgovcamp.bsky.social we've got a few of us coming from @publicdigital.bsky.social, we're sponsoring again 🙌🏻 Come and say hi to us, we'll be hanging out near our banner in the marketplace and generally milling around and pitching some sessions. 👋🏻

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Dave Rogers @daverog.bsky.social · Jan 10

I've written this about trust between leaders and teams, and why there's often a trap you can fall into. Don't trust your team? Don't trust your leadership? Might be worth a read...
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The Trust Trap: How Leaders and Teams Can Rebuild Trustpublic digitalpublic digital

Struggling with trust issues at work? Learn how leaders and teams can escape the Trust Trap and rebuild trust for a healthier, more productive workplace culture.

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Dave Rogers @daverog.bsky.social · Jan 2

The impact of AI: Why I have no idea what it'll be, and neither do you! www.youtube.com/watch?v=iBCS... (my talk from last November at @aifortherestofus.live)

The impact of AI: Why I have no idea what it'll be, and neither do you! | Dave Rogers

YouTube video by AI for the rest of us

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Christopher Mims @mims.bsky.social · Dec 26

the entire "AGI when?" debate is so funny to me because it's a cult dreamed up by people who seem to lack even the vaguest sense of how actual cognition works, foisted on a public that shouldn't have bought the premise in the first place, leading to a debate that's mostly beside the point

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Dave Rogers @daverog.bsky.social · Dec 14

Album cover for Entroducing by DJ Shadow featuring a photo of two people browsing records in a record store

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Dave Rogers @daverog.bsky.social · Dec 13

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Amy Gandon @amygandon.bsky.social · Dec 13

I’ve argued that the Civil Service’s problems are best framed as structural and cultural, rather than a function of individuals.

Cultures are made up of norms that are sustained by language and behaviours.

So what norms does the CS need to tackle to be more effective?

A first stab 🧵

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