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We’re launching a new TPXimpact podcast: "The Transformation Tapes" 🎙️
Honest conversations with the people shaping better public services.

If you’ve led transformation or have a story others need to hear, we’d love to feature you.
Apply to be a guest → eu1.hubs.ly/H0pRNWg0

Ob-la-di, OBR – life goes on? The budget leak shows what happens when mission and digital drift apart

With Budget leaks back in the headlines, a final bump for my OBR blog: antwrites.co.uk/posts/OBR antwrites.co.uk/posts/OBR

Ob-la-di, OBR – life goes on? The budget leak shows what happens when mission and digital drift apart

Wrote about the OBR.
www.antwrites.co.uk/posts/OBR

Webinar details for Q&A sessions hosted the TPX team: 📅 19 Nov, 12:00–12:45 PM (UK) https://lnkd.in/ebJyNBjr 📅 20 Nov, 5:00–5:45 PM (UK) https://lnkd.in/e8UsV35D 📅 21 Nov, 11:00–11:45 AM (UK) https://lnkd.in/eAY3JQuP

⭐ I'm really pleased that we're hiring again in Design & Research at TPXimpact... we've been getting lots of interest in our roles, so the team are hosting some sessions this week if you want to find out more… Join any of our upcoming sessions 🧵

#jobs #hiring

Weeknote 1 What a week that was then

First-ever weeknote. About life outside of (but very much relevant to) work www.antwrites.co.uk/posts/10-10-25

Deloitte to pay money back to Albanese government after using AI in $440,000 report Partial refund to be issued after several errors were found in a report into a department’s compliance framework

Blimey www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

New post up on AI and writing. Something I've been thinking about for a while.

Built my own blog to make it happen. Part-learning project (getting hands-on with React, Next.js, Tailwind and AI assistants), part-needing a space to write without ads and algorithms.

www.antwrites.co.uk/posts/workslop

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The 'one does not simply' meme (pic is of Boromir from The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring – at the Council of Elrond, of course). The text reads "ONE DOES NOT SIMPLY MARKET SOMETHING THAT DOESN'T WORK"

@loudowne.bsky.social has this been done before?

I need it on a t-shirt 😁

Hi folks, would be interested in speaking. What's the best contact info please?

Welcome | by Optimal Workshop

If anyone has 5 mins(!), pls do a little exercise to help with the structure of the #NaturePark website by sorting some cards with website headings. Deadline is Friday 13 Dec & your school could win an outdoor learning prize bundle. Big thanks! tpximpact-dx.optimalworkshop.com/optimalsort/...

State of Discoveries Hello! We are doing a talk at SDinGov 24 (Service Design in Government) about discoveries. We want to understand your perceptions of discoveries and challenges commonly faced. Our talk is aimed at d...

@priyanca.bsky.social and I have had 25 replies to our state of discoveries survey so far, thank you!

We would love to get as many views as possible so please take a look: forms.gle/zUSbvQnC5pDB...

Please RT

Thanks!

A photograph of Jürgen Klopp raising his cap in acknowledgement of support from Liverpool fans.

"In the age of Trump and Johnson, Klopp delights me as an example of what male leadership can look like: passionate, humorous, generous, kind, driven by humility and integrity and, above all, decency."
– Lucy Kirkwood, playwright, quoted in the Observer

It's something to aspire to.

Danke Jürgen 🔴

Such a nice day of learning at #campdigital with @sjmace.bsky.social; meeting @jukes.ie for the first time; losing my mind (in the best way) for Lou Downe’s talk; and seeing many friendly faces along the way ❤️

An image of a tweet by Sarah Jane Mace. Username: @SJMace Tweet: It's stepping into the unknown and the nerves can nibble. Informal comms and meetings have relaxed the nerves and meant I can be more myself. If people are themselves, they're more likely to be confident and deliver great work, without the worry and distraction of protocol Date and time: 8:11pm – Feb 1, 2024

Coming up to two months at TPXimpact.

I've had an amazing welcome from the team and it's flown by.

Been reflecting a lot about what's worked and can't put it better than this by @sjmace.bsky.social (fellow new starter 🤩)

Hello world 👋🏼