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Esteban Olmedo

@estebano.bsky.social

Service & Product Design, Gov, Husband, Dad, Montessorian, Scout-Leader, Londoner from Ecuador, Dyslexic, He/Him. Sorry, I don't check direct messages. www.enablingfacilities.co.uk

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Latest posts by estebano.bsky.social on Bluesky

A Service Designer showed me how he very quickly got Co-pilot to create a product overview video based on a word doc he put together. It wasn't perfect, but it did the job.

30.01.2026 13:20 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

The 'I' and 'now' does the heavy lifting in that sentence.

I've had a few discussions with immigrants, and kids of immigrants who say this sort of shit. There's a lot to pick apart. And yet so much of it ends up circling back to selfsihness and self-grandure.

26.01.2026 15:11 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
screenshot of the job page on civil service jobs

screenshot of the job page on civil service jobs

Nothing that there are a couple of weeks left for people to apply for a digital job that could be make or break for the NHS Director General for Technology, Digital and Data
Department of Health and Social Care

Hereโ€™s a screenshot as Iโ€™m pretty sure no one clicks past the โ€˜Iโ€™m not a robotโ€™ page.

26.01.2026 13:12 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 5    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Preview
a woman in a fur coat is standing in front of a brick building and saying `` my eyes ! my eyes ! '' ALT: a woman in a fur coat is standing in front of a brick building and saying `` my eyes ! my eyes ! ''

Managed to keep away from Liquid Glass this far. Then accepted an update at 5am in the morning after my kid woke me.

24.01.2026 18:12 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Oh, interesting. That I will bag.

16.01.2026 11:21 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I'll take it - anything to support my Friday morning theory ๐Ÿ˜€

16.01.2026 10:49 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

A bet: at some point, most of us will work with at least one person who was once a primary or secondary school teacher.

Arguably more likely to happen in gov.

16.01.2026 10:30 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Sadly, because if they don't, Farage and his lot will be in charge?

Truth be said, we all deserve better. But look at what happened across the pond when decent people just gave up. And others gave in to their worst traits.

19.12.2025 15:23 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

โ€˜But in the 2020s, not validating ideas is amateurish.โ€™

13.12.2025 17:23 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Interesting, nice share!

04.12.2025 11:39 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Itโ€™s a great sculpture isnโ€™t it. You probably already know but just in case, itโ€™s a good prompt to learn about Birminghamโ€™s history with bull baiting and industrialism.

04.12.2025 08:37 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Bet ChatGPT could make me believe I understand this after a few exchanges. ๐Ÿ˜…

03.12.2025 16:59 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
The Economic Impact of Brexit Other

"By 2025, Brexit had reduced UK GDP by 6% to 8%, with the impact accumulating gradually over time. We estimate that investment was reduced by between 12% and 18%, employment by 3% to 4% and productivity by 3% to 4%"

Read the Stanford report:
siepr.stanford.edu/publications...

25.11.2025 19:31 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 966    ๐Ÿ” 402    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 39    ๐Ÿ“Œ 53

Some other things that make it tricky:
- The surplus of debt is vast, and teams rarely get to go back
- Sometimes you have to re-design the whole flow, not just add iteratively to individual pages
- Users often reference what they know, making it hard for some teams to discern what is needed

24.11.2025 10:38 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Living this atm and agree with a lot of it.

On the cause-remedy point, I think teams often lock themselves into an approach too early because some teams measure tangible progress in the form of screens. There are a number of reasons, e.g. delivery pressure, IxD preference, screen-focused UR, etc.

24.11.2025 10:38 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Wowzers! In the office today and I hadn't realised we were at the stage where folk take laptops into the loo while on calls (facing the urinals with cam off)! ๐Ÿคฏ

19.11.2025 15:52 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Their slogan in response goes something like, โ€˜we need to train our own (geniuses)โ€™. ๐Ÿ˜ญ๐Ÿ˜†

18.11.2025 06:18 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Hands up if you have an AI team in your org who are knocking on everyone's door looking for problems that hopefully* AI can help 'solve'? โœ‹

13.11.2025 14:45 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Eeek! The Delivery Manager on LinkedIn kicking off a debate about innocent until proven guilty in the context of Andrew Windsor being stripped of his titles ๐Ÿซฃ

06.11.2025 13:41 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Just discovered caramelised Jalapenos. ๐Ÿ˜‹

05.11.2025 10:17 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

D/E : Donald / Elon
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Zuckberg

04.11.2025 15:26 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
ABCD heading followed by vertical list of Austerity, Brexit, Covid and Donald black text on yellow background.

ABCD heading followed by vertical list of Austerity, Brexit, Covid and Donald black text on yellow background.

Building on @viviane49.bsky.social

04.11.2025 13:20 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 7    ๐Ÿ” 4    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 3    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

100% - my mind went to the orange man-child and no-kings protests. Honestly, the more I think about the whole thing, there are so many learnings to be had about history and current times!

02.11.2025 13:18 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

And then there's the fireworks fun vs the climate emergency. Think, I'm going to do the safety of sparklers and to show them an alternative by using bubbles and coloured floodlights. Also, if of interest, there's a good activity involving glow-in-the-dark bubbles (glow paint + black light).

02.11.2025 12:48 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Oooh, that sounds interesting! I would take my kids to that, guessing not in London?

My challenge is that the other side sought to use violence to stop the terrible Royals. We teach my kids about this, but it's trickier for 4 - 6-year-olds of other people's kids. ๐Ÿ˜…

02.11.2025 12:48 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Struggling to think about how to teach the scout kids about the 5th of Nov. My memory of being taught it in school is very different to reading about it as an adult! ๐Ÿ˜…

02.11.2025 11:54 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Ha, love this! Free iPad ๐Ÿ‘ถ!

31.10.2025 14:45 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Love! ๐Ÿ˜€

29.10.2025 12:52 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Anyone know the head of UR at HMPO? Think their post passport renewal survey is broken. Iโ€™m on email number 4.

22.10.2025 18:58 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Curryโ€™s content for my steam iron order: โ€œWeโ€™re working on your TECH orderโ€ ๐Ÿ˜

22.10.2025 07:03 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

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