"How many pictures of trains do we need?"
"For text messages?"
"Yeah."
"9."
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"What about an old-timey one?"
"Better have 10 then"
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An emerging niche thing that pisses me off is the confusion between โautomation and โartificial intelligenceโ. If itโs just automated it doesnโt make it AI.
Australia has lost the mantle of global solar leader (solar capacity per person)to Netherlands.
Time for new policies to enable Solar for All focussing on low income and social housing.
(Graph from BP 2022 Energy Review thanks to @KetanJ0 )
Watching this Twitter blue check mess, I canโt help but think of all the frustrated founders or CEOs who say โwhy canโt we justโฆโ to their product teams. This is why.
New product initiatives within already-successful companies often fail to achieve their potential because they have too much rather than too little.
Too much of:
1) headcount: you are now under pressure to come up _something_ for all these people to do
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Delivering good services is HARD, but the problems we have aren't unique
After nearly 2 years of @theschoolofgood here are the top 10 most common causes for bad service designโฆ
good.services/blog/rwfxy0ww6โฆ
ALT A yellow slide reads:
"10 causes of bad service design
1. Your services are invisible
2. No one can remember why the service exists
3. A toxic relationship with users
4. The consequences of decisions on services isnโt considered
5. Failure to prioritise
6. Short-term thinking outweighs long-term thinking
7. Your organisation wasnโt designed to deliver the services it now provides
8. โTechnicalโ skills arenโt valued
9. Your organisation incentivises the wrong behaviour
10. You think you can get away with it"
Question for design/product/innovation types who also want progress on renewables.
Do we apply for jobs like this at places like AGL, and hope to be part of the transition should/when people like @mcannonbrookes and wins: linkedin.com/jobs/view/31698โฆ
Or are we boycotting?