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@profserious.bsky.social
Technology, Software, Policy, Security, Universities, Art, Antiques, Cats. https://finkelstein.uk
On Remembering and Forgetting. How do we choose what to remember? There is the person we knew, and the years of losing them. We need room for both. This is about chocolate buttons, and love returned. @profserious.bsky.social reflects profserious.substack.com/p/on-remembe...
On Remembering and Forgetting
... by way of a eulogy
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On Remembering and Forgetting. How do we choose what to remember? There is the person we knew, and the years of losing them. We need room for both. This is about chocolate buttons, and love returned. @profserious.bsky.social reflects profserious.substack.com/p/on-remembe...
On Remembering and Forgetting
... by way of a eulogy
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Preparing to be Wrong ... on the conditions for effective action. Principles drawn from the work of John Boyd by @profserious.bsky.social . Systems, management and leadership. profserious.substack.com/p/preparing-...
Preparing to be Wrong
... on the conditions for effective action
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Regulating What We Do Not Understand: rules founded on speculative harms can entrench assumptions, protect incumbents and obstruct the experimentation needed to understand risk. @profserious.bsky.social considers ... profserious.substack.com/p/regulating...
Regulating What We Do Not Understand
...watching closely and acting quickly
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Regulating What We Do Not Understand: rules founded on speculative harms can entrench assumptions, protect incumbents and obstruct the experimentation needed to understand risk. @profserious.bsky.social considers ... profserious.substack.com/p/regulating...
Regulating What We Do Not Understand
...watching closely and acting quickly
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Becoming Computer Science ... how a discipline grew up ... a perspective from @profserious.bsky.social profserious.substack.com/p/becoming-c...
Becoming Computer Science
... how a discipline grew up
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Becoming Computer Science ... how a discipline grew up ... a perspective from @profserious.bsky.social profserious.substack.com/p/becoming-c...
Becoming Computer Science
... how a discipline grew up
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How Technology Might -Actually- Kill You ... Are you worried that Dario Amodei and Sam Altman will turn you into a paperclip? @profserious.bsky.social offers an alternative profserious.substack.com/p/how-techno...
How Technology Might -Actually- Kill You
... if you are short of something to worry about
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How Technology Might -Actually- Kill You ... Are you worried that Dario Amodei and Sam Altman will turn you into a paperclip? @profserious.bsky.social offers an alternative profserious.substack.com/p/how-techno...
How Technology Might -Actually- Kill You
... if you are short of something to worry about
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I am not good at letting go. Perhaps the trick is to care about things, whilst accepting that neither they nor our relative success in pursuing them can be made permanent. @profserious.bsky.social contemplates ... profserious.substack.com/p/this-too-s...
This Too Shall Pass
... letting go without giving up
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Leaders of public and third-sector organisations face not only their own organisational politics, but disputes about ideology, authority, and power. This is not comfortable territory for many leaders. @profserious.bsky.social considers … profserious.substack.com/p/leadership...
Leadership and Big-P Politics
… the limits of management
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10 lessons from my time at Imperial College: on science and engineering, hard work, criticism, laughter … and software … @profserious.bsky.social … profserious.substack.com/p/what-i-lea...
What I Learned at Imperial College
… on becoming, more or less, a computer scientist
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Building the AI-enabled enterprise is not primarily a technology problem ... it is a strategy, architecture and organisational design problem. Here is the @profserious.bsky.social Serious Playbook for Enterprise AI profserious.substack.com/p/a-serious-...
A Serious Playbook for Enterprise AI
10 steps towards building the AI-enabled enterprise ...
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Summer Break for @profserious.bsky.social Your usual articles will resume next week. Just to keep you amused, here are 5 (somewhat unusual) books from my recent reading that you might enjoy on the beach ... kick back, relax profserious.substack.com/p/profseriou...
@profserious Summer Break
... kick back, relax
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A Serious Strategy ... choosing to compete in AI. A good UK AI strategy is about comparative advantage. It is not about trying to outspend the US or out-scale China. @profserious.bsky.social considers profserious.substack.com/p/a-serious-...
A Serious Strategy
... choosing to compete in AI
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A Serious Strategy ... choosing to compete in AI. A good UK AI strategy is about comparative advantage. It is not about trying to outspend the US or out-scale China. @profserious.bsky.social considers profserious.substack.com/p/a-serious-...
A Serious Strategy
... choosing to compete in AI
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On Technical Education ... hard hat and graduation cap. Technical education merits greater recognition. But it is not the opposite of academic education. @profserious.bsky.social considers profserious.substack.com/p/on-technic...
On Technical Education
... hard hat and graduation cap
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Whither the Arts and Humanities? The arts and humanities do not have a value problem. But do they have an adaptation problem? @profserious.bsky.social considers profserious.substack.com/p/whither-th...
Whither the Arts and Humanities?
... arguments and adaptations
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Whither the Arts and Humanities? The arts and humanities do not have a value problem. But do they have an adaptation problem? @profserious.bsky.social considers profserious.substack.com/p/whither-th...
Whither the Arts and Humanities?
... arguments and adaptations
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On Toxic Tech Ecosystems ... tech debt can be repaid but toxic tech ecosystems trap customers and vendors alike ... @profserious.bsky.social considers the options profserious.substack.com/p/toxic-tech...
Toxic Tech Ecosystems
... when nobody can afford to change
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On Toxic Tech Ecosystems ... tech debt can be repaid but toxic tech ecosystems trap customers and vendors alike ... @profserious.bsky.social considers the options profserious.substack.com/p/toxic-tech...
Toxic Tech Ecosystems
... when nobody can afford to change
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Whose cat is this? Does anybody know a good plumber? There is a fox in my garden! Your Guide to the Neighbourhood WhatsApp Group profserious.substack.com/p/your-guide... It is too hot for @profserious.bsky.social to be entirely serious.
Your Guide to the Neighbourhood WhatsApp Group
... ‘there is a fox in my garden'
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University governance is not (just) about oversight ... it is about preserving academic purpose whilst guiding institutions through profound change. @profserious.bsky.social 'On University Governance … beyond assurance' profserious.substack.com/p/on-univers...
On University Governance
… beyond assurance
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Why do sensible interventions so often fail? Why do small changes sometimes have enormous consequences? Why do organisations keep recreating the same problems? Systems dynamics and control offers some answers. profserious.substack.com/p/10-1-lesso...
10 (+1) Lessons from Systems Dynamics & Control
... trust me, important!
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Mid-career can be a trap. Reinvention begins when you stop asking what comes next and start instead asking what is now possible. @profserious.bsky.social provides 10 ways for mid-career academics to recover curiosity, take risks and liberate themselves profserious.substack.com/p/reinventin...
Reinventing the Mid-Career Academic
… on curiosity, risk and what comes next
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Mid-career can be a trap. Reinvention begins when you stop asking what comes next and start instead asking what is now possible. @profserious.bsky.social provides 10 ways for mid-career academics to recover curiosity, take risks and liberate themselves profserious.substack.com/p/reinventin...
Reinventing the Mid-Career Academic
… on curiosity, risk and what comes next
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'Emergencies Are Digital' … and why we need a national digital emergency capability @profserious.bsky.social considers digital preparedness as a core component of national resilience profserious.substack.com/p/emergencie...
Emergencies Are Digital
… and why we need a national digital emergency capability
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Poems at Bedtime ... Or, a vision in a dream. A Fragment. A recollection of childhood, and reading to G. @profserious.bsky.social profserious.substack.com/p/poems-at-b...
Poems at Bedtime
Or, a vision in a dream. A Fragment.
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"What do you want to be when you grow up, little Johnny?" "A stalwart!" #MissionAccomplished www.timeshighereducation.com/news/researc...
ResearchPlus names Johnny Rich as inaugural director
Sector stalwart picked to lead new grouping in next stage of development
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