Harry Bailey
@harrybailey.com
I increase organisations’ capacity to think clearly, make better decisions and create more value. Ex-agency founder. Dad. Mancunian 🐝 LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/harrybailey
When a senior team member gets called while on holiday. What does that call reveal about where a growing agency's judgement lives? harrybailey.com/2026/08/what...
What Absence Reveals About a Team - Harry Bailey
A senior team member gets called while on holiday. What does that call reveal about where a growing agency's judgement actually lives?
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My mum just found a four leaf clover between pages in a book she got from a charity shop years ago.
There's a design company with a single offer. ~£3,600 a month for unlimited requests. But it's obviously not that simple: -It's 1 request at a time -48 hour turn-around -1 person team (!) -Large items broken into several So it's (max) 11 requests a month. ~£330 each. Great (Agile) business model.
I regularly find myself delivering 'Spotting the elephant in the room and helping it be discussed without shouting, but as a service' for clients.
“Daddy what do cats eat for breakfast?” … mewsley … mice crispies … purr-idge … fur-ench toast Too easy.
Who likes stories? I've been working with a large cultural organisation recently to improve how they surface their mountain of exhibits, artifacts, events and endless other content types online in a consumable and engaging way. Stories. 🧵 1/9
Today's usability tip: Make your address search forms recognise a UK postcode with or without a space in it. Are there actually any postcodes where the space is required to ensure uniqueness?
Making OKRs more than box ticking... Gamification is one option. Make improvement of the key numbers fun, challenging and achievable. Another is to remove the distance between 'the measuring' and 'the work'. If it requires effort just to see the status, it's probably causing friction.
TIL Jodrell Bank is the third largest steerable radio telescope in the world.
Why is ‘back’ in ‘training from the back of the room’ always in CAPS LOCK?
In Australia over 85% of under-16s said they were still on social media three months after the ban started. Which doesn’t surprise me, because bright tech-savvy youngsters will always outsmart politicians.
Show me the long list of politicians who did that make this news worthy.
Unofficial BBCNews (UK) Bot@bbcnews-uk-rss.bsky.social · last mo.Angela Rayner tells BBC she will not repay severance payment
I’ve started watching Scrubs from series 1 episode 1. How are you coping with the world right now?
There’s still a huge gap between the posts I see on ‘AI is the future of software development’ and those showing ‘This app is falling apart since they moved to AI-first delivery’.
I know many people who’ve been calling for this for years. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Salary information to be shown on job ads under new laws
The government argues the move would help jobseekers and could reduce pay discrimination claims.
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🎤 You go back to her, and I go back to back
Diego Beltrami@djbeltrami.bsky.social · last mo.Vibe coding is the future.
There will always be another bottleneck. Somewhere in every system is a constraint, whether human or not. Earlier than you expect 'How do we move faster?' becomes far less important than 'How do we create more value?' That my friends is a far more difficult challenge, and one most simply avoid.
If you were to do some root cause analysis, you’d probably reveal that protection is the wrong focus.
Unofficial BBCNews (UK) Bot@bbcnews-uk-rss.bsky.social · last mo.Chris Mason: Investigation into Widdecombe's death rekindles debate over how to protect politicians
I achieved the palindrome challenge for my parkrun today. Very pleasing as I also got the exact reverse of the example given on the challenge info.
Booking dot com do a proper dodgy thing on some mobile clicks from Google. They open the satellite website url you requested, but they use a new window trick, so they can leave booking dot com open in a tab. Do not like.
"We're really busy." Whenever I hear that sentence, I know what's hiding behind it. In 25 years I've never seen busyness describe a good situation. It's shorthand for some form of 'we're spinning too many plates with not enough control over them'. Something usually drops.
“Most people are energised by well-defined problems. You seem to be energised by poorly-defined problems.” Bullseye.
The trick to getting our cat and dog to like each other was two-fold. 1. Give them treats near each other often. 2. Tell the dog to “LEAVE” the cat about 10000 times.
This is one of the best uses of a hyperlink I have ever seen in a BBC News story. Straight to the NHS First aid web page on CPR. Bravo.
Unofficial BBCNews (UK) Bot@bbcnews-uk-rss.bsky.social · 2mo agoBoy 'brought back to life' by rescuers at Bryngarw Country Park
Spark email app just added AI agent access to inboxes. Read-only for everybody, drafts and more for pro accounts. The permissions can be fine tuned to cater to your risk appetite too 😄 Finally a 3rd option to get to inbox zero.
