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Oliver Quinlan

@oliverquinlan.bsky.social

💼 User Research @GDSTeam 🕸 http://oliverquinlan.com 🗞 http://oliverquinlan.substack.com 🐘 https://mastodon.social/@oliverquinlan

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Felipe De La Hoz@felipedlh.bsky.social · last yr.

Gentle recommendation to have a hobby that you can 1) do on your own time 2) are not doing for livelihood or career 3) can grow your skill in over time, and 4) can focus on for chunks of time where you can tune other things out. I spent a couple hours last night developing film and it was excellent

Andrew Hinton 😷🧡@andrewhinton.bsky.social · 2y ago

You have to soak in the data & struggle with it — the part that has the most ambiguity, which is uncomfortable! But the discomfort is a necessary signal toward finding your way to insight & clarity. I think many practitioners (&/or bosses) assume the discomfort is bad, so avoiding it must be good.

Erika Hall@erikahall.bsky.social · 2y ago

So I was a guest at a meetup last week. One of the participants used an AI notes and summary tool. The thing that struck me when looking at the summary afterwards is that what got talked about most was actually the least important part of the conversation, but the tool had no way of knowing that.

Piali Das Gupta@pialidg.bsky.social · 2y ago

Sobering finding from Centre for London commissioned polling, contradicting the image too many have that London's streets are paved with gold. 1 in 7 Londoners could not cope with an unexpected £20 bill, rising to 1 in 4 if they're hit with an unplanned £50 cost. #LDNConf24

Chart showing poor financial resilience among a high proportion of Londoners - key stats in main post.
Erika Hall@erikahall.bsky.social · 2y ago

Polling and opinion surveys contribute to harm year round, not just at election time. In large part because running surveys is a lucrative business that crowds out actually understanding people's lived experience. The reporting on surveys as bad as bad science journalism.

Erika Hall@erikahall.bsky.social · 2y ago

Most survey results reported as facts about the world are not in fact facts about the world. I trust what comes out of Pew, but that's about it. Anything out of an industry group or a study funded by a specific company, nah. I mean, unless it supports my priors.

Rachel Coldicutt@rachelcoldicutt.bsky.social · 2y ago

If you have a shy young person in your life who is not a massive joiner-inner can I recommend getting into Warhammer? If you're not a team sports person or don't thrill to putting on a show, there's not much out there for kids these days and few positive male role models

Rachel Coldicutt@rachelcoldicutt.bsky.social · 2y ago

So much of modern childhood - from doing PowerPoint presentations from KS1 to being expected to be a high achiever in group contexts - assumes everyone is an extrovert, but there are all sorts of people with all kinds of skills out there and they all need some space to thrive

Rachel Coldicutt@rachelcoldicutt.bsky.social · 2y ago

Honestly, speed reading boring and impenetrable books is a skill that needs to be passed on from generation to generation

Louie Stowell@louiestowell.bsky.social · 2y ago

In my generation of students, we knew how to read long books. That is, we knew that you should lie your face off that, yes, you HAVE read all of Ulysses in a week, and all the critical reading, AND portrait of the artist. Students today? Bad liars. www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...