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Simon Wardley
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❤️🇺🇦 I like ducks, they're fowl but not through choice. Thought Lord. Lives in a swamp. Painted by AI. Born 321 ppm CO₂.
CommunityBurmarsh, Kent, UKmedium.com/wardleymaps/on…Joined September 2007

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X : In your work, you talk about leaderless leadership. Can you give examples? Me : The Next Gen? From WallStreetBets to DAOs to Israel's current protests to Sri Lanka's protests to XR ... there are a growing number of examples of large scale collective action without leaders,
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X : Brexit? Me : Brexit is the symptom, austerity is the cause. Austerity and the shifting of public functions to private hands has been the hallmark of this Conservative party. This was what the 2019 election was about. Unfortunately the electorate voted for more of the same.
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So stop looking for other excuses ... it was brexit, it was covid, it was Ukraine, it was techno necromancers of alpha centuari ... nope, it was the electorate voting in Boris, supported by a compliant media. 13 years of Tory policies has brought the country to this state.
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If you want to know who to blame for our shambles of an energy policy, our poor response to covid, our lack of growth, collapsing NHS and constant scandals in our political system then blame the electorate for voting in Boris in 2019. They own this, they got what they voted for.
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X : Do you think UK should rejoin the EU? Me : Is this another one of those "the problem is brexit" arguments? The problem is 13 years of Conservative policies ... brexit, covid, Ukraine are just excuses used to hide this. Things won't get better until the Conservatives are gone.
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Spent the entire day snoozing ... still exhausted. A nice quiet weekend, putting my feet up, lemon tea, cosy fire, gentle reading is needed.
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To be blunt, that is surprising given that success is almost entirely down to parental factors and privilege rather than hard work or talent. We don't live in a meritocracy and there is only so long you can hoodwink a population with the idea that hard work is the key to success.
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X : Lazy workers? Me : Oh, they've been saying that in the UK for decades. If workers had been becoming lazier every time that line was trotted out then they would be unable to move by now. Instead we work longer hours than ever before especially with home working.
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X : What's the difference between componentisation and composable architectures? Me : There is no difference. Componentisation involves building and breaking software down into identifiable and reusable pieces. It was introduced by Douglas McIlroy in 1968.
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Map Camp London is a great event but it's also exhausting to put on, to try and raise sponsorship etc. It's run by volunteers and proceeds go to charity. Anyway, to make life easier, how often do you think Map Camp should occur? Once every ...
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  • Three years
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  • Blue moon
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But as I said, I'm down with a bug and so I'm going back to bed ... before I start writing about how most of the Cabinet should be thrown into the Tower for their appaling performance ... damn.
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And for that reason, I think this Cabinet is the perfect advertisment for introducing the Old Athenian mechanism of Ostracism where all assets are taken and the individuals are exiled. The public should have a mechanism to express its anger at this sort of behaviour.
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Dave Penman nails it here - twitter.com/SkyNews/status The idea being spread in far right circles that people standing upto bullies are somehow wimps or snowflakes is ridiculously offensive. Under that logic a sign of strength is being a doormat for bullies to walk all over.
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The Education Secretary told #KayBurley that she 'doesn't see any bullying from her colleagues' Dave Penman says 'bullying is about abuse of power' and ministers would not see this as they are not in a civil servant's position trib.al/ecixuwi 📺 Sky 501
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Right ... back to bed, stinking headache, sniffles and general malaise. Obviously a bug. Need to avoid twitter as I'm likely to become very ranty with all these bullies and their sycophants trying to justify dreadful behaviour using examples of football managers.
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You can judge a leaders performance in a 100 days and honestly Rishi Sunak and this cabinet have been atrocious. If anything, they are an advert for the introduction of the old democratic system of ostracism.
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X : How long does it take to make a map? Me : About 8 hours roughly. However, in elapsed time ... well, the groups meet for 1 hour every 2 weeks. 10 minutes of which is chitchat. So, 50 minutes which means about 10 sessions or 20 weeks i.e. 4-5 months per map.
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X : But our economy? Me : Humanity will survive market economic failure. Humanity won't survive climate failure. One matters to humanity, the other is a temporary blip of a model for sharing resources mostly unfairly that benefits a few people we shouldn't give a damn about.
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