Against friction
I have a thought bubbling under; I'm worrying that if we celebrate friction it'll lead us astray. I talked it out loud
and I'm going to collect some links
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Perverse outcomes everywhere. Greenwaves and how good ideas don't happen.
(If you'd prefer a video version of this) A few weeks ago I made one of my stupid videos about 'surfing the green wave'; driving up the Euston/Marylebone Roads getting green lights all the way. I remember seeing it on a documentary about London taxi
Notes and links - 19th April
Maggie Appleton is so good. A great writer. A great thinker. A great designer. And this seems v smart about how developers + AI will work. And, probably, how many other things will work too. "The hard question is no longer how to build it. It’s should we build
Up is down, dogs and cats living together
Whenever something threatens to go mildly wrong in work or life I find this incoherent tumble of words on the tip of my tongue. Some variant of 'up is down, left is right, dogs and cats living together, world turned upside down, we're through the looking glass
The London Review of TikToks - 15th April 2026
@knownsource_official The forefather of modern day technical wear - Tony Spackman 🏃🏽 #tonyspackman #nikecode #archivenike #archivefashion #fyp ♬ Elevator Vibes - The Brothers Nylon @mirandadoesbrands Why are marketing jobs are being rebranded using masculinised, technical language and how does this compare to what happened with software engineering in the 80a? #marketing