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Notes and links - November 9th

Russell Davies

Russell Davies

09 Nov 2025
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Notes and links - November 9th

Enclothed cognition - via Alex. "the overall influence that clothing has on the wearer's psychological processes"

Good grooves

Parties are a public service, you’re doing people a favor by throwing them

Giles on the correct use of Pooh case

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Notes and links - 26th April

Notes and links - 26th April

"There is also the widely reported multi-person Microsoft Teams call in which a financial department employee was manipulated by an AI-generated deepfake of their own CFO, alongside other AI-generated “colleagues,” into wiring more than 25 million U.S. dollars to Hong Kong bank accounts (Microtime). Whatever else that incident

26 Apr 2026
Against friction

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 Our Longing For Inconvenience

25 Apr 2026
Perverse outcomes everywhere. Greenwaves and how good ideas don't happen.

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

24 Apr 2026
Notes and links - 19th April

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

19 Apr 2026
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