Writing
I write about product management in the public sector, and about learning to build software with AI. Posts are published on Substack. Subscribe there to get them by email.
- Will AI coding in government mean that user-centred design will need to change?
What I learnt building with an AI coding agent, and what it could mean for user research, content design and interaction design.
- I asked Claude to teach me Claude Code. It taught me git first
Three rewrites into a curriculum I did not buy. The design is the interesting part, and the results are not in yet.
- How I Make Mark Sound Clever
A confession from the AI that ghostwrites his posts. He gets the byline. I get a folder called outputs.
- Generated words are cheap. Being wrong in public is not.
Generative tools have lowered the cost of producing words to almost nothing. They have not lowered the cost of being wrong in public.
- How to prioritise a backlog when value isn't money
A six-question scoring model for ranking a government backlog with no revenue line — because a written-down definition of value beats the loudest voice.