Matt Edgar @mattedgar@mastodon.me.uk

Sunday morning cycle along the canal to Apperley Bridge Marina

It's that time approaching the summer holidays when I look at the backlog of unread books on my Kindle and ask you all what I should add to the heap. Recommendations, please!

Saturday morning cycle to St Aidan's.
The sunshine miners have gone, leaving only the sunshine

Saturday morning noodling with 2 kinds of learning loop in healthcare and how they are part of a single system

Your computer was unable

"far too ready, even after investigations that clearly included the express discovery of bugs in code, to ascribe possible user error to the effect of bugs, errors and defects"

User error bias - “a tendency or bias regularly to blame the user of an IT system for something"

Never been a football fan, but delighted to make a second visit to Elland Road today

Sunday morning cycle round Wike and Harewood

A good strategy always tells you what the organisation WON'T do, as well as what it will. Good stuff from GDS here
https://gds.blog.gov.uk/2021/05/20/government-digital-service-our-strategy-for-2021-2024/

Or maybe not

Sunday morning cycle to...

... a motorway service station

which in the current circumstances is quite a novelty

✅ Drove spouse to vaccination
✅ Took stuff to tip
✅ Quick trip to supermarket
✅ Got own first dose of AZ and have a sticker to prove it
🛋️ No plans for rest of day

Arriving at my homeworking desk this morning, I find a discarded facemask and an empty Tunnock's wrapper. Like I've been visited by a crap lockdown Milk Tray man in the night

Walk to see Queen Victoria on Woodhouse Moor

Went for a walk. Chanced upon the unusual art pottery flanked gravestone of Sarah Robinson, oldest person in the IMDB
https://m.imdb.com/name/nm1792947/

Keeping it local, Saturday afternoon cycle round Adel and Meanwood

Some news: at the end of March I'll be moving to a new role, as director of service transformation for digital urgent and emergency care in NHSx

Virtual graduation day! #BevanProg

Working from home day 329. The teens have hoarded all the glasses in the house, so now I get to recreate that NHS office life classic: the mug of water