{"id":3356,"date":"2025-11-18T23:14:18","date_gmt":"2025-11-18T23:14:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/?p=3356"},"modified":"2025-11-18T23:35:57","modified_gmt":"2025-11-18T23:35:57","slug":"sunday-scraps-103","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/2025\/11\/sunday-scraps-103\/","title":{"rendered":"Sunday Scraps #103"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Tracy Chapman - New Beginning (Official Music Video)\" width=\"750\" height=\"422\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/72PkUgZ651k?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Time marches on. It&#8217;s my birthday next month so I tend to rush around to &#8216;get things done&#8217; before all my numbers change. With that in mind, this is a longer list than usual as there are many tabs to close.<\/p>\n<p>I had totally forgotten about IBM&#8217;s Watson but it&#8217;s so funny to read it had <a href=\"https:\/\/www.henricodolfing.com\/2024\/12\/case-study-ibm-watson-for-oncology-failure.html\">terrible UX<\/a> \/ all I want for Christmas is for someone to take me out to see some <a href=\"https:\/\/efglondonjazzfestival.org.uk\/\">jazz<\/a> \/ a friend&#8217;s flight was cancelled because of a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/crkl3d6pegpo\">drone sighting<\/a> so I should probably read up on them \/ I asked <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/posts\/designswarm_activity-7396149820828205056-j7g_?utm_source=share&amp;utm_medium=member_desktop&amp;rcm=ACoAAAA8XQoBAk11ZfQR2b5uKqPgE1br8jVYDTA\">an open question<\/a> about people&#8217;s heating habits \/ <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gradesolomon.com\/photography\/circuit-kb3ll\">Grade Solomon<\/a>&#8216;s photography reminds me of <a href=\"https:\/\/alecsoth.com\/photography\/projects\/niagara\">Alec Soth<\/a>&#8216;s \/ on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.noemamag.com\/we-need-to-rewild-the-internet\/\">rewilding the internet<\/a> \/ I could tell something had happened because the front of his house on Railton Road wasn&#8217;t as filled with bike parts, so I was sad to hear <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/film\/2025\/jun\/18\/clovis-salmon-regarded-as-first-black-uk-documentary-film-maker-dies-aged-98\">Sam The Wheels<\/a> died this summer \/ I was listening to Michael Pollan&#8217;s book when I learnt about <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/George_Washington_Carver\">George Washington Carver<\/a> who developed new ways to address soil depletion post-abolition \/ a fun article about the <a href=\"https:\/\/socialhistoryblog.com\/sailors-ashore-the-exploration-of-class-culture-and-ethnicity-in-victorian-london-by-brad-beavan\/\">social status of sailors<\/a> \/ a new <a href=\"https:\/\/dictionary.cambridge.org\/dictionary\/english\/mardy\">word<\/a> \/ the <a href=\"https:\/\/relationshipsproject.org\/the-academy\/\">Relational Project Academy<\/a> makes me think we need to revisit social studies classes for children \/ a list of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.london.gov.uk\/sites\/default\/files\/workspace_providers_directory.pdf\">space providers in 2015<\/a> should teach us something about the city \/ it&#8217;s COP30 and it&#8217;s sad we don&#8217;t have more fringe events going on so making an effort to go to the ones organised by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tickettailor.com\/events\/climateteam\/1926493\">Lambeth<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eventbrite.co.uk\/e\/what-does-cop30-have-to-do-with-climate-tech-products-tickets-1956771449079\">my friend Zung<\/a> \/ heading to <a href=\"https:\/\/thingscon.org\/events\/things-2025\/program\/\">Thingscon<\/a> in a few weeks and will try to get back on a (Dutch) bike.<\/p>\n<p>In job search news, I&#8217;m applying to a CEO role next week and possibly speaking to someone else about a leadership role in a consultancy. My contract at the Energy Systems Catapult ends soon so I have to line up the next thing. If you&#8217;d like to talk to me about what I could do with\/for you, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/contact\/\">don&#8217;t be shy<\/a>. I don&#8217;t bite, I just bark. Just kidding, I howl.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Time marches on. It&#8217;s my birthday next month so I tend to rush around to &#8216;get things done&#8217; before all my numbers change. With that in mind, this is a longer list than usual as there are many tabs to close. I had totally forgotten about IBM&#8217;s Watson but it&#8217;s so funny to read it&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/2025\/11\/sunday-scraps-103\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Sunday Scraps #103<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[111],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3356","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sundayscraps","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p41XhY-S8","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3356","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3356"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3356\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3362,"href":"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3356\/revisions\/3362"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}