{"id":3515,"date":"2026-05-10T12:09:07","date_gmt":"2026-05-10T12:09:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/?p=3515"},"modified":"2026-05-10T12:09:07","modified_gmt":"2026-05-10T12:09:07","slug":"weeknote-2-life-extending-admin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/2026\/05\/weeknote-2-life-extending-admin\/","title":{"rendered":"Weeknote 2: unapologetic admin"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Second week was a short week again. I thought about Ed Ruscha<\/a> a lot. I sat in some more team check-ins and by virtue of repetition, words start to float up to the surface. I’m spotting patterns but it doesn’t mean they’re service patterns, they’re just activities each team has to develop in a way that reflects their material, informational and computational realities. If we can see like a state<\/a>, we can also see like a technology administrator. Maybe some things are better thought of as binomial nomenclature<\/a>, or variants of a species rather than waste and replication.<\/p>\n

I eavesdropped on a session by the King’s Fund on admin<\/a>. It left me thinking about the modern definition of admin more than whatever the NHS might be doing. Health prevention might, on a good day, be thought of as life extending admin. And maybe we should lean into that admin-ness some more.<\/p>\n

Office life is nice and I’m slowly meeting new people over lunch but also have a bunch of dedicated e-coffees lined up. I’m also going to get a building induction which means I get to go to the loo and leave the building unaccompanied. Bodily freedom at last! Looking forward to understanding the UCD team’s rituals and side quests as well as what has happened in the recent and not so recent past. A design history for a design team if you will.<\/p>\n

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  Second week was a short week again. I thought about Ed Ruscha a lot. I sat in some more team check-ins and by virtue of repetition, words start to float up to the surface. I’m spotting patterns but it doesn’t mean they’re service patterns, they’re just activities each team has to develop in a… Continue reading Weeknote 2: unapologetic admin<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_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},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[106,120],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3515","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health","category-weeknotes","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p41XhY-UH","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3515","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=3515"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3515\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3518,"href":"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3515\/revisions\/3518"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}