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A beginning is a delicate time | Design & Visual Arts

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@studio_dbm @miksullivan @areoff @rclstudio Sad but true

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@LucyBailey_1989 Is martech a thing?

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@miksullivan @areoff @rclstudio Yes of course, didn’t mean anything by it toward you.

I just imagine clients like Chanel and Dazed & Confused are surely less likely to be phobic of installing an application to track project progress, for example? I could be wrong.

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@miksullivan Someone needs to build https://t.co/hijTfcQCHs and call his BS out

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@AmberCadabra If you’d like to write occasionally to me in the UK and maybe swap a few interesting local printed artefacts then I’d be up for it?

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@tprstly Do you remember those mixtape rings where you receive a cassette tape of music from someone anywhere in the world & you record a tape of songs you love & pick your pass on via post to the next name & address on the list, wherever they are? Loved that

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@areoff @rclstudio And people criticise me for advocating beating up clients! Well this is a case in point. OKthankyouverymuch x kisses x

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@areoff @rclstudio Hell, it makes me depressed even just talking about these people.

And amongst small-medium sized businesses in the UK these attitudes are rife.

Clients: 🤡
Me: 🙀🤦‍♂️😤🤯🤮😷😵☠️

You know what actually just shoot me now and be done with it.

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@areoff @rclstudio I find a lot of attitude where they think it should be an entirely one way street where they set us tasks. There should be no input the other way round.

They’re often the same people that can’t understand why a designer can’t just write all the content for their site too.

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@areoff @rclstudio Trouble is a lot of clients react that way to any new tool that’s thrust upon them.

It can be really hard to get buy-in for effective task / project management for remote work. Moreso for clients that have entirely in-house teams.

Worse when you start assigning them tasks lol.

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@rclstudio Basecamp was outstanding when it was essentially the only product of worth in its field.

They were pioneers in feature reduction and simplicity in SaaS.

And yes excellent books by @jasonfried

Rework is essential reading for anyone working in tech.

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@theflowingsky Can you cite any examples of such people? Genuinely curious.

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@tprstly If you study hard you could be one of the five white middle-class men that get to code the logic that decides whether the white granny or the brown-skinned baby gets run over?

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On BBC news earlier: ‘tech expert’ talking about future of autonomous cars, saying most vehicles go unused for 90% of the day. So in future, if timed well, they could drop kids to school, us to work, then go act as a kind of ‘bus’ during the day...

They’re inventing the taxi.

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House of Lords today debating whether they should be able to vote in a general election (currently only prisoners and peers are disallowed the vote).

Stunning hypocrisy.

They wish to elect an MP yet are totally unelected themselves.

Surely time for the Lords to go? 🌹

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Thought @tprstly would enjoy this one.

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@Elaina92407387 Ohhh phew! Thanks! 🙏

I thought it was just me. Imagined I’d been banned after grilling a couple of morons / trollbots / tories.

Glad I haven’t fallen victim to any conservative leaning thought police (this time) lol.

👮‍♂️ 🚨 🧠 🚫

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Can anyone see this message?

Am I still here?

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@tprstly Tasks are only urgent when they need you to do something for them. It doesn’t work the other way round.

It’s a law of physics or something. Apple on the head kind of business.

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@areoff Whaaaat?

Name and shame pls!