Andy Stanton

Chartered Engineer, Passivhaus Designer, energy manager and third-rate occasional triathlete. Passionate about low energy buildings and great design.

[Richard Bentall #FBPE @richardbentall.bsky.social @RichardBentall]

This is truly terrifying. Given a chance, Reform will do to us what Trump has done to the USA.

[Brendan May @bmay]

He’s far too emotional to be Prime Minister. Turns into Basil Fawlty after one pretty polite bit of questioning.
National security isn’t safe in Reform’s hands.

[Andy Stanton @atomic_newt]

@hackneycouncil outdoor tap leaking (door the past 2 weeks) outside Windsor House, Green lanes, London N4 on the Portland rise Estate.

Really difficult to report on your website! 😵‍💫

[Farrukh @implausibleblog]

BBC Rado 4's Dead Ringers mock President Trump on The Royal Variety Show:

"The Donald is not a guest"

"I am the new Lord of the Manor"

"I have bought Downtun Abbey"

"I am going to turn this place into a golf resort"

"And change the name to Downtun-a-lago"

[Peter Girnus 🦅 @gothburz]

The company hired me to lead their "Agile Transformation."
I don't know what Agile means.
Nobody does.
That's why it works.

I make $425,000 a year.
To move sticky notes.
From left to right.
On a board.
The board is digital now.
The sticky notes cost $80,000 in Jira licenses.
Progress.

Day one, I said "we need to break down silos."
Everyone nodded.
Silos are bad.
I don't know why.
But destroying them is a career.
My career.

I introduced "squads."
Squads are teams.
But disrupted.
We disrupted the teams into teams.
Different names.
Same people.
Same problems.
But Agile problems now.
Agile problems are strategic.

A senior engineer asked what we're actually changing.
I said, "The mindset."
He asked what that means.
I said, "It's a journey."
He asked where we're going.
I said, "Toward agility."
He asked what agility means.
I pointed at the sticky notes.
They were moving left to right.
That's velocity.
We have velocity now.

The VP of Engineering said two-week sprints don't fit their work.
I said, "That's waterfall thinking."
Waterfall is bad.
Like silos.
I don't know what waterfall is.
But I know it's bad.
She stopped talking.
Waterfall accusations end conversations.

We had a retrospective.
In the retro, we discussed what went wrong.
Everything went wrong.
We put it on sticky notes.
Then we moved the sticky notes.
Into a column called "Parking Lot."
The Parking Lot is where problems go to die.
It's full.
We don't look at it.
That's agile.

Velocity is up 40%.
I defined velocity.
I also defined the points.
I also defined the stories.
We're crushing it.
At the things I made up.
To measure.
Ourselves.

The CEO asked for ROI.
I showed a chart.
The chart went up.
Charts should go up.
This one did.
I didn't label the Y-axis.
Nobody asked.
Leadership is confidence.

We do standups now.
Every day.
We stand.
For 45 minutes.
Standing is agile.
Sitting is waterfall.
My legs hurt.
But we're transforming.

The transformation is now "Phase 3."
Phase 1 was assessment.
Phase 2 was implementation.
Phase 3 is "continuous improvement."
Continuous means forever.
Forever means job security.
I'm very secure.

My contract was extended.
Three more years.
For "cultural impact."
The culture is confused.
But impacted.

Agile transformation isn't about being agile.
It's about transforming.
Continuously.
Toward more transformation.
The destination is the journey.
The journey is billable.

[Andy Stanton @atomic_newt]

Donald Trump has filed a $10bn lawsuit against the BBC over a Panorama documentary! 🚨 If he wins, our national broadcaster could be wrecked - and license fee payers could be stuck with the bill. Stand with the BBC: tell leaders don’t pay Trump a penny! https://t.co/GxGFZ5KWny

[Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla]

So, today @tedtalks announced that my TED talk ‘This is What a Digital Coup Looks Like’ was their most watched talk of the year.

It’s sort of amazing & terrifying.

Because this *is* what a digital coup looks like.

[Jakub Wiech @jakubwiech]

Hi, I’m from Poland, and I recently read in the US National Security Strategy about Europe’s supposed “civilizational erasure.”

So I’d like to tell you a bit about European civilization.

🇪🇺We have a more modest GDP, yet we still run a trade surplus with the United States, employ 2.5 times more industrial workers, have a higher export share in GDP, and maintain lower income inequality.

🇪🇺We don’t have a heavily privatized healthcare system, yet our life expectancy at birth is about three years higher, and infant mortality is nearly half that of the US.

🇪🇺We don’t have universal and unconditional access to firearms, yet European cities are far safer: we have clearly lower rates of homicide, violent crime, and car theft.

🇪🇺We don’t design our entire spatial order around a single mode of transport; instead, we build transport systems with a strong role for public transit, including rail.

🇪🇺We don’t have tech giants pumping up stock-market valuations, but we do equip ordinary workers with things like paid monthly vacations, paid sick leave, paid parental leave, and contracts that prevent sudden dismissal.

So let’s ask ourselves:

which of these things truly reflects the kind of civilization we want to pursue?

PS

In the photo I’m sitting and waiting for some delicious food, did I mention that Europe is superior in this as well, because we have regulations that limit the use of harmful food additives?

[Aaron Parnas @AaronParnas]

This is the ad Donald Trump woke up furious about.

Would be a shame if it went viral.

[Farrukh @implausibleblog]

Mariella Frostrup, "I just don't know when we started dehumanising people to the extent that we do now"

>Huge clap<

*In response to Nadine Dorries's long rant on leaving the ECHR and using the Royal Navy to address Farage's Brexit Small Boats Arrivals*

"I find it really shocking"

"Imagine if nobody wanted to come here then we'd really be depressed by Britain as a nation"

"Of course it is an issue. But we've decreased our budget for international development"

"We have a completely shambolic asylum system"

"You talk about people coming here illegally, but what are the legal routes?"

"We still don't have proper legal routes"

Nadine Dorries, "We do"

Mariella Frostrup, "Explain. I'm a woman in Congo. I'm one of the 80,000 women who has been raped as a result of the conflict going on there. I need to escape. My family has been wiped out. What's my legal way of applying to join my sister who is in the UK?"

*Nadine Dorries goes silent*

"It is impossible, our system is broken"

"The way we talk about people trying to come here, and the way we completely ignore the dilemmas that they face. And the fact that we have been instrumental in a lot of those conflicts"

"What happened to Afghanistan? When we were determined that people from Afghanistan could come here because of the way they supported us during that war"

"And now we're talking about them as if they're rubbish on the street"

"I think it's a shame we're allowing Reform UK to set the tone and the agenda and the way we talk about illegal immigrants"

*Nadine Dorries is now biting her lips*

>Another huge clap<

[DigiMinal @DIGIMINAL]

How the LinkedIn algorithm works

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How to Manage Stress

[Sean McPheat @SeanMcPheat]

Coaching isn't telling. It's unlocking.

Ask better questions. Get better results ⬇️

♻️ Repost to help others in your network with this.
➕ And follow me at Sean McPheat for more.

[David__Osland @David__Osland]

Since 1980, the ECHR has heard just 29 UK immigrant deportation case, and the UK won 16 of them. Quitting will make no material difference to immigration, just weaken protections for absolutely everybody in this country. But Farage and the Tories know that.

[Zack Polanski @ZackPolanski]

I'm Jewish. I'm also Mancunian.

Every other national party leader was interviewed by Laura Kuenssberg during their conference.

Maybe the BBC thought as someone who also supports Palestine - I had nothing to say?

Let's keep growing: https://t.co/Q27Jy5fuX7

[Nick Reeves #RejoinEU #NAFO #FBPE @nickreeves9876]

"The government have actively avoided looking for evidence Russia interfered."

The Intelligence & Security Committee's Stewart Hosie said the Toy government didn't investigate alleged Russian interference in the Brexit vote, and no one wanted to touch this "with a ten-foot pole".

Please repost if you want Starmer to set up a public inquiry into Russian interference in the Brexit referendum and the subsequent Tory cover-up.

[Pedro Sánchez @sanchezcastejon]

Si el reconocimiento del Estado palestino es urgente, más urgente es que exista un pueblo palestino que lo habite.

En nombre de la razón, del Derecho Internacional y de la dignidad humana: paremos esta matanza.

No habrá solución de dos Estados mientras uno sufra un genocidio.

[Andy Stanton @atomic_newt]

Urge Nigel Farage to Release His Tax Returns - Sign the Petition! https://t.co/gfzDXj0eNH via @UKChange

[Alex Taylor @AlexTaylorNews]

"To the people of the UK who think this Putin-loving free-speech imposter and Trump sycophant will protect freedom in your country, come on over to America and see what Trump &amp; MAGA are doing to destroy OUR freedom !"

Farage, at last ! getting well and truly roasted
👏@RepRaskin