Ben Sauer

Design Leader, Writer, Speaker. New book, Death by Screens: ex Babylon Health, Clearleft.

[Ben Sauer @bensauer]

Announcing my new book: 'Death by Screens: how to present high-stakes digital design work and live to tell the tale' - coming this spring!

Who is it for, and how can it help? 👇

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@peterjs0007 is your VSMART heating down this AM? Mine is offline, bloody freezing! I think their system is down - DM me!

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@vaillantuk vsmart boiler system is not working, won't reset / connect. I suspect its not just me. Can someone get on it please?

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@audvin @levelsio @worrydream Ideas perhaps the wrong word. PARC developed fundamental tech of the kind that you can’t replicate quickly or easily. That’s regardless of their ability to productise.

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@levelsio I'm not sure that's the lesson those folks learned. Folks like @worrydream have been clear that to produce *really* game-changing ideas, you need that freedom and a complete absence of commercial pressure.

But yes, a mistake in the sense that Apple, not Xerox productised.

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Hey design India. This saturday only: my book, Death by Screens, is on Kindle Daily Deal for INR 129. Go grab it here: https://t.co/I5kkW5SyyO

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Hey India! In October I'm speaking/workshopping at @DesignUpConf in BLR this year, along with some wonderful folks like @krishashok .

Check out the lineup! https://t.co/tGMsHE9zlm

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@DFDSUKUpdates Evening! How long is wait the customs queue for tourists at Calais?

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@rootsmanuva Streatham Vale massive can.

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@andybudd I think that's happened today, for sure. But it's not enough to be in the centre and fail to solve core problems (housing, health, pensions etc). That's how France, Germany, and NL fermented dissatisfaction.

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Leaving a prediction here just in case this platform exists in a few years. If Britain gets bland centrist policy now, it will go the way of the rest of Europe and open the door to facists.

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Our tactical voting advice is here:

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@JiriJerabek @SW_Help The performance incentives in place cause the station skipping. It’s a badly designed policy for consumers to overcome the shortcomings of privatisation.

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@genmon https://t.co/yDu5tIzkoW

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@genmon Isn't this what Ted Chiang said about ChatGPT and the web?

Namely, that it's producing something like a blurry, watered-down image of the training data?

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oh stop!

[sakky @sakkybl]

@bensauer Death by Screens might be one of the most practically applicable books I've ever read (both from a designer and non designer POV)

Particularly liked your story from imitating alexa yourself during a presentation issue

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@sakkybl Amazing, thankyou for that. Love hearing how it's been useful!

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@laura_yarrow 👀

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Hello Bangalore! I'm here until Sunday. Get in touch if you'd like to meet up.

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Nothing is what the Tories say it is.

Brexit was about them getting rich

Leaving the ECHR is about them getting rich.

We'll keep showing you the evidence...

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