Will Lord

Product Manager at Arm working on web, IoT and embedded. Also tweets about linocuts, bikes, parenting and other Guardian-reader type stuff. Tweets my own.

[Will Lord @willlord]

An excellent primer on the racial politics of time and toxic productivity in non-profits (and the world more generally). Enjoy.

[Leila Billing @leilabilling]

📢 📢 I wrote a two-parter about non-profits, urgency cultures, toxic productivity and the racial politics of time. With thanks to the 221 people who filled in the survey which informed this article 🙏🏾 PS Share with your funders! https://t.co/R1iL9oGT4n

[Will Lord @willlord]

@beccacaddy Learned at 30. Lessons in Edinburgh, Bedfordshire, Lusaka and Harare so my driving style was a bit all over the shop. Had my passport stolen by an instructor in Zimbabwe but also learned an amazing parallel parking technique. Passed first time in the UK. It can be done!

[Leila Billing @leilabilling]

📢 📢 Non-profit friends! I’m writing an article about urgency and how non-profits approach time management. I’m keen to explore how we can reimagine time!
✍️🏾If you have a spare 5 minutes (!), I’d be grateful if you’d fill out or share this survey. https://t.co/pNfTgfonml

[Will Lord @willlord]

@brad_frost Numerous Disney films partially watched with the kids over the years. I'm still missing about 15 critical minutes of Encanto.

[Will Lord @willlord]

@barthilhorst @jboogie Oh dear.

[Conservatives @Conservatives]

It’s been a busy year 👇

#Wrapped2022

[Will Lord @willlord]

@jboogie Substack perhaps? Your newsletters are already appreciated 🙏

[Will Lord @willlord]

@Okwonga Grealish currently preparing his Charlton comb-over for the second half.

[Will Lord @willlord]

@onejasonknight I don’t know if this cultural reference will resonate with your international/under-40 audience but it certainly resonates with me.

[Will Lord @willlord]

@MaryHeglar Have you come across “L’esprit de l’escalier”? It’s one of my favourite phrases. In my case I tend to think of the perfect retort 5-10 years later…https://t.co/Kh0IYYhAxx

[Will Lord @willlord]

This Sault multiple album drop is 🔥🔥🔥

https://t.co/zAgft9qZWU

[Priyamvada Gopal © @PriyamvadaGopal]

This is so a reaction, and so absurd. I've been called 'f***ing foreigner' on Trinity Street, right at the genteel heart of oh so genteel Cambridge, by an elderly gentlement in hat and suit. The gaslighting is worse than the original episode.

[Will Lord @willlord]

My wife was racially abused this morning while walking the dog in Cambridge. Not the first time it's happened. Whenever she talks about this, the reaction she gets is 'really, in Cambridge??'. Yes, really, in Cambridge. And everywhere else in the UK too. Open your eyes.

[Leila Billing @leilabilling]

People in Cambridge (UK) hate to hear this (due to a sense of liberal smugness) but this city is home to a lot of 'genteel' racism. It's also the site of much overt bigotry - white in a van called me a p*** on my morning dog walk. Spent my morning reporting a hate crime.

[Priyamvada Gopal © @PriyamvadaGopal]

Yes. We have the receipts. Sorry this happened to you, Leila, leaves you feeling helpless and sick.

[Leah Culver @leahculver]

Really digging the spa pumpkin at @PhilzCoffee.

[Will Lord @willlord]

@leilabilling We’re going to see a lot of this BS like this aren’t we. Already the former editor of the FT has described this as our ‘Obama moment’ 🤦‍♂️

[Will Lord @willlord]

@paulisaacs It even contains valuable parenting advice.

[Will Lord @willlord]

The Tintin French-English/English-French dictionary is absolutely full of useful day to day phrases. Sadly (and entirely predictably) much of it is unfit to reprint.

[Will Lord @willlord]

@johncutlefish And yet humans continue to create non-value-producing processes and then defend them with their lives once they’re in place. We’re a weird bunch.