Unrequired Reading, 27

If you're thinking this would make a great newsletter (or even a mildly readable one) then for now you're able to subscribe in all good RSS readers, in the future I might try more approaches. The 27 is for week numbering, don't go looking for 26 previous issues.

It's been a week of very British things in Britain. Firstly it's been raining all week then there was a 1997-esk major election then for the glacé cherry on an angel delight, there was an England game that went to penalties. If I watched any Wimbledon with strawberries and cream I might explode into a union jack.

In an attempt to use this website more and share things I think you might find interesting every few weeks I intend to try and share some links and thoughts. If you're new here make sure you check out my newest endevour creating art

• Bananabin an app that brings joy in it's eccentricity.
  More of this please, this app reminds me of the disc burning app Disco it would bellow with smoke. The world and software both need more fun.
• Eleven Labs now reads books and websites.
  This is wonderful I have crafted some lovely voices in Eleven Labs and now they can read me websites and books. There's some issues with spiralling loading but I'm sure they'll get past that. I wonder how soon in the future all of these AI pieces will come together for an ever ready assistant that can handle anything.
• The heirloom tomato org chart at Config 2024.
  You will always end up shipping your org chart so create a structure that you would want to ship. Great advice here from Nan Yu at Config, so many times we optimise for the wrong thing.
• Articulating the definition of taste.
  In the age of AI, taste is ever more important to cut through the dense noise of AI generated, low quality, six fingered nonsense. This is a level of definition I haven't been able to articulate. (Sent to me by a friend)
• A course on giving better design feedback.
  Such an incredible training resource, even if you believe you're great at critique. This covers so many great elements of giving and recieving feedback on your design work and it's presented in a ridiculously easy to digest way.
• 100 useful coaching questions.
  Usually when a post starts with a number you should avoid it but this is an exception to that rule. This is a great resource if you're trying to be mindful to coach over manage. You should really be consuming Matt Rutherford's entire back catalogue, go ahead I'll wait.

Thanks for reading, catch you in a few weeks.