Pinboard (andrewducker) https://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/public/ recent bookmarks from andrewducker The real reasons why courts have a massive backlog 2025-12-02T18:35:10+00:00 https://bsky.app/profile/barristersecret.bsky.social/post/3m6n5yy2hcs2m andrewduckerUK law austerity organisation OhForFucksSake https://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:e841f0092528/ If somebody is doing a good thing, and you try to force them to do a different, better thing, they usually end up doing neither 2025-07-23T08:59:10+00:00 https://blog.outlandish.claims/p/raft-consensus-algorithms andrewduckercommunication management organisation https://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:f55a73eb4f8d/ Poor internet and offices partly to blame for length of Edinburgh Tram Inquiry 2025-07-03T08:18:11+00:00 http://www.britishtramsonline.co.uk/news/?p=58642 andrewduckeredinburgh trams enquiry internet organisation https://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:8a1a25f2e40b/ What's the state of public service reform in Scotland? 2025-02-18T15:54:13+00:00 https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c8edegl8n51o andrewduckerscotland organisation government nhs https://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:035db96cfd9e/ Why Northern England is poor. 2025-01-25T19:24:23+00:00 https://tomforth.co.uk/whynorthenglandispoor/ andrewduckerUK organisation politics history https://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:19f0e80c8498/ Why I Will Always Be Angry About Software Engineering (or anything else that's badly managed) 2024-11-12T10:41:11+00:00 https://ludic.mataroa.blog/blog/why-i-will-always-be-angry-about-software-engineering/ andrewduckerlife programming organisation systems anger https://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:43129dfb2b25/ Consensus when creating Internet Standards (probably also useful to anyone interested in consensus-forming) 2024-09-09T14:26:34+00:00 https://www.mnot.net/blog/2024/05/24/consensus andrewduckerorganisation standards internet https://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:6abc28e34b89/ Pictures of animals from least to most related to you. 2024-08-22T20:18:33+00:00 https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1558935731745296384.html andrewduckeranimals organisation https://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:d6e09808aab1/ Why ticket sales for big events have you queue for the website 2024-07-08T21:35:46+00:00 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40909829 andrewduckerorganisation behaviour web https://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:b20c55e0cbef/ Superiority by Arthur C. Clarke (a short story about superior technology losing the war) 2024-03-18T10:48:04+00:00 https://metallicman.com/laoban4site/superiority-by-arthur-c-clarke-full-text/ andrewduckerTechnology organisation scifi short_story https://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:4245b3dd6646/ Why You’ve Never Been In A Plane Crash (the no-blame culture of crash investigations) 2024-01-29T09:29:38+00:00 https://asteriskmag.com/issues/05/why-you-ve-never-been-in-a-plane-crash andrewduckerairplanes disaster organisation https://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:710c11d34882/ London hospital cuts waiting lists with innovative system 2023-12-11T21:15:35+00:00 https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/london-hospital-cuts-waiting-lists-times-health-commission-gvp30j7zd andrewduckerhealthcare surgery efficiency organisation https://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:1e1622f7bdce/ What The Goddamn Hell Is Going On In The Tech Industry? (So very very badly run) 2023-11-01T11:03:04+00:00 https://ludic.mataroa.blog/blog/what-the-goddamn-hell-is-going-on-in-the-tech-industry/ andrewduckerTechnology business epicfail organisation https://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:27c51f1de6e7/ A modest proposal for helping the Prime Minister “keep on top of government” and “to push priorities” 2023-07-03T19:21:26+00:00 https://davidallengreen.com/2023/07/a-modest-proposal-for-helping-the-prime-minister-keep-on-top-of-government-and-to-push-priorities/ andrewduckerorganisation politics UK https://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:c22f021c0d17/ The Rule of Three - how organisations change as they grow 2023-04-04T15:05:02+00:00 https://failfastmoveon.blogspot.com/2023/03/the-rule-of-three.html andrewduckerbusiness organisation psychology https://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:c04c4c0ed165/ Quality Is Systemic 2022-09-15T09:57:40+00:00 https://jacobian.org/2022/sep/9/quality-is-systemic/ andrewduckersoftware systems organisation quality https://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:6820151e50a1/ Dunbar’s number, optimal group sizes, and how speaking is 2.8x better than picking fleas 2022-04-07T10:52:05+00:00 https://interconnected.org/home/2022/04/05/dunbar andrewduckerpsychology groups communication business organisation friendship https://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:f881ce2cc8a5/ Why does the UK insist on everything going through middlemen? 2022-04-05T14:33:58+00:00 https://www.libdemvoice.org/resisting-the-uks-slide-into-a-middleman-economy-70281.html andrewduckerUK organisation business money https://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:9e7517181640/ How Scholars Once Feared That the Book Index Would Destroy Reading 2022-02-21T14:57:51+00:00 https://lithub.com/how-scholars-once-feared-that-the-book-index-would-destroy-reading/ andrewduckerreading books organisation https://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:73e736a2a264/ What's life like with executive dysfunction? 2021-11-19T14:49:25+00:00 https://www.imfineimfine.com/p/you-are-a-sim?token=eyJ1c2VyX2lkIjoyNzk2NDEzOCwicG9zdF9pZCI6NDM4MDU4OTMsIl8iOiJQcmRueCIsImlhdCI6MTYzNzMzMzMxMywiZXhwIjoxNjM3MzM2OTEzLCJpc3MiOiJwdWItNDMyMDM4Iiwic3ViIjoicG9zdC1yZWFjdGlvbiJ9.8KadVyu_TkfmCn8JE4auzObNr78_8VM1Lx-BMVzqvMA andrewduckerbehaviour mentalhealth comic organisation tidiness https://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:d744ce4b62c1/ Companies need more adults in the room. 2021-10-17T10:25:48+00:00 https://www.readmargins.com/p/the-teenager-economy andrewduckereconomy business organisation doom parenting viaDanielDWilliam https://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:94015703e628/ Efficiency Is the Enemy - to be effective you need slack 2021-05-04T15:39:51+00:00 https://fs.blog/2021/05/slack/ andrewduckerefficiency organisation https://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:0c4457cb009f/ Poor people spend much longer waiting for things than rich people 2021-04-27T20:23:14+00:00 https://twitter.com/SteveBHolt/status/1386806728843567106 andrewduckerorganisation society inequality bureaucracy https://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:f9c2ce5f4a0f/ Why ranking employees by performance backfires 2021-04-06T09:55:48+00:00 https://archive.is/ReWUU#selection-1488.0-1488.3 andrewduckerwork organisation epicfail viaPatrickHadfield https://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:e67744f81c98/ Performance vs Trust (and why you don't always want the most effective person) 2021-03-16T11:23:38+00:00 https://youtu.be/YPDmNaEG8v4 andrewduckertrust performance video organisation https://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:fced5954a4fc/ Nobody uses the word "technocrat" except when they're criticizing something. 2021-01-29T10:25:13+00:00 https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/contra-weyl-on-technocracy andrewduckergovernment organisation civilization rationality https://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:799aea935b25/ Something to remember when you're working with difficult people 2021-01-15T15:52:02+00:00 https://somethingpositive.net/comic/old-familiar-faces-xix-pt-3/ andrewduckerorganisation comic management https://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:8d89bdab4498/ Covid-19 and the Problem of Collective Action 2020-09-30T18:59:28+00:00 https://twitter.com/s8mb/status/1311276277798756352?s=09 andrewducker pandemic economics organisation government viaDanielDWilliam https://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:0c64a96619ff/ This is what coronavirus could do to our offices and homes 2020-08-19T08:50:13+00:00 https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/resources/idt-dc2d6e2d-3ab4-42de-8d03-bb7eda5fff8e andrewduckerdisease work organisation architecture design https://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:66e64cc395d1/ Why governance models are important, and how the government keeps doing them badly. 2020-07-31T13:56:36+00:00 https://twitter.com/garius/status/1289127360348987394?s=09 andrewducker organisation UK fail https://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:5f2446f2c453/ Why "the NHS should prioritize spending on frontline services" is a terrible idea 2020-07-14T09:07:36+00:00 https://liv.dreamwidth.org/579723.html andrewduckernhs organisation https://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:8cfdd33240c7/ No matter what else you think of Apple, their ability to execute is amazing 2020-06-24T16:29:55+00:00 https://twitter.com/stevesi/status/1275311056672325633?s=09 andrewducker Apple technology organisation https://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:1b51e74b2b3b/ How Do You Know If You’re Living Through the Death of an Empire? 2020-06-06T20:41:04+00:00 https://www.motherjones.com/media/2020/03/how-do-you-know-if-youre-living-through-the-death-of-an-empire/ andrewduckerRome USA society organisation Doom https://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:bce00cbffe75/ How Georgia rebooted its police force. 2020-06-06T20:25:27+00:00 https://www.centreforpublicimpact.org/case-study/siezing-moment-rebuilding-georgias-police/ andrewduckerpolice organisation success https://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:9d31c5b3a52f/ Stay Alert, That’s Devolved, Save Lives 2020-05-11T15:50:05+00:00 https://www.libdemvoice.org/stay-alert-thats-devolved-save-lives-64486.html andrewduckerUK politics organisation devolution https://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:57c73b896479/ What is SAP? And how are they worth $163Bn? 2020-02-05T09:46:06+00:00 https://retool.com/blog/erp-for-engineers/ andrewduckerbusiness organisation software https://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:2326dcffa916/ "Greatness" - a brilliant short talk on giving up control to make your organisation run better 2020-01-21T16:48:59+00:00 https://youtu.be/OqmdLcyES_Q andrewduckerorganisation video https://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:320823e5c38c/ The number one predictor of software bugs is organisational complexity 2019-12-17T09:56:43+00:00 https://augustl.com/blog/2019/microsoft_predicts_software_bugs/ andrewduckersoftware bug organisation programming https://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:251bcf619070/ "The First Non-Bullshit Book About Organisational Culture I’ve Read" 2019-12-02T15:38:00+00:00 https://zwischenzugs.com/2019/11/27/the-first-non-bullshit-book-about-culture-ive-read/ andrewduckerbooks organisation advice military https://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:aa1fe8b82c81/ The Efficiency-Destroying Magic of Tidying Up 2019-11-18T10:59:00+00:00 https://florentcrivello.com/index.php/2019/09/04/the-efficiency-destroying-magic-of-tidying-up/ andrewduckertidiness chaos design efficiency organisation https://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:8282e76ab795/ The "weakest link" theory that explains some of our economic woes 2019-11-14T12:56:46+00:00 http://timharford.com/2019/11/the-weakest-link-theory-that-explains-our-economic-woes/ andrewduckereconomics organisation https://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:9bf40acd1d55/ Netflix founder: 'Learn when to get out of the way' 2019-10-30T13:06:44+00:00 https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/business-50222935/netflix-founder-learn-when-to-get-out-of-the-way andrewduckeradvice business organisation https://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:f641f18ee5d0/ The Myth of Commoditized Excellence - how ideas become movements, and then disillusionment sets in 2019-10-03T08:25:39+00:00 https://barryhawkins.com/blog/posts/the-myth-of-commoditized-excellence/ andrewduckerorganisation ideas society https://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:a41d3258142c/ Geeks, MOPs, and sociopaths: how subcultures die. 2019-10-03T07:44:26+00:00 https://meaningness.com/geeks-mops-sociopaths andrewducker culture organisation geek https://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:01ff055078de/ What organisational structures allow DevOps to flourish (or doom it) 2019-09-28T19:06:35+00:00 https://web.devopstopologies.com/ andrewduckerdevelopment software organisation support viaFanf https://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:c9b6b42f0022/ How to Chair an Academic Committee 2019-09-10T07:32:16+00:00 https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/how-to-chair-an-academic-committee andrewduckeracademia organisation funny ViaDrCross https://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:94909d234a54/ What we get wrong about meetings – and how to make them worth attending 2019-08-23T16:26:11+00:00 http://timharford.com/2019/08/what-we-get-wrong-about-meetings-and-how-to-make-them-worth-attending/ andrewduckerorganisation business ideas https://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:6bd2bfdb1266/ Do *you* have Todo list debt? 2019-08-09T08:34:40+00:00 https://twitter.com/itsginnydi/status/1159495708535209985?s=09 andrewduckerorganisation debt advice https://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:82616299f794/ When your beehive hires wasp management consultants 2019-06-28T10:07:40+00:00 https://twitter.com/Not_shax/status/1144167710802100224?s=09 andrewduckermetaphor bees work organisation https://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:7185d111e9f4/ Any attempt to design a system for efficiency or speed has to take into account the people using it as a component of the system. (Let's talk boarding planes.) 2019-06-24T18:53:33+00:00 https://twitter.com/AlexandraErin/status/1143179630804905987?s=09 andrewduckerplanes efficiency organisation https://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:068ad7fd2366/ Why are large companies so difficult to rescue (regarding bad internal technology) 2019-06-24T07:32:19+00:00 http://www.smashcompany.com/business/why-are-large-companies-so-difficult-to-rescue-regarding-bad-internal-technology andrewduckerTechnology organisation architecture https://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:e92452837a01/ Rough Consensus: How Do You Make Good Decisions Efficiently in a Flat Organization? 2019-06-11T17:41:16+00:00 https://doist.com/blog/decision-making-flat-organization/ andrewduckerorganisation decisions https://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:2e25bd457e14/ Your regular reminder that workplaces which don't have a formal structure are a nightmare 2019-06-09T13:19:01+00:00 https://twitter.com/PastelChum/status/1136470238265040896?s=09 andrewduckerorganisation work business valve games https://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:0d62100dce4d/ Forget Inbox Zero - Here's The Case for Inbox Infinity 2019-01-12T16:56:00+00:00 https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2019/01/case-inbox-infinity/579673/ andrewduckeremail organisation advice https://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:27cc41d00612/ Your brain is a cat, and you have to make peace with the one you have. 2018-12-27T18:11:56+00:00 https://twitter.com/AmmoniteInk/status/1077779293604904960?s=09 andrewduckeradvice organisation mentalhealth https://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:cb90dccaf7ee/ How Punk Rock Can Revitalize Human Resources (I feel nauseous) 2018-10-11T20:37:52+00:00 https://www.forbes.com/sites/sap/2018/10/10/how-punk-rock-can-revitalize-human-resources/#7e4739199267 andrewduckerbusiness organisation OhForFucksSake https://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:897bed96104c/ Why big companies squander brilliant ideas 2018-10-06T17:47:30+00:00 http://timharford.com/2018/10/why-big-companies-squander-brilliant-ideas/ andrewduckerbusiness organisation ideas innovation history https://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:05b7a99382e4/ Why Are Enterprises So Slow? 2018-10-03T16:04:24+00:00 https://zwischenzugs.com/2018/10/02/why-are-enterprises-so-slow/ andrewduckerTechnology organisation business https://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:718dcde0d570/ Ex-Valve employee describes ruthless internal politics at 'self-organizing' companies 2018-07-22T22:47:23+00:00 https://www.pcgamer.com/ex-valve-employee-describes-ruthless-industry-politics/ andrewduckermanagement organisation games business valve https://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:bc4dad3ff159/ First, let's fire all the managers. 2018-05-12T10:18:31+00:00 https://hbr.org/2011/12/first-lets-fire-all-the-managers andrewducker management business organisation viaFanf https://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:cce517861108/ A collection of management consulting frameworks & graphics that make no sense 2018-01-10T16:56:02+00:00 https://twitter.com/CBinsights/status/927975594171797504?s=09 andrewduckermanagement work organisation https://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:c2d7e06ed1a5/ A 20-Year Experience of Software Development Methodologies 2017-12-04T11:25:42+00:00 https://zwischenzugs.com/2017/10/15/my-20-year-experience-of-software-development-methodologies/ andrewduckersoftware development organisation https://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:92e8f73340a8/ Why your programmers just want to code 2017-12-01T09:41:01+00:00 https://medium.com/maker-to-manager/why-your-programmers-just-want-to-code-36da9973388e andrewduckerwork software management organisation https://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:8dd132dd70e9/ Why The Christmas Shopping Season is Worse Every Year (and how it leads to Black Friday) 2017-11-25T08:56:39+00:00 https://www.shamusyoung.com/twentysidedtale/?p=29624 andrewduckershopping organisation Christmas sales https://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:811f6a0884b1/ If Humble People Make the Best Leaders, Why Do We Fall for Charismatic Narcissists? 2017-04-13T20:40:12+00:00 https://hbr.org/2017/04/if-humble-people-make-the-best-leaders-why-do-we-fall-for-charismatic-narcissists andrewduckerleadership personality organisation society https://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:74d84782af27/ How companies change when they hit 150 people 2016-12-01T13:24:18+00:00 http://qz.com/846530/something-weird-happens-to-companies-when-they-hit-150-people/ andrewduckergrowth organisation https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:d05174c43df2/ "But I'm changing it from within!" 2016-10-13T21:02:59+00:00 http://tacit.livejournal.com/626947.html andrewduckerpolitics religion organisation https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:3a8b0525b27a/ How organisations enshrine collective stupidity and employees are rewarded for checking their brains at the office door 2016-10-03T13:35:52+00:00 https://aeon.co/essays/you-don-t-have-to-be-stupid-to-work-here-but-it-helps andrewduckerbusiness society management work stupidity EpicStupidity organisation https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:0f1ce3b02247/ Merging the Scottish police forces together was a mistake 2016-07-23T14:14:23+00:00 http://www.libdemvoice.org/liberal-democrat-position-on-police-merger-vindicated-by-scottish-think-tank-51408.html andrewduckerscotland police organisation politics https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:8d751e7b71af/ Multitasking is a bad idea. But if you have to, here's some tips on doing it well 2016-07-18T11:04:32+00:00 https://member.goodpractice.net/standardlife/resources/topical-content/mastering-multitasking.gp andrewduckerorganisation work viaSwampers https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:154c19f9fee9/