Russell Davies

Print's not dead Part 5690

This is a smart and thoughtful piece from Steve:

Interesting kitchens

Speaker five is the irrepressible Lucy Dearlove. 

Lucy is still nailing down the title of her talk but she reckons it'll be "something to do with the history of kitchens".

You cannot argue with that. Get yourself a ticket. Get one for all your colleagues. 

Interesting tea

Speaker four is the extraordinary Gianfranco Chicco.

His talk will be:

Much Ado About Tea
Tea and tea culture can be a rabbit hole, especially if you're interested in design, craft and Japan like me.

And we're planning for it to include a live demo and free matcha tea tasting for a lucky few.

It's going to be special.

You know you want a ticket.

 

Interesting offal

Speaker three is the incredible Katie Mulligan. 

Her talk will be "How I went from being a decade-long vegetarian to telling Jamie Oliver I was the Barbara Cartland of offal"

She has an instagram for what she describes as her offaly bits. Everyone should have one of those.

Ticket time.

Thought-terminating cliche

Maybe 'brand' and 'awareness' are thought-terminating cliches.

Interesting dust

Speaker Two is the amazing Jay Owens. 

Jay is finalising the talk title as we speak, it's currently somewhere between "Thinking with Dust" and "Why Hoovering is a Scam". Wherever it ends up it's going to be incredible.

Get yourself an Interesting ticket.

If you can't wait you should buy Jay's book.

On the boil

"What do you dream about at the moment?" Silvia, Observer reader, Sofia, Bulgaria

"Forgetting things. The heady possibility of travelling without mislaid passports. Breathing under the sea. I’m not particularly forgetful but there are such exertions needed for travel, especially because, when I’m at home, I do sink down into the loam a bit. I always think if you work in cities, it probably keeps you on the boil, but I’m not at all on the boil at home."

Tilda Swindon

(findings)

Sustainable agile

"I turn to one of the agile manifesto principles – perhaps the most surprising to people who misinterpret agile as “doing waterfall only faster.”

“Agile processes promote sustainable development. The sponsors, developers, and users should be able to maintain a constant pace indefinitely.” This is how we expect consumer tech to work. The major operating systems and digital service providers are moving away from big, highly disruptive releases, with lots of new things to learn at once. The best digital services just work.

Updates are very frequent but come with a low burden of learning and adaptation. And that’s how we’re changing the way we deliver digital products and services in NHS England.

Away from timebound programmes with big, risky release dates at the end.

To sustainable products and services that deliver for the organisation, are sustainable for the teams that work on them, and critically, respect the capacity of frontline services to absorb change."

(Matt Edgar)(findings)

Interesting wardrobe

Right, Interesting is only a month away, it's time to start talking about speakers. This is the exciting bit.

Speaker One is Sophie Sampson, responsible for my absolute favourite instagram account: Wardrobe Strategy. 

Her talk will be "A systemic approach to coolness 1974-2024"

What a fantastic start, right?

Get yourself a ticket.

Real life

"Chandler was everything I wanted in a boyfriend—smart, funny, emotionally unavailable—and Matthew Perry’s embodiment of him surely shaped the sexuality of a generation. Later, I realized that I didn’t want to date him as much as be him. The other Friends might have struggled to find work (see: Monica’s “mockolate” recipes, Joey’s porn cameo and Rachel’s waitressing) but Chandler had the ultimate 90s problem, in the form of a job that paid the bills but achieved absolutely nothing. Perry’s performance lifted a motif of the decade—the sterile life of the office drone, also found in Fight Club and The Matrix—into exquisite comedy. He bantered by the water cooler. He got sent to Tulsa. He knew that nothing he did mattered, and that his real life was waiting for him at Central Perk."

(Helen Lewis)