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Co-Founder of @LoomeryTeam. Tweets include nonsense about technology, football and beer.

London
Joined January 2009
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The marvel here is less technical and more cultural. AI features require a big reset for an org that wants precise control of the end user experience. Intrigued to see how they’re wrestling with that.
NEW: Apple readies AI features to rival Microsoft’s Github Copilot — it’s made headway on a new AI-driven version of Xcode that it hopes to unveil this year. Company also exploring AI features for productivity apps and a revamped system-search. Details: bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
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Incredible team, created by a petrostate. Both are true. Sadly a symbol of how the game is fucked.
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Lots of small, useful ‘intelligent’ things - no big ‘AI’ positioning. Unsurprising, but long-term the LLM breakthrough points to a new way of interacting with a computer. Like the Mac did, and the iPhone...
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That's a pretty small iOS release - hopefully some stability improvements (or a sign the engineers aren't focused on it) #WWDC23
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The step backwards from DOS 5 to DOS 6 is incredible. It's like they're intentionally making it harder for small agencies to sell to govt. Only a business with a massive BD team could wade through all these emails. 😵‍💫
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This era of England rugby players believed the hype too much. They need to STFU and get to work.
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Product strategy IS the strategy!
Product Management is an inherently cross-functional discipline. As at YouTube last week, we’re seeing CPOs becoming CEOs. “Product-Led Growth” is the buzzword at #ProductCon this year- that’s product people steering sales. So my question is: what’s the boundary of ‘Product’ now?
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Hate to think what Rishi promised BJ
The Sunak-Johnson talks started around 8pm. As of a few minutes ago they were still ongoing. Even close allies in the dark. “We’re all waiting for white smoke” one said
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Hi @OctopusEnergy I'm waiting for a response on a email I sent on Monday. Can you nudge the team please? 🙏
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So iOS 16 has fully killed battery life AND AirPod connectivity and that’s just accepted?
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Why are labour boring people by talking about trickle down? Most people don’t care about economic theories, they care about handouts to the rich and the debt we’ll be paying for decades…
Is Adobe really buying Figma or have they just added their whole team to a project by accident and noticed the bill?
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Replying to @IpswichTown
@IpswichTown despite the bluster about improving the bars, the SB upper was a shambles yesterday at HT. Run out of beer, no pre-poured pints, nowhere near enough staff. In a queue just after whistle and didn’t get served.
Replying to @bt_uk
@bt_uk Truly terrible service right to the end. I have sent all of the items request, but you’ve only acknowledged some of them 🥴😡🤬 - how do I just end this cycle of pain without another hour on hold?
It’s like the policy workshops for this government all stop at the bit where they ask ‘what’s the worst version of this idea’, and they all just agree to do that.
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Hi @EE the number of times I’ve been stuck in this watch activation loop I’m surprised I haven’t just given up. There is no code 019 and no option for activating a watch when you call 150 🤬😡🤯
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One of my favourite things we've written this year...
At @loomeryteam we’re lucky to work with high-growth companies scaling at pace. @dopayHQ raised $18m in Series A. @BeZeroCarbon has grown 20 to 50 people in 6m. We’ve noticed the behaviours that secure founders early success then start holding them back: loomery.com/insights/nailing…