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prateekbuch.bsky.social
Dad, public servant, sports nut. Making better use of data to deliver better outcomes, keen to see how this app works out
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Been reflecting today on just how many of my #PublicServiceHeroes are in fact heorines, as in female or not male. I increasingly introduce Person A to Person B cos I think they'll make great collaborators, when neither are men. This is a very good thing!

The latest in my series of posts expressing deep frustration at process getting in the way of good things happening

Look forward to sharing thoughts, and hearing those of others, on the use of technology for public involvement in policymaking

Get addicted to celebrating other people’s wins. It’s an amazing feeling, and it works for anything. Let their success fuel your own drive. It’s not about competition, as we’re all on different paths. It’s about thriving in spaces where people push to be their best, and letting that energy lift you.

I THINK YOU'LL FIND

What's your sign?

Absolutely delighted to see South Africa win an extraordinary Test match. Rainbow nation are, at last, champions! 🇿🇦 #WtcFinal

Can Temba on one leg 'do a Maxwell' and drag his team across the line...?! #WTCFinal

This by @tomski.com @publicdigital.bsky.social is predictably brilliant The 'speed of trust' adage applies beyond *digital* transformation, and is relevant in heaps when it comes to changing how public institutions work more broadly. Where are the stickers/lanyards please?

Pretty sure that's me and @rachitbuch.bsky.social sat opposite you 😂

Three maiden overs to start, and a twenty ball duck PROPER TEST CRICKET #WTCFinal2025

Yes hello is that 1975? This is 2025 speaking, we'd like to return an attitude we no longer need...

New Service Transformation team at GDS are starting to share what they’re doing, good to see the working in the open ….focus on joining up health, disability and health journeys gds.blog.gov.uk/2025/06/04/m...

AI sends email 'in my voice' Your AI responds 'in your voice' A third AI interjects: "hi, I notice you're discussing Topic XYZ, can I interest you in Product ABC?"

Max Verstappen is a nasty human being #F1

No, *you're* crying your eyes out at Louis Enrique winning in emphatic style for his daughter Xana... 💔 #AllezLesBleus #UCL2025

Today: Kept for thirty five overs, two catches and a stumping Too tired to open, but in to bat in fourth over Lasted twenty plus overs on a pudding of a pitch, for a mighty forty runs Live scenes from the sofa

Should have enabled tooth-factor authentication

United: we are totally dysfunctional, we have rat poop in our food Lancs: brb just 'mutual consent-ing' our head coach days after the skipper resigned and days before our best chance of winning matches gets underway... #CricketSky #OohLancyLancy cricket.lancashirecricket.co.uk/news/2025-ne...

Has there *ever* been a general purpose technology that fails to follow the Hype Cycle...? Never fails to amuse me how many seemingly cleaver people can think 'it'll be different this time'

This. Absolutely this. I was diagnosed with Stage 3 bowel cancer 18 months ago. After major surgery and 9 months of chemo I am on a six monthly check up cycle. So don’t wait. Get yourself checked out. www.nhs.uk/conditions/b...

He only went and did it again...!! Trickier pitch, better opposition, better innings - second consecutive hundred! And another big win for the Woodford Green U12s in the Brian Taylor competition here in Essex I need a lie down... #CricketSky

United: we're the worst Old Trafford team in history Lancashire: hold my Boddingtons #CountyChampionship #CricketSky

BRB, just gonna apologise to Ben and delete my account

Short lived joy for Zimbabwe bowlers after Pope's wicket, as Stokes strides out with 500 on the board... #EngvZim #CricketSky

#CricketSky, we have a winner

RIP Manchester United