Tom Hubbard-Green

New blog post: How good is Google's new AI podcast generator? Spoiler: so good that it makes it even harder to spot the usual LLM hallucinations and omissions! blog.tomhubbardgreen.co.uk/posts/product-…

"It is not for nothing that "Naming things" is one of the Two Hard Problems Of Computer Science (the others are "cache invalidation" and "fencepost errors")." @qntm qntm.org/urls. Never thought I would be laughing at a fencepost error joke.

@AndrewDuck_ Hey! Just wanted to let you know I really enjoyed your blog on respecting & evolving from stakeholder solutions. Have been sharing it around in and outside NHS. Hope all's well!

Thought provoking morning at the AI-fringe unconference. Best discussion: is there always an ethical imperative to tell users they're interacting with AI? (If it could lead to better outcomes if you didn't!)

@myddelton just finished reading your excellent trio of posts on successful discoveries. lots of good stuff in there to borrow. cheers!

@MattStibbs Great news! I've been working on FDP too (now transistioning off). Fanct a chat?

I started as a product lead on the NHS Federated Data Platform team this week. Many people have asked me "What is NHS federated data platform?" On Day 3, still lots to learn before I can answer myself, but this prospectus isn't a bad place to start: england.nhs.uk/publication/nh…

@tomskerous Just bought some knobs from there to go on a DIY arduino drone synth I'm dreaming up. Surely making my own instruments will stop me from buying them ...

Because, of course, I have loads of spare time and not enough hobbies - diy synth module kits are an excellent idea.

Great stuff here for product managers too. Using stakeholders' own language to describe what you and the delivery team are doing (and what you want to accomplish) is def a big one

@stevenjmesser Just got tickets to see him at Fabric in April!

Tuned into "Tim Hecker - 23rd March 2023" by NTS Radio at mixcloud.com/NTSRadio/tim-h… #nowplaying

@jiggott Really interesting James. Got me thinking about whether there's value for us in a higher-level roadmap aligned to sub-direcorate objectives that shows how lower-level products are delivering on those objectives

The NHS website has a new public roadmap, and I've written a thing about how we created it: jiggott.medium.com/creating-the-n…

@jukesie Thumbs up from someone else also using their English degree in the same way :)

@stevenjmesser I once reached inbox zero in gmail and, at the time, your 'prize' was a message telling you to start a conversation on Google+ ...

request for product: a game that helps me reach inbox zero

@jukesie And to echo what others have said, 'solid' here is mostly about scaling up and that is hard to stress test in private beta sometimes. Support journeys that scale for 100 users may easily collapse for 1000. As an assessor scaling is something i want to see rigorously tested

@jukesie I like to conceptualise private beta in two parts: 1. build MVP according to alpha findings, continue to iterate the shape of that MVP based on feedback and test parts but not full end to end. 2. test end to end and iterate until confident that MVP is solid

@jukesie @jiggott Cheers! Any and all feedback very much appreciated. Work in progress!

I just gave a short talk about what it's like to be a product manager in the NHS for people who are considering moving into that role from their current NHS roles. Here are 4 'intro to product management' links I shared... 🧵

@jiggott Thanks for the plug!

.@hubbs' practical guide for product managers working in the public sector: tomhubbardgreen.co.uk/public-sector-…

'Just about 20 years ago i used to listen to this song to get away, now i listen to it to go back. Funny how life works.' youtube.com/watch?v=Np_NsR…

@stevenjmesser @GDSTeam @Pegg @GOVUK @NHSDigital Too kind :) Thanks Steve. You've had a massive impact on product, team and culture even in this short amount of time. Please return one day and help us continue the good fight!

Popping back to @GDSTeam to do maternity cover for @Pegg on @GOVUK Design System. Have loved my time at @NHSDigital, all thanks to @hubbs and his outstanding product leadership. Dude’s a legend.