Archive - Harry Metcalfe

Governance happens in foggy weather

We need to reclaim human judgement, subjectivity and the primacy of direct experience as vital skills for leadership

Jun 29 •

Look! A Substack!

It's where the cool kids are. Y'know, the ones who'll want to talk about the philosopical underpinnings of agile and how to use them to make things…

Jun 25 •

March 2025

GovTech Summit 2025

It's all gotten a bit big and complicated, hasn't it

Mar 20 •

February 2025

AI, the journey, and the destination

The output isn't a̵l̵w̵a̵y̵s̵ usually the point

Feb 9 •

Sustainable pace as a design constraint

Doing more by slowing down

Feb 5 •

January 2025

The State of Digital Government Review: It's the right ideas, again (and again)

I just read the State of Digital Government review published last week.

Jan 29 •

AI is useful, but not yet as useful as people think, and it's hard

It won't always do as it's told, but most people think that about computers anyway

Jan 27 •

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