Episode description

Strap in for a wild ride as Ian and Ash tackle the dystopian world of employee monitoring software! Marvel at the horrors on sale as our hosts ponder whether these digital taskmasters are the future of work or just really creepy ways to watch people type.

But wait, there's more! Venture into the mind-bending realm of the Cynefin framework, where our intrepid duo attempt to make sense of not a model, but a framework. It's also not a quadrant (although it kinda looks like one).

From mouse jigglers to Welsh castles, this episode has it all. Will Ian and Ash successfully navigate the complex waters of these topics, or will they end up in the "confused" domain? Tune in to find out, and remember - in the chaotic world of What A Lot Of Things, sometimes you just have to act first and think later!

Links

• PC Mag: The Best Employee Monitoring Software for 2024
• Mouse jigglers on Amazon (not an affiliate link because we know that nobody reading this will buy a mouse jiggler)
• Homer Simpson's keyboard bird
• HP Quality Center (tl;dr it changed hands)
• The Cynefin Framework as invented by Dave Snowden
• Cynefin wiki, including a page on the Domains which mentions the carnival example.
• The Rodecaster Pro II that we use for our recording, and that provides all-too-easy access to silly voice processing effects. Sorry.
• Wardley Mapping
• Use Due for iOS and MacOS to be persistently nagged to remember what you went into the kitchen (or any other room in the house) for.
• Time and motion studies
• Welsh castles, although Dave Snowden apparently doesn't live in one.
• Fairport Convention's website, including info on Cropredy Festival where Ian could hear Rick Wakeman and Richard Thompson, but not sadly Trevor Horn for health reasons.
• WOMAD festival
• Siphonaptera, a poem about fleas which was not, in fact, by Spike Milligan.