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"only invest in businesses that are so wonderful that an idiot can run them, because sooner or later, one will"

A Warren Buffett 'aphorism' from the FT. 

 

Triple loading

New people in charge, same old logos. Good.

I wrote about the radical simplicity of GOV.UK’s logo and the commitment to doing the hard work to make it simple. Over on the work blog.

Different strokes, different folks

I always love this – every Olympics.

 

UK media report the medal table like this.

USA media report the medals like this.

 

Fair enough, you might do the same. What about the French?

 

And the official Olympics site?

 

A logo for a dentist

Early morning, sat having a cortado, I noticed this logo on the dentist surgery over the road.

At first I noticed the rounded bits of the ends of the letters, the stems. The way they were all the same shape. That's pleasing, I thought.

Then I spotted it.

The teeth. Nice touch.

The implementation of the whole brand could be sweeter and this won't win any awards, no pencils, no rosé on the beach, but we criticise logos all the time so it's nice to give one a little bit of praise.

I can't find who did it, if you know please let me know and I'll update the post.

Majestic pigeons

Desire paths and pace layers (part 2)

Imagine this was a Dan Hill blog post. It would be loads better. Much longer, but better. But I'm not a Dan so here I am rocking up with my street photography and all my reckons, shorter and worse than a Hill. 

Spotted this outside Brixton tube last week.

Just outside the entrance to the tube there's a reasonably sized piece of paving that had become a parking space for Lime bikes. It's a good place to have some multimodal transport. Jump off the tube and straight on to a Lime bike to finish your journey. A better location fidelity. Efficient, if probably a bit expensive.

IMHO the bikes weren't blocking the pavement, I've certainly seen worse elsewhere, but maybe someone decided they were in the way, or didn't have the right permissions. So they've moved the bikes over the road and down an alley. A better place to put them but harder to spot. By which I mean, Not Obviously Right In Front Of The Entrance To The Tube. Which could also be called In The Way I guess.

To help the sheeple find this new spot they've done this.

There they are, over the road, top right.

It looks like this was an official Lime bike sign rather than a local intervention. Seems to work, although I'm not sure how sustainable it is. How long does it take for the new location to become local knowledge?

I wrote about this 7 years ago with this Uber parking sign outside Man Utd. Desire paths and pace layers.

See also the recent tweets from a journalist who worked as a Deliveroo driver for 24 hours and the collection trolleys outsite big City firms. 

Pace layering in action.

 

If you've got a minute (or 10-15 according to ChatGPT) spend the time reading this Small vehicles of Tokyo by the aforementioned Dan Hill and imagine how good this blog post could have been.

Anyway.

"preemptive bollockings"

 

What a glorious way of describing the modern world. See also – A4 notices. All hail Jen Williams.

No safety, know pain. Know safety, no pain

Someone had fun writing this. Tidy your hammers.