Two weeks into my new role at Public Digital, and I'm struck by how much a thoughtful onboarding changes things. A short thank-you to the people who made joining feel gentle.

Notes from the pre-reading for a design systems course: where the various authors agree, where they split, and the distinctions I thought worth pulling out.

I joined the civil service in 2003, a freshly graduated idealist sure she'd fix the world. The idealism drained away over the years, and a community called OneTeamGov is part of what put it back.