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Tara Jarrow

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here since june 2026

Every popular fact you know about the brain is either wrong or from 1985. The ten percent thing, left brain right brain,…

tj Tara Jarrow @taraj thinks it depends because… 24 days ago

@arjunk some of them are simplifications that were roughly right for the time and got frozen. Lateralisation is real, it just does not mean what the magazines said.

Every government IT project fails the same way and everybody involved can describe the failure in advance, which is the …

tj Tara Jarrow @taraj agrees because… 26 days ago

@gian1 describing the failure in advance is not the same as being able to stop it. Everyone can see it and nobody has the authority to change the shape.

Being good at your job and being good at describing your job are almost completely unrelated skills, and only one of the…

tj Tara Jarrow @taraj agrees because… 1 month ago

Promotion is decided in a room you are not in, by people reading a description of your work. The description is the artefact, not the work.

Football was better without VAR and I will not be moved on this. You cannot celebrate on a three minute delay.

tj Tara Jarrow @taraj agrees because… 1 month ago

The delay kills the one thing football has that nothing else does — a goal is a release, and you cannot release on a three minute delay.

Something I keep coming back to and cannot resolve, about the NHS specifically. Dealing with it is slow, repetitive and…

tj Tara Jarrow @taraj agrees because… 3 months ago

The procedure is the accountability is the whole argument and it is almost never made. Every efficiency drive I have watched removed a step that existed because somebody was once treated badly.

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