Ben Brignell

I would love to add more examples from game design 🤓

The two guards, one who only lies and the other who only tells the truth, from The Labyrinth

If you know you know

The kids call tortellini “belly button pasta”

I’m holding out for Toad Tuesday

The Honesty Paradox You may know The Riddle of the Two Guards.

I wrote a short piece on the paradox of honesty in artificial intelligence.

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I was right.

He’s powering through, almost at the counter, looking back at the keys and his phone. 5-6m away and now slightly out of sight behind a display.

I predict he’s going to get to the counter, hand over the envelope and whilst it’s being dealt with quickly walk back and get his keys and his phone.

Being British I have looked at them in a way for him to acknowledge I have clocked their unusual presence and choice of location but have not said anything.

…he keeps looking back, still aware that his belongings are getting further away from him. Still holding envelope with two hands. He could have reached for them at any point but now they are out of reach and he’ll have to walk back through the queue to retrieve them.

I’m in the queue at the post office and a guy has placed his car keys and phone on a shelf to free up his arms to hold a small envelope with both hands - he is aware they’re still on the shelf but is moving closer and closer to the counter as the queue reduces. Keys/phone are 4 metres away now…

Looking back through some old emails I just realised I replied to a prospective client “No worries thanos!”

Why Most Design Principles Fail Many design principles are really statements of values. Values describe what a team believes. Principles guide decisions. Values express intent. Principles h...

Most design principles fail.

Not because teams don’t have them, but because they’re written like slogans instead of decision tools.

principles.design/articles/why...

Why Most Design Principles Fail Many design principles are really statements of values. Values describe what a team believes. Principles guide decisions. Values express intent. Principles h...

Most design principles fail.

Not because teams don’t have them, but because they’re written like slogans instead of decision tools.

principles.design/articles/why...

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I think this was the pocket edition

I find cheese very entertaining

Me with a folded After Eight wrapper pretending to pull out a tooth

I fold them over a tooth so it looks like one is missing

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This is great!

Copilot everywhere? Not for long. Microsoft dialing it back on Windows 11 People familiar with Microsoft's plans say that the company moving to streamline or remove certain Copilot integrations across in-box apps like Notepad and Paint in 2026, after pushback from users.

Microsoft joins Mozilla in backing down on its AI push, after being yelled at for 2 years straight

So much money wasted on ignoring something they already knew

Mulling pulling…

:: picks up telephone “Hello?” ::

Mulling pulling…

:: picks up another telephone “Hello?” ::

Mulling pulling…

:: picks up another telephone “Hello?” ::

Mulling pulling…

I’ve never seen mulling and pulling in the same sentence before.

“Microsoft is mulling pulling…”

If you want to get unusually high blood pressure try Figma Make

You always think it'll happen to somebody else but I just realised I forgot to put the bins out

Burnt toast?

Yet Sure deodorant claims it works for up to 48 hours. Some brands want you to wash more, others want you to wash less.

Ha! It was only years later that I discovered that it’s very unlikely you will fully submerge and perish in quicksand… but still, the tide was coming in. I have introduced that detail to the anecdote for the sceptical younger audience.

I once saw Trevor McDonald on the bus. He wasn’t on the bus, I was.

When I was a kid I got stuck up to my waist in quicksand

It’s almost that time of year where you convince yourself that working on your laptop outside in the sun is viable