Engineering @Bloomberg; tech/music/believing in young people; raising £ for STEM/music education at @bigchange_ @mission44 @stemettes etc. Opinions my own.

London, sometimes NY, SF, HK or the Arctic
The @NASAArtemis mission inspired me to build an app for iPhone and web with @claudeai’s help to simulate the Solar System, in real time and at accelerated rates to show how the planets and their moons dance in the vacuum of space. You can try it here pcwilliams.design/solarsyste….
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In today's #NDCTechTown 2026 talk (10:20 CEST), @pcwilliams reflects on 20+ years of managing high-performing software engineering teams + 45 years of coding to explain how to be an engineering manager in the #GenAI era without losing your technical soul bloom.bg/4hHJXVy
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An article on the trend of managers returning to coding by Chantal Kapani featuring @EmmaBostian from Spotify and @pcwilliams from @TechAtBloomberg
Engineering managers are back in the codebase! Does it mean the end of the non-technical EM? leaddev.com/management/engin…
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Sending ❤️ from Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿
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Five years. One mission. Lasting impact. In just five years we've worked with partners across education, motorsport, and government to help create more opportunities for young people. From launching The Hamilton Commission and Mission 44 in 2021, to creating STEM experiences at Formula 1 races, influencing education policy, and reaching more than half a million young people globally, every milestone has been powered by collaboration and the shared goal of empowering young people. Swipe through to see some of the moments that have defined our journey over the last five years. Thank you to everyone helping us build a future where every young person can thrive. Continue to support our mission and get involved with our work: mission44.org/get-involved/
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“Do you ever miss being on the pit wall?” I’ve been asked that question more times than I can count. My answer has always been: Yes… but no. This weekend, Formula 1, F1 TV, AWS and Globant gave me a pit wall seat I never saw coming. It made me reflect on the biggest career decision I’ve ever made. People often ask whether I’d ever go back to a Formula 1 team. The truth is, I never left because I’d stopped loving strategy. I left because I wanted the opportunity to fight for race wins and World Championships. After years of waiting for that chance, I realised I couldn’t spend my life hoping someone else would eventually give me that opportunity. So I stopped waiting and chose a different path. The moment I stepped off the pit wall in 2023, I made peace with the trade off. That was the cost of moving forwards. I thought I was giving up the chance to ever sit on a Formula 1 pit wall again. What I couldn’t possibly have imagined was everything I’d gain instead. I never imagined I’d get to call strategy at the Indianapolis 500, losing it once by two corners before winning it back to back. Or spend 24 hours fighting for every second in endurance racing, feeling completely awake at 3am, experiencing the highest highs and the lowest lows, and losing by just 1.9 seconds after an entire day of racing. I never imagined I’d work across IndyCar, IMSA, NASCAR, WEC and iRacing, chasing what I jokingly call the Strategy Triple Crown. I never imagined I’d work on the F1 movie alongside Brad Pitt and be at a Premiere, through Strategy! Or speak on keynote stages across six continents, sharing ideas about strategy with audiences from the Olympic movement to Wall Street. And I certainly never imagined I’d get the privilege of bringing Formula 1 strategy to millions of fans around the world through F1 TV. Most importantly, I never imagined the extraordinary people I’d meet. People from motorsport, technology, finance and so many other worlds who completely changed the way I think about strategy, leadership and high performance. Professionally, I’m happier than I ever imagined. Personally, I’m happier too. I’d made peace with the trade off long before I knew how extraordinary the upside would become. Then Sunday happened. For a few hours I found myself doing exactly what I’d always loved. Not watching Kimi Antonelli’s race. Looking for ways he could win it. Every projection kept bringing me back to the same answer. If Mercedes wanted to win, they had to commit to the one stop. When they did, instead of protecting the safe result, I felt exactly the same rush I used to feel sitting on a Formula 1 pit wall. Then the Virtual Safety Car came. A championship contender rolled past me in the pit lane. A familiar double gut punch. And in that moment, as I gathered myself to calmly give the next race situation update on the other end of my radio panel, I realised something. It felt like coming home. Just as a better version of myself. Ironically, if I ever did go back to Formula 1, I’d go back a better strategist than when I left. Not because I forgot what Formula 1 taught me, but because of everything it allowed me to learn afterwards, in other championships, with AI, with technology, and with people outside motorsport. If you’ve made it this far, I guess the point I’m trying to make is this. The dream you have at 22 doesn’t have to be the same dream you have at 36. Sometimes it grows. Sometimes it changes. Sometimes the thing you think you’re giving up leads you somewhere you could never have imagined. Three years ago, if you’d asked whether I’d give all of this up for another shot at a championship winning Formula 1 pit wall, I’d have answered immediately. Today… I’m not so sure. And I think that’s a pretty wonderful place to be. Thank you to everyone at Formula 1, @F1 TV, @awscloud and @Globant for making this happen. And, Dear Pitwall, I will see you soon after a little Shutdown. 😉
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“We know there’s talent in every community across the country, but what there isn’t is opportunity.” - Jason Arthur At the Festival of Speed, our CEO @Jason_Arthur joined Mission 44 scholars Gerren Ntiri and Mohamed Elnadi, alongside @IBM UK CEO Leon Butler, to discuss how we're creating pathways into STEM and motorsport, bringing the industry together to drive change, and our ambition to reach 5 million young people by 2031. Read more: goodwood.com/grr/event-cover…
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Our pick of positive trends and unique global achievements from 2025 🎆 🎆 Starting the year on an optimistic note! 🤩 More at @beautiful__news
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It’s our 5th birthday! 🎉 Five years ago, @LewisHamilton founded Mission 44 with a clear ambition: to help build a fairer, more inclusive future where every young person can thrive. Since then, we've had the privilege of working alongside incredible young people, partners and communities to turn that ambition into action 💥 From school visits and @F1 track days to meeting with the Prime Minister at @downingstreet, expanding our work internationally, and investing in organisations creating lasting change, every step has been driven by one shared goal: opening doors for young people. Together, we've reached more than half a million young people around the world, invested over $10 million to drive change, and funded 43 organisations working to break down barriers. This film celebrates the people, partnerships and moments that have shaped our first five years - and the journey is only just beginning! 🙌 Continue to support our mission and get involved with our work at: mission44.org/get-involved/
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It has been a while since I saw @shanselman speak live. REALLY enjoying his keynote at NDC Toronto right now. The @UnoPlatform team are here too, to support NDC's first ever conference in Toronto.
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I’m looking forward to sharing some thoughts this afternoon at #NDCToronto. The keynote by @shanselman this morning was stellar! @NDC_Conferences @TechAtBloomberg
In his talk today at #NDCToronto (1:40 PM EDT), @pcwilliams shares reflections from 20+ years of managing high-performing software engineering teams + 45 years of coding to explain how to serve as an engineering manager without losing your technical soul bloom.bg/4tWY8Km
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It was a struggle for me to get here, but I am the happiest I have ever been. I wanted to share my story — the whole story. @PlayersTribune theplayerstribune.com/valtte…
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Bloomberg CTO Shawn Edwards recently sat down with @WIRED's @JKFruit to discuss ASKB and our efforts to bring #AgenticAI to @TheTerminal to help its users more quickly find key insights & synthesize a view of the world around a particular investment idea bloom.bg/4d6XNP3
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"I am proud to show that no matter the gender and no matter where you come from, you can drive an @F1 car." 👏 Doriane reflects on 'the best day of her life', driving W12 around Silverstone. @f1academy @DorianePin
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Only one chance in this lifetime… Like watching sunset at the beach from the most foreign seat in the cosmos, I couldn’t resist a cell phone video of Earthset. You can hear the shutter on the Nikon as @Astro_Christina is hammering away on 3-shot brackets and capturing those exceptional Earthset photos through the 400mm lens. @AstroVicGlover was in window 3 watching with @Astro_Jeremy next to him. I could barely see the Moon through the docking hatch window but the iPhone was the perfect size to catch the view…this is uncropped, uncut with 8x zoom which is quite comparable to the view of the human eye. Enjoy.
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Doriane Pin made history today, becoming the first female driver to get behind the wheel of a Mercedes F1 car 🤝
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17 years ago, the #Brawn BGP 001 accomplished the impossible, as with Jenson Button behind the wheel, it claimed an #F1 World Championship in its first and only season. Today at #83MM, the driver and car were reunited for a series of scintillating laps that reminded us all why we miss F1's V8 era so dearly. If this doesn't give you goosebumps, nothing will...
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Burning the midnight oil with @claudeai and Opus 4.7. Thanks @AnthropicAI 🙂 #bttf
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At today's #AI in Finance Summit in London, @Bloomberg CTO Shawn Edwards unveiled the 2026 ASKB roadmap, showing how ASKB will evolve from a conversational #AI interface into a fully integrated, enterprise-grade #AgenticAI engine for finance bloomberg.com/professional/i… #AIinFinance
📢 Bloomberg unveils ASKB roadmap for clients to augment their investment process with agentic AI. ASKB is Bloomberg’s powerful new conversational AI interface in beta on the Bloomberg Terminal of the future. It will use agentic AI to augment your entire investment process with enterprise-grade integrations and institutional intelligence. 📖 Learn more about how you can augment your investment process with agentic AI here: bloom.bg/4msHUp6 #BloombergTerminal #Data #FinancialMarkets #AlphaDiscovery #AI
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