Digital by Default

So depending on how I decide to count this is either day six in hospital or day 10 out of 14 with a little visit home for some trauma. I talked about my pancreatitis adventure in my March month note but unfortunately soon after publishing that things started going down hill pretty fast. A weekend…

Like the late, great Isiah Whitlock Jr. was prone to say…sheeeee-it. March has done a real number on me. As I sit here on the morning of my 53rd birthday, enjoying the warm glow of a Codeine and Paracetamol breakfast I cannot help but look back on the last four weeks and ask…WTF?! It was…

I know February is a ‘short’ month but bloody hell that flew by. Just two days in Manchester and three in London this time (and three in our Bristol office including a great product community day I’ll mention later). The new role has been pretty full on I have to say. To some extent my…

This coming week marks the 10 year anniversary of making the then ‘new’ Office for National Statistics website ‘live’. Thus bringing to a close the most intense, exciting, stressful, interesting, exhausting, all-consuming and occasionally fun couple of years of my career. A project that to this day defines me professionally (it is definitely part of…

The month in numbers 20 days worked 04 in Manchester office 04 in London (Whitechapel) office 01 in Bristol office 02 team nights out 01 in Birmingham for Govcamp 01 sinus infection  16 team one-to-ones [with 08 team members] 02 new laptops 02 new emails (DSIT and Cabinet Office) 10 mandatory e-learning courses 01 org…