Digital by Default

The month started with me in hospital with a ‘life threatening’ case of diabetic ketoacidosis (DKA) – I’m told if I had waited another hour or so before calling 999 then my March monthnote would have been my last ever blogpost. This definitely shook me up (and continues to weigh on my mind.) I ended…

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…