Digital by Default

A decade ago this month I started a series called ‘What is it you actually do?’ Blogpost ‘interviews’ that asked interesting folk working on digital products in and around public service the age old question — ‘what is it you actually do?’. Shamelessly copying from Lifehacker’s ‘How I work’ series and ‘The Set Up’ blog. Revisiting the…

So after six weeks of ‘fit’ notes and various health shenanigans that came close to closing the book on your author I returned to the world of work this past week. All-in-all I would say it was a success but not without challenges. Monday was the bank holiday so it was always going to be…

These two updates from my armchair are going to retroactively become my ‘monthnote’ for April. So what have I done since the last update? Well honestly not loads. My blood glucose is starting to trend in the right direction a bit more obviously – there is some green in my sensor’s app dashboard for the…

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…