Digital by Default

Author: Matt Jukes

  • 2018 ambitions

    Here are my personal goals for 2018 and I’m going to try and measure/track them again just to see how I’m getting on. Hopefully I’ll give myself a better grade for 2018 than I did for 2017! Nothing too hard this time hopefully — also nothing about public speaking either. I’m leaning towards taking a year off…

  • 2017 ambitions Final report card

    On New Years Eve I published a list of ambitions for the year. Here is the final report of my progress. Here is the first one. Here is the second. tl;dr I’ll give 2017 a [C]. It didn’t really pan out as planned and getting my diabetes diagnosis derailed things quite badly. I’ve generally been…

  • A few of my favourite things

    2017 edition Books Futuristic Violence & Fancy Suits David Wong The Collapsing EmpireJohn Scalzi The Lost Ones Ace Atkins The Upstarts: How Uber, Airbnb and the Killer Companies of the New Silicon Valley are Changing the WorldBrad Stone Persepolis RisingJames S. A. Corey Police at the Station and They Don’t Look FriendlyAdrian McKinty Be Pure! Be Vigilant!…

  • #weightnote

    Christmas 2017(L) Christmas 2016(R) Back in August I wrote about my need to lose weight as it was causing me some health problems. A week later I was officially diagnosed with Type 2 Diabetes. While I’d had a week to steel myself to that potential information it was still quite a blow. The fact that…

  • Internet of Public Service Jobs — 17/12/17

    ‘Internet of Public Service jobs’ is a weekly list of vacancies related to product management, user experience, data and design in…you guessed it…the ‘internet of public service’ curated by @jukesie every Sunday. Sign up for it as an email every Sunday afternoon! [01] Political Researcher (short-term contract)mySocietyRemote (UK)Contract — so day ratesClosing date: 05 Jan 2018 [02]…