Digital by Default

Author: Matt Jukes

  • Phone freak

    I decided a little while ago that I was going to get a new phone for the new year so I have been doing a little research. I don’t actually work my phones that hard — I don’t use many apps(1), rarely take photos and hardly ever make calls but I do have a few specific requirements;…

  • Favourite Books of 2015

    These are my favourite books I read in 2015 — that doesn’t necessarily mean they came out this year though I just got around to them in the course of the year. I managed to complete 52 books in the end so there was a decent pool to choose from. It excludes comic books of which I…

  • Tools of the trade

    Well ‘trade’ is something of a stretch but as I am trying to write more — and also I’m looking to find a more coherent strand in my writing that might lead towards a book of some kind — I have been revisiting the tools I use and the workflow (in the loosest possible sense) that I use. For…

  • Ambitions for 2016

    Around this time each year I usually write a self indulgent review of the year but I already shared a few numbers so I thought I’d skip ahead straight to my ambitions for 2016. I don’t do resolutions as such I prefer to just set out some broad goals for the year to come — I did…

  • The #jukesies 2015

    Blogger of the year It felt like this was the year that blogging in one format or another returned in a big way — no small part in fact to Medium. In and around the digital transformation work going on in Government a number of bloggers emerged and I particularly enjoyed the writings of Andrew Besford (DWP) and…