Digital by Default

Author: Matt Jukes

  • What do you [really] do?

    That is the question isn’t it? My job title is Head of Digital Transformation. Yep I don’t know what that means either. Probably not what you think it does. The reality is my job title should have probably been Head of Beta.ONS for this year – because it has been pretty much all consuming. Where…

  • Pondering the Peter Pan Problem

    There is a new Peter Pan movie* on at the cinema and thanks to the way my mind works I found myself looking up the idea of ‘Peter Pan Syndrome’ on Wikipedia. Turns out it is a ‘pop-psychology’ idea rather than something with more scientific grounding but ’puer aeternus’ (eternal boy) seems pretty well established…

  • Can’t stop the signal

    18/10/2015 INJECTIONWarren Ellis & Declan Shalvey I think Warren Ellis is one of the most imaginative, clever and boundary pushing people working in comics today but if I am honest I tend to enjoy his newsletter more than a lot of his comics. When they click with me they are stories that stay with me…

  • Bristol to Brooklyn…Filton Ave to Franklin Av

    April 2013 I have just spent four brilliant nights in Brooklyn, NY and this is a not so short summary of events (in fact some of you may feel like it takes longer to read than I was here!) I flew from Bristol with Aer Lingus. The first surprise was the plane to Dublin. I…

  • Talkin’ what I feel*

      *I’m listening to Young Disciples as I write this 🙂 Back in 2013 I decided that I would try and do more public speaking. I had done a couple of small public things including the first Bristol Ignite and a fair bit of internal speaking at work. While I felt I was becoming better…