Digital by Default

Author: Matt Jukes

  • 2014: Annus alpha

    Venice Beach — May 2014 I know it is a bit self-indulgent but I find these review posts helpful and it isn’t really like anybody reads anything I write. So the first thing I should say is I am ending a year at the same place as I started it organisation wise — makes a change! I do have a…

  • Don’t look back in anger.

    ..at least not at old Government websites. There was an interesting debate online last week for anybody interested in digital government and particularly the work of the ‘Government Digital Service’. Chris Cook, an editor on Newsnight and formerly at the Financial Times, wrote an article on the BBC website that lambasted the work of GDS…

  • Don’t look back in anger..

    Don’t look back in anger..

    ..at least not at old Government websites. There was an interesting debate online last week for anybody interested in digital government and particularly the work of the ‘Government Digital Service’. Chris Cook, an editor on Newsnight and formerly at the Financial Times, wrote an article on the BBC website that lambasted the work of GDS…

  • Work/Worry balance.

    I don’t have what you would call a healthy relationship with my work. I am self aware enough to realise this but not really mentally equipped to do anything about it. I lurch from frustration to disengagement to obsession to anxiety and back again on a pretty regular basis. Currently I am hovering somewhere between…

  • Believing your own slogans

    I’ve just finished reading ‘How Google Works’ by Eric Schmidt and Jonathan Rosenberg. It is an interesting book and certainly gives an insightful of the way the senior echelons at Google operate. While it is hard to disagree with some of the brains behind one of the greatest success stories of the ‘internet era’ I…