Digital by Default

Author: Matt Jukes

  • Week Two – Don’t call it a comeback (but if I’m honest…)

    Week Two – Don’t call it a comeback (but if I’m honest…)

    Second week of the new era. This week I returned to work – as an independent consultant initially as I continue to get my other ducks in a row (namely duck one – the jobs website and duck two – the training academy).  I’ve landed on an interesting and slightly unusual project looking into identifying…

  • Seachdain nota aon

    Seachdain nota aon

    Time for another season of weeknotes – though there is every chance the title is nonsense but Google thinks that is Week Note One in Scots Gaelic as I am writing this in Edinburgh as I hide from humanity after a wonderful – but intense – few days up here for Service `Design in Government.…

  • LA Weekly

    I’m just back from 10 days in downtown Los Angeles – and I am very jet lagged so there is every chance this will make even less sense than usual.  Here are 10 things that stuck with me though even through my current fatigued and brain fogged state → 

  • Man with a plan

    Man with a plan

    I only have a few weeks left in gainful employment and thoughts about what I might do next are coming into focus. Despite it probably being the worst possible time for this I have decided to try and spin up a little ‘lifestyle’ business (well two-ish) rather than go in-house or take a contract/interim role.…

  • What’s next

    What’s next

    So once again I am looking for work.  Rather than dwell on the negative reasons as to why I am searching again I am going to take the opportunity to reset my professional expectations a bit in a way that I flirted with 18 months ago but didn’t follow through with. First things first I…