Author: Matt Jukes

  • Entebbe adventure anniversary

    Entebbe adventure anniversary

    Today is the ten year (bloody hell how is it ten years!) anniversary of one of my most interesting work escapades. I was coming to the end of my time at the Medical Research Council – though that was not public knowledge – and I was asked to visit one of their Research Centres in…

  • Week 42/52

    Week 42/52

    Happy New Year. Welcome to 2023 which will mark 50 years of this blogger…and hip hop. Coincidence? You decide. Honestly the whole Christmas/New Year break was a bit low energy this year. I worked right up to the 23rd in the end and then did a day and half during the Twixmas period as my…

  • Predictions for 2023

    Predictions for 2023

    I don’t really do these – it just ends up with you looking foolish in 12 months – but Terence has just published his and I am a bit bored and trying to hold off pouring my first beer for another 35 minutes! The Fediverse will fall.. ..or at least fail to broaden its appeal…

  • Crowdsourcing a Roadmap Collection

    Crowdsourcing a Roadmap Collection

    **The collection so far** Product people love a roadmap. We sweat over them, worry about them, take pride in them and look jealousy at the roadmaps of others. We stick firmly with the formats that have served us well or experiment wildly looking for something that articulates the vision of the future in our heads…because…

  • 2023 ambitions

    2023 ambitions

    The big thing in the coming year is that I turn 50. Five Oh. Fiddy. Oh fuckity-fuck-tee. I have a few plans for that. A drunken meal with some of my dearest friends in a private dining room. A trip to Toronto and Montreal immediately after. I’m going to go to DC via NYC for…