Author: Matt Jukes

  • Week 33/52

    Week 33/52

    Going to keep this one short as I’ve done a bit of blogging this week → Consulting crushed me ..and the sequel A Restorative Return I had Monday off – went to see Black Adam at the cinema. Enjoyed it more than many it seems. I suspect the fact I was a huge fan of…

  • A Restorative Return

    A Restorative Return

    Okay that last post was a bit of a Debbie Downer (popular though – people love a sob story!). So here is the flip-side, positive follow-up. In the end I stopped work with Notbinary/Foundry4/TPX late August 2021 and then spent six months recharging – longer than I’d planned but that was not a bad thing.…

  • Consulting crushed me

    Consulting crushed me

    I’m not doing NaBloPoMo but seeing a bunch of people embarking on the challenge has convinced me to finish off a few blogposts that have been hanging around for a long while. So I’ll start with the one that has been hanging around for about a year. Why and how consulting broke my spirit (okay…

  • Week 32/52

    Week 32/52

    Despite the news I won’t be joining the exodus from Twitter to Mastodon or deleting my account. I understand the inclination and I’ll miss everyone who makes the switch but while I suspect there is every chance it will either become (even more of) a horror show or a ghost-town in my corner of things…

  • Week 31/52

    Week 31/52

    Tomorrow is the two year anniversary of my Matt vs Motorcar incident. As with everything that happened in the Core Covid Era (CCE) it feels both like forever ago and like yesterday simultaneously. All these months later my foot still looks a mess – the scars from the operation never really faded, the weird ridge…