Digital by Default

Author: Matt Jukes

  • What’s the pitch?

    What’s the pitch?

    I’ve been doing a lot of thinking about what the pitch is to convince someone to join the Civil Service to do ‘digital’ at the moment – particularly product and delivery folks but wider than than. Now I know I have only recently returned but I suspect my motivations and circumstances are going to be…

  • The Last Days of Twitter

    The Last Days of Twitter

    I’ve been on Twitter a long time. I was there when you updated it via SMS, when Tantek started @-ing people, when Chris Messina started pushing the # tag. When the only way to really find new users was #followfriday. I was at FOWA Miami when Blaine Cook was demo-ing it live and the site…

  • 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…