Digital by Default

Author: Matt Jukes

  • 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…

  • Week 30/52

    Week 30/52

    This was my best week so far – of six genuinely good weeks – in this new role. I really felt the switch from newbie to semi-useful colleague and some time opened up in my calendar which gave me some real time to start thinking about what I’m actually going to do to back up…

  • Week 29/52

    Week 29/52

    In a change from our regularly scheduled programming I am coming to this blogpost cap in hard, seeking help. A month in and I’m really starting to take the reins on the new role now and the areas I really want/need to concentrate on are coming into sharp focus. While I have my own ideas…

  • Week 28/52

    Week 28/52

    The big event this week was not work, a conference in Scotland, the tanking of Sterling, or anything else newsworthy. It was the 100th birthday of my grandmother Iris Needs. Over the years I’ve learned that my family is unusual compared to a lot of people in my professional world (it wasn’t and isn’t so…