Digital by Default

Author: Matt Jukes

  • 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…

  • Week 27/52

    Week 27/52

    It is a beautiful Friday afternoon here in Bristol which goes some way to balancing out just how wiped out I am again. The Funeral Bank Holiday does not seem to have helped somehow as even though it was a four day week it feels like I’ve done seven…I am simply not match fit but…

  • Week 26/52

    Week 26/52

    Week 26 means it is six months-ish until my 50th. Gosh I got real old when I wasn’t looking! Need to book a venue for the party as well. Anyway this week has been the first five day work week I have done since April 2020. I’m legitimately shattered and I didn’t even go to…

  • Week 25/52

    Week 25/52

    Eleven weeks later and I’m easing back into weeknoting now I have something to weeknote about again (other than InterRailing and bingeing West Wing for the umpeenth time.) I started as Head of Product at the Department of International Trade on Thursday 1st September. So in a little over a week I have had two…