Digital by Default

Author: Matt Jukes

  • May 2021

    Traditionally May is my second favourite month*. Two bank holidays is always a blessing and in years gone by I’ve built amazing holidays around those days off. Timehop has been actively reminding me about those holidays – which is a bit of a mixed blessing truth be told. Last year though I caught Covid in…

  • “Do you have any questions for us..?”

    “Do you have any questions for us..?”

    Reading that the venerable Giuseppe Sollazzo is adding a new feature to his newsletter combined with the whole Basecamp debacle (where a company long hailed for its admirable culture turned out to have anything but) I am considering adding an occasional element to my weekly jobs newsletter.  I’d give the hiring manager (or team member)…

  • Basecamp bollocks

    Honestly I don’t have much to say about it all – in fact I can’t even be bothered to change my holding title for this post! That said I might want to use some of the fall out of this in future ‘working in the open’ posts so here we are. If you missed it…

  • [Book Report] Kill it with Fire by @bellmar

    After finding my reading mojo pretty much absent in 2020 I’ve been enjoying getting back into books this year. Part of that has been helped by two decisions. To get back to reading actual paper books to get some escape from screens and to avoid ‘work’ related books. Then I saw this tweet from Aaron…

  • Levelling up LEOs

    Levelling up LEOs

    This is less of a blogpost and more of a ‘stub‘ to come back to later of some ideas that are swimming around in my head and as such it lacks a certain…coherence! There has been a lot of talk about the Government ‘levelling up’ agenda in recent months and while I am not exactly…