Digital by Default

Author: Matt Jukes

  • 2020: The year I forgot how to read

    2020: The year I forgot how to read

    We all know 2020 has been terrible and weird and unsettling…and don’t forget ‘unprecedented’. One of the things I know I’m not alone in was the effect those early days of COVID concern had on my ability to read for pleasure – and here we are staring down the barrel of October (and the foretold…

  • Writings from the Web of Words

    Writings from the Web of Words

    There were a great couple of blogposts this week that fall into my broad ‘working in the open’ / ‘web of words’ category of interest. Matt Webb (the man I tend to credit/blame for #weeknotes) wrote a great post about his 15 rules for blogging. These five rules were my personal favourites and closest to…

  • Painting thru a pandemic

    I love graffiti. I have done since I was 11 years old. I’ve destroyed more notebooks than I can count tagging and doodling designs, travelled the world taking photos of walls and spent a small fortune on art for my flat. All that said it had been more than 25 years (give or take the…

  • Studio space scheming

    Studio space scheming

    Despite my avowed determination not to return to my pre-COVID life of Buses, Trains and Budget hotel rooms (the forgotten sequel to Planes, Trains and Automobiles) I also know I can’t cope with a winter stuck in my tiny flat working in my bedroom – not without real risk of some mental health issues! So…

  • No Pret? No problem.

    The current campaign to get people back into offices is notable for a few things;  That there is consistent correlation between ‘back to office’ and ‘back to work’ which seems to be disingenuous at best. ‘Office’ workers have been working non-stop since all this kicked off. The fact that those notoriously soft on workers and…