Digital by Default

Author: Matt Jukes

  • June 2020

    Huh – turns out I’ve been doing these #monthnotes for a year (May I swapped it out for the 10 weeks post.) Looking back at June 2019 is a reminder of how much has happened in that time. I’d almost forgotten about my failed dalliance as co-CEO. Obviously my brain blocking out the trauma. Also…

  • Recruitment research?

    Recruitment research?

    I really enjoyed Dan Hon’s masterful picking apart of the MIT Media Lab job ad/description for their new Director. It constructively demonstrated that with thought and care the job ad could be crafted to be a force for good, be more inclusive, re-set their mission and change the narrative – all while improving their chances…

  • Managing from a distance

    Managing from a distance

    100 plus days into COVID-19 restrictions and I can confirm I still don’t like working from home. I have no desire of returning to the pre-March status quo – instead I dream of an workspace like the Campaign Monitors space I have lusted over for a decade or even that of Fog Creek from even…

  • Five years of #jukesiejobs

    One Sunday in June 2015 I started tweeting links to jobs that I had spotted that week that I thought were interesting, were related to public service in some way and were ‘digital’. I didn’t have much of a plan but people seemed to like it and I was preoccupied with the problem of getting…

  • 10 weeks note

    This is my 10th weekend of essentially self-isolating. I mean to some extent I am always self-isolating. I mean I live alone and am not the most social person but between work, family and my close friends I usually occasionally see a few people in person! Since I got back from Oslo on March 13th…