Digital by Default

Author: Matt Jukes

  • Micro March (02)

    Micro March (02)

    Today was a day of clearing up loose ends and packing for Scotland and Norway. Oh and panicking. I know I shouldn’t be worrying but every now and again the constant drip feed of Coronavirus stories seep into my soul and stress me out. I am not a healthy person. My immune system is below…

  • Good in the room

    One of the pieces of feedback that has followed me through my career is this concept of being ‘good in the room’. This idea that I can be trusted in pressured, semi-confrontational circumstances where you need to be able to stand up to questions (often in a pretty unstructured format), be seen as knowledgeable to…

  • Micro March [01]

    Warren Ellis in one of my favourite writers – whether it be comics, novels, serials, talks, newsletter or blogposts. In fact his thoughts about the ‘Republic of newsletters’ and the ‘Isle of blogging’ probably have more influence on me than anybody else as far as this stuff goes. One of the things he does is…

  • Monkey first

    This is a real ramble and I’m not sure it makes sense even by my standards but better out than in (my head) I was reading the article about Google X and their ‘moonshots’ in the latest Wired and when I wasn’t rolling my eyes at ‘Astro’ Teller and his roller blades and generally being…

  • February 2020

    2020 is shaping up OK so far it has to be said. February was another good month. I’m feeling mentally sharper than I have in an age. I’m working on stuff I’m interested in, with clients I like and we are busy with more work on the horizon (which does wonders for mitigating my anxiety).…