Author: Matt Jukes

  • A rose by any other name..

    I’m about to start doing a piece of consulting work for a non public service client – which is rare for me. It is however very much a ‘digital transformation’ focus and it has been…Reassuring? Worrying? I don’t know…just how similar it all is to the work I have been doing for the best part…

  • The Bad News Bubble

    Earlier this week I indulged in a bit of sub-tweeting; https://twitter.com/jukesie/status/1224589591639928832 Inevitably folks read this vague tweet from their own perspective and I got a bunch of varied replies. Actually I was reacting to reading about the shambles at the Iowa Caucus and how it was being laid at the feet of a failed mobile…

  • Dog days

      Thursday lunchtime I was working at our WeWork in Holborn and had been banished from our little office into the shared space for reasonable reasons. This is something I usually avoid if I can. I don’t much like the atmosphere/vibe and it is always too noisy for me to really concentrate. Also there are…

  • Umbrellas

    Eleanor has written this really great post on the problem with being a ‘shit umbrella’. There is a lot in there I recognise from an earlier version of myself – I definitely went through a stage of being both paternalistic and a bit of a martyr (though I did have my own umbrella!) but with…

  • January 2020

    Today marks the end of my second year with Notbinary. Let us just call that the year of the ‘difficult second album’. I won’t dwell but it wasn’t great. I struggled for long stretches and failed horribly as ‘co-CEO’. I learned a lot but I’m not sure the lessons were worth the headaches and sleepless…