I saw Doug answered these questions (from Steph Ango, CEO of Obsidian) on his blog and it seemed like a nice exercise to close out the year – though it turns out my answers were all pretty dull!  What did you do this year that you’d never done before? Keynoted at a ‘proper’ conference (Camp…

Obviously the big agenda item for 2026 is the new job. I start as the new Head of Products and Services for the National Data Library at GDS at the start of January. Returning to the Civil Service proper – itself a surprise – for the kind of high profile initiative that I maybe thought…

My work year finished Friday and with no real plans other than Christmas movies and reading comics for the next week or so I thought I’d try and round-up 2025. TL;DR – It was fine. The highlight was of course my talk at Camp Digital. Getting promoted to keynote was a real honor – and…

Someone recently asked my advise about raising their professional profile – as if I would have some kind of insight given I have a certain notoriety in some circles I guess. I waved it off a bit as it was easier in ye olde days – especially at the height of the Twitter community, that…

I’ve found myself reminiscing an awful lot lately about the earlier phases of my career. I mean a LOT ~ even for a person of my advanced years. The seat of the pants, make it up as you went along, tiny teams days when the web was open, social media was fun, nobody really understood…