Category: jobs
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For the love of libraries
I grew up loving the library. I think Horfield library was the first place I ever visited by myself that wasn’t the home of a relative. I haunted the shelves there (and Filton, Gloucester Rd [RIP] and eventually Bristol’s Central libraries). An unreasonable portion of my paper round money was spent on library fines. Whether…
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[2024] Week 26
![[2024] Week 26](https://digitalbydefault.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/screenshot-2024-06-28-at-11.13.01.png?w=1024)
There was a time ~ really not that long ago in the grand scheme of things ~ when I used to get up, get a train to another town, then jump on a bus to the office and then spend the day surrounded by colleagues all day. FIVE days a week! EVERY week. For YEARS.…
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[2024] Week 25
![[2024] Week 25](https://digitalbydefault.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/image-2.png?w=1024)
Definitely getting to that midway point of the year. Summer solstice has come and gone and “summer” has officially started (as has my hayfever). I set out some ambitions for the year at the back end of ‘23. Things have changed since then but → 10,000 steps a day (averaged over a week) – up…
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Jukesie-at-Large
If I am honest I thought I’d be in a different place professionally by now. I had fantasies that cast me in a kind of civic tech/digital government procedural show where I was some kind of wizened House M.D figure (or more likely the comic relief in an ensemble – Sylvester in Scorpion perhaps) who…
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The coming of the unUnConference
It is not an unconference…you might even call it a…conference! Debbie, Steve and I have now organised five pretty successful Product for the People unconferences (London x2, Cardiff, Manchester and Leeds) and with Bristol booked in for November (28th) and Birmingham potentially in February we started thinking about what else we could do for the…
