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  • Yearnote 2025

    Yearnote 2025

    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…

  • Can’t knock the hustle

    Can’t knock the hustle

    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…

  • An excess of nostalgia

    An excess of nostalgia

    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…

  • [Make things open] Open Ancestors

    [Make things open] Open Ancestors

    There are a number of practices that share DNA with my approach to working in the open – but are not the same thing despite similarities in a certain light and from some angles…basically second cousins of what I preach. Here are the ones I think share the most common ancestry; Memoir – not a…

  • [Make things open] Reading list

    [Make things open] Reading list

    Not being quite the narcissist I am sometimes accused of I try to recommend other peoples thoughts on working in the open whenever possible. These are my most shared links on the topic;