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  • S01E07: Retrograde

    S01E07: Retrograde

    This week really didn’t feel great.  Physically I managed to dislocate a couple of toes on my bad foot at the weekend which meant I couldn’t get out for a few days. Mentally I had an awkward incident at work that wasn’t entirely my fault, though I wasn’t without blame, that definitely left me feeling…

  • S01E06: Revolving

    S01E06: Revolving

    I’m pretty wiped out as I write this and I do not have high hopes that it will be very coherent. This week has been a personal record for context switching – I feel like I have mental whiplash. I have planned and presented a pitch. Fronted pretty much an entire Show and Tell. Written…

  • I use this..

    With apologies to usesthis.com Who are you, and what do you do? I’m Matt ‘jukesie’ Jukes. I am a Principal Consultant with Foundry4 with a focus on agile and product working in the public service. Truth be told though I am mainly know for my jobs newsletter and blogging these days I suspect (and honestly…

  • S01E05: Reminisce

    S01E05: Reminisce

    I’ve been wallowing in nostalgia this week. It started with a reminder from those Facebook ‘memories’ of my greatest social media moment back when I was at the ONS in 2014. I even got an anonymous mention in a couple of papers off the back of it. It is funny to look back and remember…

  • My melancholy

    It has been 10 weeks since I got hit by that car. 35 since I was struck down with COVID. Most of those weeks since suffering with Long COVID complications. 42 since I got back from Oslo and went into quarantine the first time. Mentally I feel like a shadow of myself. Physically there is…