Digital by Default

Category: jobs

  • Sliding into my sabbatical

    My sabbatical officially starts tomorrow but truth be told I’ve barely worked for the last three weeks due to a combination of leave and stress. I’ve been lurking on Slack and keeping an eye on my emails – popping in with the occasional comment or contribution but it hasn’t been much and now it won’t…

  • “Do you have any questions for us..?”

    “Do you have any questions for us..?”

    Reading that the venerable Giuseppe Sollazzo is adding a new feature to his newsletter combined with the whole Basecamp debacle (where a company long hailed for its admirable culture turned out to have anything but) I am considering adding an occasional element to my weekly jobs newsletter.  I’d give the hiring manager (or team member)…

  • Basecamp bollocks

    Honestly I don’t have much to say about it all – in fact I can’t even be bothered to change my holding title for this post! That said I might want to use some of the fall out of this in future ‘working in the open’ posts so here we are. If you missed it…

  • S01E12: Retire

    S01E12: Retire

    Less retire – more pause. I’m taking next week off – mainly to concentrate a bit more on my rehab to be honest – and this week I have handed over almost all my responsibilities for the Welsh Government work to Naomi (just one workshop to facilitate after my break) and given I don’t know…

  • S01E11: Relive

    S01E11: Relive

    So. One year later. Huh. What can I say that hasn’t already been said? Nothing much I suspect but it has been interesting reading back on some of the stuff I wrote this time last year. I’d already committed to a month of ‘daynotes’ for March 2020 – they were supposed to cover SDinGov and…