Digital by Default

Category: jobs

  • Recruitment research?

    Recruitment research?

    I really enjoyed Dan Hon’s masterful picking apart of the MIT Media Lab job ad/description for their new Director. It constructively demonstrated that with thought and care the job ad could be crafted to be a force for good, be more inclusive, re-set their mission and change the narrative – all while improving their chances…

  • Managing from a distance

    Managing from a distance

    100 plus days into COVID-19 restrictions and I can confirm I still don’t like working from home. I have no desire of returning to the pre-March status quo – instead I dream of an workspace like the Campaign Monitors space I have lusted over for a decade or even that of Fog Creek from even…

  • Five years of #jukesiejobs

    One Sunday in June 2015 I started tweeting links to jobs that I had spotted that week that I thought were interesting, were related to public service in some way and were ‘digital’. I didn’t have much of a plan but people seemed to like it and I was preoccupied with the problem of getting…

  • As far back as I can remember, I always wanted to be a…Beastie Boy

    As far back as I can remember, I always wanted to be a…Beastie Boy

    Last night I watched the ‘Beastie Boys Story’. Like their book ‘Beastie Boys Book’ it is an entertaining, funny and emotional retelling of their lives in the band and in particular a love letter to the missing third member of the group – Adam ‘MCA’ Yauch. There is a famous line at the start of…

  • Personal principles for product in a crisis

    I enjoyed reading these ‘principles for design in a crisis’ by Lou and a cast of 100s and the evolution of them published by the California Digital Service team as their Crisis Standard. It got me thinking about my own product principles at the moment. I’m working directly on some COVID stuff, advising on some…